The Island’s director of rugby has named just six of the starting line-up against Moseley in his XV for the British & Irish Cup tie against Leeds Carnegie at St Peter. He denied this was a matter of rotation, or resting certain players, and said there was an opportunity for those selected to grasp.
Although both sides have no realistic chance of winning pool 5 and claiming a place in the B&I knock-out stages, Harvey is using the final two pool matches as a chance to fine-tune his squad prior to the league clashes with Rotherham and Bedford over the next month.
