Bottom versus top test for Blues
Newbury Blues will take on league leaders Ealing Trailfinders at Monks Lane on Saturday
NEWBURY BLUES face a bottom versus top test when they take on Ealing Trailfinders at Monks Lane on Saturday.
Last week's 108-0 battering at Richmond took Blues' points-against tally over the 1,000 mark at the halfway point in the campaign, and now they take on an Ealing side riding high with only one defeat from their 16 outings and boasting the league's highest points and try scoring tallies.
"We will have to work hard but we have to be realistic,” said Newbury's director of rugby Andy Widdop.
"Our aim is to try to get four tries out of it, although now I think that teams are going out there with the first plan to win against us and a second of making sure we don't get four tries."
Blues hope to have skipper Martin Freeman, scrum half Andy Gale and lock Jack Taggart back in action after all three missed out at Richmond. Freeman has been suffering from knee trouble and Gale with glandular fever.
Iain Herriott misses out however, and it will also be a final Blues appearance for winger Johan Knapp, who is off to university in South Africa.