Why is Priestland kicking when Jones is also playing?

Priestland has a shocking accuracy rate.

In fairness, you could have saved a few tenths of a seconds worth of typing by going with, "Why is Priestland kicking?"

Stephen Jones is only covering at 12 because Jonathan Davies had to pull out last minute. To be fair to Priestland, it's not his fault that the ball hits the post.

Twice. Plus the others.

Meh Stephen ain't so great himself

Priestland was shocking again, the Scarlets were causing a lot of problems running and offloading but Priestland kept kicking the ball away and badly even S Jones looked discussed a few times with his aimless kicking.

Fenby stood out from a good overall performance of the team, I thought S Jones played very well making up for the poor 10 next to him. They still missed J Davies but who would not. Shame they did not get the BP as they may regret missing out on a top 4 finish.

Or maybe the reason Priestland kept kicking it away was because a) that was the game plan, b) he had S Jones and Nick Reynolds outside of him...

Fenby looks good though.

The reason the Scarlets didnt get their bonus point was more to do with Reynolds inability to hold a pass, he dropped three or four critical passes.

Blimey, that must have been a shocking performance by the Scarlets against a side that is history. They've blown it.

Priestland looks lost these days.

Cari wrote:Stephen Jones is only covering at 12 because Jonathan Davies had to pull out last minute. To be fair to Priestland, it's not his fault that the ball hits the post.

Thats a new one I have to admit...whos is it then?

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Hahahahaha dearie me. Women should stop watching sport.

Morgannwg wrote:Hahahahaha dearie me. Women should stop watching sport.

What other grounds should we use to exclude?

Race?
Religion?
Sexual Persuasion?
Age?
Users of fake tan?
People from reality shows?
Height?
People of above average intelligence?
People of below average intelligence?

Morgannwg wrote:Hahahahaha dearie me. Women should stop watching sport.

I'm looking forward to you explaining that comment a bit further Morg

I have a feeling that Morgs may have had a few of the Sunday 's

But agree about Cari, she only watches rugby for the meer chance of an up-short sighting of Tommy Bowe

I thought that was why Owens and Barnes ref

LondonTiger wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:Hahahahaha dearie me. Women should stop watching sport.

What other grounds should we use to exclude?

Race?
Religion?
Sexual Persuasion?
Age?
Users of fake tan?
People from reality shows?
Height?
People of above average intelligence?
People of below average intelligence?

Aww shoite.......

Thats you gone then rodders?

fake tan usage??

I suppose it excludes a few South Africans as well then, but not for fake tan.

Not much sun in these parts Billy.

roddersm wrote:Not much sun in these parts Billy.

you guys are lucky, at least you will be excluded for something superficial like fake tan, us ...er...well, other things will come into question

Are you trying to look like Henson rodders?

Wannabe Henson fanboy

I Gav .

roddersm wrote:I Gav .

Rodders, you are an Irishman, pull yourself together.

I will Biltong... as soon as I fix my hair .

If Ruan Pienaar and his countrymen heard about this, they will make an about face and join the injury ridden Lions.

roddersm wrote:I Gav .

In a manly sort of way i gather

In every way Billy.... .

...you guys do realise I was joking about the fake tan?....... I use a sunbed.....

Just as fake.

rodders Sexual Persuasion may have to come into question now as well

biltongbek wrote:

Is it just me or does that smiley look like someone chocking on a pair of blue testicals?

....... So anyways, Why is Priestland Kicking if Jones is playing?....

LondonTiger wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

Is it just me or does that smiley look like someone chocking on a pair of blue testicals?

Feic, i just spat me coffee

Because he is a world class player

No really

He is

eirebilly wrote:

LondonTiger wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

Is it just me or does that smiley look like someone chocking on a pair of blue testicals?

Feic, i just spat me coffee

It's not funny.

They're green.

More to the point, why is Priestland staying and Jones leaving?

With his Wales commitments Priestland is only available for at the most 50% of the Scarlets games. If Jones stayed he would be available for all of them. Can the Scarlets afford to pay the wages of a player who actually spends most of his time playing for another team?

Jones may not be Lions first choice any more but yesterday he looked a better player than Priestland.

If Jones stayed for 2 years he could be used to bring on a couple of new young West Wales 10s such as Jordan Williams, or Sam Davies or Steve Shingler.

