Prem Rugby Cup

[Epaminondas Pules]

Sale vs Bristol:

Sale Sharks Starting XV:

15.Ollie Davies, 14. Tom O’Flaherty, 13. Rob du Preez ©, 12. Rekeiti Ma’asi-White, 11. Obi Ene, 10. Tom Curtis 9. Nye Thomas; 1. Simon McIntyre, 2. Nathan Jibulu, 3. James Harper, 4. Ernst van Rhyn, 5. Ben Bamber, 6. Jacques Vermeulen, 7. Sam Dugdale, 8. Dan du Preez.

Replacements:

16. Ethan Caine, 17. Tumy Onasanya, 18. Patreece Bell, 19. Hyron Andrews, 20. Jos Gilmore, 21. Dom Hanson, 22. Sam Bedlow, 23. Tristan Woodman.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Gloucester vs Exeter:
Gloucester Rugby starting XV

15 Charlie Atkinson
14 Will Joseph
13 Max Llewellyn
12 Will Butler
11 Ollie Thorley
10 Ross Byrne
9 Caolan Englefield
1 Ciaran Knight
2 Jack Singleton
3 Afolabi Fasogbon
4 Freddie Thomas
5 Cam Jordan
6 James Venter
7 Lewis Ludlow (C)
8 Jack Clement

16 Jack Innard
17 Archie McArthur
18 Kirill Gotovtsev
19 Matias Alemanno
20 Josh Basham
21 Mikey Austin
22 George Barton
23 Josiah Edwards-Giraud

Exeter Chiefs:

15 Will Haydon-Wood
14 Paul Brown-Bampoe
13 Ben Hammersley
12 Harry Ascherl
11 Nick Lilley
10 Harvey Skinner
9 Stephen Varney
1 Will Goodrick-Clarke
2 Joseph Dweba
3 Josh Iosefa-Scott
4 Lewis Pearson
5 Rusi Tuima
6 Christ Tshiunza
7 Ethan Roots (c)
8 Ross Vintcent

Replacements:
16 Jack Yeandle
17 Kwenzo Blose
18 Jimmy Roots
19 Andrea Zambonin
20 Kane James
21 Charlie Chapman
22 Ben Coen
23 Zack Wimbush

[Epaminondas Pules]

Newcastle vs Quins:
Newcastle Red Bulls team v Harlequins (Friday, 7.45pm, Kingston Park, live on TNT Sports)

15 Alex Hearle, 14 Oli Spencer, 13 Sammy Arnold, 12 Max Clark, 11 Joel Grayson, 10 Brett Connon, 9 Sam Stuart; 1 Murray McCallum, 2 George McGuigan (captain), 3 Luan de Bruin, 4 Oscar Usher, 5 Jamie Hodgson, 6 Cameron Neild, 7 Tom Gordon, 8 Amanaki Mafi.

Replacements: 16 Ollie Fletcher, 17 Micky Rewcastle, 18 Callum Hancock, 19 Seb de Chaves, 20 Freddie Lockwood, 21 James Elliott, 22 Rhys Beeckmans, 23 Nathan Greenwood.

STARTING XV
15. Nick David (72)
14. Cassius Cleaves (13)
13. Bryn Bradley (14)
12. Sean Kerr (8)
11. Cameron Anderson (16)
10. Jamie Benson (24)
9. Max Green (9)
1. Jordan Els (50)
2. Jack Walker (89)
3. Cameron Doak (*)
4. Jonny Green (9)
5. Stephan Lewies © (82)
6. Zach Carr (7)
7. Tom Lawday (94)
8. Lucas Schmid (8)

IMPACT PLAYERS:
16. Sam Riley (69)
17. Jamie Miller (*)
18. Ollie Streeter (3)
19. Harry Browne (7)
20. Joe Launchbury (44)
21. Elliot Williams (*)
22. Jake Murray (13)
23. Hayden Hyde (13)

[FKAS]

STARTING XV
15 Ollie Hassell-Collins [48]
14 Adam Radwan [11]
13 Izaia Perese [15]
12 Joseph Woodward [33]
11 Gabriel Hamer-Webb *
10 Orlando Bailey *
9 Tom Whiteley[40]
1 Archie van der Flier [4]
2 Jamie Blamire *
3 Will Hurd [50]
4 Tom Manz [14]
5 James Thompson *
6 Hanro Liebenberg (c)
7 Emeka Ilione [48]
8 Olly Cracknell [66]

REPLACEMENTS
16 Finn Theobald-Thomas [17]
17 Tubuna Maka [2]
18 Ale Loman [1] **
19 Harry Palmer *
20 Joaquin Moro *
21 Ollie Allan [3]
22 Charlie Titcombe *
23 Will Wand [11]

