Former Osprey Gareth Owen makes his long awaited come back at inside centre for Llanelli while also returning to action is captain and hooker Craig Hawkins. Inform young forward Lewis Rawlins wears the number seven jersey.
A week after facing the All Blacks, Argentinian Tomas Vallejos starts at flanker.
Last year Llanelli qualified for the quarter-finals only to go down to eventual finalists Cross Keys. Llanelli are hoping they can feature this time round and even go one better than “Keys” did last year in a competition which is growing in stature each year.
Now in it’s fourth year, previous winners Cornish Pirates, Bristol and last year’s winners Munster A will be going all out to repeat those successes.
Moseley now play out of Billesley Common near the centre of Birmingham and run quite a number of sides right through from Juniors to the 1st XV. They’re a side with a rich heritage with a number of Moseley players having gone on to International and British Lions honours.
Moseley are currently 10th in the English Championship with two wins from their six starts. They got turned over by Newcastle last week so will be more than ready to take on the famous shirt of Llanelli.
After their setback last week at Llandovery, this fixture provides Llanelli with a different challenge, new faces and an unfamiliar ground but they go into the game knowing that if they play to their potential they can get the result Llanelli want to set them up for further challenges to come.
Llanelli 15 Steffan Hughes14. Kristian Phillips 13 Nic Reynolds 12 Gareth Owen 11 Bowdy Davies 10 Owen Williams 9 Justin James 1 Rhys Thomas 2 Craig Hawkins (capt) 3 Sean McDonnell-Roberts 4 Jake Ball 5 Nathan White 6 Tomas Vallejos 7 Lewis Rawlins 8 Ed Price
Replacements/Subs 16 Tom Sloane 17 Tomos Wilson 18 Jamie Kijaks 19 Duane Eager 20 Nathan Hart 21Johnny Lewis 22 Chris Keenan.
