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Newcastle Falcons v Harlequins (Friday, 7.45pm, Kingston Park Stadium, live on TNT Sports)

15 Ben Redshaw, 14 Adam Radwan, 13 Alex Hearle, 12 Connor Doherty, 11 Ben Stevenson, 10 Brett Connon, 9 Sam Stuart; 1 Murray McCallum, 2 Jamie Blamire, 3 Richard Palframan, 4 Sebastian de Chaves, 5 Kiran McDonald, 6 Freddie Lockwood, 7 Tom Gordon, 8 Callum Chick (captain).

Replacements: 16 Ollie Fletcher, 17 Micky Rewcastle, 18 Callum Hancock, 19 John Hawkins, 20 Philip van der Walt, 21 Max Pepper, 22 Louis Brown, 23 Oli Spencer.

Not available for selection: Sammy Arnold, Eduardo Bello, Adam Brocklebank, Tim Cardall, Luan de Bruin, Cameron Hutchison, Isaac Keller, John Kelly, Cameron Neild, Elliott Obatoyinbo, Jacob Oliver, Pedro Rubiolo, Adam Scott.

Harlequins: 15 Nick David, 14 Rodrigo Isgro, 13 Oscar Beard, 12 Luke Northmore, 11 Cadan Murley (captain), 10 Marcus Smith; 9 Will Porter, 1 Fin Baxter, 2 Jack Walker, 3 Titi Lamositele, 4 Joe Launchbury, 5 Dino Lamb, 6 Jack Kenningham, 7 Will Evans, 8 James Chisholm.

Replacements: 16 Sam Riley, 17 Wyn Jones, 18 Dillon Lewis, 19 Irne Herbst, 20 Alex Dombrandt, 21 Lucas Friday, 22 Jarrod Evans, 23 Ben Waghorn.

Friday and Waghorn set for Prem debuts! Friday another, like Angus Hall at Sarries, having only left school in the summer.

Anyone know what happened to the 19 year old Falcons scrum half Davis who looked really bright early in the season? Got to be better than the laboured Stuart.

That injury list is killing Falcons though, Quins should be able to go through the gears in this one.

FKAS wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:29 am Anyone know what happened to the 19 year old Falcons scrum half Davis who looked really bright early in the season? Got to be better than the laboured Stuart.

That injury list is killing Falcons though, Quins should be able to go through the gears in this one.

He's not injured as far as I'm aware. He looked decent, if obviously raw when he came on. Had a whole different pace to his game. Suspect Diamond is more managing his introduction to senior rugby quite gently.

Nick David's having a shocker

Can we clone Smith for a spare fullback please

Van Der Walt proving to be a great impact player for Quins. Overruns a simple pass and then knocks on to kill two Falcons attacks in succession.

Quins made a meal of it until these last 10 mins.