Nick Abendanon, Tom Biggs, Ben Skirving and Simon Taylor all return to the Bath starting line-up for today's Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final against Stade Francais at the Recreation Ground (1pm).
Abendanon and Biggs come in on the right and left wings respectively, with Argentinian international Horacio Agulla shifting inside to the outside centre role vacated by the injured Matt Banahan.
Kyle Eastmond partners Agulla in the midfield, with Ollie Devoto once again picked at full-back. Stephen Donald and Peter Stringer are again the half-backs.
Former Stade Francais player and 66 times capped Taylor will make his first appearance since December following a knee injury.
The Scotland international starts on the blindside flank, with another international, Ben Skirving, who made his 100th appearance for the club last week, deployed at No 8. Springbok Francois Louw completes the back-row on the openside.
The rest of the pack is unchanged, with club captain Stuart Hooper partnering Dominic Day in the second row, and the test front-row of Paul James, Rob Webber and Davey Wilson adding the power at the coal face.
With Stade currently sitting tenth in the Top 14, qualification to next season's Heineken Cup seems likely to rely on them winning the Amlin.
First-team coach Mike Ford says Bath's players have therefore been warned to expect the French side to try to "squeeze the life out of them" today.
"Stade have top pedigree, they have some real top-class backs who can hurt any team," said Ford.
"Although they are tenth and not doing great in the Top 14, they have still got the likes of Sergio Parisse, Julien Dupuy, Paul Warrick, David Lyons and Paul Williams.
"It's going to be really tough. With those players there's no way a team is going to come and not be good.
"I think it's maybe going to be more akin to a Test game and be about small margins. Stade will probably try to squeeze the life out of us but we've got to figure out a way to beat that and defend against it.
"From their point of view, it looks like they are not going to qualify for the Heineken Cup through the league, so this is their chance.
"They've got everything to play for but so have we – we really want to finish this season on a high. It's two games to get to a final and then anything can happen.
"It's a challenge, it's exciting. We're at home, we were the number one seeds – we are not going to forget that as our pride is at stake – and it's a chance to play in the semi- finals of a European cup, so it's one we are relishing."
Bath scrum-half Michael Claassens has donated a gift of kit to Dursley RFC.
Last October, Michael was awarded the Amlin Challenge Cup Man of the Match award by the French media following his commanding performance in the 25-27 away win against SU Agen.
As part of his award, tournament sponsors Amlin donated a large package of training kit and equipment for Michael to donate to a rugby youth club of his choosing.
Referred to as MOTM+, the pack contains items various items that can be used in training sessions by Dursley, including training balls, evasion belts, speed ladders and resistors.
The Gloucestershire based club were delighted with the donation. Dursley's Alan Evans said: "We're really thankful to Michael, Bath Rugby and Amlin, for giving us this wonderful box of kit – it's top of the range equipment, and as a self-funded club it can sometimes be hard to find the money to replace the bits and pieces that get worn out throughout the season. Now we know we have a set of quality equipment that will keep us going for a good while."
Claassens added: "All professional players started at grassroots clubs such as Dursley, and you know how hard it can be to get equipment of the quality you need to be able to train as well as you'd like, so it's great to be able to give some-thing back."
Bath, home to Stade Francais, today, 1pm: 15 Ollie Devoto; 14 Nick Abendanon, 13 Horacio Agulla, 12 Kyle Eastmond, 11 Tom Biggs; 10 Stephen Donald, 9 Peter Stringer; 1 Paul James, 2 Rob Webber, 3 David Wilson, 4 Stuart Hooper (capt.), 5 Dominic Day, 6 Simon Taylor, 7 Francois Louw, 8 Ben Skirving. Replacements: 16 Ross Batty, 17 Nathan Catt, 18 Anthony Perenise, 19 Will Spencer, 20 Nick Koster, 21 Michael Claassens, 22 Tom Heathcote, 23 Jack Cuthbert.
