Ospreys Vs Treviso

First topic message reminder :

Ospreys

15 Richard Fussell
14 Hanno Dirksen
13 Andrew Bishop
12 Ashley Beck
11 Shane Williams
10 Dan Biggar
9 Kahn Fotuali'i

1 Paul James
2 Richard Hibbard
3 Adam Jones
4 Alun Wyn Jones (Capt)
5 Ian Evans
6 Ryan Jones
7 Justin Tipuric
8 Joe Bearman

Replacements:

16 Scott Baldwin
17 Ryan Bevington
18 Aaron Jarvis
19 James King
20 Tom Smith
21 Rhys Webb
22 Matthew Morgan
23 Tom Isaacs

The following players were not considered because of injury:

George Stowers - Neck
Jonathan Thomas - Illness
Huw Bennett - Achilles
Duncan Jones - Medial ligament
Will Price - ACL
Cai Griffiths - Arm
Richard Kelly - Wrist
Ben John - Groin
Gareth Owen - ACL
Nikki Walker - ACL



Treviso

15 Kristopher Burton
14 Tommaso Benvenuti
13 Tommaso Iannone
12 Alberto Sgarbi
11 Ludovico Nitoglia
10 Alberto Di Bernardo
9 Edoardo Gori
8 Manoa Vosawai
7 Alessandro Zanni
6 Francesco Minto
5 Corniel Van Zyl
4 Antonio Pavanello (captain)
3 Lorenzo Cittadini
2 Enrico Ceccato
1 Michele Rizzo

On the bench:

16 Franco Sbaraglini
17 Matteo Muccignat
18 Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet
19 Valerio Bernabò
20 Gonzalo Padrò
21 Marco Filippucci
22 Fabio Semenzato
23 Luke McLean

What a try for Isaacs!!!!

39 - 10.

Great try, that is more like it, well done Shane great interplay.

Turning into a pretty good win for the boys! Not many teams have put 40 past Treviso this season. Quite happy with this!

Tandy, I'm a believer!

Morgs on for Biggar now.

4 mins for Morgan!

Cari incidents on aircraft more often than not end up in court.

Jebus! AWJ should've got over then, that was screaming for a try!

The Ospreys gone up 3 gears, push over coming up?

Treviso down to 13 men, and one poor bhugger has to limp his way to the bin.

No, should have a proper 8 like R Jones

FT 41 - 10. Great win lads.

Now I'm off to concentrate on the Irish derby - it's a great game by the looks.

Cari, I think Gav is still a really good player. Blues haven't managed their team well though which limited his chances. He has been behind Parks and Sweeney all season FFS. I'm sure Ospreys and Dragons would be willing to take him, or an English Premiership team.

Good win in the end with the first bonus point for 4 tries all season! Hope they hit form and keep it going.

Good win. Agree 100% with Adam Jones MOTM, how many tackles did he make?

Hibbard, Tipuric, Biggar and Beck all had great games too

So what actually is this new Gavin Henson rumour?

The commentator mentioned there was in incident on the plane with him involved as the Blues were flying home.

glamorganalun wrote:Beauty and the beast!

Dont call Tommy a beast Cari will rip your lungs out...!

oxring wrote:So what actually is this new Gavin Henson rumour?

From the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17575844

Tommy is a beast, but in a sexy way

Ospreys in try bonus point win shocker! Just got back and what a excelent win. Been waiting for that all season. Dan Big, RyanJ, Dirksen and Beck (again) all had stormers. Tandy & co have def got something going on with this team. Well done lads!

Btw..We all went nuts when we finally got our first tbp, my 5 yr old cacked himself and burst into tears. Poor lad..

I'm no fan of Biggar but he has played very well most of the season and the last two weeks he has really stood out, possible inclusion back in the Welsh camp on the cards?

Good Game... Biggar has really pulled his finger out and is playing a 200% better.

Agree (omg!) He's improved alot recently. Coincides with Johnson, Holley leaving. Thats wierd? He seems more relaxed on the ball and not to pressured into kicking the ball away all the time, making more breaks/running with it.

Breadvan wrote: Agree (omg!) He's improved alot recently. Coincides with Johnson, Holley leaving. Thats wierd? He seems more relaxed on the ball and not to pressured into kicking the ball away all the time, making more breaks/running with it.

i agree, I am very happy to see it too. Hopefully he can start living up to the early potential he showed

indeed OMG!
His tackling and ripping the ball away has looked more like a class player rather than a kicking machine.

Cheers Cari!

Biggar indeed had a good game. Stood a little deeper and came onto the ball as well. V nice to see.

