Why is Priestland kicking when Jones is also playing?

Taylorman wrote:

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?

Cari wrote:

But hey, as Billy and Morgannwg suggested, what the feck would I know, I am afterall only a woman and should stay in the kitchen where I belong (thanks for reminding me guys, I'm such an airhead, I forget where the kitchen is....)

samuraidragon wrote:
"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?

Just a few seasons ago we finished behind the Dragons and everyone was claiming the Region was going to fold.
In a few short years the team has progressed to an Amlin QF from a group where they were the 4th ranked team, reached the QF of the LV= using the 2nd string team to develop and are still in with a chance of making the play offs in the league.
All this on top of providing almost a full back line to the National team and incidently loosing 3 of the first 4 choice Hookers during a large chunk of the league program, with the changes ND has had to make to his seasons planning due to unexpected call ups I personally think he has done a fantastic job to keep them in contention in the league at all.

2nd Tier ? I suppose that depends on how you define second tier and how many tiers you believe their are in 1st class rugby

Is that good? Its good enough for me as I will be renewing my season ticket within the next week and looking forward to seeing players like Jordan Williams amongst others come through next year the same way as North, S Williams and L Williams have recently.

Cari wrote:But hey, as Billy and Morgannwg suggested, what the feck would I know, I am afterall only a woman and should stay in the kitchen where I belong (thanks for reminding me guys, I'm such an airhead, I forget where the kitchen is....) How dare I suggest that players are human and have off-days or maybe affected by other things?

2ndtimeround wrote:

samuraidragon wrote:
"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?

Just a few seasons ago we finished behind the Dragons and everyone was claiming the Region was going to fold.
In a few short years the team has progressed to an Amlin QF from a group where they were the 4th ranked team, reached the QF of the LV= using the 2nd string team to develop and are still in with a chance of making the play offs in the league.
All this on top of providing almost a full back line to the National team and incidently loosing 3 of the first 4 choice Hookers during a large chunk of the league program, with the changes ND has had to make to his seasons planning due to unexpected call ups I personally think he has done a fantastic job to keep them in contention in the league at all.

2nd Tier ? I suppose that depends on how you define second tier and how many tiers you believe their are in 1st class rugby

Is that good? Its good enough for me as I will be renewing my season ticket within the next week and looking forward to seeing players like Jordan Williams amongst others come through next year the same way as North, S Williams and L Williams have recently.

2ndtimeround wrote:I actually find at PYS that there are more new people coming to watch each time another young player enters the 1st team, hearing fans talking in the stand regularly about which player is getting a 1st game or how well some of the youngsters in the regional clubs are doing.
I honestly believe the true fans prefer to see local boys playing that have grown up wanting to play for their team and that this will build a much more loyal and sustainable fan base.
It may take a few seasons for the regions to compete with the best in Europe again but is IMHO the best way forward for Welsh rugby.

ScarletSpiderman wrote:2nd time - another ditto here too.

When you know that the lads who are playing in your local village/town team's under 14/16/18s are being looked at by the Scarlets etc, it does definately make people more interested.