From the match programme:-
" "South Wales Echo" reporter Brian Wall, in his notes last Saturday, nominated Newport as the most consistently successful Welsh club since the war, and the fact that they have lost only 137 matches in 17 seasons - an average of only 8 defeats per season - would indicate that the nomination is 100% correct."
"Cross Keys contributed just three to that figure of 137 defeats, the last occasion being in 1947/48, but results such as 0-3, 5-5. 11-11, 5-8, 3-5, 5-8, 0-0 and 8-9 show that Newport have not always found it easy to win."
"Newport's XV shows only one change from that which beat Penarth 29-6 on Saturday - John Uzzell replacing G. Britton at centre. In our XV, Roger Beese and Mel Edwards come in and Ian Bowen makes a welcome re-appearance at scrum half in the continued absence of Cliff Williams."
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