Pro 12 Round 7 Edinburgh (the numpties) vs. Scarlets Murrayfield Friday 26th Oct KO 19h35

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Something tells me Murrayfiled will be even quieter than normal with a bitterly cold night forecast and a reasonable chance of snow.

As if our players playing so badly as to not even have scored a point in HC was reason enough to stay away.

Quite frankly I'd rather watch it at home on BBC Alba and not have to part with £20 for a ticket, £10 for my train fare and not have to get out of my onezie.

Also if we look rancid I can always go back to playing Skyrim.

Anyway here are the teams, with Bradley talking the talk and saying it's time to regnite the season.

“The PRO12 is really tight just now. All but the top and bottom teams are on two, three or four wins, so success can shoot you up the table very quickly. But we need to strike now.

“We know we have a lot of talent in our side and we know we’re a good rugby team, but we haven’t been able show it, so the key this week has been to focus on ourselves, and what we can control.”

Edinburgh
15 Greig Tonks
14 Lee Jones
13 Matt Scott
12 Nick De Luca
11 Tim Visser
10 Harry Leonard
9 Chris Leck

1 John Yapp
2 Andy Titterrell
3 Willem Nel
4 Grant Gilchrist
5 Sean Cox CAPTAIN
6 David Denton
7 Ross Rennie
8 Stuart McInally

Substitutes
16 Ross Ford
17 Robin Hislop
18 Lewis Niven
19 Robert McAlpine
20 Roddy Grant
21 Richie Rees
22 John Houston
23 Tom Brown


Scarlets :
15 Liam Williams
14 George North
13 Nick Reynolds
12 Scott Williams
11 Morgan Stoddart
10 Aled Thomas
9 Gareth Davies

1 Phil John
2 Matthew Rees
3 Samson Lee
4 Sione Timani
5 Tomas Vallejos
6 Aaron Shingler
7 Johnathan Edwards
8 Rob McCusker (capt)

Replacements:
16 Ken Owens
17 Shaun Hopkins
18 Deacon Manu
19 Richard Kelly
20 Kieran Murphy
21 Aled Davies
22 Rhys Priestland
23 Gareth Owen.

So are any of the phony tough or the crazy brave going to this one?

mmm dunno about that, Jones was pretty isolated

Line outs improved a lot

Foot the shooting in themselves are Scarlets - rearrange to make a well known phrase or saying

Scarlets missing lots of tackles as well - poor defence all round

There's the bonus point - but who knows if we'll win. A fair few errors in that try, but good finish from Davies

Edinburgh shoot themselves in the foot just before half time. Terrible kick with a minute on the clock, weak defence. Somehow managing to steal the ball before nocking it on meters out and giving the Scarlets a bonus point try on a plate

MacInally needs to come off, he's given away 2 tries!!! Bring on the Georgian!!

VodkaMinister - silly silly penalties. Chwarae teg though - TBP on the half-time whistle

GLove39 wrote:Edinburgh shoot themselves in the foot just before half time. Terrible kick with a minute on the clock, weak defence. Somehow managing to steal the ball before nocking it on meters out and giving the Scarlets a bonus point try on a plate

All came from yet another terrible lineout, Edinburgh have to sort that out its beyond a joke now!

Edinburgh are infuriatingly stupid. They have a lineout with a minute on the clock till half time with the scores tied. Do they hold onto the ball and see out the half no of course not

Yup Agree PembrokeCompost - we're giving away way too many penalties and silly ones at that (though some are harsh) and if we carry on we'll get a yellow card and it could lose us the game.

matt scott is having a good game!

Looks like our tackling hasn't improved since the 1st half

Tramptastic wrote:matt scott is having a good game!

Yeah he is, and we seem to be allergic to tackling him - he's dangerous though

Good boy Nel

Good refereeing! A lot of refs would have missed that

Just turned over from the dragons match, watched 2 mins and get the imression of a home ref.

I'm swearing at my screen - Davies goes in (on his feet) to jackal the ball, and as soon a burgh player knocks him off his feet the ref blows for sealing off?

