HISTORY will be made on Saturday at Park Lane when Sedgley Park entertain for the first ever time one of the most illustrious names in British club rugby - London Welsh.

However, at 2.30pm the welcome mat will surely be pulled from under the Exiles' boots, as the Tigers set out to take at least four points from the game, in what is to all intents and purposes a must win game for both sides if they are to avoid National One's two relegation places.

"They've had a couple of good results recently, but we have been playing well too, we just haven't got the rewards our performances have deserved," said Tigers' player-coach, Tim Fourie.

"It all depends on the day, if the boys turn up wanting to play then I am confident we will have no problem beating them.

"But the likes of Welsh, Orrell, Nottingham and Henley at this stage of the season and because of where they are in the league will probably be harder to play than Exeter, Bristol or Plymouth.

"So by no stretch of the imagination is it going to be easy, they have won and they are doing better than earlier in the season, but it is a home game for us, we usually play better at home so I am quite confident we can get at least four points."

However, ahead of the kick-off Fourie has some selection decisions to make, with one in particular effecting the shape and composition of the whole back line.

"A lot depends on whether Richard Welding makes himself available to play," he said.

"He fractured his jaw a couple of weeks ago at Penzance and we thought he'd be out for at least six weeks, but the doctor has given him the go-ahead to play if he wants, as the fracture is healing well.

"Although he also said that if he suffered another big hit it would obviously increase the size of the fracture and put him out for the rest of the season.

"So it is down to Richard. If he is available then he would go straight back in for Ross Bullough; if he isn't available I have something of a selection dilemma.

"I have to decide whether to stick with Ross on the wing or put Jimmy Naylor out there and play Carlos Hassan and Ian Voortman in the centres.

"But there's a doubt over Jimmy's fitness and Danny McGee is also back in contention for at least a place on the bench."

Then there is the question of who starts at scrum-half.

"I have to decide whether to start with Chris Wilkinson or Dave McCormack," he said.

"Wilky has done a job for us throughout the season, while Macca has played well the last couple of games, but I don't want to change things too much.

One player who is unlikely to start is new second row/back row signing, Louiz Holtzhausen.

Having overcome fears or a recurrence of a back injury that saw him miss the tail-end of last summer's Currie Cup competition in South Africa, Big Louiz' has started the last three games on the bench, which is where he will probably start tomorrow's game.

"He is not fully fit yet, we all know that and he accepts it himself," said Fourie.

"We brought him in to be a presence in the tight and loose, but so far he has been doing too much hanging back

"So it may be a bit premature to put him in at Number 8 from the start, what I may do is give him a full second half tomorrow and talk to him about what I expect from him and what his job in the team is. We need him to be hitting rucks to be putting his size about."

Holtzhausen was one of the stars of the 64-3 Lancashire Cup Second Round win at Widnes last Sunday, although even that was not enough to impress Fourie.

"No disrespect to Widnes but we would have run in over 100 points if we had passed more.

"We must have thrown away six or seven tries because people were trying to score for themselves.

"But it did give people like Jan Lourens, Matt Collie and Louiz the chance to play a full 80 minutes."