Hard Cross To Bear

It has to be said that the B&I campaign has not gone as Mike Rayer would have liked. Our biggest achievement was in getting the points from Cornish Pirates even though they'd actually scored more points in the game than we had...

And so the trip to Cross Keys is a bit of a  damp squib.

The Welshmen won the first leg thanks to a very late try and our main ambition must be to overturn that result and start an important December in the right way.

Ollie Dodge is out with an arm injury, Joe Vandermolen with a bad shoulder and Nick Fenton-Wells is also still injured. So the side pretty much picks itself.
Starting Line-Up:
 
Blues:  James Pritchard (c), Pat Tapley, Mike Le Bourgeois, Henry Staff, Dean Adamson, Jake Sharp, Peter White, Tom Williams, TJ Harris, James Currie, Harry Wells, Ben Gulliver, Justin Blanchet, Josh Buggea, Hayden Thompson-Stringer.
 
Reps: Charlie Clare, Camilo Parilli-Ocampo, Phil Boulton, Mike Howard, Paul Tupai, Darryl Veenendaal.