Lancashire welcomes Yorkshire to Sedgley Park’s Park Lane Ground on Saturday (ko 15.00) in what is a County Championship play-off for the right to play in the Twickenham Final the following weekend.
Lancashire make five changes in their starting line-up. Amongst the backs, Darlington Mowden Park winger Henry Hadfield and Fylde scrum-half Cole Potts join the squad whilst Greg Smith returns after injury. In the pack, a new lock partnership is formed with Macclesfield’s Rhys Davies joining the fit again Olli Parkinson.
Sale FC flanker Andy Hughes and Fylde prop Matt Ashcroft are named amongst the replacements. Gabriel Seriki (Sedgley Park) and Fylde’s Adam Lanigan and Ben Gould are travelling reserves.
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15 Jacob Browne (Preston Grasshoppers); 14 Henry Hadfield (DMP), 13 Connor Wilkinson (Fylde), 12 Sam Russell (Blackburn), 11 Tom Grimes (Fylde); 10 Greg Smith (Fylde), 9 Cole Potts (Fylde); 1 Dan Birchall (Sale FC) (captain), 2 Ben Gregory (Fylde), 3 Dan Rylance (Rotherham Titans), 4 Olli Parkinson (Fylde), 5 Rhys Davies (Macclesfield), 6 Toby Harrison (Fylde), 7 Henry Higginson (Fylde), 8 David Fairbrother (Fylde).
Replacements: 16 Matt Ashcroft (Fylde), 17 Corey Bowker (Fylde), 18 Andy Hughes (Sale FC), 19 Valu Tane Bentley (Sedgley Park), 20 Scott Richardson (Preston Grasshoppers), 21 Will Hunt (Preston Grasshoppers), 22 Scott Rawlings (Fylde).
Travelling reserves: Gabriel Seriki (Sedgley Park), Adam Lanigan (Fylde), Ben Gould (Fylde).