Newport – Cardiff team news

Cardiff travel to Newport on Thursday (19:30) to play the Black and Ambers in a game that will be screened live on S4C Clic

Having recorded 50 points on Saturday last weekend the Blue & Blacks will be looking to continue in the same manner. Speaking ahead of the game Head Coach Steve Law commented “we were very pleased with the performance on Saturday, in fact it was as good as I have seen Cardiff play since my time here. What we need now is to repeat that performance. We don’t want a nine out of ten game one week and then follow that with a four out of ten.

We need to ensure our standards are kept as high as they were against Merthyr. We know it will be a different challenge on Thursday, the field is narrower and Newport will offer us a tough examination, you only have to look at last season where we didn’t beat them in all the games we played against them.

We have a number of changes this week, some due to injury and some giving the squad an opportunity. We know any Newport – Cardiff game will be tough because of the huge history between our two sides, but we are up for the challenge.”

Cardiff (vs Newport)

15 Cameron Winnett

14 James Beal

13 Joe Goodchild

12 Arron Pinches

11 Tom Habberfield

10 Dan Fish

9 Jamie Hill

1 Brynley Toms

2 Efan Daniel

3 Will Davies-King

4 Sean Moore

5 Teddy Williams

6 Nathan Hudd

7 Gwilym Bradley

8 Morgan Allen C

 

16 Eddie Drake

17 Joey Tomlinson

18 Scott Andrews

19 Joe Peard

20 Ellis Thomas

21 Olly Robinson

22 Ethan Lloyd

23 Harrison James

TEAM P W D L PF PA PTS
Ebbw Vale 11 10 0 1 411 174 60
Llandovery 12 9 0 3 377 300 51
Cardiff 11 6 0 5 348 293 39
Newport 12 6 0 6 371 268 37
Carmarthen Quins 11 7 0 4 256 260 36
Swansea 11 5 1 5 257 293 31
RGC 1404 12 4 0 8 354 392 28
Aberavon 12 4 0 8 295 451 22
Bridgend Ravens 11 2 1 8 253 418 17
Pontypool 11 3 0 8 213 286 16