Cardiff – Neath team news

Cardiff will be looking to finish the home league season with a flourish as they take on Neath at the Arms Park in the last home game for 2018/19.

Having gained a bonus point in the last game against Ebbw Vale the Blue & Blacks will be looking to keep the pressure on at the top of the table. Speaking of the Ebbw Vale game, Head Coach Steve Law said “it was a very good performance on Saturday and some very good team tries. We want to finish in the best possible position in the league this season and to do that we will need to perform to Saturday’s standard once again.”

There are not too many changes in the backs from the side that started the game on Saturday where Morgan Griffiths replaces Dan Fish. Up front there are 4 changes. Kieron Brown and Ian Jenkins start in the front row, Kieran Martin and James Murphy the changes in the second row.

On the bench Will Rees-Hole will be looking to make an appearance which will bring up his 100th game for the Blue & Blacks.

 

15 Edd Howley

14 Mathew Powell

13 Joe Gatt

12 Steffan Jones

11 Morgan Griffiths

10 Gareth Thompson

9 Martin Roberts

 

1 Kieron Brown

2 Ian Jenkins

3 Will Davies-King

4 James Murphy

5 Kieran Martin

6 Tom Daley

7 Zach O’Driscoll

8 Aled Cockwell

 

16 Thomas Davies

17 Zac Hewlett

18 Peter Lloyd

19 Sam Pailor

20 Owen Jones

21 Aeron Bidgood

22 Llywarch Ap Myrddin

23 Will Rees-Hole

TEAM P W D L PF PA PTS
Newport 22 19 0 3 725 396 94
Llandovery 21 19 0 2 690 331 90
Ebbw Vale 20 14 0 6 615 384 71
Cardiff 21 12 1 8 579 492 63
Pontypridd 21 10 1 10 470 501 53
Pontypool 19 11 0 8 480 455 51
Merthyr 18 10 0 8 458 470 49
Aberavon 20 8 0 12 462 556 46
Bridgend Ravens 20 8 0 12 423 539 41
Swansea 19 5 0 14 377 540 30
RGC 1404 18 5 0 13 354 489 28
Carmarthen Quins 19 4 0 15 416 541 28
Neath 20 3 0 17 330 685 19