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MATCH PREVIEW V BRISTOL

Posted: 
27/03/2015 - 08:07

Bedford Blues travel to Ashton Gate on Sunday afternoon with Director of Rugby Mike Rayer challenging his players to put in a strong performance against table-topping Bristol.

The two teams met on Boxing Day at Goldington Road when the Blues went into the break leading 17-7 thanks to tries from James Pritchard, Harry Wells and Dean Adamson only for the visitors to regroup during the interval to finally run out 24-28 winners - Pat Tapley added the Blues fourth try which secured two bonus points.

Bedford head into the game off the back of four straight defeats but Rayer has laid down the gauntlet to his men to make a name for themselves against Andy Robinson’s ‘Team of Galacticos’ which includes numerous international players as well as former British & Irish Lions.

The Blues make a handful of changes to the team that lost to Cornish Pirates last weekend and will be without the injured Mike Howard and Luke Baldwin who is not permitted to feature against his parent club. James Pritchard returns at fullback and Jake Sharp gets the nod at Fly Half. Tom Williams starts in the front row alongside Charlie Clare while Harry Wells comes in for the injured Mike Howard.

Starting Line-Up:

15. James Pritchard 
14. Pat Tapley
13. Mike Le Bourgeois
12. Viliami Hakalo
11. Henry Staff
10. Jake Sharp
9. Darryl Veenendaal

1. Tom Williams
2. Charlie Clare
3. Phil Boulton
4. Harry Wells
5. Ben Gulliver
6. Paul Tupai
7. Josh Buggea
8. Nick Fenton-Wells (c)

Replacements:

16. TJ Harris
17. Camilo Parilli-Ocampo
18. James Currie
19. Hayden Thompson-Stringer
20. Justin Blanchet 
21. Pete White
22. Baden Kerr

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