Saracens coach Wayne Shelford has made nine changes, three positional, to the starting line-up for Sunday's Zurich Premiership clash with London Irish at the Madejski Stadium.

Adryan Winnan comes in at full back for Thomas Castaignede, Richard Haughton comes onto the wing in place of Darragh O'Mahony, Tom Shanklin switches with Ben
Johnston and Nicky Little replaces Andy Goode at fly half making his first start for the club.

In the forwards, try scorer last Sunday - Joe Ross starts at hooker, while Abdel Benazzi and Kieran Roche replace Stuart Hooper and Craig Yandell. The outgoing players, save O'Mahony, all take their places on the bench with Shelford proclaiming that the shape of the team hasn't changed.

"Some people might say why change a winning team?" posed Shelford this morning. "Well I say why not?! It's better for players to come into a team that's winning than when it's losing. I see it more as a pat on the back to the guys. They've played well and got us two
wins out of two and I'm giving some of them the chance to recover. Besides, I believe the changes we've made don't affect the make up of the team one bit. In the second row we've replaced a 20 and 28-year-old with a 23 and 32-year-old, and at fly half Nicky's (Little) got over 50 caps at test level so if anything it's stronger."

"The important thing for me is that we're sensible with our squad. I don't want players burnt out by Christmas. In this way all the players will be fresh come the halfway stage and hungry to play.

"It's not about individuals, it's about the team. The squad is made up so that when we need to switch players there is little difference, we do it all the time at training."

Team:
15 Adryan Winnan
14 Richard Haughton
13 Kevin Sorrell
12 Ben Johnston
11 Tom Shanklin
10 Nicky Little
9 Kyran Bracken (capt)
1 David Flatman
2 Joe Ross
3 Johnny Marsters
4 Abdel Benazzi
5 Kieran Roche
6 Kris Chesney
7 Richard Hill
8 Ben Russell

Replacements
16 Matt Cairns
17 James Parkes
18 Stuart Hooper
19 Craig Yandell
20 Morgan Williams
21 Andy Goode
22 Thomas Castaignede