Knights Director of Rugby Lynn Howells has made five changes from last week’s team for this Sunday’s Championship match away at Bristol on Sunday:

· in the centre Chris Briers, injured for last Saturday, comes in for Paul Devlin who reverts to the bench;
· at scrum half Chris Hallam gains a recall in place of the injured Nathan Jones
· at prop, summer signing from Harlequins, Dan Frazier comes in for Lewis Thiede who swaps place with him on the bench
· at lock talisman Glen Kenworthy starts in place of the injured Matt Challinor, and
· at flanker Andy Boyde comes back for Latu Makaafi who was injured against Moseley.
· also starting on the bench for the first time this season are hooker Tom Doughty, prop Stuart Corsar and lock Dom Parsons

The team is:

15 Stevie McColl
14 Douglas Flockhart
13 Chris Briers
12 PJ Gidlow
11 Matt Williams
10 Tristan Roberts
9 Chris Hallam

1 Dan Frazier
2 Steve Lawrie (Capt)
3 Michael Cusack
4 Glen Kenworthy
5 James Craig
6 Andy Boyde
7 Neil Cochrane
8 Ed Jackson

16 Tom Doughty
17 Lewis Thiede
18 Stuart Corsar
19 Dom Parsons
20 Chris Walker
21 Oli Goss
22 Paul Devlin