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London Irish:
15 James Stokes, 14 Ben Loader, 13 Will Joseph, 12 Benhard van Rensburg, 11 Ollie Hassell-Collins, 10 Paddy Jackson, 9 Ben White, 1 Facundo Gigena, 2 Agustin Creevy, 3 Lovejoy Chawatama, 4 Api Ratuniyarawa, 5 Chunya Munga, 6 Matt Rogerson (c), 7 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 8 Josh Basham.

Replacements:
16 Mike Willemse, 17 Danilo Fischetti, 18 Oliver Hoskins, 19 Josh Caulfield, 20 Adam Coleman, 21 Chandler Cunningham-South, 22 Joe Powell, 23 Luca Morisi.



Newcastle Falcons team v London Irish (Saturday, 3pm, Gtech Community Stadium)

15 Elliott Obatoyinbo, 14 Adam Radwan, 13 Ben Stevenson, 12 Matias Moroni, 11 Mateo Carreras, 10 Brett Connon, 9 Michael Young (captain); 1 Adam Brocklebank, 2 George McGuigan, 3 Richard Palframan, 4 Greg Peterson, 5 Sebastian de Chaves, 6 Callum Chick, 7 Guy Pepper, 8 Carl Fearns.

Replacements: 16 Jamie Blamire, 17 Conrad Cade, 18 Mark Tampin, 19 Matthew Dalton, 20 Tom Marshall, 21 Sam Stuart, 22 Tian Schoeman, 23 Tom Penny.

Not available for selection: Phil Brantingham, Sam Clark, Connor Collett, Gary Graham, Louie Johnson, Conor Kenny, Freddie Lockwood, Pete Lucock, Logovi’i Mulipola, Matias Orlando, Sean Robinson, Oliver Spencer, Philip van der Walt, George Wacokecoke, Will Welch.

Referee: Wayne Barnes.

Very much in 'must win' territory for LI here against an in form Newcastle. Finally a home game after almost exclusively playing away so far.

Great to see Coleman back involved after (another) injury. May have a limited impact from the bench in this one, but him being fit will be key in the coming months, as he's a big upgrade on the starting locks here.

Hoping our carrying game in the tight exchanges will hold up with Pearson and Fa'aso'o both missing in that back row. Pearson especially is a real loss.

Otherwise I'm glad to see Stokes getting a shot at 15. Think he's looked a little more threatening than Parton this season.

Nice to pick up the win yesterday. Really needed that with a tough run of fixtures coming up and could easily have folded when Newcastle came back into it to take the lead at the start of the second half.

Basham was the best player on the pitch for us. Got through a huge amount of work in attack and defence and most importantly, given the horror show last week, was imperious taking restarts.