Prem Rugby Round 2

Friday
Falcons v Gloucester 18.00

Saturday
Northampton v Bristol 15.00
Saracens v Bath 15.00
Leicester v Sale 15.00

Sunday
Harlequins v Exeter 15.00

Newcastle Falcons team v Gloucester (Friday, 6pm, Kingston Park)

15 Ben Redshaw,
14 Adam Radwan,
13 Tom Penny,
12 Rory Jennings,
11 Ben Stevenson,
10 Brett Connon,
9 Hugh O’Sullivan;

1 Adam Brocklebank,
2 Jamie Blamire,
3 Murray McCallum,
4 Philip van der Walt,
5 Sebastian de Chaves,
6 Freddie Lockwood,
7 Guy Pepper,
8 Callum Chick (captain).

Replacements: 16 Michael van Vuuren, 17 Phil Brantingham, 18 Mark Tampin, 19 Kiran McDonald, 20 Sam Cross, 21 Sam Stuart, 22 Matias Orlando, 23 Elliott Obatoyinbo.

Not available for selection: Josh Barton, Eduardo Bello, Mateo Carreras, Nathan Greenwood, Charlie Maddison, Matias Moroni, Richard Palframan, Pedro Rubiolo, Adam Scott.

Gloucester Rugby:
15 Lloyd Evans,
14 Jake Morris,
13 Chris Harris,
12 Seb Atkinson,
11 Ollie Thorley,
10 George Barton,
9 Stephen Varney;
1 Jamal Ford-Robinson,
2 George McGuigan,
3 Fraser Balmain,
4 Freddie Clarke,
5 Arthur Clark,
6 Ben Donnell,
7 Lewis Ludlow (captain),
8 Zach Mercer.

Replacements: 16 Seb Blake, 17 Val Rapava-Ruskin, 18 Ciaran Knight, 19 Freddie Thomas, 20 Jack Clement, 21 Charlie Chapman, 22 Max Llewellyn. 23

Annoyingly this isn't on the telebox. Was looking forward to a rugby double header this evening. Finish work, beer and rugby on whilst I make dinner but no.

Josh Hodge cutting through defences again.

No 7&1/2 wrote:Josh Hodge cutting through defences again.

Then breaks his arm. Poor sod, looked a nasty one. Shame as he'd started the season in blinding form.

Yeah had to break away to prep dinner and just got to half time. Dislocated elbow sounds bloody painful. Some good performances mixed through the teams.

Mixed bag from Finn for Bath in the opening two rounds.

On balance, more positives than negatives given that he's getting used to his teammates. He missed an uncharacteristic number of kicks for goal too - something I'm sure he'll sort out. High number of tackles made as usual - he is badly underrated for his defence so hopefully visibility of that will improve.

It's Bath's pack which has shone in the first two games though.