Afo Starts

By New Cherry
October 16 2025

A Friday night derby at Kingsholm gives Gloucs the perfect opportunity to get the season on track and get the first win of the campaign. Defeat is not an outcome any Cherry and White wants to contemplate.

Only Newcastle Red Bulls have a worse record,  which is a small comfor but with their backing you cannot see that situation lasting too long. As a result, Gloucs need to get the points sooner rather than later.

There are changes - some tactical some through injury,  notably to Seb Atkinson whose knee and hip injury from last week does not require surgery.

In the front row Afo Fasogbon is back with Hugh Bokenham coming in at No.8 .

Tomos Williams has to sit this one out so Caolan Englefield will be at scrum half and Max Llewellyn starting at centre following Atkinson's injury. On the bench,  former Hartpury scrum-half Mike Austin will be poised for his Gloucs debut.

Our derby rivals have made a more than decent start with two wins, including a close 18-14 defeat of the Chiefs last week where Scotland back Tom Jordan was sent off for a high tackles so he's banned for this one.

Gloucester

15 Charlie Atkinson

14 Ben Loader

13 Will Joseph

12 Max Llewellyn

11 Ollie Thorley

10 Ross Byrne

9 Caolan Englefield

1 Ciaran Knight

2 Seb Blake

3 Afo Fasogbon

4 Freddie Thomas

5 Matias Alemanno

6 Josh Basham

7 James Venter (Captain)

8 Hugh Bokenham

Bench

16 Jack Innard

17 Archie McArthur

18 Kirill Gotovtsev

19 Cam Jordan

20 Jack Mann

21 Harry Taylor

22 Mikey Austin*

23 Josiah Edwards-Giraud

Desparate For A Win

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