WORCESTER Warriors' Aviva Premiership clash with Northampton Saints on Saturday, November 18 will kick-off at 1pm.
The match was due to take place at 3pm.
But it has been moved forward two hours to give supporters the chance to watch England's Autumn International against Australia, which will be screened live in bars around Sixways from 2.30pm.
Warriors will do battle with Jim Mallinder’s boys in their fourth home league clash of the season after welcoming Wasps, Exeter Chiefs and Saracens in September.
Northampton’s trips to Sixways have been nerve-jangling affairs in recent years, with Tom Heathcote’s last-minute drop-goal securing victory by one point for Warriors in 2015, before Saints claimed victory by the same margin in 2016.
The game will also see a return to Sixways for former Warriors forward Phil Dowson, who retired earlier this summer to take up a coaching role at Franklin’s Gardens.
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