Doncaster Knights side for Bristol challenge

Posted on Sep 6, 2012 in Doncaster

The Knights squad to face 2011/12 Championship Stage One winners Bristol has been announced for their first home game of the new campaign tomorrow evening at 7:45pm.

Following the side’s disappointing narrow defeat to Plymouth in the league opener last week Brett Davey’s men will be looking for bounce straight back, but are fully aware of the challenge the side from the South West pose.

There are a couple of changes from the fifteen that started last week; full-back Michael Keating’s shoulder injury means that Dougie Flockhart will switch from the wing with Tyson Lewis coming in on the other.

Will Simpson also gets his first Championship start at inside centre along with Louis Silver who is preferred at scrum-half versus his former club after both impressed from the bench last week. In the forwards there are two changes with Phil Hoy and Adam Kettle coming in at lock and number eight respectively.

Knights line-up:

15) Dougie Flockhart

14) Dante Mama

13) James Tincknell

12) Will Simpson

11) Tyson Lewis

10) Jamie Lennard

9) Louis Silver

1) Tom Davies

2) Rhys Buckley

3) Brian Mcgovern

4) Royce Cadman

5) Phil Hoy

6) Matt Challinor

7) Jethro Rawling

8) Adam Kettle

Subs; 16 Jerry Cronin, 17 Ben Sowery, 18 Dom Parsons, 19 Andy Boyd, 20 Sam Pailor, 21 Chris Hallam, 22 Tom Barrett.