Amlin CC Final: RC Toulon vs Biarritz Olymipique, Fri 18 May 8pm

thomond2006

Toulon have announced their squad, they played a second side last weekend in the Top14 so they should go full strength for this.

Le groupe (25 joueurs) :

Les avants (15) :
Jean-Charles ORIOLI - Sébastien BRUNO
Carl HAYMAN - Davit KUBRIASHVILI - Laurent EMMANUELLI - Eifion LEWIS ROBERTS - Levan CHILACHAVA
Kristian CHESNEY - Christophe SAMSON - Dean SCHOFIELD - Jocelino SUTA
Joe EL ABD - Steffon ARMITAGE - Pierrick GUNTHER - Joe VAN NIEKERK.

Les 3/4 (10) :
Fabien CIBRAY - Sébastien TILLOUS BORDE
Jonny WILKINSON
Matt GITEAU - Mathieu BASTAREAUD - Geoffroy MESSINA
Benjamin LAPEYRE - Alexis PALISSON - Luke ROONEY - David SMITH

Note: JMF Lobbe is not registered in the ACC squad nor is Bakkies Botha.

Probable side:
Lewis-Roberts, Bruno, Hayman, Schofield, Samson, Gunther, Armitage, Van Niekerk;
Tillous-Borde, Wilkinson, Smith, Giteau, Basteraud, Palisson, Lapeyre

Bench: Orioli, Emmanuelli, Kubriashvili, Suta, El-Abd, Cibray, Messina, Rooney

ALLEZ TOULON!!!!

Brenireland

Biarritz

Lad,so annoying & slow....Henson Is no longer with Toulon!:mad: rofl lol lmao good thread do maaaaaaaaate

justsomebloke

With so many people only going over for Saturday's game the attendance at this may end up being shockingly low.

Given how bad both semi finals were it will be hard to call a winner, but I'd say toulon may just pull it out of the bag

Brenireland

Biarritz

cert man,can see jonny Banging over a few penaltys & a DG or two.

.ak

Biarritz

Gutted I'm missing this, my flight to London is 9pm.

Is there anywhere in Terminal 2 that shows matches? Always seems a bit bare of TV's anytime I've flown through there.

.ak

Biarritz

Can't see anything but a Toulon victory to be honest. They look like they want it, and after the shake up they got from the Stade B team I don't think they'll see many mistakes...

Gracelessly Tom

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

Brenireland wrote: »

Lad,so annoying & slow....Henson Is no longer with Toulon!:mad: rofl lol lmao good thread do maaaaaaaaate

Little early to be hitting the sauce isn't it?

CatFromHue

.ak wrote: »

Can't see anything but a Toulon victory to be honest. They look like they want it, and after the shake up they got from the Stade B team I don't think they'll see many mistakes...

I would agree except that this is the only way Biarritz can get into the HEC next season so they should be fired up for the game.

PhatPiggins

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

In terms of european experience Biarritz have it in spades over Toulon and I don't think you can read too much into the relative league positions of the two. Hard one to pick, Toulon have all the names but BO are far more of 'team'. One for the francophiles to call as I haven't seen enough of either team to make a prediction.

duckysauce

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

Imanol Harinordoquy and the old man will to too much for the mercenaries


Allez Biarritz.

porterbelly

You'd have to fancy Toulon on paper, but then again they'll have one eye on the Top 14 playoffs and could very well come unstuck against an in form Biarritz side who will be very keen to get Heineken qualification and finish the season on a high.

Biarritz for me, just.

Big Nelly

Biarritz

Flying on Sat this time so cant make the match, expect small crowd, last year most of crowd was made up of Leinster fans who just took in the game including me....

Morf

duckysauce wrote: »

Imanol Harinordoquy and the old man will to too much for the mercenaries


Allez Biarritz.

Gora Miarritz!

irishbucsfan

Are tickets still available? I've been planning to go but just realised I never got a ticket!

justsomebloke

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Are tickets still available? I've been planning to go but just realised I never got a ticket!

I'd be majorly surprised if it was, I'd say you will easily pick up tickets outside the ground. Be it from official sources or other fans selling tickets for people who couldn't go

irishbucsfan

I'll just wander down so. Easy train ride for me. Practice a bit of french

molloyjh

Biarritz

Yeah last year the place was half empty for it. I can't see it being a sell out even with the handier location and JW on show.....

flatley14

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

we are a group of four and hoping to make it in time for the amlin.
there are still tickets available, and cheaper if you arrive in groups, supposedly. looking forward to the weekend.

thomond2006

Biarritz

flatley14

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

if Biarritz win they get the last spot in the heineken cup next year.
if they lose, do they getting the spot, being the highest ranked french team not qualified or do stade get it finishing 7th in the league?
just wondering as i'm trying to look at the seedings for next season.

