March 13, 2008

England Students have made changes to their starting line-up in anticipation of a tough test against Irish Colleges at Henley on Friday night (8pm).

The Students impressed with a 42-0 win over Scottish Universities last weekend and now take on an Irish side who beat the Scots by a similar margin in Dublin.

Six of the forwards on duty against France last month come back into the team with Bath lock Adrian Griffiths and Plymouth flanker Michael Denbee keeping their places.

The backs who impressed at Lasswade RFC are relatively unchanged with Hartpury pair Tom Jarvis and Tim Stevenson taking over at full back and fly half respectively.

"We know Ireland will be a tough side and it's important to play the game we did against Scotland with width and pace and to get in behind them," said Students manager Keith Green.

"Tom Hockedy, Andrew Wright and Michael Denbee all did that against Scotland and that secured their places for the game at Henley."

England Students

1 Aaron Liffchak (Hertfordshire)
2 Jonathan Moyce (St Marys)
3Joe Horn-Smith (Exeter)
4 Ian Kench (Loughborough)
5 Adrian Griffiths (Bath)
6 Peter Clarke (Oxford)
7 Michael Denbee (Plymouth)
8 Andries Pretorious (UWE Hartpury)
9 Dominic Shaw (Newcastle)
10 Tim Stevenson (UWE Hartpury)
11 Tom Hockedy (Exeter)
12 Phil Ellis (Hertfordshire)
13 Tom Gregory (Oxford)
14 Andrew Wright (Loughborough)
15 Tom Jarvis (Hartpury)

Replacements
16 Matthew Cross (Loughborough)
17 Kevin Davis (Oxford)
18 Simon Pitfield (Loughborough)
19 James Lumby (Cambridge)
20 Toby Henry (Oxford)
21 Chris Ashwin (Bath)
22 Scott Armstrong (Leeds Met)

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