Ospreys V Saints Sun 12th Jan K.O 1245

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Os team;

15 Richard Fussell
14 Jeff Hassler
13 Tom Isaacs
12 Ashley Beck
11 Aisea Natoga
10 Dan Biggar
9 Rhys Webb

1 Ryan Bevington
2 Richard Hibbard
3 Aaron Javis
4 Alun Wyn Jones (Capt)
5 Ian Evans
6 Sam Lewis
7 Justin Tipuric
8 Joe Bearman

REPLACEMENTS

16 Scott Baldwin
17 Duncan Jones
18 Adam Jones
19 James King
20 Morgan Allen
21 Tom Habberfield
22 Sam Davies
23 Jonathan Spratt


Saints team TBC....

Bit of a dead rubber for the Ospreys but a strong team nontheless. Should be a cracker...

Rhys Webb is certainly headed for a Wales re-call, he's been showing good form again this season.

1 more try to go for Saints.

This is one of the reasons why I don't like the current TBP. The Saints are better off letting the Ospreys in so they can kick the ball back deep into the Ospreys half to get the chance for a try. It should be TBP for scoring 3 more tries than the opposition. IMO

& there it is! 2 mins for one more....

Yep there's the bp. Saints looking very tough this season. North us a monster

Can't you count, they got 3 tries not 4.

HammerofThunor wrote:This is one of the reasons why I don't like the current TBP. The Saints are better off letting the Ospreys in so they can kick the ball back deep into the Ospreys half to get the chance for a try. It should be TBP for scoring 3 more tries than the opposition. IMO

On the other hand if they let O's in it would have been 15-22 and the O's could have snaffled it.

3 tries ahead is crazy ambitous for any teams not playing Zebre or playing in poor conditions.

Well that's Saints out. No way are Ospreys going to beat Leinster by more than 4 even if Saints can get 5 from Castres.

The second half was much better than the first half, it is a shame the Ospreys did not start with the Jones boys in the front row and the two 7's did not work which further weakened the scrum. Good game ref was poor. I can't see the Ospreys fielding a full strength team next week just like this game.

I was there I said what was going to happen before hand.

No way was 2 small 7's going to work with 2 weak props. We were better with Adam Jones and Morgan Allen on the pitch as I expected. Clearly Morgan was going to give us more go forward and power around the field.

Shifty,

Why didn't Adam start, some rumours around saying hes fallen bit out of favour any truth in them or just rumours?

I hear that he is struggling with the new scrum laws. Either that or the Ospreys are giving other guys a chance to see if they can manage without Adam. Because according to Gatland Adam hasnt been offered a new contract yet. So maybe their seeign if Jarvis can carry the load.

Attendence barely over 8k and some think an anglo-welsh league would resolve the poor crowds haha.

I agree the game in Wales is in big trouble as you rightly point out the AW league is not going to do anything for Wales

Shifty wrote:I hear that he is struggling with the new scrum laws.  Either that or the Ospreys are giving other guys a chance to see if they can manage without Adam.  Because according to Gatland Adam hasnt been offered a new contract yet.  So maybe their seeign if Jarvis can carry the load.  

The point about Adam not being offered a contract, has since been shown to be NOT TRUE.

wayne wrote:

Shifty wrote:I hear that he is struggling with the new scrum laws.  Either that or the Ospreys are giving other guys a chance to see if they can manage without Adam.  Because according to Gatland Adam hasnt been offered a new contract yet.  So maybe their seeign if Jarvis can carry the load.  

The point about Adam not being offered a contract, has since been shown to be NOT TRUE.

Thats great news for us Wayne, lets hope Adam will finish his career with us then.

Shifty wrote:

wayne wrote:

Shifty wrote:I hear that he is struggling with the new scrum laws.  Either that or the Ospreys are giving other guys a chance to see if they can manage without Adam.  Because according to Gatland Adam hasnt been offered a new contract yet.  So maybe their seeign if Jarvis can carry the load.  

The point about Adam not being offered a contract, has since been shown to be NOT TRUE.

Thats great news for us Wayne, lets hope Adam will finish his career with us then.  

Alyn, somebody has been telling porkies, Gatland said this in the WRU meeting with the Regions supporters, it was quoted in the minutes of that meeting, when those same supporters met with RRW, they were shown correspondence, that proved it to be a lie, this was quoted in the minutes of that meeting.
In the first supporters meeting with the WRU, they (WRU) have agreed to another meeting and by all accounts this is one of the topics that will be reviewed, it should be interesting.