RAMS make five changes including four in the pack as they host Bishop’s Stortford in what promises to be another National One cracker tomorrow (3pm).
Tight-head prop Paul Englezos returns from injury to take a starting spot at tight-head prop, while Ross Crame is in the second row and Josh Collis and James McRae also come into the pack.
Scrum-half Ollie Monye gets a first start of the season in the final swap from last week’s 41-35 triumph at Taunton Titans.
The dynamic Englezos is joined in the front row by ever-present top-scorer Max Hayman – the hooker having racked up five tries already this season and an impressive 30 in 53 first-team appearances in total – and Ant Marris, the loose-head having made the decisive tackle to secure the victory in Somerset last time out.
Mini-turned-first-teamer Crame, earning a 123rd cap, has Dan Swain alongside him in the engine room.
Collis returns at blind-side flanker with Vince Everitt – outstanding at the breakdown on his first start of the season last week – on the other side, James McRae back after a week away at No. 8 in place of injured skipper Robbie Stapley.
Former Oratory School ace Monye – who has two tries in four appearances off the bench this term – gets the nod at No. 9 with top-scorer Fraser Honey outside him.
Drew Humberstone captains the side from inside centre with the rest of the three-quarters unchanged from the trip to Taunton, Ellis Jones at 13 and Axel Kalling-Smith, Jak Rossiter and Zach Clow completing the starting line-up.
There is a return to the bench for dynamic prop Niall Kidd, James Baker also creeping closer to his 400th cap and ready to add ballast at scrum-time.
Ben Atkins is the second-top try-scorer with four to his name so far and covers the rest of the pack, while Connor Hayhow can play anywhere across the three-quarters and Ollie Cole is a scrum-half with more than a century of first-team appearances.
Rams v Bishop’s Stortford
(15-9, 1-8) Clow, Rossiter, Jones, Humberstone ©, Kalling-Smith, Honey, Monye; Marris, Hayman, Englezos, Swain, Crame, Collis, Everitt, McRae.
Substitutes: Kidd, Baker, Atkins, Hayhow, Cole
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