[A38]

http://warriors.co.uk/2019/11/08/fidow- ... ors-debut/

15 Jamie Shillcock
14 Melani Nanai
13 Francois Venter
12 Ashley Beck
11 Ed Fidow
10 Jono Lance (C)
9 Michael Heaney
1 Ethan Waller
2 Niall Annett
3 Richard Palframan
4 Anton Bresler
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Ted Hill
7 Sam Lewis
8 Cornell Du Preez

Replacements
16 Joe Taufete’e
17 Callum Black
18 Conor Carey
19 Michael Fatialofa
20 GJ Van Velze
21 Jono Kitto
22 Ollie Lawrence
23 Perry Humphreys

Not considered for selection due to injury | Will Butler, Alex Hearle, Francois Hougaard, Marco Mama, Ryan Mills, Caleb Montgomery, Matt Moulds, Farai Mudariki, Chris Pennell, Nick Schonert & Duncan Weir.

Harlequins team
1 Santiago Garcia Botta, 2 Elia Elia, 3 Will Collier, 4 Glen Young, 5 Tevita Cavubati, 6 James Chisholm, 7 Will Evans, 8 Alex Dombrandt, 9 Martin Landajo, 10 Marcus Smith, 11 Gabriel Ibitoye, 12 Francis Saili, 13 James Lang, 14 Cadan Murley, 15 Ross Chisholm
Replacmenets
16 Scott Baldwin, 17 Nick Auterac, 18 Simon Kerrod, 19 Dino Lamb, 20 Tom Lawday, 21 Niall Saunders, 22 Michele Campagnaro, 23 Vereniki Goneva

With six "starters" injured...

[Abmatt]

Hoping to see Lawrence on at some point.

What does Howe have to do to get selected?

[Pumpy30]

Quins have a lot more injuries than we do. Think we should really be targeting our first away win of the season

[The Ledbury one]

What’s Howe got to do to get some game time.

[A38]

I imagine that he will play next week against Enisei and Castre the week after.

Performance in those games might persuade AS to select him for the Sale game but given Humphries performance against Exeter I wouldn't expect it.

[TeflonTed]

That back division lineup is about as good as it gets. (Apart from the absence of Mills)

Thought Heaney did very well v Ex, and Jamie needs to be getting regular starts if he’s to add experience to his undoubted talent.

Is it heresy to even hint at a suggestion of a glimmer of a thought that both FH and CP are losing their edge?
Massive talents as they both are, time is surely ticking...........

[Warrior7]

Agree with SH Ted - a lot of good attacking play last week came off Heaney. Superb service compared to FH and better kicking (bar one kick) too. He isn't the same as FH in defence but it depends what you consider more important for a scrum half.
The most important out of all the players injured last week is Sam Lewis, so very happy to see him in the team as long as he is properly fit.

Interesting to see Fidow in there - I assume Humphries is on the bench to make sure he is not injured in case any of the back 3 are having a poor game. Also I would be hesitant to make a judgement on Fidow when none of us have seen him play for Worcester yet. Completely different kettle of fish to the organisation, coaching and current national team strength of Samoa. Good to see Shilly get a game - if our back 3 get space then I'm excited to see what they can do.

We have a good chance of winning although it's hard to be optimistic considering our away performances. Quins are missing a lot of players (Robshaw, Care, Marler, Sinckler, Brown, Tapuai, Clifford etc).

[FlipFlop]

Irony that Van Breda goes short term to Southern Kings just as CP gets injured.

Bit early to call a day on FH and CP. I would say their ability to singlehandedly pull the team up when it’s labouring has lessened.

A couple of Warriors against us. The lack of big names for Quins doesn’t encourage me towards a surprise victory due to ‘ travel sickness’ that has blighted us, except at Welford Road

[patgadd]

At least tonight's result at the AJ Bell has done us a favour; with Sale and Wasps just above us, a win to either side with no bonus points was the best possible result. We have that final stupid kick in the face to thank for Wasps' failure to get the LBP.

[Freypal]

Shilly was excellent at 15 in the Prem Cup and added some real attacking threat. Combine that with Lance at 10 and the two new wings, it's an exciting backline.

Glad Sam Lewis is fit, good back row again. Not surprising to see Fatialofa dropped to the bench this week...

[Underdog]

Agreed with others that Howe should be getting a game. He's hamstrung by being a pure winger though as Humphreys can cover full back.

Ideally, I'd have started Howe, brought Fidow on from the bench and rested Humphreys to keep the competition sharp out wide.

Pleased that we can put out such a competitive looking team despite some big players bang injured. I'm really hoping it goes well as we could do with a few players really pushing the usual starting team. It'd be great if Lance and Shillcock play well.

