On the face of it Ampthill arrive at the match this week with an advantage of 3 places in the table and 3 points too. Hartpury however beat Nottingham last week, a task that Ampthill did not accomplish when given the same opponents earlier in the season. Is the numeric points advantage to Ampthill merely down to the vagaries of selections or were Hartpury luck last week?
“It great to welcome our old friends from Hartpury to Dillingham Park again this Saturday. We’ve had some great games against each other in the past and I’m sure this weekend will be just the same. Hartpury had a great result last weekend with a very solid win against Nottingham so they are in really good form.
We have picked the same forward pack that started the game against London Scottish last weekend but we make a couple of changes to the backline with player-coach Darryl Veenendaal rotating in at scrum-half and debuts for Sam Costelow ( Dual Registered – Leicester Tigers ) at fly-half and Cameron Anderson ( Dual Registered – Wasps ) at outside Centre, getting their first starts at Dillingham Park.
It is another historic day for the club playing Hartpury for the first time in the Green King IPA Championship and the small matter of the World Cup Final between England v South Africa ( Clubhouse open from 8.30 am ) to start the Day”
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Ampthill Squad
Hartpury Squad
Dan Murphy
Will Tanner
Alex Gibson
Justin Clegg
Joe Batley
Akapusi Qera
Sam Graham
Seb Nagle-Taylor
Harry Cochrane
Joshua Bragman
Toby Fricker
Luke Eves
Charlie Powell
Nick David
George Simpson
Will Crane
Des Merrey
Mike Flook
Tom Everard
Kieran Curran
Jack Preece
Luke Carter
Mike Wilcox