Ospreys vs Gloucester LV=

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Ospreys vs Gloucester

Friday 9th November, KO 19.45 @ the Liberty Stadium


Ospreys Team:
15 Ross Jones, 14 Tom Grabham, 13 Ben John, 12 Jonathan Spratt, 11 Will Price, 10 Matthew Morgan, 9 Rhys Webb, 1 Marc Thomas, 2 Matthew Dwyer, 3 Joe Rees, 4 Lloyd Peers, 5 James King, 6 George Stowers, 7 Sam Lewis (Capt), 8 Morgan Allen

Replacements:
16 Scott Otten, 17 Nicky Smith, 18 Nicky Thomas, 19 Rhodri Hughes, 20 Arthur Ellis, 21 Tom Habberfield, 22 Sam Davies, 23 Nathan Edwards


Gloucester Team:
Martyn Thomas; Shane Monahan, Drew Locke, Tim Molenaar, Ian Clark; Tim Taylor, Dan Robson; Yann Thomas, Tommaso d'Apice, Dario Chistolini; Elliott Stooke, Will Graulich; Ross Moriarty, Matt Cox, Peter Buxton (capt)

Replacements:
Koree Britton, Dan Murphy, Tom Heard, Ed King, Ben Sparks, Dave Lewis, Billy Burns, Steph Reynolds

LordDowlais wrote:How frustrating was Rhys Webb tonight ? He takes an absolute age to get his back line going...

Hmmm...that sounds familiar doesn't it, Mike Phillips?

It was a very good game in terrible weather conditions. I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised for an LV Cup match. The London Welsh v Exeter Chiefs one is being shown on S4C tomorrow afternoon (from 3:50pm). Might have to give that a squiz. I haven't seen London Welsh yet either so I'm intrigued to see what Lyn's done with them.

Cari
LW come to Kingsholm soon.

Nice one Greg. You going to head over? Should be worth a look.

Cari,
LW are at Kingsholm next Saturday 4.30 KO.
Unfortunately I'm away in Brighton next weekend.
Glos host LW again 23rd March in the Jeff, so maybe you could also think about that one. x G

maestegmafia wrote:Morgan Allen at eight had a good game, but it was our hooker Dwyer, who is keeping Hibbards bench warm already this year, and his two young second row buddies Peers and King who grabbed me.

I wasn't too impressed with the hooker myself mate. I saw some horrific line out throws, one bouncing off the front props shoulder! I saw him drop an up and under, I also saw him miss a few tackles. I think there is potential there but he has a lot to do before he's ready for the first team.

Morgan Allen is pretty tasty though I have seen him a few times in the Premiership and other games and he is pretty aggressive and gets stuck him. King we already know about he had some fantastic games last season.

Well done Ospreys. I really enjoyed the game and both sets of players showed great spirit in difficult conditions.

Great to see the youngsters playing for the shirt like that, encouraging for both sides.