Blues Suffer Laulala Injury Blow

Lock Deiniol Jones (back) and Xaxier Rush (neck) are on the bench, but Ben Blair, Gethin Jenkins and Tom Shanklin are all out injured.

Blair is still out with a knee injury, while Gethin Jenkins is recovering from an operation on his toe and Tom Shanklin recovering from knee surgery.

Laulala has been ruled out for up to three weeks after picking up the injury in the Blues 23-7 defeat to Harlequins in the LV= Cup.

The Blues are also missing Wales internationals Bradley Davies, Leigh Halfpenny, Jamie Roberts, Sam Warburton and John Yapp are all on Six Nations duty.

Chris Czekaj has also been called into the squad, while outside-half Dan Parks is with the Scotland squad.

But Scott Andrews returns from the Welsh squad to start in the front row.

The Blues go into the match, occupying the fourth and last play-off spot in the Magners League and a win on Friday will take them up to second.

They face a struggling Glasgow side, who are down in 10th, but the Blues have just won once on the road in all competitions in their last five attempts.
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Glasgow: Ryan Grant, Fergus Thomson, Ed Kalman, Aly Muldowney, Tom Ryder, Robert Harley, Calum Forrester, Johnnie Beattie, Colin Gregor, Duncan Weir, DTH van der Merwe, Peter Murchie, Federico Aramburu, Bernardo Stortoni, Hefin O'Hare
Replacements: Finlay Gillies, Kevin Tkachuk, Jon Welsh, Chris Fusaro, Ryan Wilson, Henry Pyrgos, Peter Horne, Colin Shaw

Cardiff Blues: Dan Fish; Richard Mustoe, Gavin Evans, Dafydd Hewitt, Tom James; Ceri Sweeney, Tom Slater; Tafa'ao Filse, T Rhys Thomas, Scott Andrews, Bryn Griffiths, Paul Tito (c), Andries Pretorius, Martyn Williams, Ma'ama Molitika
Replacements: Gareth Williams, Sam Hobbs, Nathan Trevett, Deiniol Jones, Xavier Rush, Rhys Downes, Lewis Williams, James Loxton.

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A big blow for the Blues having Casey out, but this side should be good enough to overcome a struggling Glasgow side surely?

How right you were. Watched this game, not the greatest, but plenty of endeavour, one of your centre's looked good but the other is out of his depth. Big question is how can a side coached by a renowned front row expert have such poor props? Even at full strength the quality is poor.
This was nevertheless a good win and keeps the Blues right in the mix for the playoffs, and if Leinster progress in the Heineken their focus will change.
Glasgow, in the 1/4s of the playoffs last season have regressed alarmingly, Edinburgh have sacked their coach, how long can the glasgow guy last?

Good win Blues