Blues North & South squads selected for forthcoming games : News

Reigning champions Blues North take on the Dragons in the first round of the WRU Regional Age Grade U16 Competition at Merthyr RFC kick-off 7.15pm Wednesday 2nd September.

Coaches Lee Jarvis, Steve Godard, and Geraint Lewis will hope to get off to a winning start in the defence of the championship.

Meanwhile Blues South take on the Ospreys at Corus Port Talbot in the other game of round one, also at 7.15pm, Wednesday 2 September. The South have made an encouraging start to the season by recording wins over Northampton and Saracens in pre-season friendlies.

Blues North XV:
15 Rhys Walker 14 Gwillym Edwards 13 Jack Barrett 12 Callum Phillips 11 Kier Hughes 10 James Dixon 9 Joel Raikes

1 Jack Dunning 2 Ethan Lewis 3 Joel Day 4 Dan Morris 5 Chris Lacey 6 Muerig Owen Davies 7 Alex Jones 8 Garyn Daniel

Replacements:
16 Daniel Watts 17 Callum Lewis 18 Jordan Cleaver 19 Simon Pring 20 James Soanes 21 Lewis Montague 22 Connor Gay

Blues South XV:
15 Ruaidhri Smith 14 Ben Harding 13 Dominic Callaghan 12 Jack Phillips 11 Rhys Williams 10 Gareth Thompson 9 Luke O'Brien

1 Gavin Nash 2 Michael Perks 3 Ben Rookes 4 Luke Connolly 5 Zak Deere 6 Lewys Helyar 7 Rhys Woodman 8 Will Meades

Replacements:
16 Tom Crosse 17 Shaun Byrne 18 Rhys Owens 19 Ben Roach 20 Ollie Williams 21 Tome Perry 22 Jacob Morgan

In the build-up to the 2018-19 season we wanted to pay tribute to the rugby community and the clubs that gave so many of our Cardiff Blues stars their first taste of the game we love!

While to Cardiff Blues senior squad were away in the South African sun last week, securing European Champions Cup rugby for next season, the next generation of talented youngsters were being put through their paces by academy coaches, Richie Rees and Duane Goodfield.