{"id":386166,"date":"2026-01-23T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386166\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:02:09","slug":"team-news-saracens-men-v-newcastle-red-bulls-prem-rd-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386166\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM NEWS | Saracens Men v Newcastle Red Bulls (PREM &#8211; Rd 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tCharlie Bracken says Saracens Men are looking for a big response as they welcome Newcastle Red Bulls to StoneX Stadium for a huge Gallagher PREM match on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The youngster starts in the number nine shirt for a crucial game as the Men in Black aim to climb the league table before the PREM Rugby Cup takes centre stage again during the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Director of Rugby Mark McCall has refreshed the starting XV in response to the Glasgow Warriors defeat, with nine changes to the side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Two of those come in the front row, with Rhys Carre and Marco Riccioni, fresh from their Six Nations call-ups either side of Jamie George at hooker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Nick Isiekwe returns at lock to partner Hugh Tizard, with a dynamic back-row of Theo McFarland, Andy Onyeama-Christie and Tom Willis to start at StoneX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Bracken starts at scrum-half, and Owen Farrell has the keys to number 10 as well as the captain\u2019s armband. Nick Tompkins and Alex Lozowski return to form the midfield partnership, with a back-three of Rotimi Segun, Noah Caluori and Elliot Daly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The bench has star quality throughout, with the likes of Juan Martin Gonzalez and Max Malins ready to make an impact when called upon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Bracken can\u2019t wait to talk on the Red Bulls tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI\u2019m really excited for Saturday, it\u2019s my first start for a while so I\u2019m buzzing to get out on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Newcastle are on a bit of a roll at the moment but it\u2019s a really important game for us so hopefully we can get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Saracens Men team to play Newcastle Red Bulls: <\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">15 Elliot Daly<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">14 Noah Caluori<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">13 Alex Lozowski<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">12 Nick Tompkins<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">11 Rotimi Segun<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">10 Owen Farrell (c)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">9 Charlie Bracken<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">1 Rhys Carre<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">2 Jamie George<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">3 Marco Riccioni<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">4 Nick Isiekwe<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">5 Hugh Tizard<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">6 Theo McFarland<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">7 Andy Onyeama-Christie<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">8 Tom Willis<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Replacements:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">16 James Hadfield<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">17 Eroni Mawi<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">18 Tietie Tuimauga<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">19 Harry Wilson<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">20 Juan Martin Gonzalez<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">21 Ivan van Zyl<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">22 Fergus Burke<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">23 Max Malins<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eticketing.co.uk\/saracens\/EDP\/Event\/Index\/413?position=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Buy tickets for the next match\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/next-match-banner.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Bracken says Saracens Men are looking for a big response as they welcome Newcastle Red Bulls to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-386166","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\/386166","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=386166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}