Gloucs Kick Off Premiership Cup

Tke jury it still out on the fledgling Premiership Cup - but let's face it after the Covid interruption  any competitive rugby is welcome. We have the honour of starting this season's competition with the visit of Bath on Friday night on BT kick off 7.45. Here's the line-ups ..

The idea of the competition is to give young players a chance while internationals are being played. The Gloucs team is a mix of experience and youth with eight players retained from last week - Andrew Davidson and Freddie Clarke in the second row and in the back row Ruan Ackermann, Ben Morgan and Lewis Ludlow.

Tom Seabrook comes in at outside centre, Jake Morris and Alex Morgan on the wings and at full back Kyle Moyle returns.

A reminder that the competition is spilt into three regional groupsf with the winners going through to the semis together with the runner-up with the best playing record. In addition to Bath we have Wuss, Chiefs and Bristol.

Gloucs:1 5. Kyle Moyle, 14. Alex Morgan, 13. Tom Seabrook, 12. Billy Twelvetrees, 11. Jake Morris, 10. Lloyd Evans, 9. Charlie Chapman; 1. Harry Elrington, 2. Santiago Socino, 3. Fraser Balmain, 4. Freddie Clarke, 5. Andrew Davidson, 6. Ruan Ackermann, 7. Lewis Ludlow (capt), 8. Ben Morgan

Reps:16. Henry Walker, 17. Val Rapava-Ruskin, 18. Jamal Ford-Robinson, 19. Freddie Thomas, 20. Jack Clement, 21. Ben Meehan, 22. George Barton, 23. Louis Hillman-Cooper.

Bath: 15 Darren Atkins, 14 Ruaridh McConnochie, 13 Max Ojomoh, 12 Will Butt, 11 Gabriel Hamer-Webb, 10 George Worboys, 9 Max Green; 1 Arthur Cordwell, 2 Tom Dunn (capt), 3 Kieran Verden, 4 Ewan Richards, 5 Will Spencer, 6 Jaco Coetzee, 7 Thompson Cowan, 8 Nahum Merigan.

Reps: 16 John Stewart, 17 Will Vaughan, 18 D’Arcy Rae, 19 Josh Dingley, 20 Richard de Carpentier, 21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Ciaran Donoghue, 23 Gabe Goss.