* Leicester Tigers debut
** Loan Player

[Epaminondas Pules]

Saracens Men team to play Leicester Tigers:
1 Rhys Carre
2 James Hadfield
3 Marco Riccioni
4 Harry Wilson
5 Hugh Tizard
6 Olamide Sodeke
7 Charlie West
8 Nathan Michelow
9 Charlie Bracken
10 Louie Johnson
11 Noah Caluori
12 Cameron Hutchison
13 Nick Tompkins (c)
14 Jack Bracken
15 Max Malins

Replacements:
16 Eoghan Clarke
17 Tietie Tuimauga
18 Marcus Street
19 Kennedy Sylvester
20 Reggie Hammick
21 Ivan van Zyl
22 Brandon Jackson
23 Rotimi Segun

Players Unavailable:

Eroni Mawi, Phil Brantingham, Theo Dan, Jamie George, Alec Clarey, Vilikesa Nairau, Nick Isiekwe, Maro Itoje, Theo McFarland, Andy Onyeama-Christie, Juan Martin Gonzalez, Ben Earl, Max Eke, Toby Knight, Tom Willis, Fergus Burke, Owen Farrell, Angus Hall, Olly Hartley, Alex Lozowski, Sam Spink, Elliot Daly, Lucio Cinti, Tobias Elliott.

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Sale vs Bristol:

Sale Sharks Starting XV:

15.Ollie Davies, 14. Tom O’Flaherty, 13. Rob du Preez ©, 12. Rekeiti Ma’asi-White, 11. Obi Ene, 10. Tom Curtis 9. Nye Thomas; 1. Simon McIntyre, 2. Nathan Jibulu, 3. James Harper, 4. Ernst van Rhyn, 5. Ben Bamber, 6. Jacques Vermeulen, 7. Sam Dugdale, 8. Dan du Preez.

Replacements:

16. Ethan Caine, 17. Tumy Onasanya, 18. Patreece Bell, 19. Hyron Andrews, 20. Jos Gilmore, 21. Dom Hanson, 22. Sam Bedlow, 23. Tristan Woodman.

Bristol Bears team to face Sale Sharks in round one of the PREM Rugby Cup on Saturday (3pm KO):

15. Josh Carrington (debut), 14. Aidan Boshoff (3 apps), 13. Joe Jenkins (26 apps), 12. Benhard Janse van Rensburg (50 apps), 11. Gabriel Ibitoye (59 apps), 10. AJ MacGinty (53 apps), 9. Kieran Marmion (52 apps); 1. Jake Woolmore (169 apps), 2. Harry Thacker (133 apps), 3. George Kloska (65 apps), 4. Joe Owen (35 apps), 5. Joe Batley (75 apps), 6. Luka Ivanishvili (debut), 7. Fitz Harding (c) (97 apps), 8. Ben Grondona (20 apps).

System players: 16. Tomas Gwilliam (5 apps), 17. Sam Grahamslaw (12 apps), 18. Lovejoy Chawatama (5 apps), 19. Kenzie Jenkins (3 apps), 20. Kofi Cripps (3 apps), 21. Max Pepper (debut), 22. James Williams (55 apps), 23. Louis Rees-Zammit (debut).

[FKAS]

OHC at fullback and two tightheads on the bench. Some unexpected selections in amongst that lot for Tigers.

[Epaminondas Pules]

There's only the one game on the box I think, which is Red Bull vs Quins, which is a shame as there's some good match ups this weekend.

[twitchy]

Yeah I was hoping glos v exe would be on.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Only thing to really take from that is that Green is fucking awful!

[fivepointer]

A decent enough start for Newcastle. A comfortable win and a good turnout. Quins looked well below par.

[Scrumhead]

Not sure how much to take away from that TBH?

Only a handful of players in that Quins 23 will be in contention once the internationals and first team players are back in the picture (we were missing - or chose not to pick - 16 internationals + Tyrone Green). Comparatively, that’s not miles off being Newcastle’s starting XV.

Feel good story for Falcons and hopefully no more than an appropriately sour note for Wilson to leave on.

[FKAS]

Newcastle seemed to just want that game more, their aggression and physicality was just a step up from Quins.

Whilst it was a fairly strong Newcastle side they still had quite a few players to come back in Freddie Clark, Bello, Chamberlain, Wade and the new Puma scrum for starters. Diamond will be pleased with what he saw but know that the attack still needs to click if they are going to push on, there was a few passes not quite to hand and a few lines that were a little off in timing.

[FKAS]

Tigers beat Sarries 20-7. Dunno what was happening with Tigers kickers, four tries but no conversions. Three forwards push over tries and then Bailey creates space for Wand to go in. Liebenburg, Blamire and Ilione with the other tries for Tigers. Michelow for Sarries.