beat Newcastle Red Bulls 35-24<\/a> last term \u2013 but will be hoping to turn the tide on that run of form and add a second away victory to this season\u2019s tally.\u00a0<\/p>\nChick (who was Round 1\u2019s top carrier with 21 carries and six dominant contacts against Exeter Chiefs last weekend)\u00a0starts at No.8 for Northampton in Gloucester, with flankers Angus Scott-Young and Tom Pearson alongside him in the back row.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After making his league debut last week, JJ Van Der Mescht comes into the starting line-up to join Alex Coles in the engine room,\u00a0while Saints make two changes in the front row \u2013\u00a0hooker Henry Walker and tighthead prop Elliot Millar Mills both start alongside loosehead prop Emmanuel Iyogun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Archie McParland retains his place in Saints\u2019 line-up after playing a full 80 minutes against Exeter a week ago, and he partners\u00a0fly-half Anthony Belleau \u2013 who landed four of his five conversions from the tee last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of Saints\u2019 try-scorers last time out, Tom Litchfield, shifts to inside centre for the first time this season to make way for\u00a0Scotland international Rory Hutchinson to come into the starting XV in the No.13 shirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James Martin is set to make his debut in the Gallagher PREM on the wing for Northampton this weekend, joining fullback George Hendy \u2013 who beat more defenders than any other player in Round 2 (9) \u2013 and last weekend\u2019s double try-scorer Edoardo Todaro in the back three.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Saints\u2019 bench there is space for Cleopas Kundiona to earn his Club debut, while the match sees young fullback Jame Pater make his return to Kingsholm \u2013 where he made his senior debut at the end of last term\u00a0aged\u00a0just 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
GLOUCESTER RUGBY vs NORTHAMPTON SAINTS
Gallagher PREM, Round 2
Sunday 5 October, 2025
Kingsholm Stadium
Kick-off: 3pm<\/p>\n
15 George Hendy
14 Edoardo Todaro
13 Rory Hutchinson
12 Tom Litchfield
11 James Martin \u2013\u00a0Gallagher PREM debut
10 Anthony Belleau
9 Archie McParland<\/p>\n
1 Emmanuel Iyogun
2 Henry Walker
3 Elliot Millar Mills
4 Alex Coles
5 JJ Van Der Mescht
6 Angus Scott-Young
7 Tom Pearson
8 Callum Chick (c)<\/p>\n
Replacements:
16 Robbie Smith\u00a0
17 Danilo Fischetti
18 Cleopas Kundiona \u2013\u00a0Northampton Saints debut
19 Tom Lockett\u00a0
20 Fyn Brown
21 Jonny Weimann
22 Toby Thame
23 James Pater<\/p>\n
Not considered for selection:
Emeka Atuanya, Amena Caqusau, Trevor Davison, Fraser Dingwall, Tommy Freeman, George Furbank, Sam Graham, Tom James, Josh Kemeny, Curtis Langdon, Alex Mitchell, Chunya Munga, Henry Pollock, James Ramm, Ollie Sleightholme, Fin Smith, Charlie Ulcoq, Tom West and Craig Wright.<\/p>\n
GLOUCESTER TEAM TO FACE SAINTS:
15 Charlie Atkinson, 14 Ben Loader, 13 Will Joseph, 12 Seb Atkinson (vc), 11 Ollie Thorley, 10 Ross Byrne, 9 Tomos Williams (c); 1 Ciaran Knight, 2 Seb Blake, 3 Afolabi Fasogbon, 4 Freddie Thomas, 5 Cam Jordan, 6 Josh Basham, 7 James Venter, 8 Jack Mann.
Replacements:\u00a016 Jack Innard, 17 Archie McArthur, 18 Kirill Gotovtsev, 19 Matias Alemanno, 20 Hugh Bokenham, 21 Harry Taylor, 22 Caolan Englefield, 23 Josiah Edwards-Giraud.<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Adam Leal
Assistant referees:\u00a0Jonathan Cook and Jamie Leahy
No.4:\u00a0Jonathan Healy
TMO:\u00a0David Rose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Callum Chick will lead Northampton Saints out for the second time this term as the side travel to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-178382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}