Newcastle vs Saracens - Sunday 3pm

[Puja]

Newcastle Falcons: 15 Elliott Obatoyinbo, 14 Adam Radwan, 13 Matias Orlando, 12 Rory Jennings, 11 Iwan Stephens, 10 Brett Connon, 9 Hugh O’Sullivan, 8 Callum Chick (c), 7 Sam Cross, 6 Freddie Lockwood, 5 Sebastian de Chaves, 4 Pedro Rubiolo, 3 Eduardo Bello, 2 Jamie Blamire, 1 Adam Brocklebank
Replacements: 16 Bryan Byrne, 17 Phil Brantingham, 18 Murray McCallum, 19 John Hawkins, 20 Philip van der Walt, 21 Sam Stuart, 22 Cameron Hutchison, 23 Ben Stevenson

Saracens: 15 Elliot Daly, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Alex Lozowski, 12 Nick Tompkins, 11 Alex Lewington, 10 Alex Goode (c), 9 Ivan van Zyl, 8 Tom Willis, 7 Andy Christie, 6 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 5 Hugh Tizard, 4 Callum Hunter-Hill, 3 Alec Clarey, 2 Theo Dan, 1 Eroni Mawi
Replacements: 16 James Hadfield, 17 Tom West, 18 Christian Judge, 19 Ollie Stonham, 20 Billy Vunipola, 21 Gareth Simpson, 22 Manu Vunipola, 23 Lucio Cinti

Venue: Kingston Park
Kick-off: 15:00 GMT
Referee: Anthony Woodthorpe
Assistant Referees: Harry Walbaum, Wayne Falla
TMO: Andrew Jackson

[FKAS]

As expected Sarries rest some of the internationals for this one. Still likely to be a long day for Falcons.

[p/d]

Dan & Blamire ....... Happy days

*and why have they dropped the Theodor. Just not good enough

[Banquo]

Manu Vunipola was on the bench for Ampthill last week, its a bit of a joke tbh

[Banquo]

As expected Sarries rest some of the internationals for this one. Still likely to be a long day for Falcons.

be interesting, their second string really struggled early in the season.

[Puja]

As expected Sarries rest some of the internationals for this one. Still likely to be a long day for Falcons.

be interesting, their second string really struggled early in the season.

It's a stronger second string with some of the returnees though - Daly, Tompkins, Gonzalez, and Dan back from the RWC. Still, you'd've thought it's Newcastle's best chance to get off the mark.

Puja

[Banquo]

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As expected Sarries rest some of the internationals for this one. Still likely to be a long day for Falcons.

be interesting, their second string really struggled early in the season.

It's a stronger second string with some of the returnees though - Daly, Tompkins, Gonzalez, and Dan back from the RWC. Still, you'd've thought it's Newcastle's best chance to get off the mark.

Puja

It was up front they were struggling iirc, but yes, agreed. Tho Sarries bench is obviously much stronger than then.

[fivepointer]

As expected Sarries rest some of the internationals for this one. Still likely to be a long day for Falcons.

be interesting, their second string really struggled early in the season.

It's a stronger second string with some of the returnees though - Daly, Tompkins, Gonzalez, and Dan back from the RWC. Still, you'd've thought it's Newcastle's best chance to get off the mark.

Puja

Finished 12-50. Falcons rock bottom.

I want them to make a fist of it but the portents are very worrying indeed.

[twitchy]