Last season at St Helen’s, Swansea, England just clung on to win but Wales coaches John Morgan and Jonathan Dodd hope that thir young squad will match their opponents.
UWIC fly half Gareth Morgan moves back to full back with Nick Jones moving to the wing and Craig Jones being brought in as pivot. Aaron May and Sean Lynn are promoted from the bench in the backs and Oliver John is brought in at prop.
Former Wales Schools scrum half Iwan Mainwaring is introduced among the replacements.
Wales Students – 15 Gareth Morgan (UWIC/Llanelli); 14 Stefan Sankala (UWIC/Bedwas), 13 Richard Davies (Cardiff Univ/Llanelli), 12 Aaron May (Swansea Univ/Swansea), 11 Nick Jones (Narberth/Swansea Univ); 10 Craig Jones (Worcester Univ Coll), 9 Sean Lynn (Hartpury Coll); 1 Roy Davies (Hartpury Coll/Newbury), 2 Andrew Littlehales (Swansea Univ/Neath), 3 Oliver John (Bath Univ), 4 Greg Walsh (South Bank Univ/London Welsh), 5 Stuart Miller (Bonymaen/UWIC), 6 Matthew Evans (UWIC/Narberth), 7 Adam Cox Newport/Cardiff Medicals), 8 Matthew Jeffries (Cardiff Medicals/Llanelli).
Replacements: 16 Jo Shelton (Brunel Univ/London Welsh), 17 Ioan Ohlsson (Swansea Univ/Neath), 18 Steve Phillips (Swansea Univ/Neath), 19 Lewis Wood (Aberystwyth Univ/Haverfordwest), 20 Iwan Mainwaring (UWIC), 21 Marc Davies (Univ of Glamorgan/Llanharan), 22 Dominic Jones (Hartpury Coll).
Team Manager: Stan Addicott. Secretary: Rev’d Eldon Phillips.
