The Nuns make the short journey across to Coventry to take on Warwickshire rivals Broadstreet under lights this Friday. It should be a cracker of a match with just one place and 4 points separating the teams. This is the second meeting of the season after ‘Street took the spoils in the Warwickshire Cup back in October, but this will be a different squad put out by the Nuns.

Both sides come into the game on the back of defeats. Last weekend the Nuns went down 31-28 to Bridgnorth, a win that took them top of the table, whilst Broadstreet lost 49-34 at home to Newport. ‘Street have a record of 6 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses so far with the Nuns picking up 5 wins and 6 losses.

The Saxons also play Broadstreet this weekend on Saturday afternoon. They didn’t play last weekend. The Colts have a week off.

Team news: Just one change in the pack from last week with the props rotating and so Ben Holmes and Sam Greening start with James Redman moving to the bench.

Also, one change in the backs with Jackson Hughes coming back in at full back for Richard Johnston.

Theo Knight comes back on to the bench too.

Squad to play Broadstreet RFC, away Friday night 7:30pm:

Nuneaton	Position	Position Sponsor
Ben Holmes	1	Mark Gardner
Dale Bowyer	2	Brent Masser
Sam Greening	3	Ian Holt
Wills Messum	4
Jake Arms	5	Glyn Williams
Callum Grant-Smith	6	Mark Mitchell
Danny Southall	7	Allan Taylor
Leigh Thompson	8
Tom Smitham	9	Paul Mitchell Home Improvements
Ben Cooper	10	Alibone/Carter
Sion Cowdy	11	James Fletcher
Moses Liwaliwa	12	Andy Kearns
Elliott Brown	13	Andy Webb
Nemani Rayabo	14
Jackson Hughes	15	Adam Jones
James Redman	16
Rudi Reid	17
Theo Knight	18

You can sponsor a position for £150 for the season, please contact sponsorship@nuneatonrugby.co.uk for more information.

Saxons V Broadstreet, away 2.15pm:
Ed Taplin, Ryan Evans, Phil Ryan, Ryan Leake, Ryan Makepeace, Olly Moreton, Chris Smith, Shaun Blythe, Elliot Norman, Lewis Wilson, George Wallis, Tom Leeson, Liam Moore, Huw Thomas, Connor Franklin, Ben Gilbert, Brandon Tait, Lewis Wrigley, Ricky Hughes

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Week 11 – 23/24 November

Derby beat Lichfield by 1 point in the Friday night game. Scunthorpe lost at Sheffield, as predicted, and also lost top spot. Nuns couldn’t quite win at Bridgnorth despite a second half comeback. Newport (Salop) had a good win at Broadstreet. Burton put up a good show, only going down by 8 points to Luctonians. Sandbach got their first away win of the season at Bournville. Syston surprised a few with their first win of the season beating Doncaster Phoenix.

Week 12 - 30 November & 1 December

Broadstreet (6) and the Nuns (7) meet under the stars on Friday night. Nuns to win a close game. Bridgnorth (1) to stay top after their visit to Sandbach (9). Scunthorpe (2) t o get back to winning, against Bournville (11). Newport (Salop) (3) shouldn’t have any trouble seeing off Burton (12). Luctonians (4) to keep their promotion chances alive with a win over Derby (8). Sheffield (5) to stop Syston’s (14) one match winning run. Lichfield (10) to outscore Doncaster Phoenix (13)

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