Ospreys v Scarlets - Bonfire Night, (Saturday 05/11/11) BOOM!

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Liberty Stadium, Swansea. Kick off 6.30 pm. Live on S4C from 6:10pm. Match coverage repeated from 9:00am on S4C Sunday 06/11/11.

Roll up! Roll up! It's the West Wales derby Part One - can the Scarlets beat the Ospreys for the first time at the Liberty since 2007 or will the Ospreys determination to make up for the loss they incurred last week in the Rabo spoil the Scarlets party? Their previous meetings have looked like this:

27/12/10 Ospreys 60 - 17 Scarlets
02/10/10 Scarlets 18 - 21 Ospreys
02/04/10 Ospreys 27 - 19 Scarlets

It should be a very exciting encounter, and I can't wait to be there Let the banter begin!

OSPREYS
15 Richard Fussell
14 Tommy Bowe
13 Andrew Bishop
12 Ashley Beck
11 Eli Walker
10 Dan Biggar
9 Kahn Fotuali'i

1 Duncan Jones
2 Richard Hibbard
3 Cai Griffiths
4 Alun Wyn Jones (Capt)
5 Ian Evans
6 Joe Bearman
7 Justin Tipuric
8 Jonathan Thomas

Replacements:

16 Huw Bennett
17 Ryan Bevington
18 Aaron Jarvis
19 Ryan Jones
20 Tom Smith
21 George Stowers
22 Rhys Webb
23 Shane Williams

REFEREE: Mathieu Raynal (FFR)
Assistant Referees: Neil Hennessy, Jon Mason (both WRU)
Citing Commissioner : Richard Gwynn (WRU)
TMO: Tony Rowlands (WRU)

SCARLETS
15 Daniel Evans
14 Liam Williams
13 Adam Warren
12 Scott Williams
11 Sean Lamont
10 Stephen Jones
9 Tavis Knoyle

1 Iestyn Thomas
2 Matthew Rees (capt)
3 Rhys Thomas
4 Dominic Day
5 Damian Welch
6 Aaron Shingler
7 Rob McCusker
8 Ben Morgan.

Replacements:

Ken Owens
Phil John
Rhodri Jones
Sione Timani
Richie Pugh
Rhodri Williams
Jon Davies
George North.

PS: There will also be a Food Fair that will get underway at 4.00pm ahead of kick off. The food suppliers confirmed for the event including Gower Cottage Brownies, La Crème Patisserie, Swansea Hog Roast, the Waffle Trailer and Welsh Premium Burgers, giving fans a real taste of Wales ahead of the big match. YUMMO!!

I'm sure your excitement is infectious. I haven't been able to persuade Mrs G that our fifth wedding anniversary should be spent at the Liberty though.

Not trying hard enough Glas! Tell her you're both going out for a meal - a hog roast, but it's a surprise. Then just get to the Liberty!

I thought you were talking about Bowe and Schlong going to see you later...

But I imagine as long as the meats good you won't care Cari

Scarlets have a good chance of getting a victory at the Liberty, should be a good game.

Cari behave....

Glas a Du - or you could take Cari's lead and tell your missus you're taking her out for a spit roast!

LOL

It should be a cracking game. I hope it doesn't rain though.

Cari wrote: Not trying hard enough Glas! Tell her you're both going out for a meal - a hog roast, but it's a surprise. Then just get to the Liberty!

That may have worked, but just realised I'm duty Solicitor in Llanelli tomorrow, no chance of a swap this late. I'll be in the dog house and it wont be because I went to see the rugby! Guaranteed I get a call out during the match now and all just to put a tin hat on it!

The sides look pretty closely matched, should be a cracker.

Yep. Hopefully unlike the "Fever in the Aviva...er" there will be two sides trying to play a bit of rugby, weather permitting.

Glas - Awh bummer about work. Sod's Law your phone would go off just when Wellies' taking a kick as well!

God I'm dreading car parking for this one.
My brother in law doesnt finish work till 4:30, and we wont leave till 5:00!
Kick off is at 18:30 so I have no idea where I'm going to park my car!

Alyn - did you see the announcement on the O's webpage about parking as well?

I'm getting a lift down, and we're leaving Cardiff at about four.

Cari wrote:Alyn - did you see the announcement on the O's webpage about parking as well?

I'm getting a lift down, and we're leaving Cardiff at about four.

