{"id":181077,"date":"2025-06-13T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181077\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:34:11","slug":"bath-rugby-v-leicester-tigers-gallagher-premiership-rugby-final-allianz-stadium-on-saturday-june-14-kick-off-3pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181077\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath Rugby v Leicester Tigers (Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final) – Allianz Stadium on Saturday, June 14, kick-off 3pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Cheika has named the Leicester Tigers matchday squad for the Gallagher Premiership Final against Bath Rugby.<\/p>\n

The side is unchanged from last weekend\u2019s Premiership Play-off win over Sale Sharks at Mattioli Woods Welford Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Juli\u00e1n Montoya will captain the side at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, in his final appearance for the club. The Argentinian is one of six players who will play their final game for Leicester Tigers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Montoya, Handr\u00e9 Pollard, James Cronin<\/a>, and Matt Rogerson<\/a> will all depart in the summer, while Dan Cole<\/a> and Ben Youngs<\/a> will play their final games after announcing their retirements. The experienced duo have made a combined 678 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n

Cronin\u2019s final appearance will be his 50th appearance for the club.<\/p>\n

STARTING XV<\/strong><\/p>\n

15 Freddie Steward<\/a> [110]
14 Adam Radwan [10]
13 Solomone Kata<\/a> [43]
12 Joseph Woodward<\/a> [32]
11 Ollie Hassell-Collins<\/a> [47]
10 Handr\u00e9 Pollard [53]
9 Jack van Poortvliet<\/a> [95]
1 Nicky Smith<\/a> [23]
2 Juli\u00e1n Montoya (c) [77]
3 Joe Heyes<\/a> [162]
4 Cameron Henderson<\/a> [64]
5 Ollie Chessum<\/a> [67]
6 Hanro Liebenberg<\/a> [131]
7 Tommy Reffell<\/a> [137]
8 Olly Cracknell<\/a> [65]<\/p>\n

REPLACEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

16 Charlie Clare<\/a> [123]
17 James Cronin [49]
18 Dan Cole [342]
19 Matt Rogerson [27]
20 Emeka Ilione<\/a> [47]
21 Ben Youngs [336]
22 Ben Volavola<\/a> [10]
23 Izaia Perese<\/a> [14]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Cheika has named the Leicester Tigers matchday squad for the Gallagher Premiership Final against Bath Rugby. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-181077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114676083218835443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}