Newcastle v Harlequins Team News and Updates


By CAW
March 4 2011

Team news and updates for the Friday night game up in Newcastle

Newcastle Falcons Harlequins
15 Jeremy Manning
14 Luke Fielden
13 Luke Eves
12 James Fitzpatrick
11 Alex Tait
10 Jimmy Gopperth
9 Micky Young

1 Jon Golding
2 Matt Thompson
3 Euan Murray
4 James Hudson
5 Andrew Van der Heijden
6 Tim Swinson
7 Brent Wilson
8 Ally Hogg

Replacements

16 Rob Vickers
17 Grant Shiells
18Kieran Brookes
19 Mark Wilson
20 Alex Gray
21 Chris Pilgrim
22 Tane Tu’ipulotu
23 Tom Catterick

15. Mike Brown
14. Tom Williams
13. Ugo Monye
12. Jordan Turner-Hall
11. Ollie Lindsay-Hague
10 Rory Clegg
9. Dave Moore

1. Ceri Jones
2. Joe Gray
3. James Johnston
4. Ollie Kohn
5. Pete Browne
6. Maurie Fa’asavalu
7. Will Skinner
8. Chris Robshaw ©

Replacements

16. Chris Brooker
17. Joe Marler
18. Mark Lambert
19. Tomas Vallejos
20. Chris York
21. Ben Urdapilleta
22. Tom Casson
23. Ross Chisholm

Newcastle News

Newcastle Falcons head coach Alan Tait has made two changes for Friday’s Aviva Premiership Rugby match against Harlequins (kick-off 8pm).

Scotland international Euan Murray returns to the front row while Brent Wilson starts in his favoured flanker berth.

“Friday at home to Harlequins is a massive chance to put things right at Kingston Park, especially in light of how badly we finished our last home match against Exeter,” said Tait.

“Hopefully we can get the crowd in and win them over on the back of the Leeds result, but it’s a short turnaround between games and we need to follow it up with a win,” he added.

Harlequins News

After the disappointment of last week’s close encounter with London Irish, Quins turn their attentions to their Northern rivals for Friday night’s away trip to Kingston Park in the Aviva Premiership.

Sitting in 7th place in the table, the tightly contested league sees Quins just 1 point off a valuable top 4 spot and the London side know that a win tomorrow night against Newcastle is vital.

Director of Rugby, Conor O’Shea, makes only one change to the side that started last week against Irish.

In the front row, Ceri Jones joins Joe Gray and James Johnston, with Joe Marler moving to the bench. Ollie Kohn and Pete Browne combine in the second row, with Maurie Fa’asavalu, Will Skinner and Chris Robshaw making up the back row.

Dave Moore makes his second Premiership start at scrum-half, where he joins forces once again with Rory Clegg. Jordan Turner-Hall and Ugo Monye are the centre pairing, with Ollie Lindsay-Hague and Tom Williams starting on the wings. Mike Brown retains the number 15 shirt.

Harlequins team to play Newcastle Falcons. Friday 4th March. Kick off 8pm. Kingston Park. Aviva Premiership Rugby.

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