Yes hun that's why I'm panicking!
I normally park in the park and ride, but ideally you'd need to be there at 16:30 to get a space, my brother in law wont be leaving work until 16:30, and were driving from Porthcawl so you can imagine the problem we are going to have!
Worse case scenario is I will hyave to drop the lads out and drive round trying to find a space until the game finishes :'(

While I'm here can all turks please refrain from mentioning the following tomorrow night:

mergers
plastic
henson
fake tans
gell
16 men
postponing games
tai bach club falling down
doggin in laybyes
urinating in streets when arguing with charlotte
punching frineds on trains with your plastercast
court appeals x infinity
constantly dissing turks publically through officials of your club
kissing pavements outside cardiff mc dees
hc semi finals
biarritz
sarries
munster
the lyn jones golden era
your next xmas do venue taking place in a lead lined room
neath rfc
how much more suited your crowd is to the brewery field

AlynDavies wrote:While I'm here can all turks please refrain from mentioning the following tomorrow night:

mergers
plastic
henson
fake tans
gell
16 men
postponing games
tai bach club falling down
doggin in laybyes
urinating in streets when arguing with charlotte
punching frineds on trains with your plastercast
court appeals x infinity
constantly dissing turks publically through officials of your club
kissing pavements outside cardiff mc dees
hc semi finals
biarritz
sarries
munster
the lyn jones golden era
your next xmas do venue taking place in a lead lined room
neath rfc
how much more suited your crowd is to the brewery field

But we can still mention Galacticos right?

wales606 wrote:But we can still mention Galacticos right?

Talk about Real Madrid all you want...

AlynDavies wrote:While I'm here can all turks please refrain from mentioning the following tomorrow night:

mergers
plastic
henson
fake tans
gell
16 men
postponing games
tai bach club falling down
doggin in laybyes
urinating in streets when arguing with charlotte
punching frineds on trains with your plastercast
court appeals x infinity
constantly dissing turks publically through officials of your club
kissing pavements outside cardiff mc dees
hc semi finals
biarritz
sarries
munster
the lyn jones golden era
your next xmas do venue taking place in a lead lined room
neath rfc
how much more suited your crowd is to the brewery field

Petty Dan Biggar temper tantrums?

been on the Scarlet Fever website much Alyn??

how much more suited your crowd is to the brewery field

Classic!

Fotuali(sp) looks awful - why was Webb dropped when he outplayed Fotuali last week?

Absolutely gutted. Cari, thanks for sending me the link. It works, but they're showing the Ulster game

Ospreys taking the Munster approach - Scarlets scrum is dominant and their backs are better, but the Ospreys are contesting every breakdown - most illegally.

Lol nice one 606, keep the updates coming. Sat in Pittsburgh and wanted to see this one

Sounds like there are more Scarlets than Ospreys in the crowd.

Still 0 - 0 at 21 mins (not a bad game though)

1 missed penalty a piece, Jones missed an easy one.

Stephen Jones - YELLOW CARD - Dangerous (Warburton) Tackle.

Ospreys 3 - 0 Scarlets

You thought Mike Phillips couldnt pass...Fotuali'i has the passing ability of a prop forward.

Hey I was a prop lol

I can't understand why we dropped Webb, thought he'd been playing well?

Neither can I, Webb was brilliant - If Fotuali'i starts in the HC then is will be ridiculous.

Scarlets pressing on the Ospreys line, Morgan almost breaks through.

Tipuric playing the ball on the floor - YELLOW CARD.

Ospreys look poor at the moment.

Dan Evans to take the penalty.

Awful decision for the Tipuric yellow. Said he was off his feet, but replays suggest he was on them. Bizarre!

Awful kick

Ospreys stay infront

Griff wrote:Awful decision for the Tipuric yellow. Said he was off his feet, but replays suggest he was on them. Bizarre!

To be fair, the Ospreys should have been pinged a few times at the breakdown.

I think he gets picked on. He get penalised all the time for no apparant reason!!!!

Stephen Jones back on. Ospreys penalty in the 22 - Easy 3pts turned down by Fotuali'i, almost works - But Ian Evans isnt the best at running the touchline.

AWJ steals the lineout and almost goes over. Held up I think.

Ospreys dominating the scrum

Ball knocked on by Fotuali'i at the base (awful...just awful) now its a Scarlets scrum, could easily have been 5/7pts for the Ospreys though.

Good to see we're using our NWQ quote responsibly

Correction, Ospreys scrum (dont know how? :/)

Keeps getting reset

TBJ9625 wrote:Good to see we're using our NWQ quote responsibly

Fotuali'i and Jamie Nutbrown - 2 quality NWQ SHs.

Scarlets earn the penalty (ospreys holding on in the ruck) and can clear their lines - Opportunity wasted by the Ospreys.

FFS!!!!! Do you think Hore has an agreement to take naff SH's playing in NZ???

Dont think either was a yellow

Fotuali'i falls over.

Dan Biggar attempts DG - Charged down by Matthew Rees who runs half the pitch to chip it on before Biggar gets back - Unfortunetly its too far infront of L.Williams and goes into touch.

HALFTIME

Ospreys 3 - 0 Scarlets

Smirnoffpriest wrote:Dont think either was a yellow

Stephen Jones was, didnt see Tipurics.

Wasnt that a knock on by fussell b4 the ball was kickd into touch

Smirnoffpriest wrote:Wasnt that a knock on by fussell b4 the ball was kickd into touch

Either way, its halftime

Nothing like a high scoring local derby

Game restarts....

3 - 3

As much as I hate to say it Stephen should have seen red for that tackle.


Ospreys fans give your SH a break he's only been here a short while. He'll take a bit to get bed in. He was pure quality at the RWC