By Zippy
August 18 2005

On Saturday the Cardiff Blues travel to Sardis Road to take on Pontypridd in perhaps the most interesting of all pre season games, for team news and opinion read on.

Pontypridd Side (predicted):

 

15.Morgan Stoddart / Jason Pocock. 14.Darren Berry / Wayne Price / Garan Pearce. 13. Andy Parkinson / Gavin Dacey. 12.Neil Burnett / Lloyd Warner. 11.Chris Clayton / John Walder / Jordan Rees. 10.Richard Langmead / Austin Howells. 9.Tom Dickens / Peter McKee.

 

1.Stuart Williams / Gerald Cox / Adrian Ford. 2.Ben Phillips / Leighton Davies. 3.Ryan Harford / Ian Poley. 4.Dale McIntosh / Danny Hodge. 5.Chris Dicomidis / Luke Brennan. 6.Nathan Strong / Dale McIntosh. 7.Ben Rose / Rhys Lloyd. 8.Adam Powell / Nathan Strong / Chris Harford.

 

Cardiff Blues Side:

 

Backs: Matthew Nuthall, Chris Czekaj, Rhys Williams (C), Tristan Davies, Nick Gill, Nick Macleod, Ryan Powell  

Forwards: Nathan Llewellyn, Gareth Williams, Ben Evans, Deiniol Jones, James Goode, Bradley Davies, Mark Lewis, Maama Molitika  

 

REPS  

Jamie Roberts, Craig Morgan, Lee Thomas, Dai Flanagan, Wayne Evans, Scott Roberts, Martin Jones, Duane Goodfield, Andy Powell 

 

Zippy View

 

It will interest me greatly to see the reception Cardiff Blues get when they make the trip to Ponty on Saturday, the management of both clubs hope it will be seen as a gesture of goodwill but the supporters may have other ideas, we’ll see.

 

Pontypridd RFC v Cardiff Blues
Saturday 20^th August KO 2:30pm
Sardis road, Pontypridd