Well, we don't travel to France well our playing history shows !   For one thing we cannot cope with the hot weather, we start way too slow
& then the game has gone away from us !  Catalan usually cause injury to Tom  when playing for us !  Not sure Mike will. Play
In short I think we will loose this quite easy, hope I am wrong but we shall see.

Why wouldn?t Mike play? 

And it?s a completely different club and set of players to 2023 and previous. 


Not to mention we are on equal points despite much tougher fixtures. 


That?s incredibly pessimistic. 


It could easily go either way and we could just as easily come away with 2 points.  

And it'll be about 21 degrees. It's hardly Sahara weather.

That would mean you'd only count, say, the top 17 players as injured then. What about all their backups that make up the top 25 players? Don't they count when they're injured? And that's what's been happening to us. It's not just that we've had first 17 players missing; we've had their backup players missing over the season so far. Some have only just come back after injury, like Scott & Griffin. Others have got injured again, like Seth, then add him to Stourton, that's 2 of our backrowers out. Both Russells are out who'd be playing now, Trueman's out and even though you band around words like dud, which imo is out of order, when he's a kid who's giving his all for us but ended up with a different injury to the one that he had trouble with before he joined. A dud is someone like Proctor, imo. Trueman's also made us look good when he's played with Lino and makes us look a different side with various ways to attack because of having 2 attacking options, rather than being so forward dominant and thus making us easier to defend against. Then we've got other guys that count like Doyle, who'd be in the side and even Lawford would have been very handy right now. Then it's that knock-on effect with guys who probably haven't had much time forming any kind of partnerships ending up being on the left or the right edge and getting caught out defensively, just due to lack of knowing each other's games, that's happened a few times in the last 3 games or so.

A do not agree would have done .At the end of the day you can only have 17 players in a match .When pundits on TV  go on about who are missing, they are on about players who are in the first team all the time .,not a 30 plus squad.