Kai Owen called into matchday squad at Irish

Warriors have made a change to their matchday squad for this afternoon’s Gallagher Premiership game against London Irish at the Brentford Community Stadium.

Murray McCallum, who was due to be a replacement, has withdrawn because of illness. His place on the bench is taken by Kai Owen who will provide loosehead prop cover.

The second row pairing of Andrew Kitchener and Justin Clegg have swapped shirts with Kitchener now wearing number four and Clegg five.

Warriors | 15 Noah Heward, 14 Perry Humphreys, 13 Seb Atkinson, 12 Ashley Beck, 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Billy Searle, 9 Willi Heinz, 1 Ethan Waller, 2 Isaac Miller, 3 Christian Judge, 4 Andrew Kitchener, 5 Justin Clegg, 6 Joe Batley, 7 Ted Hill (C), 8 Sione Vailanu.

Replacements | 16 Beck Cutting, 17 Kai Owen, 18 Jack Owlett, 19 Jack Forsythe, 20 Matt Kvesic, 21 Gareth Simpson, 22 Fin Smith, 23 Alex Hearle.

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