Three Changes for Tigers
By Cheery Cherry
October 3 2014
Nick Wood is back in the starting line-up and Greg Laidlaw will start against Tigers.
Wood has been havinbg back problems but has come through some A team games and comes in for Dan Murphy.
The other change sees Tom Savage coming back from his shoulder injury and he'll be in the second row.
It'll be a topugh test against a Tiger side which is still smartiung from last week's home defeat by IrishGloucs: Rob Cook; Charlie Sharples, Henry Purdy, Billy Twelvetrees (captain), Jonny May; James Hook, Greig Laidlaw; Nick Wood, Richard Hibbard, John Afoa; Tom Savage, Tom Palmer; Sione Kalamafoni, Matt Kvesic, Ben Morgan
Reps: Aleki Lutui, Yann Thomas, Sila Puafisi, Elliott Stooke, Ross Moriarty, Dan Robson, Mark Atkinson, Tom Isaacs.
The wounded Tigers give debuts to All Black's lock Brad Thorn and Italian front-row Michele Rizzo with Seremaia Bai and Robert Barbieri returningn to the starting line-up . The game kicks off at 3.15 to accommodate BT Sport and we will be in our alternative kit.
Tigers: Mathew Tait, Blaine Scully, Vereniki Goneva ,Seremaia Bai, Miles Benjamin, Owen Williams, Ben Youngs (c), Michele Rizzo, Leonardo Ghiraldini, Fraser Balmain, Brad Thorn, Graham Kitchener, Jamie Gibson, Julian Salvi, Robert Barbieri.
Reps: Neil Briggs, Tom Bristow, Tiziano Pasquali, Sebastian De Chaves, Jordan Crane, David Mele, Freddie Burns, Matt Smith.