I think we will see around 30 players named for this pre season friendly on Saturday September 7th at 3pm.
I think the Squad will be something like...
G Phillips S Thomas C Jones
S Parry E Lewis L Lloyd
T Botha AN Other
H Sutton J Ratti T Currie L Jones
H Deaves M Morris T Davies AN Other
RMW L Davies K Hardy/S Whitlock
D Edwards L Scully
K William P Cokansiga
H Houston C Moyse L Morgan R Conbeer
M Nagy L Edwards
I will edit the squad once it is announced.
I think these players are still injured or recovering so will not be involved - B Warren, A Beard, R Davies, J Fender, K Giles, W Griffiths, D Lake, J Morgan. That means that T Florence, W Greatbanks, K Hardy, I Hopkins, R Henry, M Morse, G Thomas, J Tipuric, J Walsh, O Williams and O Watkin could well be injured.
It was a game of few chances thanks to the weather but I think we were good value for the win.
We defended well (although we were helped by Exeter’s handling errors) and their try came from a cross field kick which was fumbled by one of our players, I was down the other end so unsure who it was but it led to their winger scoring.
Garyn Philips didn’t play despite being named in the starting XI, Steffan Thomas started with Cameron Jones coming off the bench, and I’d argue that the Bridgend prop held up better than Thomas…
Tristan Davies was excellent and I think he could play an important role this season.
Thought we’d blown the chance to win after knocking on in their 22 but the ball came out of the scrum, Deaves picked up and was tackled just short before Scully scored a phase later.
It was a proper “find a way” performance and we can be pleased with ourselves after going down there and winning, pre-season or not.