Cardiff – Newport team news

Cardiff entertain Newport in the Indigo Premiership at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday looking to bounce back after the defeat to Pontypool two weeks ago.

Speaking ahead of the game Head Coach Steve Law said “it will be a big challenge on Saturday – we were on the wrong end of the result last time due to our own inefficiency and were very disappointed in the performance. We failed to implement what we had agreed and were very much off script, and that cost us the game.

The squad though have analysed that in the last two weeks and have trained really well in preparation for the game. We have a plan for Newport and we want to do what is right for us and what hurts them We will need to get our endeavour and attitude right on Saturday and be clinical . We need to build the positives and the points.

With the top 4 teams getting away this has become a very big game in the hunt for the playoff places and we will be looking to implement our game plan. There are a few changes due to unavailability but that brings opportunity. We know we have the talent, we just have to bring the performance”

Cardiff ( vs Newport)

15 Jacob Lloyd

14 James Beal

13 Joe Goodchild

13 Luke Pollock

11 Dewi Cross

10 Harrison James

9 Tom Habberfield

1 Rhys Barratt

2 Alun Rees

3 Christian Brooke

4 Craig Hudd

5 Ethan Phillips

6 Mackenzie Martin

7 Lucas De la Rua

8 Morgan Allen ( c)

16 Ollie Evans

17 Joey Tomlinson

18 Jack Wiggins

19 Sean Moore

20 Ioan Pascoe

21 Joe Williams

22 Fraser Jones

23 Matty Young

TEAM P W D L PF PA PTS
Ebbw Vale 8 7 0 1 279 120 42
Llandovery 9 7 0 2 297 249 39
Carmarthen Quins 9 6 0 3 203 203 29
Cardiff 8 4 0 4 246 227 27
Swansea 9 4 1 4 215 239 25
Newport 9 4 0 5 222 212 24
Aberavon 9 4 0 5 239 293 21
RGC 1404 9 2 0 7 276 304 18
Bridgend Ravens 9 2 1 6 226 322 17
Pontypool 9 3 0 6 186 220 16