By Duncan Wood
December 14 2002

Swansea have named an unchanged side for Sunday's Heineken Cup return clash. Bristol name a 22 man squad but there will have to be some changes to the starting lineup. Craig Short drops out through injury.

Swansea name an unchanged lineup from last weekend whereas Bristol settle for naming a 22 man squad although there will definitely be changes from the team that started against Swansea last weekend.

Two of them will be in the forwards where Emiliano Bergamaschi and Craig Short drop out through injury. Emi left the field of play last weekend just after half time and Shorty has apparently been playing through a foot injury.

The obvious replacement for Emi will be Julian White who had his first competitive 80 minutes of rugby on Monday night having served a 10 week ban.

Replacing Shorty will be more interesting as he and Mike Lipman are the opensides in the European squad and both are injured. Rhys Oakley may move to openside with Ross Beattie or Ben Sturnham playing at number eight.

Brendon Daniel is rested which presumably means that David Rees and Phil Christophers will be the wingers although don't rule out Jamie Williams. ANdrew Higgins seems to have recovered from the knock he took last week.

The Bristol Shoguns squad and Swansea team are as follows:

Bristol will be determined to put the record straight after last weekend when they looked in control until the controversial sinbinning of Ross Beattie 15 minutes from time.

A number of scoring opportunities were wasted in the first hour and I don't think that the Shoguns will be as generous this time around.

The pack will probably be strengthened by the return of Garath Archer and Julian White and I don't think that Swansea will be allowed to take as many liberties around the breakdown as they were last weekend.

I take Bristol by 10 points.