Carlo Robinson has been ill all week while Chris Stewart has a stomach bug. Skipper Anth Carr also has work commitments so Adam Coates is drafted back into the first team squad.

Panda comes in with both Iain Dixon and Colin Cheslin injured after last week's wholehearted display at Hartpury.

It promises to be another hard game on Dore Moor. Tigers are in third place, fighting for a play off place, and will want to avenge their defeat at Brinkburn earlier in the season.

We have done them one favour by agreeing to a 2.15 kick off, instead of the scheduled 3.00, as some of their players hadn't appreciated the change and had booked to jet off on a ski-ing holiday straight after the game. Tigers will also be seeking some information on Hartpury - who they could well be facing at Twickenham in the EDF Intermediate Cup Final. Let's hope those are the only two favours we will afford them.

Meanwhile the Stags have a cup semi-final at Blaydon. Our lads surprised the CaNDY league last week by pulling of a home win against tabletopping Tynedale Raiders. They will have to carry that form into this game if they are going to make the final.

The same can be said of the Bucks who have their own hard cup game at Horden.

Firsts squad: Away to Sheffield Tigers Kick off 2.15 Meet 10.00: Coates, Sawyer, A Dixon, C Stewart, T Dixon, I Robinson, D Boatman, A Myers. D Morrison, P Vinnicombe, Thomas, Connolly, Kerr, Moss, Hodgson,A Cheslin, Hare, Smart,

Stags. Away BlaydonsIIs Kick off 3.00 Meet 1.00 Greenwell Wood Coates Henderson Robson A Lloyd Young Cameron Barker Boatman J Williamson Waites Wallis Armstrong Howe Edwards Butcher Cavey

Bucks. Away to Horden IIIs Kick off 3.00 Meet 1.00: O’Connor Graham Considine Kemp Robson M Rafferty Wright Cook Mallinson Wilson Parker Turnbull Miller Pearce Todd Youll Bulmer Shotton

Ams: Away to Hartlepool IIs: Kick off 3.00 Meet 1.45pm: All available players please contact Peter Wilkinson.