Blues v Ospreys

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Blues Team

15 Leigh Halfpenny 14 Owen Williams 13 Gavin Evans (c) 12 Dafydd Hewitt 11 Harry Robinson 10 Rhys Patchell 9 Lloyd Williams
1 Sam Hobbs 2 Marc Breeze 3 Scott Andrews 4 Filo Paulo 5 Lou Reed 6 Michael Paterson 7 Sam Warburton 8 Luke Hamilton

16 Kristian Dacey 17 Thomas Davies 18 Taufa'ao Filise 19 Robin Copeland 20 Rory Watts-Jones 21 Lewis Jones 22 Ceri Sweeney 23 Gareth Davies

Ospreys team

15 Richard Fussell
14 Tom Habberfield
13 Jonathan Spratt
12 Ashley Beck
11 Tom Isaacs
10 Dan Biggar
9 Kahn Fotuali'i
1 Ryan Bevington
2 Richard Hibbard
3 Adam Jones
4 Alun Wyn Jones (Capt)
5 Ian Evans
6 James King
7 Justin Tipuric
8 Jonathan Thomas

REPLACEMENTS
16 Scott Baldwin
17 Duncan Jones
18 Dmitri Arhip
19 Lloyd Peers
20 Joe Bearman
21 Rhys Webb
22 Matthew Morgan
23 Ben John

At Millennium Stadium, 5.15pm. Live on S4C Referee: Nigel Owens (WRU, 95th competition game) Assistant Referees: Ian Davies, Sean Brickell (both WRU) Citing Commissioner: Denis Jones (WRU) TMO: Nigel Whitehouse (WRU)

No luck... ! Wifi is awful here. Sort of household where they consider themselves academics and are disinterested in sport. My wife and I were at university with this couple.

I have always thought he was a wet blanket and now I am really starting to dislike him. When I asked if we could put the match on I was confronted by a "oh' you are not still in to sports are you, thought you would have matured from that many moons ago?", response typical of the majority of aresholes that attended my college.

Don't worry mate the game is dire, Nigel Owens is being so nit picky and ruining any chance of cohesion and flow in the game.

I'm bored stiff I got to be honest the Scarlets V Dragons game was much better.

Should be a tight win for the Ospreys, unless the Blues have a brain fart.

We could do with the points to get into the play offs, Ospreys need the Blues to roll over a bit...

Two more tries is almost a must right now...

Saying that Leinster have a six point lead on Ulster at the moment.

maestegmafia wrote:We could do with the points to get into the play offs, Ospreys need the Blues to roll over a bit...

Two more tries is almost a must right now...

7 points in it, 20 mins left and the Blues have been on top for quite a while now. I get the feeling either team could score a try. Hopefully it will be the Ospreys.

I see they just got another penalty

That bloody Halfoenny is a pain when he's not on your side...! Why did we ever let him leave the O's... Fussell is not the same.

Stupid stupid mistakes costing the Blues this game

How did Tipuric get away with those two steals at the end, the Blues were penalised on two occasions for doing the exactly same thing?

Seagultaf wrote:How did Tipuric get away with those two steals at the end, the Blues were penalised on two occasions for doing the exactly same thing?

Because he's Justin Tipuric. It's like a Chuck Norris thing.

maestegmafia wrote:I see they just got another penalty

That bloody Halfoenny is a pain when he's not on your side...! Why did we ever let him leave the O's... Fussell is not the same.

Fussell is good but naturally selfish just like Scott Williams.

Tipuric's scrapping on loose ball really helped the O's

Before the game I would have taken a LBP, but in the end, it was frustrating to see blues clumsy errors cost them the game.

Blues backrow won the breakdown battle which was a big positive

Blues scrum went surprisingly well, Scott Andrews really providing stability against Bevington - Nigel Owens certainly helped the Blues in the first half.

Blues lacked creativity in midfield which made a comeback win/draw very difficult

Both Patchell and Biggar had mixed games.

I'll happily take the win, It's harder for the Ospreys to beat the blues than it is for the Scarlets to beat the Dragons.

Both teams got non bonus point wins, so it means the Ospreys are still in the hunt.

t1000advancedprototype wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:I see they just got another penalty

That bloody Halfoenny is a pain when he's not on your side...! Why did we ever let him leave the O's... Fussell is not the same.

Fussell is good but naturally selfish just like Scott Williams.

He has done okay for the Ospreys but he is not as good as some ospreylians think. His lack of pace was exposed today yet again, for the Blues first try. And he always runs into contact and looks likely to lose the ball.

Both good games today. The attendance looked as if it increased for the last fixture. I would say Judgement Day has been successful . I hope it continues to grow.