By Tom Little
March 6 2015

The Coventry Rugby side to play Darlington Mowden Park away at the Northern Echo Arena, with kick off at 3 pm this coming Saturday 7th March 2015 has just been named. It shows 5 changes and 3 positional changes from the team’s starting line-up that lost at home to Hartpury College. 

At full-back Barry Davies comes in for Martyn Thomas who has signed for Wasps. There is a positional switch at outside centre as Cliffie Hodgson moves from fly-half for the injured Mark Hodgkiss and the unavailable Callum MacBurnie. His place at fly-half is taken by Matt Jones, moving from the replacements bench.  

In the pack there is a recall for hooker Matt Price for Finlay Sinclair, whilst at prop Adam Parkins replaces the unavailable Chad Thorne, with Rikki Stout taking over from Adam Parkins in the replacements. At lock Tom Poole moves from the replacements in place of Jordan Onojaife.

The back row sees a positional change at No 8 with Sam Pailor replacing Jacques Le Roux, with Bath Academy signing Alex Woodburn making his debut at No 7 in place of Loti Molitika, who switches to No 6 in place of Sam Pailor.

On the replacements, at hooker Jake Farnworth returns after England duty, as does flanker or lock Charlie Beckett  in place of Tom Poole, with winger Rhys Williams coming in for Matt Jones. At prop Rikki Stout comes in for the unavailable Beno Obano.         

15 Barry Davies 

14 Dan Rundle

13 Cliffie Hodgson        captain

12 Rob Knox

11 Will Hurrell

10 Matt Jones

 9 Wayne Evans   

 1 Andy Brown

 2 Matt Price

 3 Adam Parkins

 4 Tom Poole

 5 Roan Van Heerden

 6 Loti Molitika

 7 Alex Woodburn

 8 Sam Pailor

Replacements

16 Jake Farnworth

17 Rikki Stout

18 Charlie Beckett

19 Pierre Ferre

20 Rhys Williams

Tom Little

Coventry Rugby Press Office

 5^th March 2015

Coventry Rugby team announced to face Darlington Mowden Park

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06/03/2015 06:59

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Cliff Bennett
06/03/2015 07:50

Is JLR injured, or is it simply that he has been dropped and is not even in the squad? I must say I find it a bit odd that he's not in the match day squad. I know the whole team had a poor game against HC two weeks ago, but was JLR's performance so poor that it justifies dropping him?

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eggshape
06/03/2015 08:48

Let's get back to winning games come on cov

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Bono546
06/03/2015 10:04

Where are the new signings? Are they so unfit they cannot even make the bench? Why did we sign them? Even with all these questions I will still be at Darlington hoping for a Cov return to winning ways.

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fordy69uk
06/03/2015 11:18

Rhys Williams gonna turn up this time then? Anyway, i'm off to Bath for the weekend, i do hope some of you lovely people will keep me upto date with the scores?

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Laugh Out Loud (Dave Roach)
06/03/2015 11:56

I'm sure a shower would be rather quicker Fordy

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Nige H
06/03/2015 13:52

yes it does seem odd selections, particularly in the backs, when the theory is we have brought these new players in to give them gametime to see if they are suitable to play for us next season?

Also alex woodburn is just a loanee for this season isn't he? So again seems an odd selection?

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gb1
06/03/2015 19:42

Nige, Alex Woodburn is a Dual Registration.

Graham B

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Mikey C
07/03/2015 09:53

There should be some noise as the barkers u15's are there sat and playing sun

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