Gloucester vs Saracens - Sat 5.30pm

[Puja]

15 George Barton
14 Christian Wade
13 Chris Harris
12 Max Llewellyn
11 Ollie Thorley
10 Gareth Anscombe
9 Tomos Williams

1 Val Rapava-Ruskin
2 Jack Singleton
3 Afo Fasogbon
4 Freddie Thomas
5 Matias Alemanno
6 Ruan Ackermann
7 Lewis Ludlow (C)
8 Zach Mercer

16 Seb Blake
17 Mayco Vivas
18 Kirill Gotovtsev
19 Freddie Clarke
20 Jack Clement
21 Caolan Englefield
22 Charlie Atkinson
23 Seb Atkinson


Saracens: 15. Elliot Daly, 14. Tobias Elliott, 13. Alex Lozowski, 12. Nick Tompkins, 11. Rotimi Segun, 10. Fergus Burke, 9. Ivan van Zyl, 1. Rhys Carre, 2. Theo Dan, 3. Marco Riccioni, 4. Maro Itoje (c), 5. Hugh Tizard, 6. Andy Onyeama-Christie, 7. Toby Knight, 8. Tom Willis

Replacements: 16. Jamie George, 17. Sam Crean, 18. Alec Clarey, 19. Harry Wilson, 20. Nick Isiekwe, 21. Ben Earl, 22. Charlie Bracken, 23. Alex Goode

[Puja]

Saracens going big on the youth - Elliott, Knight, and Bracken on the bench. No Brantingham though, which is sad.

Can't see anything but Glaws getting a spanking here. Board favourite SAtkinson benched in favour of the Welsh bosh merchant as well, which won't be popular.

Puja

[fivepointer]

Fasogbon starting. Nothing else matters.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Good to see Seb Atkinson back and a start for Fasogbon. Fab to see Elliott starting!

[Puja]

A cuffing it was. Anyone watch the match and able to give a report on how Fasogbon got on?

Puja

[fivepointer]

Fasogbon did fine. No fireworks but very steady.

[Scrumhead]

Good to hear, although in all fairness, I don’t actually expect him to be producing ‘fireworks’. If he’s achieving parity or better against considerably more experienced looseheads that’s good enough for me right now.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Fasogbon had a decent game. Only odd thing is his bind seems a bit weird. He binds very narrow rather than round the hooker, but stays very square. Not many completed scrums though.

[FKAS]

Only saw some bits of the game this morning and Fasogbon did come up with a nice turnover penalty early doors. Good technique and impressive for a big tighthead.