Date: Fri 05 Oct 2012

George Skivington, Bryn Evans and Matt Garvey will all start against Northampton Saints tomorrow afternoon in the Aviva Premiership match at Madejski Stadium (kick-off 3pm).

Skivington and Evans will form the second row combination with Garvey moving to blindside flanker in place of Declan Danaher. Steven Shingler starts at full back replacing Tom Homer. Bryn Evans will captain the side in Danaher’s absence.

London Irish Director of Rugby Brian Smith said: “Northampton have enjoyed a good start to the campaign. They are a quality team and this match will be a great test of our resolve and character.

The last time we were at Madejski Stadium we played well and enjoyed a good win over Bath. We’ll need to perform at the same level tomorrow to claim a win and I believe we can do that.”

London Irish team to face Northampton Saints:

15. Steven Shingler; 14. Topsy Ojo*; 13. Jonathan Joseph*; 12. Sailosi Tagicakibau*; 11. Marland Yarde; 10. Ian Humphreys; 9. Tomás O’Leary*; 1. Max Lahiff; 2. David Paice*; 3. Halani Aulika*; 4. George Skivington; 5. Bryn Evans (Captain)*; 6. Matt Garvey; 7. Jamie Gibson; 8. Ofisa Treviranus*

Replacements: 16. Shaun Malton; 17. Jerry Yanuyanutawa*; 18. Alan Cotter; 19. Kieran Low; 20. Chris Hala’ufia*; 21. Guy Armitage; 22. Shane Geraghty*; 23. Jack Moates

*Denotes Internationals

Northampton Saints team

15 James Wilson;14 Ken Pisi; 13 Dom Waldouck; 12 Luther Burrell; 11 Vasily Artemyev; 10 Stephen Myler; 9 Lee Dickson; 1 Soane Tonga'uiha; 2 Mike Haywood; 3 Brian Mujati; 4 Samu Manoa; 5 Mark Sorenson; 6 Courtney Lawes; 7 Tom Wood; 8 Phil Dowson (captain)

Replacements: 16 Ross McMillan; 17 Alex Waller; 18 Paul Doran Jones; 19 Teimana Harrison; 20 Rhys Oakley; 21 Martin Roberts; 22 Ryan Lamb;23 Tom May