Harlequins
Harlequins A v London Irish A: Teams and Updates
By Prof
September 27 2010
Scrum half Karl Dickson skippers the unbeaten 'A' team tonight against London Irish at the Stoop. The team also sees Lewis Stevenson and George Robson return from injury in the top-of-the-table clash.
While both locks are making their comebacks, Stevenson makes the starting XV while Robson will be hoping to make an impact from the bench.
The bench also includes two players from the Harlequins Academy EPDG; centre Ben Axten -Burrett and back row Jack Clifford. Clifford is part of this year's England U18 squad.
Darren O'Reilly is a prop who plays for Esher RFC and trains with us at Guildford on a full-time basis and appears in the 'A' team squad for the 1st time.
Harlequins 'A' will be looking to continue their 100% record this season; a win tonight will make it three out of three. It won't be easy however, as Irish are second behind Quins in the Aviva A League.
Kick off is 7.30 pm tonight at the Twickenham Stoop.
Tickets are £5 for adults, FREE for children.
Season ticket holders MUST bring their vouchers to obtain free entry.
London Irish
Gary Johnson will captain the London Irish side to take on local rivals Harlequins at The Stoop in Round 3 of this season's Aviva A League.
The team includes six members of the Exiles senior squad, including England International hooker David Paice.
Players from both the London Irish Academy and AASE (Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence) squad also feature.
Teams
| Harlequins | London Irish |
|---|---|
| 1 Darryl Marfo 2 Joe Gray 3 John Andress 4 Lewis Stevenson 5 Pete Browne 6 Joe Trayfoot 7 Luke Wallace 8 Chris York 9 Karl Dickson (Captain) 10 Rory Clegg 11 Sam Smith 12 Benjamin Urdapilleta 13 Tom Casson 14 Ollie Lindsay-Hague 15 Ross Chisholm Reserves: |
1. Max Lahiff 2. David Paice 3. James Tideswell 4. Kieran Low 5. David Sisi 6. Peter Synott 7. Lee Beech 8. Gary Johnson (Captain) 9. Darren Allinson 10. Chris Malone 11. Marcus Watson 12. Joe Monroe 13. Dominic Shabbo 14. Marland Yarde 15. Aled Thomas Reserves: |
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Quins - 16
Irish - 17
Two fairly even sides, but we missed too many tackles and they were a bit more physical.
Poor performance I thought. On paper we should have walked this one
for me the stand out quins player was number 7 Luke Wallace? he was everywhere.
Our guys will be mighty pee'd off that they lost that one.
I was surprised that our players with first team experience, including Stevenson, Andress, York and Robson made little impact
It was great to see Georgie back, but please, grow your hair. The shaved head is not a good look for you!!!
We made a few silly errors and Lewis got penalised twice in the lineout which was poor. The scrum was good - Marfo is shaping up to be an excellent prop.
Wallace, OLH and Casson also stood out for us.
Jones, Yarde and Waston were excellent for Irish and I thought Guy Armitage really turned the tide for Irish in the second half. Their no. 4 was impressive - for a second row he was very quick.
No idea why the game ended with over a minute still on the clock but I don't think we can moan too much about the result.
Thought both team really went for it at a very good tempo.
Their No.4 (Kieran Low) is England U20 second row alongside Quins' Matthews. Despite the name, he is 100% English. He has also played alot at back row due to the pace you noticed
Also if the club are expecting people to pay to watch games such as these, the least they could do is start the @#$%& clock at the beginning of the half.
Some very odd decisions and thought they should have had a least one yellow, especially for a very dangerous looking tackle in the first half when our guy was up-ended, but we can only really blame ourself for throwing that one away. Irish looked more intense in attack than we did, and 4 tries to 2 tells its own story.
casson looked good again, very strong. but generally after some of the recent performances I thought it was a bit disappointing, but perhaps that has more to do with a decent performance from Irish. Still think we should have won that one
I don't understand why they never seem to play any injury time in A games. The clock is never stopped but the ref usually blows up as soon as it hits 40, rehardless of how many stoppages there are.
