Gloucester Rugby travel to cinch Stadium @ Franklin’s Gardens tomorrow to take on third-place Northampton Saints in the Gallagher Premiership.
The Cherry & Whites will go to Northampton with confidence, off the back of a 28-26 win over Harlequins at Kingsholm last weekend.
George Skivington’s side will also take belief from their 34-19 win over the Saints at Kingsholm in December.
Skivington has named an unchanged starting XV from their win over Quins.
Fresh from making his 100th Gloucester Rugby appearance against Quins, Val Rapava-Ruskin starts at prop.
Seb Blake and Kirill Gotovtsev complete the front row.
Freddie Clarke and Matias Alemanno start again in the second row with Ruan Ackermann, Albert Tuisue and captain Lewis Ludlow completing the pack.
Ben Meehan and last weekend’s Player of the Match, Santi Carreras start as the halfbacks.
The fan-voted Stowford Press Player of the Match, Seb Atkinson, starts in the centre with Chris Harris, who has been released back from the Scotland camp.
Ollie Thorley, Jonny May and Lloyd Evans combine in the back three again.
There is one change on the bench for the Cherry & Whites, as Billy Twelvetrees replaces Louis Rees-Zammit, who is away on Six Nations duty.
Twelvetrees joins Henry Walker, Harry Elrington, Jamal Ford Robinson, Cam Jordan, Jack Clement, Charlie Chapman and Tom Seabrook on the bench.
The game kicks off at 2.45pm in Northampton and will be broadcast live on PRTV here.
Starting XV |
15. Lloyd Evans*
14. Jonny May*
13. Chris Harris
12. Seb Atkinson
11. Ollie Thorley*
10. Santi Carreras
9. Ben Meehan
1. Val Rapava-Ruskin
2. Seb Blake*
3. Kirill Gotovtsev
4. Freddie Clarke*
5. Matias Alemanno
6. Ruan Ackermann
7. Lewis Ludlow (c)*
8. Albert Tuisue
Replacements |
16. Henry Walker*
17. Harry Elrington
18. Jamal Ford-Robinson
19. Cam Jordan*
20. Jack Clement*
21. Charlie Chapman*
22. Billy Twelvetrees
23. Tom Seabrook*
*Denotes academy graduate.
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