Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins

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Predicted Weather Forecast

Sunny intervals and light winds from the east
Temperature feels like 14 degrees
Precipitation is not expected

TV Coverage

Channel 452 TNT Sports 7 SD 1445 - 1700
Channel 460 TNT Sports 7 HD 1445 – 1700
Also available on HBO Max

Match Officials:

Referee: Joe James
ARs: Craig Maxwell-Keys & Jonathan Healy
TMO: David Rose

Teams will be published when announced, normally after 12pm.

Not confident on this one, Rob Hunter will have briefed them well. Chiefs 38 Quins 34

Exeter Chiefs

15 Will Haydon-Wood

14 Immanuel Feyi-Waboso

13 Henry Slade

12 Will Butt

11 Olly Woodburn

10 Harvey Skinner

9 Stephen Varney

1 Nika Abuladze

2 Jack Yeandle (c)

3 Josh Iosefa-Scott

4 Lewis Pearson

5 Harry Wilson

6 Ethan Roots

7 Ross Vintcent

8 Greg Fisilau

Replacements:

16 Max Norey

17 Will Goodrick-Clarke

18 Bachuki Tchumbadze

19 Joe Bailey

20 Kane James

21 Sam Wolstenholme

22 Ben Hammersley

23 Zack Wimbush

Harlequins

15. George Furbank (4)

14. Nick David (92)

13. Luke Northmore (103)

12. Bryn Bradley (41)

11. Cadan Murley (C) (156)

10. Marcus Smith (200)

9. Will Porter (65)

1. Fin Baxter (78)

2. Jack Walker (113)

3. Simon Kerrod (133)

4. James Dun (6)

5. Kieran Treadwell (33)

6. Jack Kenningham (103)

7. Seb Driscoll (13)

8. Lucas Schmid (17)

IMPACT PLAYERS:

16. Sam Riley (88)

17. Will Hobson (45)

18. Ollie Streeter (18)

19. Elliot Williams (14)

20. Harry Browne (21)

21. Will Evans (138)

22. Lucas Friday (24)

23. Rodrigo Isgró (29)

Not sure how much of our own lineout ball we'll win with that 2nd row. Hopefully our scrum will hold it's own to give us some first phase ball. Not confident but hopeful Chiefs 26 - 24 Quins

Hopefully we can get a win to end this block of Prem games, being bottom with almost 1/3 of the season gone would be less than ideal. It's gonna be a tough game.
Chiefs 29 Quins 25.

Could really do with a win here. I’m not overly confident however. Good to have Manny back, WHW at FB doesn’t fill me with joy tbh and the second row isn’t particularly strong. Hopefully our scrum will give us some joy
Chiefs 27 Quins 23 🤞🏻

Whatever it may look like on paper any Quins pack needs respecting. I agree.about the second row lacking height, we need to use our relatively light back rows more in the linesout.
The backs look a bit slow . We’ll have to see. I think Quins will shade it, and we may well end the weekend bottom.

Not at all confident. Why is Gully not in the 23?? And now missing all our international locks, line outs will be interesting. As much as we all like and respect Yenz for all he’s done for the club, his best days are behind him. Unfortunately white line fever is likely to be contagious.
Head says Quins but will stick with heart

Chiefs 32 Quins 27

Well will it be trick or treat??

I would love to feel confident and I was before I saw the line ups. Not quite so confident now.....

I know we can win if we put it all together but the second row issues are the major concern.
Its a big ask for Lewis to come back in after a while out injured and get our line out back on track.
Hopefully we can get the line out right early and secure our own ball otherwise it could be a long afternoon......🫣
We really need a good start you feel and if we do hopefully the confidence comes back and we get our mijo back
Quins will have a lot of confidence after last week so this is a real challenge especially with a dry pitch which will suit their game.
Hopefully its a good game and we come out on the right side of it but more hopeful than confident 🤞

Chiefs 30 Quins 20. Reasonably confident with those lineups.

Chiefs 24 Quins 27

You would normally expect a win this weekend but l feel ll will be a close call. That said I’m going to hedge on us holding on
Chiefs 29 - 26 Quins

Thats a Curates Egg selection for Ex - good in parts. Unfortunately its probably also a Hobsons Choice selection as we dont currently have a lot of choice in some positions.

On the plus side, its great that Manny is back. Sladey and Butt are growing into a good understanding and pairing. Skinner and Varney have already developed an excellent partnership imo. And our back row speaks for itself.

On the flip side, i have many reservations about WHW at full back. I think id be more confident if he swapped shirt numbers with Woody, but perhaps thats how they'll defend anyway. But my real conceris at the set piece. Scrums could be a lottery, but i really think that we could be found out at lineout time.

Quins have won their last two matches and looked very impressive away to Sarries last weekend. I also think that their bench is stronger than ours.

What a month ago, i would have thought to be a certain win, i now think could be in the balance.

I cant bring myself to predict a win for Quins, but that really wouldn't surprise me.

Chiefs 29 Quins 25

I think it will be very close so :
Exeter 30 - 29 Harlequins

Im not confident & my head say Quimbies. However, I will let my heart rule Chiefs 38 Quins 32.

I think we are all disappointed with our second row selections but with our injury crisis and after Tuima and Christ left next in the pecking order is Pearson although by any measure he is not a Prem standard lock. With Quins going to play a very fast game plan I thought Burger would start as he is our quickest prop and not being in the 23 is a surprise for me, maybe he is injured? Feel for Sam Harris a natural 15 not sure what he has done to he dropped, WHE has been tried at full back before not impressed there for me. Dweba who made a real impact last season in the big games not featuring at all this season, something wrong there for me.Well that’s got that off my chest.

Can we win the game yes but we are going to have to score lots of tries because I can’t see quins not scoring at least 4 tries given the good weather forecast.

Chiefs 32 Quins 38

All said above. Locks and full back a concern. Chiefs 25 Quins 38.

Chiefs 42 Quins25

Chiefs 21-35 Quins

With heart over head Exe 35 - 28 Quins but I could be wrong.