RUGBY UNION: Rickner captains Dark Blues (From The Oxford Times)
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RUGBY UNION: Rickner captains Dark Blues
10:00am Wednesday 3rd October 2012 in Sport
By Ed Mezzetti, Sports reporter specialising in Rugby, Cricket and Athletics. Call me on 01865 425456
MICHAEL Rickner will captain Oxford University at Moseley tonight (7.30).
In the absence of regular skipper John Carter, No 8 Rickner leads a side featuring just two Blues in fly half Sam Egerton and prop Lewis Anderson.
Oxford Harlequins’ Nick Gardner, who has just joined the university, gets a chance to impress at hooker.
Will Boardman, a try scorer in the 30-11 defeat to Durham University, is on the wing.
Oxford University: Wareham, Hughes, Cho, Boardman, Dargan, Egerton*, McCulla, Anderson*, Gardner, Baker, Little#, Hilton-Stevens, D Macdonald, Perrin, Rickner (captain). Reps: Wisson, Grounds, Fell, Hitchings, Shorthose, Batten, Adams-Cairns, Powell, Bucknell, Rutherford.
* denotes Blues. # denotes international.
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