By Duncan Wood
October 5 2002

Leeds have named their starting line up and replacements whilst Bristol have some injury worries and have only named a squad. Peter Thorburn will not reveal his team until shortly before kick off.

Leeds have made just the one change from the team that faced Newcastle last week with scrum half Alan Dickens, a summer signing from Sale, coming in for his second start of the season. Derek Hegarty moves to the bench. James Ponton also replaces Carl Hogg on the bench.

The Leeds team is as follows:

15. Dan Scarbrough 14. George Harder 13. Tristan Davies 12. Braam van Straaten 11. Diego Albanese 10. Gordon Ross 9. Alan Dickens 1. Mike Shelley (c) 2. Mark Regan 3. Gavin Kerr 4. Chris Murphy 5. Tom Palmer 6. Cameron Mather 7. Dan Hyde 8. Isaac Feaunati

Replacements
16. Matt Holt 17. Rob Rawlinson 18. Stewart Campbell 19. James Ponton 20. Derek Hegarty 21. Craig Emmerson 22. Chris Hall

Obvious men to watch will be England A star Dan Scarborough who has scored 5 of his team's 11 tries so far this season and, of course, former Springbok Braam van Straaten who has already notched 80 points this season and will kick goals from anywhere.

The other former Springbok, Japie Mulder, has been forced out of action with a serious neck injury. Another danger is former Gloucester winger, Diego Albanese, a Puma team mate of Agustin Pichot and Felipe Contepomi.

Leeds are also strong up front. Mark Regan will need no introduction to Bristol supporters and he'll be throwing into the highly rated Tom Palmer. The Tykes back row is hard nosed and hard working.

Bristol will not name their side until shortly before kick off. Lee Best and Neil McCarthy were both forced out of the Leicester game through injury so Matt Carrington and Chris Rowland both travel as cover.

Julian White is, of course, serving a club imposed 14 day ban so Paul Johnstone is set for a return. Jamie Williams will be out for another 4 weeks with a knee injury and club skipper Ross Beattie is still out with an achilles problem.

Lee Best, Shane Drahm, Brendon Daniel, David Rees, Phil Christophers, Martin Shaw, Andrew Higgins, Daryl Gibson, Felipe Contepomi, Matt Carrington, Agustin Pichot, Peter Richards, Matt Salter, Ben Sturnham, Michael Lipman, Craig Short, Alex Brown, Garath Archer, Andrew Sheridan, Rhys Oakley, Chris Rowland, Neil McCarthy, Saul Nelson, Paul Johnstone, Darren Crompton, Emiliano Bergamaschi.