Blues Team for Edinburgh

Fridays game sees the return of casey and halfpenny to playing duties, giving us much better strength in the back. The forwards also look decent for this game with a very experienced back row.

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 (c) 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

Getting down to the business end now, Munster look secure for a top 4 space, and few would bet against Leinster and Ospreys, but the will mean that the final spot is between 3 teams.
Big question is, who will that team be?
Ulster , like Leinster, still have interest in the Heineken, but for me will tend to concentrate more on the Heiny, so while still strong opposition will not put all their efforts into getting to the last four until their Heiny chances are ended.
Which basically leaves the blues and the Scarlets, and for me the blues while having the toughest run in do have a game in hand, and if they can get a win this weekend, if the Scarlets lose, as I expect, then the pressure will really be on them.
Exciting times.

To be fair that is not too far from a normal starting line up (allowing for the odd injury etc). Should be more than enough to pick up a win against Edinburgh.

On a side note to what Ospreylian said, the Blues and Scarlets need not only to be looking at what is happening at the top of the table with regards to the play offs, but we both need to be looking at what the Dragons are up to, as with their games in hand they are only a match or so off either of us. So in other words a slip up could land either the Blues or Scarlets in the HC qualification dog fight.

It will be a good game, from an Edinburgh side we are playing as Strong a side as we can muster. It will be nice to see Jim Thompson get a run out at full back.

It will be interesting to see how match fit Leigh Halfpenny is too.