Tigers keep the bench warm

By Denise
November 4 2002

Tigers have only two players in the starting line-up for Saturday's game against New Zealand. Graham Rowntree and Dorian West have unsurprisingly been left out of the squad entirely with only Martin Johnson and Lewis Moody starting.

The major news is Neil Back being dropped in favour of Hill at 7 and Moody covering the blind-side. Backy, Whopper, Stimmo and Austin are all on the bench.

J Robinson (Sale Sharks); J Simpson-Daniel (Gloucester), W Greenwood (Harlequins), M Tindall (Bath), B Cohen (Northampton); J Wilkinson (Newcastle), M Dawson (Northampton); T Woodman (Gloucester), S Thompson (Northampton), P Vickery (Gloucester), M Johnson (Leicester, capt), D Grewcock (Bath), L Moody (Leicester), R Hill (Saracens), L Dallaglio (Wasps).

Replacements: M Regan (Leeds), J Leonard (Harlequins), B Kay (Leicester), N Back (Leicester), A Healey (Leicester), B Johnston (Saracens), T Stimpson (Leicester).