Toulouse 23 - 7 Cardiff Blues
Sat 19 December 14:35 Stade Toulouse Att: 30,530 Ref: Alan Lewis Heineken Cup

Blues Team to face Toulouse

Thu 17 Dec 2009 12:41 Blues Team to face Toulouse
Having recorded a 15-9 win over Toulouse last Saturday the Blues travel to the south west of France for the return leg in this season’s Heineken Cup.

The Blues have now beaten the three times Heineken Cup champions for the past two seasons, having notched up a 9-6 win over the French aristocrats at the Millennium Stadium last season, in a memorable quarter final match.

The Blues are currently joint second in Group 5 with the Sale Sharks who are also on 9 points, and they know that any points picked up out in France would be invaluable as they move the final group stages in January.

The last time the Cardiff Blues played Toulouse out in France in April 2008 in the Heineken Cup quarter final they went down 41-17, however since then the Blues have had the upper hand.

Tom James has not been selected for this weekends clash in Toulouse due to Injury, with Richard Mustoe taking his place in the starting XV.

Gareth Thomas is added to the bench in place of Dafydd Hewitt

15 Ben Blair
14 Leigh Halfpenny
13 Tom Shanklin
12 Jamie Roberts
11 Richard Mustoe
10 Sam Norton-Knight
9 Gareth Cooper

1 Gethin Jenkins
2 Gareth Williams
3 Taufa’ao Filise
4 Deiniol Jones
5 Paul Tito (c)
6 Andy Powell
7 Martyn Williams
8 Xavier Rush

16 T. Rhys Thomas
17 Sam Hobbs
18 Gary Powell
19 Scott Morgan
20 Sam Warburton
21 Richie Rees
22 Ceri Sweeney
23 Gareth Thomas