TEAM SHEET | Doncaster Knights Vs Edinburgh Rugby ‘A’ | Christmas Friendly

14th December 2023

Here is your Doncaster Knights Starting XV for the Christmas Friendly with Edinburgh Rugby

Friday 15th December 2023

7:30pm Kick Off

Castle Park

 

1 HARRISON COURTNEY

2 TOM DOUGHTY

3 KARL GARSIDE

4 ADAM HOPKINSON

5 EVAN MINTERN

6 RHYS TAIT

7 ARCHIE SMEATON

8 OLLIE LEATHERBARROW

9 OLLIE FOX

10 SAM OLVER ©

11 MALIQ HOLDEN

12 JOE BEDLOW

13 VEREIMI QOROWALE

14 JACK METCALF

15 BILLY MCBRYDE

 

REPLACEMENTS

16 GEORGE ROBERTS

17 CALVIN MITCHELL

18 CORRIE BARRETT

19 FYN BROWN

20 JACK DIGBY

21 WILL METCALFE

22 RUSSELL BENNETT

23 CONNOR EDWARDS

 

 

A few words on this weeks team choice from Head-Coach, Joe Ford

It’s a great opportunity to keep momentum going from the pirates game, we were really pleased with where our game was at after that one and felt with the jersey game being cancelled, we needed another game in this period to keep the lads match ready & also to get minutes into all the squad because if we are going to be successful this season, it will require everyone.

 

With regards to players, the team sheet and injuries, we are just light in a couple of areas with a few knocks & we have a great relationship with Newcastle who wanted to get some minutes into lads, so it worked really well for both of us. Both Ollie & Vereimi on loan for 1 week from Newcastle Falcons.

 

Vereimi Qorowale (#13) played for us last season on a couple of occasions and really impressed. He’s really powerful and loves the contact side of the game so I’m really excited to see him go again for us and I’m sure the fans will enjoy what he has to offer.

Ollie leatherbarrow (#8) won the university league (BUCS)  back to back & captained them in the second year. Represented @ under 20’s level for Scotland & played for Newcastle first team last week in Europe & is highly rated up there, we have been really impressed with his attitude this week and how quickly he has picked up our systems so again it’s really exciting to see how he goes on Friday.

 

Edinburgh are obviously one of only 2 top outfits in Scotland, so it’s a brilliant test for us to see how we hold up against another top full time outfit, they are known for moving the ball around so it should be all set up for a really exciting game.