By Roth Admin
October 9 2004

Rotherham Titans entertain new boys Nottingham at Clifton Lane this afternoon, kick off is at 3.0pm. The Titans will be looking to make it five from five today and providing complacency doesn’t creep into the camp, they will. Nottingham are still looking for their first victory, however…. They will take encouragement from their 2nd half display against Bristol last week. Trailing 54-0 at the break, they came out and won the 2nd half 28-12 and in doing so secured their 1st point of the season.

Rotherham have not made many changes for today’s encounter. Tom Eaton makes his first start, replacing Jacob Rauluni who still has stitches in an eye injury. Adam Harrington also makes his first start, coming in at blindside as Des Tuiavii gets a well earned rest. The only other change is on the bench where Jonathon Pendlebury returns after a 3 week absence due to a knee injury.

Rotherham have twice faced Nottingham in League history, coming out victorious on both occasions. The last time was in National 2 on March 8th 1997 at Clifton Lane. Roth won 30-24 with tries coming from Easterby, Lax and Miller.


Roth Admin Prediction: Roth by 30


Rotherham:
15 Anthony Elliott, 14 Lee Blackett, 13 Peter Jorgensen, 12 Jason Keyter, 11 David Strettle, 10 Ramiro Pez, 9 Tom Eaton, 1 Riaan Olckers, 2 Neil Briggs, 3 Colin Noon, 4 Tim Maslanyk, 5 Glen Kenworthy, 6 Adam Harrington, 7 Craig Short ©, 8 Mike Schmid.

Replacements
16 Jonathan Golding, 17 Rod Latham, 18 John Rawson, 19 Jonathan Pendlebury, 20 Des Tuiavii, 21 Jacob Rauluni, 22 Mark Sweeney.

Nottingham:
15 David Jackson, 14 Chris Wyles, 13 Joe Van Den Burg, 12 Tom Kirk, 11 Warren Coles, 10 Neil Stenhouse, 9 Kevin Brennan, 1 Tonga Lea`aetoa, 2 Simon Jenkins, 3 Nigel Hall, 4 Ben Blackwall, 5 Dan Moore, 6 Craig Hammond (capt), 7 Richard Lloyd, 8 Howard Quigley.

Replacements
16 Jim Henry, 17 Andy Fuller, 18 Adam Corcoran, 19 Gary Jones, 20 Alan Cook, 21 Jun Shaw, 22 Ben Thompson.


Other fixtures in Division One this weekend:

Otley v Henley Hawks

Plymouth Albion v Coventry

Exeter v Orrell

London Welsh v Bedford

Sedgley Park v Penzance & Newlyn

Bristol v Pertemps Bees (Sunday)