Leicester Tigers change three for Gloucester

Leicester Tigers head coach Richard Cockerill has made three changes to his starting line-up for Friday's Guinness Premiership trip to Gloucester.

After last week's win over Newport Gwent Dragons in the LV= Cup, Aaron Mauger and Johne Murphy return to the Tigers backline and Brett Deacon takes the No6 shirt for the Kingsholm contest.

Mauger was rested last week and Murphy was away with the Ireland A squad, while Deacon returns after a taking a knock in the opening stages of the win over South Africa a fortnight ago.

Ben Kay, Jordan Crane and George Chuter are included in the 23 after their return from England training and wing Lote Tuqiri makes his first appearance in the Guinness Premiership.

"Our performance was a bit up and down against the Dragons last week," said Cockerill.

"We pride ourselves on being more difficult to play against than that, so we are looking for an improvement.

"Gloucester have good players across the board and we know we will have to execute our own game well and match them physically.

"We're into a key part of the season with  Gloucester , Leeds and Wasps in the Guinness Premiership and then into the back-to-back Heineken Cup games."

Leicester Tigers (v Gloucester Rugby, Kingsholm, Friday 7.45pm)

15 Scott Hamilton, 14 Lote Tuqiri , 13 Anthony Allen, 12 Aaron Mauger (c), 11 Johne Murphy, 10 Jeremy Staunton, 9 Ben Youngs, 1 Boris Stankovich, 2 Mefin Davies, 3 Dan Cole, 4 Geoff Parling, 5 Ben Kay, 6 Brett Deacon, 7 Ben Pienaar, 8 Jordan Crane

Replacements, 16 George Chuter, 17 Robbie Harris, 18 Jonny Harris, 19 Calum Green, 20 Dan Hemingway, 21 James Grindal, 22 Toby Flood, 23 Matt Smith

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