[W4rriorz1980]

2 GIFTED trys for Quins.We're bad but Quins are lucky so far because of our mistakes.

[patgadd]

14 -19. That'll do!

[Ms. Citlalli Kiehn DDS]

Well done you Warriors. Great result and a just reward for a huge effort.

[GoldFinch]

[TeflonTed]

For once I’m looking forward to PremRugbyTV whenever they bother to load up the full match replay.

It will be better fun than watching Saracens’ 2nd XV upset the shed.

[Abmatt]

Again we ground out a result which is good to see.

What was it? 65 mins with no points against us. With bath winning we needed that. Currently 6th in the league

[TeflonTed]

ps.....I understand it was Jamie who got the crucial try....now, what was I saying about Jamie.........

[TeflonTed]

Again we ground out a result which is good to see.

What was it? 65 mins with no points against us. With bath winning we needed that. Currently 6th in the league

Sorry...7th, Ex are above us in 6th!, same league points, same no. of wins, better points diff.

ps...and Briz could go top if they beat Ex at Sandy Park tomorrow, (with a try bp), sounds unlikely I know....but we won down there didn’t we!

[OverTheBorder]

For those at the game today......

How did Lance play and steer the team?

[FlipFlop]

Good result, despite Quins weakened team.

A good win no matter how it was gained and glad for those who travelled to see a rare away victory.

Well done all in, and linked to, Warriors today.

[Ms. Citlalli Kiehn DDS]

What a difference having a couple of reliable kickers makes.

[Macwarrior]

Bloody great, well done boys. This is the sort of game that will make all the difference come the end of the season. I do feel a change in the old order may be upon us....

[TeflonTed]

Good result, despite Quins weakened team.

A good win no matter how it was gained and glad for those who travelled to see a rare away victory.

Well done all in, and linked to, Warriors today.

From my reading of the team sheets, and from a couple of Hairy Queens posts, we were pretty much as short of first picks as were they.

The Queens board is pretty fair, not even blaming Sir.

[FlipFlop]

Good result, despite Quins weakened team.

A good win no matter how it was gained and glad for those who travelled to see a rare away victory.

Well done all in, and linked to, Warriors today.

From my reading of the team sheets, and from a couple of Hairy Queens posts, we were pretty much as short of first picks as were they.

The Queens board is pretty fair, not even blaming Sir.

Care, Robshaw, Brown, Sinckler off the top of my head even if we suggest Schonert, FH, Pennell and Mills in the same breath. A lot of Prem nous missing for them, let alone International ability.

As for no complaints- Gustard not happy with officiating.
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/1 ... -warriors/

Personally, i’d take duller, boring wins over gutsy fancy Dan defeats all season long for Warriors to develop our status in Prem

[g2forumsm]

Strange how Gustard doesn’t like losing to us. He threw his toys out of the prom last year when they lost to us

[usa warrior]

For those at the game today......

How did Lance play and steer the team?

He was very good. Tackled above his size, passed well, and made all but one of his kicks in really tough conditions.

Absolutely blessed with 10's atm!!

[TeflonTed]

Good result, despite Quins weakened team.

A good win no matter how it was gained and glad for those who travelled to see a rare away victory.

Well done all in, and linked to, Warriors today.

From my reading of the team sheets, and from a couple of Hairy Queens posts, we were pretty much as short of first picks as were they.

The Queens board is pretty fair, not even blaming Sir.

Care, Robshaw, Brown, Sinckler off the top of my head even if we suggest Schonert, FH, Pennell and Mills in the same breath. A lot of Prem nous missing for them, let alone International ability.

As for no complaints- Gustard not happy with officiating.
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/1 ... -warriors/

Personally, i’d take duller, boring wins over gutsy fancy Dan defeats all season long for Warriors to develop our status in Prem

Indeed!

I hadn’t read Gustard (obviously since my bit was written last evening,) and this morning I was too busy being outraged by TRP’s attitude towards poor old Sarries to get to the match reports.

Ooh he is miffed isn’t he, even calls us “a pretty streetwise team who get away with a bit”, is that some sort of compliment?

He needs to read their forum, not much criticism of Sir or Wuss, just mainly realistic comments from supporters who recognise when their team, although clearly weakened, had a bad day at the office.

[Underdog]

Good win for the team - well done all. This season looks very competitive again, and so to get an ugly away win early on can only help our team look up the table.

We shall file Gustard's comments in my big old filing cabinet labelled 'angry comments from losing team'. As always, we've got a few entries in there too.

[The Ledbury one]

Maybe Mr Gustard’s comments are an admission of management failure within the club by a “small provincial club” (my words not his) being more streetwise that a big city outfit like Quins.