BT Loves Glaws

BT Sport is in danger of turning Gloucester Rugby into a soap. The channel must think we are good entertainment value becuase they will be in Manchester to see us take on Sharks in yet another Friday night under lights ..

Foe the neutral last week's 27-27 thriller at Wuss probably was good fun but most Cherry and Whites would have preferred more of a dour game and five points.

Will we get that at Sharks? It will be hard even though we were the only club to win there last season.

There's one significant change with Joe Latta making his debut in the second row, while Mark Atkinson comes in for the Billy Twelvetrees and Lewis Ludlow comes into the back row for Ross Moriarty.

Can we finally pull off a full 80 minutes performance? Turn on and tune in.

Glaws: 15. Tom Marshall; 14. Charlie Sharples, 13. Matt Scott, 12. Mark Atkinson, 11. Henry Purdy; 10. Billy Burns, 9. Greig Laidlaw (capt); 1. Yann Thomas, 2. Richard Hibbard, 3. John Afoa; 4. Tom Savage, 5. Joe Latta; 6. Lewis Ludlow, 7. Matt Kvesic, 8. Ben Morgan

Changes: 16. Darren Dawidiuk, 17. Cameron Orr, 18. Paul Doran-Jones, 19. Gareth Evans, 20. Jacob Rowan, 21. Willi Heinz, 22. James Hook, 23. Billy Twelvetrees

Sharks make one change from last week's victory over Quins. Cameron Neild comes in to replace Ioane at flanker.

Sale: 15. Byron McGuigan, 14. Will Addison. 13. Sam James, 12. Johnny Leota, 11. Paolo Odogwu, 10. Dan Mugford, 9. Mike Phillips, 1. Eifion Lewis-Roberts, 2. Neil Briggs, 3. Halani Aulika, 4. Bryn Evans, 5. Jonathan Mills, 6. Cameron Neild, 7. David Seymour, 8. Josh Beaumont (capt.)

Changes: 16. Ross Harrison, 17. Kieran Longbottom, 18. Andrei Ostrikov, 19. Magnus Lund, 20. Laurence Pearce, 21. Peter Stringer, 22. Nev Edwards, 23. Sam Bedlow