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    EMIRATES WESTERN FORCE ANNOUNCE TEAM FOR UK TOUR FINALE

    Emirates Western Force Coach John Mitchell has named his team to play last season’s Guinness Premiership finalists Leicester Tigers in the final match on the development tour of England.

    Mitchell has re-shuffled his lineup dramatically after last week’s 22-3 defeat to Northampton, highlighted by several positional changes.

    The Welford Road clash is expected to provide the toughest test of the tour for the WA side, who have returned two wins and two losses from their four matches in the UK.

    A young front row will step out for the visitors including Pek Cowan (22), Luke Holmes (24) and Kieran Longbottom (22), while impressive Queensland club rugby recruit Filipe Manu has won a recall at Number 8.

    Mitchell was disappointed with his team’s set-piece effort against the Saints last Saturday and has shifted experienced back rower Tamaiti Horua to lock to provide greater stability in the lineout.

    There has also been significant movement in the backline with James O’Connor switching to fullback for Scott Daruda to return to flyhalf and dynamic running pair Junior Pelesasa and Josh Tatupu reinstated in the midfield.

    Mitchell said his team would need to improve on its last outing in order to finish the tour with a positive win-loss ratio.

    “Our set piece really let us down in the last match but it’s been a great experience for our front row in particular to come over here to England and experience the different conditions and the different types of pressure,” said Mitchell.

    “At the end of the day we won’t be judging ourselves on results on this tour but by what we learned and how we adapted to different situations in games,” he said.

    Mitchell said Saturday night’s (WST) opponents will be at full strength ahead of the start of the premiership proper next weekend.

    “Leicester are one week out from competition so they will be using this match as an opportunity to look at combinations for the start of the season,” said Mitchell.

    “You look at their side and they are loaded with England Internationals so it will be a good experience for our side coming up against a committed and full-strength opposition.”

    The match kicks off at 10pm WST on Saturday night.

    Emirates Western Force v Leicester Tigers
    Saturday 30 August, 2008
    Welford Road, Leicester, England.
    Kick off: 3pm (10pm WST)

    Emirates Western Force

    1. Pek Cowan
    2. Luke Holmes
    3. Kieran Longbottom
    4. Tamaiti Horua
    5. Pat O’Connor
    6. Matt Hodgson
    7. David Pocock (c)
    8. Filipe Manu
    9. Chris O’Young
    10. Scott Daruda
    11. Haig Sare
    12. Junior Pelesasa
    13. Josh Tatupu
    14. Dane Haylett-Petty
    15. James O’Connor

    Reserves

    16. Tai McIsaac
    17. AJ Whalley
    18. Gareth Hardy
    19. Brent Murphy
    20. Justin Turner
    21. Dion Berryman
    22. Andrew Barrett

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    James O'Connor at fullback and Tamaiti Horua as Lock
    Good luck, will be fantastic for next year's options if it works well!!

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    Yeah it's strange - cause I think of Daruda as fullback and JOC wants to be 12 to Gitts at 10.

    Also GH, AJ and Tai on the bench ?????? would have thought that they were the stronger end of our forward pack - unless we have more injury concerns.

    Wish em the best

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    mabye AJ put in the work to get back into the team?

    i remember him starting at least the first match over there.

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    its a great team!
    good luck to them!

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    good for a bit of a mix to see what combo's work
    good luck

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    Heyneke Meyer is the coach of Leicester as well. Between this and the Saracans game for the toughest game of the tour.

    Consistant quality team over the years the Leicester Tigers are. Another old club been around since 1880.

    Can't compare the Force against any of the NH teams really because of the missing test players link.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thequeerone View Post

    Also GH, AJ and Tai on the bench ??????
    its good to seee holmsie starting again, the tour was all about player development...

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    WOW joc at fulllback... thats really really interesting. wonder how it will work out...

    who is filipe manu? hes been in the mix most games i think, is he an option next year?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thequeerone View Post
    Yeah it's strange - cause I think of Daruda as fullback and JOC wants to be 12 to Gitts at 10.

    Also GH, AJ and Tai on the bench ?????? would have thought that they were the stronger end of our forward pack - unless we have more injury concerns.

    Wish em the best
    Perhaps JOC is at fullback to sure up the mid-field as the English love driving from 12 and 13 and to get a bit of spark at full-back. If our set piece isn't working an attacking fullback who can really counter-attack is a necessity to apply the pressure. I for one would love to see how he goes.

    Having GH, AJ and Tai on the bench will be great. When the opposition starts to tire around the 50-60 minute mark we can roll out a whole new front row to sure up our scrum and makes sure we don't have a repeat of last week. Plus it means all 6 front rowers will get a bit of game time against what will be a very strong forward from Leicester.

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    I was trying to see if we could get some live commentary from the game but no joy

    Gerry

    There is no live commentary for Saturday's game.
    A written match report will be on the club website as quickly as
    possible after the final whistle. (I am on my own in the communications
    department tomorrow which means Tannoy duty, press conferences and match
    report so the plan is to put up only a few sentences with scores and
    scorers on the final whistle, to be replaced within an hour with a more
    comprehensive report).

    Gary Sherrard
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    Leicester Tigers v Emirates Western Force
    Tries by Aaron Mauger, Alesana Tuilagi and Tom Varndell, plus two conversions and a penalty from Toby Flood gave Leicester Tigers a 22-0 half-time lead against Australian visitors Western Force at Welford Road on Saturday.
    Mauger opened the scoring with a smart finish to Flood’s pass after three minutes and, after the fly-half had added a penalty, Tuilagi forced his way over to the left of the posts. Dan Hipkiss supplied the final pass for Varndell to hold off two Force defenders in the right-hand corner as Tigers ended the half with their third try.
    Full match report to follow.

    Leicester Tigers: G Murphy, Varndell, Hipkiss, Mauger (c), Tuilagi, Flood, Ellis; Ayerza, Chuter, Cole, Blaze, Wentzel, Herring, Crane. Reps: Kayser, Bonorino, Woods, Kay, Dupuy, Vesty, T Youngs, Stankovich, B Deacon, Smith, Hurrell, J Murphy

    Western Force: O’Connor, Haylett-Petty, Tatupu, Pelesasa, Sare, Daruda, O’Young; Cowan, Holmes, Longbottom, B Murphy, O’Connor, Hodgson, Pocock (c), Manu. Reps: McIsaac, Whalley, Hardy, Murday, Turner, Berryman, Barrett.

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