JAMES McRae will win his 50th Rams cap as Harry Stone and Jack Rampton make their starting debuts at Esher in tomorrow’s National One derby at Molesey Road (3pm).

McRae – the club’s 2022/23 Players’ Player of the Year – is partnered in the back row by open-side flanker Tom Vooght and former skipper Robbie Stapley, while young tyro Stone gets the nod alongside his fellow summer signing but more experienced Nile Dacres in the engine room.

Two of the five changes from the starting line-up which beat Darlington Mowden Park 41-12 on the opening day come at the head of the pack, props Ant Marris and Ryan Lomas climbing from the bench to sandwich last week’s hat-trick hero and captain Max Hayman.

An unchanged half-back pairing of Ed Hoadley and Fraser Honey will look to ignite a revamped three-quarter line-up, long-serving Drew Humberstone back in at No. 12 with Swedish international Axel Kalling-Smith switching from the wing into midfield.

Polish ace Tomek Pozniak moves to the left wing with Jamaica Sevens flier Rampton coming in on the other flank, the latter having impressed with his pace and power since joining the club in the summer.

The starting line-up is completed by full-back Zach Clow, who looked lively during his 25th appearance on Saturday, the former Cardiff Metropolitan University ace having racked up 17 tries during that time.

Last week’s starting props Paddy Harris and record cap-holder James Baker, set for his 418th, will look to make an impact from the bench, while ex-Oratory School student Morgan MacRae, a double try-scorer on debut, covers both hooker and back row.

MacRae’s former Alma Mater colleague Olise Monye is equally versatile, normally a scrum-half but crossing the whitewash on the wing last time out, and he is joined by debutant Bath loanee Luke Graham in covering the three-quarters – the latter having enjoyed a fine schoolboy career in South Africa before moving to The Rec in January last year.

Four travelling reserves are named for the trip to Surrey in the shape of former Ireland Under 20s prop Liam Bishop, teenage back row dynamo Mikey Duda, scrum-half Ollie Hodgson – impressive for the Development XV against Cardiff University on Wednesday – and fly-half/full back Andrew Lamb.

Rams Team @ Esher

(15-9, 1-8) Clow, Rampton, Kalling-Smith, Humberstone, Pozniak, Honey, Hoadley; Marris, Hayman ©, Lomas, Dacres, Stone, McRae, Vooght, Stapley

Replacements: Harris, Baker, MacRae, Monye, Graham

Travelling Reserves: Bishop, Duda, Hodgson, Lamb