We are going to be missing 4 regular startes - Marler, Dommers, Smith and Marchant - but we have still got a great core group, plus a load of good options on the bench. And this assumes that Lewies and Louw will still be missing.

1. Santiago Garcia Botta
2. Jack Walker
3. Will Collier
4. Matt Symons
5. Dino Lamb
6. Jack Kenningham
7. Tom Lawday
8. James Chisholm
9. Danny Care
10. Tommy Allan
11. Cadan Murley
12. Andre Esterhuizen
13. Luke Northmore
14. Louis Lynagh
15. Tyrone Green

I'd be tempted to swap Northmore and Jones.

It'd be good to get some mileage out of him before he goes back up to Scotland and we've not seen that much from him yet. Northmore is also always better off the bench that starting imo for some reason

I’d probably start Kerrod as he is a better carrier than Collier

How very dare you speak demeaningly of the scorer of the Prop's try of the decade...

Yes, Lewies off the bench could make a pretty big impact. Tommy Allan has got a run of games ahead of him too, which is good. Agree with the o/p with Kenners and Lawday reversed.

I wonder if Walker will be available after what I think was an HIA on Saturday. He has settled in well and has done a job in all parts of the game. Riley came on and did well,  as he has done every time. It is nice to have two good hooking options.

So, we will lose our four England Boys for Sarries and Wasps in the league, then Saints and Sarries in the Cup. Will they be back for Irish on the 27th Nov or Tigers on the 5th Dec, does anyone know?

Personally, I wish the calendar had fewer Prem games and more Cup games during these international periods. I would prefer the 6 nations to be played across consecutive weekends too. Oh well, c'est la vie. We are capable of wins in all of the games, so bring on all comers!!!

Can't remember if he was listed as unavailable for Bath - but is Wilco Louw still out?

We'll need to be solid in the set piece against Sarries, so for that reason I'd give Collier the nod over Kerrod. I'd also be tempted to put in Lewies at 6 (assuming he's fit enough) to give us another genuine line out threat. If we can limit/nullify their set piece threat, I fancy our chances.

We need SGB to put in a big performance. I don't have much confidence in him to be honest, but just think it's a bit to early to throw Baxter in from the start in a big derby game.

There biggest lineout threat is not there, but as has been said we need to be solid in set piece they still have good depth.

I just hope we don’t fumble as much we have in the last couple of weeks because they are in great form.

Obviously we are missing a few, but so are they.  If Louw is back I would fancy him to sort Mako out in the scrum.  I think its pretty even on paper (guessing at who will be playing)