Madness

Weird call by Edinburgh, I'd have kept scrummaging

Some weird decisions in the scrum as well

Preistland is no scrum half, he can't kick from there either.

That wouldn't be Scarlets fans gurning about the ref would it???



Never!!!!

Appalling play there by the scarlets/liam and given Burgh an easy 3 points

Nice to see a 7 playing for the scarlets for a change

Dragons are apparently getting hammered

Smirnoffpriest wrote:I'm swearing at my screen - Davies goes in (on his feet) to jackal the ball, and as soon a burgh player knocks him off his feet the ref blows for sealing off?

Madness

Ref did blow the whistle quickly but only because the player had grabbed the ball once off his feet. I initially thought the ref had been harsh to Scarlets, but upon seeing replay I think his decision was justified.

That is why I gave up on that game, they were cr*p.

Another amazingly bad kick from Priestland

Such poor decisions from the Scarlets and then really poor execution... Burgh are really poor but my moneys on them to win this!

bsando wrote:

Smirnoffpriest wrote:I'm swearing at my screen - Davies goes in (on his feet) to jackal the ball, and as soon a burgh player knocks him off his feet the ref blows for sealing off?

Madness

Ref did blow the whistle quickly but only because the player had grabbed the ball once off his feet. I initially thought the ref had been harsh to Scarlets, but upon seeing replay I think his decision was justified.

He had the ball when he was on his feet and got pushed to the floor while still grappling for the ball, soon as he hit the floor the ref blew!

Preistland is a complete waste of space, with luck the Welsh management is watching this game with their eyes open.

Glam

If the welsh management watched regional rugby J evans would be the starting 9 for wales!!!

Poor by Davies running away from support

Nearly caught the defence out mind, if the 14 had slipped or taken another step infeild he wouldve scored. It was poor to go into contact so high though.

That's a bit harsh GlamAL, though I agree his poor form/decision making is making me swear at the screen!

I can't believe how many points we've gifted to Burgh!

Scarlets, Blues and Dragons scrum are non existant... worrying times for Wales.

Great defence by Burgh but what was Gareth Davies thinking!??!

Smirnoffpriest wrote:

bsando wrote:

Smirnoffpriest wrote:I'm swearing at my screen - Davies goes in (on his feet) to jackal the ball, and as soon a burgh player knocks him off his feet the ref blows for sealing off?

Madness

Ref did blow the whistle quickly but only because the player had grabbed the ball once off his feet. I initially thought the ref had been harsh to Scarlets, but upon seeing replay I think his decision was justified.

He had the ball when he was on his feet and got pushed to the floor while still grappling for the ball, soon as he hit the floor the ref blew!

Nah I'm pretty sure he didn't have the ball when on his feet, but whatever, agree to disagree

FFS - Scarlets 'discipline' has been shocking and some real 'brain farts'from them as well. 30 minutes in the 2nd half an no penalties conceded by Edinburgh

glamorganalun wrote:Poor by Davies running away from support

Sounded like Scarlets best scrum half was having a good game up until this. Score?

thebluesmancometh wrote:Scarlets, Blues and Dragons scrum are non existant... worrying times for Wales.

We've pushed Edinburgh back in the scrum a few times - been penalised for it though admittedly...

Morgannwg wrote:

glamorganalun wrote:Poor by Davies running away from support

Sounded like Scarlets best scrum half was having a good game up until this. Score?

Do you ever get tired of repeating the same thing Morg?

The scarlets pack are weak in defence against the driving maul.

True - I def agree with that Glam AL

I switched on for the second half only, didn't see that.

Cant see the Scarlets winning now, theyre heads look down

34:23 and the Scarlets get their first penalty of the half

3700 at the game. Very poor attendence

ahhh Scott, awful pass. Good intensity though, brilliant steal by Rennie!

WOW what a turnover, dive on the wrong side off your feet, grab the ball then get up leaving everyone bemused!!!

I thought that was decent for a Scottish match in the depths of winter?