Overview
- Gloucester visit the Hive Stadium on Friday at 8pm for Round 3 of the Champions Cup, with Pool 2 finely balanced after every team split their first two games.
- Ollie Thorley has been handed a three-match ban, reducible to two with tackle school, and lock Arthur Clark is also suspended for three matches.
- Scrum-half Tomos Williams is being managed after a leg knock, with Mikey Austin named to start and 21-year-old Rhys Price on the bench.
- Gloucester updated their EPCR roster, adding Will Butler, Will Crane, George Knowles and Jake Morris while deregistering Will Joseph, Jack Innard, Seb Blake and Rob Russell.
- Edinburgh named Duhan van der Merwe to return on the wing, retained Ben Vellacott at scrum-half and signaled an ambition for five points at home as coach Sean Everitt manages a lengthy injury list.