BROTHERS Ramez and Ramen Farahani are handed starts as Oxford Harlequins aim to stretch their unbeaten run to eight games at Salisbury on Saturday.

Quins' fine form has seen them climb to fourth in the South West 1 East table, while they have already beaten the Wiltshire side this campaign – a 24-19 win at Marston Ferry Road in September.

Ramez and Ramen start at prop and lock respectively.

Flanker Charlie Ward, fly half Jack Avery and full back Ed Yeats all return.

Grove are without unavailable trio Graeme Crapper, Tom Clipsham and Joe Chilvers as they take on leaders Towcestrians, looking to arrest a run of four successive defeats.

Simon Cramp and Nick Sevier form a new half back partnership, while winger Josh Allen and flanker Ben Law return.

Third-placed Witney eye a fourth-straight victory when they host Windsor.

Henley Hawks seek back-to-back wins for only the second time this season as they take on mid-table Darlington Mowden Park at Dry Leas in National League 1.

Hawks edged a tight encounter 30-28 at the Northern Echo Arena in September and return from their two-week festive break in high spirits after beating Cinderford last time out.

Pete Davies’ side, who are only a point above second bottom Wharfedale, hope to start pulling away from the danger zone.

They make eight changes, four positional, with Xavier Andre, Connor Murphy, Charlie Davey and Oscar Hirskyj-Douglas all returnining to the XV.

In National League 2 South, Chinnor visit Bury St Edmunds.

Despite being second from bottom, Matt Williams’ side are only five points behind their eighth-placed hosts.

Their only change to the side that lost 41-39 to Redingensians on December 19 is in the back row where new signing Alex Waddingham replaces the unavailable Joe Vandermolen.

SATURDAY’S SQUADS

Henley Hawks (v Darlington Mowden Park, home, 3): Allen, Strang, Andre, O’Neill, Randall, Palmer, Murphy, Manning, Emery, Moss, Clements (capt), Davey, Hall, Bell, Hirskyj-Douglas. Reps: Sandys, Woodward, Langdon, Pierrepoint, Bradford, Perry.

Chinnor (v Bury St Edmunds, away, 3): Heath, M Olley, Adams, Fatialofa, J Olley, Hopkin, Jones, Berry, Townsend, Tyack, Oliver, Burns, Manning, Waddingham, Tyas (capt). Reps: A Darlington, Owen, Tibbatts, Goodfellow, Lloret.

Witney (v Windsor, home, 2.15): from Richardson, Harris, Fuller, Webb, Mortimer, C Campbell, Lane, G Campbell (capt), Lamb, Morgan, Clarke, Godfrey, Fisk, Dyde, Richens, Bennett, Dodman-Edwards.

Oxford Harlequins (v Salisbury, away, 2.15): Yeats, Poulet, Robinson, Dimond, Kelly, Avery, O’Brian, Ramez Farahani, Edney, Boulton, Ramen Farahani, Purchase (capt), Ward, Battson, Latu. Reps: Fisilau, Hopson, Jones, Etheridge.

Grove (v Towcestrians, home, 2.15): White, Crook, S Allen, Durrant, J Allen, Sevier, Cramp, Eckert (capt), Wiltshire, Walsh, Miles, Peel, Law, D Wells, Gratwohl. Reps: T Wells, Dixey, Horrocks.