Maybe a home play-off isn't so unbelievable after all.

Breadvan wrote:Ospreys in try bonus point win shocker! Just got back and what a excelent win. Been waiting for that all season. Dan Big, RyanJ, Dirksen and Beck (again) all had stormers. Tandy & co have def got something going on with this team. Well done lads!

Btw..We all went nuts when we finally got our first tbp, my 5 yr old cacked himself and burst into tears. Poor lad..

Get used to it, as you'll get another in 3 weeks v the Dragons if we play like we did last night. I'll be there though. Looking forward to it.

Good to hear of a few of the Welsh guys playing well too. Well done Ospreys

For me it is the best I have seen Biggar play all season or even longer, but his first instint is to kick and I felt he did not control the game in the second quarter of the second half allowing Treviso to dominate the game in this period. I don't know what is going on with Bishop, he is hardly in the game but the rest of the team had a good game.

Okay yeah, I'll admit Biggar played well. He is still kicking away too much posession though. Maybe he thinks POC or Matfield is playing at 2nd row for the Ospreys. IMO, you need to play more conservative and let the forwards do everything because the best backs aren't being picked and they often make the wrong calls. Time to limit their posession. Beck is a brilliant player but surrounded by mediocre backs. Let the pack bust up your remaining opponents and desperately needed tries shall come.

Risca:

I hope the dragons play Tovey as he usually out plays Biggar home or away, I suspect the Ospreys may put out a strong pack to prevent the Dragons getting much ball. I suspect the Dragons game will be much closer than this game today (I hope).

He looks a different player right now. Might actually play better than Tovey...?

viewtothegym wrote:I'm no fan of Biggar but he has played very well most of the season and the last two weeks he has really stood out, possible inclusion back in the Welsh camp on the cards?

Actually he has been simply awful all season, it's only the last 2 weeks he has hit any kind of form.

Great win by the boys though, though I was so angry I was ready to kill someone during the game. Firstly I contacted the Ospreys club shop during the week to get our free tickets printed out, which I was assured was done and waiting for us, when I finally got there I was speaking to some young girl in the office with long dark hair who has about as much intelligence as a cabbage, she told me they weren't printed and she couldn't find them. Which irritated me to say the least.

All during the Glasgow game I had an annoying kid kicking me, he had sat behind my brother in law most of the season and kicked him, but now he has moved behind me and I had to turn round and give him a row last time, but this week he did the same thing again all game in the first half. His dad who sat next to him didn't seem to care, the kid then sprayed us with a bottle of Sprite, evetually I was close to snapping and moved one row forward but spent half the second half glaring behind me at the Dad, who seemed to get more panicky and eventually left the ground, with the son, the mum and other kids went a few minutes later and a safety announcement went up a few minutes from the end with stewards all around our area, staring at me and my 2 brother in laws.
I think that guy made the right choice he'll never know how close I was to ripping his throat out. It's a pity really you go there to see a game and be entertained. and it's spolied by a poor parent can't control their kids and let them kick and hit people and then throw pop over them.

Alyn - I had a similar situation at the MS for the RWC semi. Me and my friend were sat in the seats on the second tier and behind us was a woman with three kids. The kids had flags and kept waving them and hitting me in the head/face in the process blocking my view not to mention annoying me. I had to keep looking in the same direction as well to watch the big screen. This went on for ages, and I couldn't tell off someone else's kids could I? Thankfully though, Mike Phillips scored, everyone jumps up to celebrate and one of the kids with the flag goes flying and starts crying so his mother had to take him away. Karma. I do wish that people would control their kids a little bit. They wouldn't let them do it in a cinema or theatre would they?

Cari wrote:Alyn - I had a similar situation at the MS for the RWC semi. Me and my friend were sat in the seats on the second tier and behind us was a woman with three kids. The kids had flags and kept waving them and hitting me in the head/face in the process blocking my view not to mention annoying me. I had to keep looking in the same direction as well to watch the big screen. This went on for ages, and I couldn't tell off someone else's kids could I? Thankfully though, Mike Phillips scored, everyone jumps up to celebrate and one of the kids with the flag goes flying and starts crying so his mother had to take him away. Karma. I do wish that people would control their kids a little bit. They wouldn't let them do it in a cinema or theatre would they?

Funnily enough it's normally a woman and 3 kids who are behind us and sometimes the father. We obviously wouldn't say anything with the mother present as 3 big blokes in their 30's picking on 3 kids and a woman would be awful, but a dad is a different matter. He should of stopped it. Still if it happens against the Dragons and it kicks off at least I won't lose anything off my season ticket, because that's the last home game!