NICK Scott, Sonny Parker and Mitch Lees are the only players to keep their place in the London Welsh side for today’s game at Pontypridd  (2.30).
 

Head coach Justin Burnell has again made wholesale changes to his side for the British & Irish Cup trip to Wales, with 12 changes from the team that lost to London Scottish last week.
 

Scott and ex-Ponty centre Sonny Parker keep their places in the backs, but otherwise it’s all change with Seb Jewell, Seb Stegmann, James Lewis and Gordon Ross all returning to the side.
 

Chris Cook wears the No 9 jersey.
 

Lees is the only forward survivor from last week, although he moves from lock to the back row.
 

Burnell returns to his former club in the week Ponty announced that head coach Dale McIntosh is leaving to join Cardiff Blues.
 

Today’s meeting will the first between the sides since the 1993/94 season when Welsh won 23-7 at Old Deer Park.
 

It will be the tenth clash between the clubs, with Pontypridd edging the head-to-head five wins to the Exiles’ four.

It will be the tenth clash between the clubs, with Pontypridd edging the head-to-head five wins to the Exiles’ four.

TODAY’S TEAMS

Pontypridd: Walsh, O Jenkins, Dacey, Lockyer, Nuthall, Humberstone, T Williams, Howe, R Williams, K Jenkins, Locke, Dicomidis (capt), E Jenkins, Young, Godfrey. Reps: L Williams, Flanagan, Thomas, Dowden, Shellard, Cook, Phillips.

London Welsh: Jewell, Stegmann, J Lewis, Parker, Scott, Ross, Cook, Hepburn, Titterrell, Edwards, Corker (capt), P Browne, Lees, Kirwan, D Browne. Reps: Davis, Trevett, Tideswell, Stedman, Thorpe, Davies, Awcock.