CatFromHue

Looking from below it looks like Biarritz have already got into next seasons HEC, Stade can't catch them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Rugby_Club_Rankings

justsomebloke

For those thinking of going to this

Leinster email wrote:

Leinster Supporters who have tickets for the Heineken Cup Final can avail of a €10 discount on the Amlin Final!
Simply bring your final ticket on the night or if you bought your final ticket before the Semi-Finals click on the link and enter the promotional code that you were given.

thomond2006

Biarritz

Good idea from ERC but that immediately suggests there are a plethora of tickets left.

Toulon:
15 Benjamin Lapeyre, 14 Alexis Palisson, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 David Smith, 10 Jonny Wilkinson, 9 Sebastien Tillous-Borde,
8 Joe van Niekerk, 7 Steffon Armitage, 6 Pierrick Gunther, 5 Kris Chesney, 4 Christophe Samson, 3 Carl Hayman, 2 Sebastien Bruno, 1 Eifion Lewis-Roberts.

Replacements: 16 Jean-Charles Orioli, 17 Laurent Emmanuelli, 18 Davit Kubriashvili, 19 Joe El Abd, 20 Geoffroy Messina, 21 Dean Schofield, 22 Fabien Cibray, 23 Jocelino Suta.


Biarritz Olympique:
15 Iain Balshaw, 14 Taku Ngwenya, 13 Jean Pascal Barraque, 12 Damien Traille, 11 Dane Haylett-Petty, 10 Julien Peyrelongue, 9 Dimitri Yachvili,
8 Imanol Harinordoquy, 7 Benoit Guyot, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 5 Pelu Taele, 4 Jerome Thion, 3 Eugene van Staden, 2 Arnaud Heguy, 1 Yvan Watremez.

Replacements: 16 Benoit August, 17 Sylvain Marconnet, 18 Francisco Gomez Kodela, 19 Erik Lund, 20 Talalelei Gray, 21 Charles Gimenez, 22 Marcelo Bosch, 23 Ilikena Bolakoro.

Good preview here: http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16024_7762292,00.html

P_1

Anybody about in London fancy heading to this?

Got in ahead of the rest of the lads and have nothing better to do.

Fishooks12

Allez Toulon

Have enough money on the ****ers!

.ak

Biarritz

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Allez Toulon

Have enough money on the ****ers!

Again? Didn't you almost sink them the last time because of your bet? :P

Fishooks12

.ak wrote: »

Again? Didn't you almost sink them the last time because of your bet? :P

They owe me one from the semi, thought that handicap was a gimme!

Ulster owe me one too after that last minute try but that'll wait for another day!

Taco Corp

Just saw a stat on Twiter, Wilko hasn't won anything since RWC 2003 :eek:

Tox56

Attendance looks fairly respectable on TV

duckysauce

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

donkey is class

chupacabra

Christ Hayman is a beast.

RoutineBites

Surley wrote: »

Just saw a stat on Twiter, Wilko hasn't won anything since RWC 2003 :eek:

Really? Certain he has won an Anglo-Welsh cup with Newcastle at some stage since then.

Fishooks12

What a hit!

Tox56

SIT DOWN SON

duckysauce

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

cracking kick

Fishooks12

duckysauce wrote: »

cracking kick

watching via "something that has a lag"

Guess he gets it so!

duckysauce

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

Fishooks12 wrote: »

watching via "something that has a lag"

Guess he gets it so!

kick to touch not johnnys pen

Fishooks12

Have to say it's a pretty poor game so far, although conditions aren't great

duckysauce

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Have to say it's a pretty poor game so far, although conditions aren't great

yep v dull

Fishooks12

"Armitage just dropped his knees on somebody"

Had nothing to do with the fact that he was pulled down.........

duckysauce

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

barnes

Fishooks12

I know conditions aren't great but this half kind of sums up how French club rugby has gone of late

the imagination seems to be gone

duckysauce

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

waste of a penalty by Tulon there , pile of muck so far

Fishooks12

Actually one of the worst games I've seen all year

Fishooks12

Toulon killing themselves with bad kicking out of hand

HOLD ON TO IT!

duckysauce

Don't care / Toulon are mercenaries/ Gavin Henson

thats a fcking red

ongarite

Should have been a red there.

Fishooks12

Barnes just loving copping out

My name is Mud

Barnes...clown

irishbucsfan

If Afoa was banned then that should easilly have been a red.

Fishooks12

Barnes has made this the horrible spectacle that it is, not once has he pulled the two captains in for a warning about repeated infringements