By MARK CASHMAN; IMAGE: KAREN WATSON

Warringah will be without two of their major stars when they take on Sydney Uni in the Shute Shield match of the round, live and ad free on Stan Sport, at Sydney Uni Football Ground on Saturday.

Prop Rory O’Connor, who has been one of the main stays in the Rats’ good run this year that has seen them win four of their five games, is unavailable after a head knock while scrum half Harry Brown has a quad injury.

In for O’Connor comes Harrison Courtney while Rhett Butler who played at No.9 against Penrith last weekend at Rat Park will be the man at the base of the scrum.

Rats coach Mike Ruthven has been able to select what looks like his best back row combination with Charlie McKill, Rory Suttor and Max Girdler all there to take on the Students.

Ruthven is obviously keen to get his set piece right early in this one with Jack Nettleton, considered to be better scrummager and line out manager, starting in the No.2 jersey.

Uni’s set piece and their physicality at the breakdown has been the basis of their six win run so far this year and they will look to that again on Saturday against the Rats.

Uni coach Rob Taylor has tweaked his back row with Hugh Bokenham, fresh from the Australian Under 20s camp last weekend, getting a run at blindside breakaway.

Nick Champion De Crespigny moves to No.8 to accomodate Bokenham’s inclusion.

Besides Banjo Travers making way for Tahs squad member Henry Robertson and Ben Hughes returning at flyhalf the rest of the Uni backline is very familiar.

At Northern Suburbs, coach Zak Beer has been able to bring opensider Charlie Jeavons-Fellows back into his starting side for the game against the Two Blues.

Jeavons-Fellows has been managing a back strain and was used off the bench last weekend against Eastwood and will add to the Shoremen’s ability to play in the wider channels on Saturday.

Reece Mau’u has been moved to outside to cover the likely absence of Nathan Russell while Connor Winchester and Seb Cameron will work the wings with James Turner not likely to be in the selection equation later in the week.

Waratahs selectors have been following Turner’s progress closely and there have been calls for them to give him a crack at Super Rugby level.

At Manly, Matt McGoldrick has thrown the No.10 jersey to BJ Hartmann in an effort to bounce back as quickly as possible after their loss to West Harbour last weekend.

Harry Emery gets another chance to make the scrum half position his after Dion Spice copped a nasty head knock last weekend and is likely to be win the sidelines for a number of weeks as he works his way through the concussion protocols.

At Wests, Kodie Drury-Hawkins will play at flyhalf against Gordon at Drummoyne Oval after Patrick Pellegrini was injured early in the big win over Manly in Round Six.

Tight head prop Cam Betham is unavailable this weekend and his place has gone to Sione Mafi.

At Gordon Nav Lokotui will run the show at No.10 for the Highlanders again after a classy display against Randwick at Coogee Oval.

The Highlanders win at Coogee Oval was close to their best performance this year and they will be looking to build on that against the Pirates.

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