Cardiff Blues Team vs Edinburgh

Cardiff Blues Team vs Edinburgh

Good news for Cardiff fans as both Leigh Halfpenny and Casey Lualala make welcome returns to the side in their Magners League clash with Edinburgh on Friday.

Many Welsh fans will also be grateful to see Halfpenny back in action as Morgan Stoddart is currently dividing a lot of opinion in his performances for Wales so for this 6 Nations.

Czekaj, John Yapp and Scot Andrews are all released by Wales to play in the game which has become all the more important to the Blues hopes in the Magners after last weeks loss against Ulster which ended their winning streak, and more importantly dropped them down to 5th in the table, one place below the play off spots.

Fans will be hoping that the Blues continue in their good form against the Scottish side this season, they have won all 3 of their encounters so far

Cardiff Blues Team vs Edinburgh

15 Chris Czekaj 14 Leigh Halfpenny 13 Casey Laulala 12 Dafydd Hewitt 11 Richard Mustoe 10 Ceri Sweeney 9 Tom Slater

8 Xavier Rush 7 Martyn Williams 6 Maama Molitika 5 Paul Tito © 4 Deiniol Jones 3 Scott Andrews 2 T Rhys Thomas 1 John Yapp

16 Gareth Williams 17 Sam Hobbs 18 Fau Filise 19 Michael Paterson 20 Andries Pretorius 21 Tom Rowlands 22 Gareth Davies 23 Gavin Evans

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The following players were not available for selection because of injury:

Ben Blair – knee

Gethin Jenkins – toe

Lloyd Williams – shoulder

Tom Shanklin – knee

Tom Davies – calf

James Down – foot

Richie Rees – suspended

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