Cardiff – Aberavon Team News

Cardiff entertain Aberavon on Friday night (19:15) looking to make it ten wins in a row in the Principality Premiership.

Following last weekend’s narrow victory over Llanelli and Merthyr’s slip at Swansea the Blue & Blacks now sit just one point off top spot. Head Coach, Steve Law, said of the game at Parc-Y-Scarlets “that was a very poor performance on Sunday. One that we need to put right if we are to have any hope of beating Aberavon tomorrow. Our execution just simply was not where we want and need it to be. Having said that Llanelli made it hard for us, but we managed to find a way to win.”

“Aberavon will be a completely different team to play. They have only lost 5 games this season and are on a decent winning run of their own. The game will have a massive bearing on where we are and where we go moving forward. Changes have been kept to minimum but we do welcome back Morgan Griffiths for his first game since the beginning of the season. He has been playing in the Premiership in recent weeks with Carmarthen.”

15 Edd Howley

14 Joe Gatt

13 Ben Thomas

12 Will Rees-Hole

11 Morgan Griffiths

10 Gareth Thompson

9 Martin Roberts

1 Thomas Davies

2 Joey Tomlinson (Capt)

3 Peter Lloyd

4 Kieran Martin

5 Callum Bradbury

6 Sam Pailor

7 James Botham

8 Morgan Allen

 

16 Kieron Brown

17 Ian Jenkins

18 Will Davies-King

19 James Murphy

20 Tom Daley

21 Scott Gibson

22 Steffan Jones

23 Llywarch Ap Myrddin

 

Travelling Reserves

Fraser Young

Amir Jiwa Walji

 

TEAM P W D L PF PA PTS
Ebbw Vale 8 7 0 1 279 120 42
Llandovery 8 6 0 2 267 235 33
Carmarthen Quins 9 6 0 3 203 203 29
Cardiff 7 4 0 3 225 203 26
Aberavon 8 4 0 4 225 263 21
Swansea 8 3 1 4 191 218 20
Newport 8 3 0 5 195 195 20
RGC 1404 9 2 0 7 276 304 18
Bridgend Ravens 9 2 1 6 226 322 17
Pontypool 8 3 0 5 169 193 16