Bristol vs Newcastle - Friday night

[Puja]

Bristol Bears team to take on Newcastle Falcons at Ashton Gate on Friday night (7.45pm KO):

15. Noah Heward (3 apps), 14. Siva Naulago (19 apps), 13. Semi Radradra (46 apps), 12. James Williams (7 apps), 11. Gabriel Ibitoye (9 apps), 10. AJ MacGinty (16 apps), 9. Harry Randall (93 apps); 1. Jake Woolmore (125 apps), 2. Harry Thacker (92 apps), 3. Max Lahiff (59 apps), 4. Joe Batley (34 apps), 5. Chris Vui (109 apps), 6. Steven Luatua (c) (106 apps), 7. Fitz Harding (43 apps), 8. Magnus Bradbury (14 apps).

System players: 16. Fred Davies (5 apps), 17. Yann Thomas (102 apps), 18. George Kloska (20 apps), 19. Ed Holmes (94 apps), 20. Jake Heenan (86 apps), 21. Andy Uren (151 apps), 22. Harry Ascherl (6 apps), 23. Ioan Lloyd (71 apps).

Unavailable: Ellis Genge, Will Capon, Kyle Sinckler, John Hawkins, Morgan Eames, Will Porter, Callum Sheedy, Joe Jenkins, Piers O’Conor, Jack Bates, Toby Fricker, Deago Bailey, Charles Piutau.



Newcastle Falcons team v Bristol Bears (Friday, 7.45pm, Ashton Gate).

15 Tom Penny, 14 Adam Radwan, 13 Matias Moroni, 12 Matias Orlando, 11 Mateo Carreras, 10 Brett Connon, 9 Michael Young (captain); 1 Adam Brocklebank, 2 Jamie Blamire, 3 Trevor Davison, 4 Greg Peterson, 5 Sebastian de Chaves, 6 Gary Graham, 7 Callum Chick, 8 Carl Fearns.

Replacements: 16 Ollie Fletcher, 17 Logovi’i Mulipola, 18 Richard Palframan, 19 Philip van der Walt, 20 Freddie Lockwood, 21 Sam Stuart, 22 Tian Schoeman, 23 Ben Stevenson.

Not available for selection: Phil Brantingham, Sam Clark, Ewan Greenlaw, Zach Kerr, Charlie Maddison, Elliott Obatoyinbo, Guy Pepper, Sean Robinson, Oliver Spencer, George Wacokecoke, Will Welch.

[FKAS]

That's a fully loaded Bears backline, Falcons have been on good form. This could be an interesting game, some rumours around Lam's tenure hanging by a thread.

[jimKRFC]

That's a fully loaded Bears backline, Falcons have been on good form. This could be an interesting game, some rumours around Lam's tenure hanging by a thread.

Apparently there's a rumor Muldoon is heading back to Connacht, but the Bristol performance these past two seasons should raise questions about PLs position.

A decent looking Bris side, would be good to have CP available, but really good to see Davies, Kloska and Asherl getting a shot!

Also Jeff Reece is off the "unavailable" lost as well hopefully back in the squad soon!

[FKAS]

Is Muldoon taking the top job at Connacht?

Wouldn't be surprised to see Lam go for an international job, Fiji are indeed and can't be too poor having previously afforded Cotter.

[fivepointer]

Frankly a must win game for Bristol. Their Prem form has to improve and this is a good place to start against a side in the bottom 3.