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Leicester Tigers
15 Freddie Steward (116)
14 Adam Radwan (17)
13 Will Wand (19)
12 Orlando Bailey (6)
11 Ollie Hassell-Collins (54)
10 Billy Searle (7)
9 Tom Whiteley (47)
1 Nicky Smith (30)
2 Jamie Blamire (6)
3 Joe Heyes (167)
4 Cameron Henderson (70)
5 James Thompson (5)
6 Hanro Liebenberg (Captain, 137)
7 Tommy Reffell (142)
8 Joaquin Moro (7)

Replacements
16 Charlie Clare (131)
17 Archie van der Flier (7)
18 Ale Loman (6)
19 Harry Wells (222)
20 Joshua Manz (13)
21 Ollie Allan (9)
22 James O'Connor (3)
23 Joseph Woodward (40)

Newcastle Red Bulls v Leicester Tigers (Friday, 7.45pm, Kingston Park, live on TNT Sports)
15 Ethan Grayson, 14 Liam Williams, 13 Alex Hearle, 12 Max Clark, 11 Oli Spencer, 10 Brett Connon, 9 Sam Stuart; 1 Adam Brocklebank, 2 George McGuigan (captain), 3 Murray McCallum, 4 Oscar Usher, 5 Jamie Hodgson, 6 Freddie Lockwood, 7 Tom Christie, 8 Amanaki Mafi.
Replacements: 16 Ollie Fletcher, 17 Micky Rewcastle, 18 Richard Palframan, 19 Sebastian de Chaves, 20 Cameron Neild, 21 Simón Benítez Cruz, 22 Boeta Chamberlain, 23 Tom Gordon.
Not available for selection: Sammy Arnold, Rhys Beeckmans, Eduardo Bello, Freddie Clarke, Joe Davis, Luan de Bruin, Connor Doherty, Hame Faiva, Joel Grayson, Callum Hancock, John Hawkins, Elvis Kitenge-Fuki, Fergus Lee-Warner, Elliott Obatoyinbo, Christian Wade.

Strikes me as the worst possible time to play Newcastle. They've had effectively a reset and a new preseason under their new regime, home fixture after the internationals, so possibly a rowdy crowd (cheap tickets to the students again, no doubt) and they'll be looking to prove a point.

Still think we'll have too much for them, but it is going to be a different proposition than playing them a month ago would've been.

Puja

Yeah, much the same thoughts here Puja. Falcons are a banana skin waiting to happen to someone. If they can get some of their injured players back they'll be a real handful.

Interesting to see then try to combine Searle and Bailey at 10 and 12. Searle has shown himself to be a very hand general in the 10 shirt but his attacking game has limitations, Bailey has looked Flood esque ball in hand at 10 but hasn't shown the same game management and ability off the tee. Harsh on Woodward who's been excellent so far this season (unsurprisingly).