Joe Ford and Sir Ian McGeechan have named a changed squad to travel to Nottingham on Friday night.
One area of this week’s team that will remain the same is our back three, which is Telusa Veainu, Jordan OIowofela and Maliq Holden. Winger, Harry Davey, who scored off the bench last week, remains on the bench.
Morgan Bunting, who joined Doncaster Knights this season from Nottingham, is starting at fly half, with Russell Bennett remaining on the pitch, but moving to inside centre. Zach Kerr stays at outside centre and Ollie Fox keeps the starting 9 shirt, with Alex Dolly as the replacement scrum half.
Conor Davidson has moved to the starting front row to join Joe Jones, after last week’s starter, Andrew Turner, has returned to Bristol Bears for the Premiership Cup period. Fred Davies keeps the number 2 shirt for this week, with George Roberts on the bench. Jasper McGuire and Lewis Thiede are the props amongst the replacements.
Josh Williams comes in to the starting line up to partner captain, Ben Murphy in the second row. Adam Hopkinson slots in to the replacements. Our back row however, does stay the same as last week – Archie Smeaton, Rhys Tait and Morgan Strong.
Taniela Ramasibana and Ben Chapman are the remaining forward’s on the bench.
Starting XV | 15, Telusa Veainu. 14, Jordan Olowofela. 13, Zach Kerr. 12, Russell Bennett. 11, Maliq Holden. 10, Morgan Bunting. 9, Ollie Fox. 1, Conor Davidson. 2, Fred Davies. 3, Joe Jones. 4, Ben Murphy (C). 5, Josh Williams. 6, Archie Smeaton . 7, Rhys Tait. 8, Morgan Strong.
Replacements | 16, George Roberts. 17, Jasper McGuire. 18, Lewis Thiede. 19, Adam Hopkinson. 20, Taniela Ramasibana. 21, Ben Chapman. 22, Alex Dolly. 23, Harry Davey.
Unavailable for selection due to injury: Cory Teague, Semesa Rokoduguni, Thom Smith, George Wacokecoke, Connor Edwards.
Note: Loan players, Arthur Green (Bath), Will Parry (Bath) and Andrew Turner (Bristol) are unavailable for selection as they return to their clubs for the Premiership Cup period.
Doncaster’s visit to Nottingham kicks off at 7:45PM on Friday night (24th). The Knights will then turn their focus to the Premiership Cup as we host Newcastle Falcons the following week. Tickets for this game are selling extremely fast so be sure to secure yours now!
