LONDON IRISH: 15 Delon Armitage; 14 Topsy Ojo; 13 Jonathan Spratt; 12 Shontayne Hape; 11 Adam Thompstone; 10 Adrian Jarvis; 9 Darren Allinson; 1 Clarke Dermody (c); 2 David Paice; 3 Faan Rautenbach; 4 Nick Kennedy; 5 Matthew Garvey; 6 Bryn Evans; 7 David Sisi; 8 Alex Gray.
REPLACEMENTS: 16 James Buckland; 17 Alex Corbisiero; 18 Paulica Ion; 19 Bob Casey; 20 James Sandford; 21 Tom Homer; 22 Steven Shingler; 23 Paul Hodgson.
CARDIFF BLUES: 15 Leigh Halfpenny; 14 Alex Cuthbert; 13 Casey Laulala; 12 Gavin Henson; 11 Chris Czekaj; 10 Dan Parks; 9 Lloyd Williams; 1 Gethin Jenkins; 2 T Rhys Thomas; 3 Taufa'ao Filise; 4 Bradley Davies; 5 Paul Tito (c); 6 Michael Paterson; 7 Sam Warburton; 8 Xavier Rush.
REPLACEMENTS: 16 Ryan Tyrell; 17 John Yapp; 18 Scott Andrews; 19 Ma'ama Molitika; 20 Josh Navidi; 21 Richie Rees; 22 Ceri Sweeney; 23 Richard Mustoe.
UNAVAILABLE: Jamie Roberts (knee); Dafydd Hewitt (hamstring); Gavin Evans (head); James Down (ankle); Andries Pretorius (knee); Deiniol Jones (shoulder); Kristian Dacey (shoulder).
REFEREE: Neil Paterson (SRU); ASSISTANT REFEREES: Rob Dickson & Bob Nevins (SRU); TMO: Jim Yuille
Following Cardiff RFC all over from sunny Bournemouth in Blue and Black
Both sides for London (Reading) Irish (Well three Irish in the squad !) have been announced
Tom James injured ??
As he's not injured it's probably just a selection issue, Leigh Halfpenny, Chris Czekaj and Alex Cuthbert is a pretty good back line from who's available, would Tom James bring anything that isn't there already, and I'm not saying that he isn't as good as the selected wings, maybe he's carrying a bit of the blame for the 52-9 thrashing by Leinster ?
Cardiff can't afford any slip ups now, not with Edinburgh winning last night.
Agreed but we shouldn't be in this mess at all, it's now all about recovering the situation left after that embarrassing 19-12 defeat by Edinburgh, thanks to that humiliating loss we stand no chance of getting a favourable quarter final place, we're now begging for scraps at the quarter final table and given the other pool clubs we should be sat pride of place at the head of the table.
Let's hope that we can get two bonus point wins as I fear anything less will render us also rans.
London Irish 0 - 0 Cardiff Blues
Game is underway Adrian Jarvis kicks off
06:00 London Irish 0 - 3 Cardiff Blues
Leigh Halfpenny long range penalty
07:24 London Irish 3 - 3 Cardiff Blues
Jarvis penalty
20:57 London Irish 3 - 3 Cardiff Blues
Leigh Halfpenny misses penalty
35:24 London Irish 6 - 3 Cardiff Blues
39:44 London Irish 9 - 3 Cardiff Blues
41:57 London Irish 9 - 6 Cardiff Blues
Leigh Halfpenny penalty
HALF TIME
40:00 London Irish 9 - 6 Cardiff Blues
Second half kicked off by Dan Parks
41:45 London Irish 9 - 11 Cardiff Blues
Great Casey Laulala break leading to a Warburton try
42:55 London Irish 9 - 13 Cardiff Blues
Leigh Halfpenny converts
Taufa'ao Filise off - Scott Andrews on
52:14 London Irish 12 - 13 Cardiff Blues
Delon Armitage penalty
60:14 London Irish 12 - 16 Cardiff Blues
62:48 London Irish 15 - 16 Cardiff Blues
T Rhys Thomas off Ryan Tyrell on
Lloyd Williams off Richie Rees on