The one bit of sense that has come out from Peter Thomas of the Blues is that the elephant in the room in Welsh rugby is the regional rugby busineses pay the wages of the National team players and then have to hold out the begging bowl to get some cash returns. Without the regions Wales would not have a team. look at what has happened to Wales football side!

Wasps could still go down!

Not a great move by the Count.

Scarlets didn't offer Stevo a new playing contract, we only offered him a coaching one (which he declined as he still wants to play rugby)

Sam Davies is in the O's academy, not a Scarlet. Shingler is with London Irish, not a Scarlet so how could Stevo help develop those two anyways?

rugbydreamer wrote:Scarlets didn't offer Stevo a new playing contract, we only offered him a coaching one (which he declined as he still wants to play rugby)

Sam Davies is in the O's academy, not a Scarlet. Shingler is with London Irish, not a Scarlet so how could Stevo help develop those two anyways?

I am fully aware that both Sam Davies and Steve Shingler play for other clubs. I am also aware that Shingler is an ex Scarlet and his brother plays for thye region (he also has no chance of playing for Scotland now so a plan B is needed), Sam was brought up just a stones throw from PYS (in Gowerton) and is the son of the current Coach. For either of them, an oportunity to be groomed as Jones successor at the Scarlets? They would jump at the chance!

If Shings would jump at the chance Seagul, he'd never have left.

And I don't think Sam can play for the Scarlets, certainly not for a couple of years at least anyways as he's tied up in the O's academy, and even then it's not guaratneed he'd come in and play for us. Would be v tricky with Nige being his dad.

I agree it would be difficult for Sam with Nigel as the coach but as a professional rugby player he needs to do what is best for his career.

I disagree on Shingler though, it is clear that the guy is ambitious. When he left the Scarlets he was behind, Jones, Priestland and Newton at 10 and a host of players at centre and full back. If he was offered the chance to come back to be groomed as no 1 fly half, do you really think he would not jump at the chance?

Dreamer - I don't think Nigel would ever really want Sam in the team purely down to the family ties.

As for Shingler junior, I think he is getting paid pretty well in LI, and will most likley not want to be at any region right now unless they would be matching his money.


What I really struggle with on here is that there are huge amounts of folk moaning about our international players leaving, and the way welsh rugby will suffer for the internationals leaving etc etc. And then there are folk on here wanting the internationals to leave so that the older heads can develope more young players, who will become internationals, and then be moving on too.

Priestland may well spend a while away with the welsh squad next season, however surely Jordan Williams (Newton, O Wiliams too) will get more game time, and experience if Steve isn't at the Scarlets than they would if he were there.

ScarletSpiderman wrote:
What I really struggle with on here is that there are huge amounts of folk moaning about our international players leaving, and the way welsh rugby will suffer for the internationals leaving etc etc. And then there are folk on here wanting the internationals to leave so that the older heads can develope more young players, who will become internationals, and then be moving on too.

Priestland may well spend a while away with the welsh squad next season, however surely Jordan Williams (Newton, O Wiliams too) will get more game time, and experience if Steve isn't at the Scarlets than they would if he were there.

Yeah. They are moaning and saying players should go to France. that's madness. Scarlets improvement is down to them bringing through their own guys from the academy and Premiership. I think the other 3 need to follow their example as the big names there are staying loyal to the Region. I think the main issue is NWQ players taking up spots. Sometimes it is necessary but the ones complaining should complain about this issue before calling for our big name players to go overseas.

BTW, I think Sam Davies is a terrible player. That Jordan Williams looked much better though.

Morg - I wouldn't be too suprised to see the Scarlets welsh stars head off to pastures new in a few years (providing there is still money to be made abroad), the only real difference is our 'stras' seem to all be younger and have played together for a while so its more loyalty to each other, and being young, as opposed to loyalty to the region IMO

"Scarlets' improvement is down to them bringing on their own guys..."

Hang on a minute. They are mid-table in the league and non-challengers in the Heineken. Again.

Yes, they are providing some great young players to the national team, but as a team they are second-tier.

What is happening this year is that the gap between Ospreys and Scarlets is closing by the Ospreys getting worse. The major reason is that they lost half a dozen international quality players.

It is quite possible that next year the O's will sind further and there will be no top tier club team in Wales.

How can that be good?