Quins A v Bath United at Imber Court Tonight

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15 Ollie Lindsay-Hague
14 Josh Drauniniu
13 Ross Chisholm
12 Toby Quarandon
11 Sam Smith
10 Seb Jewell
9 Karl Dickson

1 Aston Croall (Capt)
2 Matt Cairns
3 James Johnston
4 Lewis Stevenson
5 Shane O'Connor
6 Luke Wallace
7 Sam Stitcher
8 Chris York

16 Joe Marler
17 Rob Buchanan
18 Dan Frazier
19 Charlie Matthews
20 Chris Brooker
21 Gareth Williams
22 Ollie Richards
23 Chris Rose

The Harlequins A team have had a good start to the season and appear to have many promising prospects for the future. Harlequins A started the season well by beating London Irish 37-10, losing by a fraction to Saracens 21-25 and then headed off to Gloucester last week, winning 14-45.
This week we welcome back Karl Dickson after he gained an injury in the Middlesex 7's and Matt Cairn's takes a front row starting position after the recent signing from Saracens to make his debut. Sam Stitcher is also making his debut after playing for Esher in the past few weeks.
Toby Quarandon is part of our Academy EPDG group and is a schoolboy at Cranleigh School, as well as Ollie Richards who is also part of our Academy EPDG group and is a schoolboy at Brighton College. Chris Rose is part of our Academy AASE group at Richmond College and we hope they get the opportunity to show us their ability tonight.
Bath are coming to Harlequins fresh as they didn't play last week, however their recent form isn't one to boast about. They only beat Wasps at the beginning of the season by two points and then have had two losses on the bounce against London Irish and Saracens. This isn't to say that they weren't close fixtures, which means that Harlequins will have to be on their guard as Bath could still, very much be a challenge.

Good to see Karl Dickson back playing again.

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That looks like a pretty strong front 5

Good to see Seb Jewell's not been forgotten.

That's a pacy backline...

15. Matt Spelman - Academy
14. Rhys Crane - Academy
13. Tom Cheeseman - Main Squad
12. Ben Williams - Academy
11. Nick Scott - ?
10. Paul Roberts - Academy
9. Mike Baxter (Capt) - Main Squad

1. Nathan Catt - Academy
2. Ted Stagg - Academy
3. Billy Moss - Academy
4. Nick Morris - ?
5. Todd Hooper - Main Squad
6. Josh Ovens - Academy
7. Guy Mercer - Academy
8. Ed Jackson - Academy

Replacements:

16 Craig Lilley - Academy
17 Will Davis - ?
18 Kane Newport - Academy
19 Ian Thomas - Academy
20 Joe Ellyatt - ?
21 Matt Keyte - Academy
22 Sean Lilley - Academy
23 Ben Loosmoore - ?


Our squad certainly looks more experienced

Looks like a decent squad there; good to see Karl back in the lineup.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to bleat about it all over the internet"

Looks like there may be a lot of pace in the game tonight with so many youngsters playing.

Just hope Seb is fit.
I don't want him being risked if he's not 100% yet.

Couple of good sides there - think we'll edge it though.

Can someone confirm the post code of Imber Court. I think I may go tonight.

Thanks

If you google Imber court you will find it

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MMQ
Can someone confirm the post code of Imber Court. I think I may go tonight.
Thanks

[imbercourtsportsclub.co.uk] hope that helps

Is there somewhere on site at Imber Court to get some scoff and drinks (preferably draught ale to eat washed down with some bitter.)

I see you're on a liquid diet there then!!!

There's a couple of vans usually do beer and hotdogs/burgers. The van beer is usually black, brown or yellow but is quite OK as I remember. The clubhouse is very nice but a long way from the pitch, does Pride as far as I can recall.

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5. Todd Hooper - Main Squad

Stuart Hooper is in the main squad,Todd Hooper is a 19year old who I've not seen for us before so your squad certainly is even more experienced than ours than you thought!

Great to see Dickson back playing. I'm hoping he's in fine form and puts his hand up for the game against Irish.

Sorry viva, blame the Bath site, I got the info from there. It had Banahan in the Academy too!

5-0 to Quins so far.

Apparently we're creating opportunities but not turning them into points

Thanks for the up-date prof. Keep them coming!

11-6 to Quins now.

The try was scored by a forward according to my source on the spot

Cheers Prof

23-6 now Johnston just scored - worked up quite a head of steam apparently

Keep the scores coming!

Go JJ!!

2nd try was a penalty try, the pack was walking the ball over easily apparently.

So just one more for the bonus point

Josh just scored - looked very quick apparently. Scored under the posts 30-6 at HT

Aww hows Captain Aston going guys?

How's Karl doing?

Is the match finished yet? What was the final score?

35-18 now

Bath have just scored twice

No report on who scored our 5th try, the message said a Quins player in the gloom on the other side of the pitch!

Apparently we keep making good yards, get into a scoring position and fluff it.

Then again we have already scored 5 tries so perhaps a bit of lack of concentration

35-25, we let Bath score again. That's full time

Cheers for the updates

Many thanks to you Prof and your reporter at the match! I think that puts us in a good position in the A League so far.

Cairns and Dickson both looked good apparently

Thanks to SafriQuin for the updates

Dickson did look good, but possibly the stand out for me was Lewis Stevenson. Aston got the first try but no idea which forward got the 5th. It wasn't so much the concentration going as Bath looking much better in the second half.

The pack played very well, including the subs, plus Chris Brooker played about 30 minutes on the blindside. Seb Jewell also had a cracking game, and now I think about it maybe he would have pipped Stevenson for MOTM.

OLH also showed some great stepping and pace on several occasions. Ross Chisholm was the kicker for the evening , and I think he got 4 from 7.

Cheers QP

Thanks QP I actually prob could of gone but none invited me n I didnt know how to get there oh well *sigh*

Fifth try was also Croall
Match report to follow

Thanks Alan

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Quinten Poulsen
...plus Chris Brooker played about 30 minutes on the blindside.

I thought I saw him packing down in the back row but I could have sworn that last time out he was a hooker! Does anyone know what's going on there?

GQG.

They didn't have a back row replacement on the bench and I assume they wanted to give everyone some game time.

Sounds like a good game... Aiming to actually make the last two and hopefully see us in the final at this rate..!

OLH looked excellent, josh very quick. cairns almost scored the try of the match, picking it up off his toes then going on a mazy, and very quick run, before being hauled down just short. good display in the first half, struggled in the 2nd, either due to our lack of concentration, subs breaking up continuity, but mainly due to bath getting their act together. scrum looked good, but at times tried to walk it over the line, following the earlier penalty try, when maybe the ball should have gone down the line

good performance though, some positive signs for the years to come

any positives for a currently very downbeat bath fan?

I wouldn't read too much into it from a Bath perspective. You scored tries and the score wasn't a blowout despite the fact that the Quins side was a lot more experienced and most of the younger players are further along in their development than yours.

Charlieboa - in addition to JG's comments, Bath were completely pulverised in the scrum all match by what was by and large a much more exprienced pack, but in the loose there was not so much in it. I thought your No 8 looked a good aggressive ball carrier, while 15 had an off day and made a lot of handling errors.

thanks chaps. average age of the front 5 must have been about 20 so not surprised they struggled, with the 2 second rows not even being in our academy.

ed jackson the number 8 is 20/21 now should be looking the part in these A team games.

any comments on our blindside josh ovens, fly half paul roberts, or winger rhys crane?