Charlie Hodgson is preferred to Owen Farrell at fly-half. (©GettyImages). Northampton Saints got the new Aviva Premiership campaign off to a stunning start on Friday night, with Welsh sensation George North bagging a hat-trick of tries in a 53-6 rout of Gloucester.
Today, GMS is at Twickenham for the annual London Double Header, as Wasps meet Saracens at 14:00 and London Irish take on rivals Harlequins at 16:30.
Here are the teams for the opening encounter:
Saracens
Goode; Ashton, Taylor, Barritt, Strettle; Hodgson, Wigglesworth; Barrington, George, Longbottom; Kruis, Hargreaves (capt); Brown, Fraser, Vunipola.
Replacements: Spurling, Gill, Du Plessis, Hamilton, Wray, Spencer, Farrell, Streather.
Wasps
Miller; Wade, Daly, Bell, Tagicakibau; Goode, Simpson; Mullan, Festuccia, Cittadini; Launchbury, Gaskell; Johnson, Haskell (capt), Hughes.
Replacements: Lindsay, Yapp, Swainston, Myall, Thompson, Davies, Jackson, Masi.
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