Scarlets vs Harlequins

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Didn't see a thread on his, which is surprising as it has the potential to be the game of the weekend. Both teams are chasing a place in Amlin Challenge Cup (better than a kick in the teeth).

Scarlets: Aled Thomas, Kristian Phillips, Gareth Maule, Scott Williams, Jordan Williams, Rhys Priestland, Gareth Davies, Phil John, Emyr Phillips, Samson Lee, George Earle, Jake Ball, Aaron Shingler, John Barclay, Rob McCusker (c)

Replacements: Ken Owens, Rob Evans, Jacobie Adriaanse, Johan Snyman, Josh Turnbull, Rhodri Williams, Adam Warren, Gareth Owen

Harlequins: Mike Brown, Ollie Lindsay-Hague, Matt Hopper, Tim Molenaar, Ugo Monye, Nick Evans, Karl Dickson; Joe Marler, Dave Ward, Will Collier, Nick Kennedy, George Robson, Luke Wallace, Chris Robshaw (C), Nick Easter

Replacements: Joe Gray, Mark Lambert, Paul Doran Jones, Charlie Matthews, Tom Guest, Sam Stuart, Ben Botica, Tom Williams

Referee: Jerome Garces (France)

A good game so far Scarlets 1 point in font at half time. Good try by Shingler. looking forward to the second half.

Ooooooh close game; very good game we have here

Barclay 3 turn overs and Earle has 2
Both have been absolutely amazing so far, Brown i there only danger man. He is playing really well fair do' to him, so very well worked off loads

Scrums have been back and forth but Doran Jones is doing a better job on the tight. Why isn't he first choice or in the England set up anymore?

It is worth mentionning the ref could have stopped the action before Quins 2nd try, there was a potentially dangerous neck injury to Maule.

Doran-Jones certainly knows what he's doing on the tight, you could put it that way.

15-19 - you feel there's a lot more to come from both sides.

try Scarlets?

Nobody can see that better than the ref, so I wonder what he's asking?

Defense is optionnal in this game.

Try given. Wonder if Quins are the first to get the fourth?

Could have been a hell of try, real lenght of the field stuff.

More great play. Quins look good with ball in hand, silly off-loads have cost them a few times. Defence definitely optional.

Blah, missed the start of the second half. Girlfriend has yet to learn the lesson not to chat when the rugby is on, what did I miss?

4th turnover from Barclay, motm so far.

Barclay is the king of turnovers.

Did Preistland turn down Leciester? He would be a perfect fit there!

Too many points missed through kicks today, could cost them.

Woah Scarlets are crazy to sub Barclay could be the turning point in the game, quote me on this.

I CANNOT believe they substituted Barclay for Turnbull!

       

The Saint wrote:I CANNOT believe they substituted Barclay for Turnbull!

       

Absolutely crazy.  

Earle was having a great game and subbed him instead of Ball too.

Owens should have come on IMO.

I think Priestland has been incredibly poor today.

Some huge hits in this game!

I'm surprised they don't have faith in Adriaanse, Samson Lee looks tired.

Don't need to be dropping yet IMO.

VinceWLB wrote:I'm surprised they don't have faith in Adriaanse, Samson Lee looks tired.

What about Rhodri Jones to, he's still 3rd choice yet didn't look out of his depth in the AIs, maybe he needs to move if wants more Welsh caps.

Penalty reversal perhaps?

Haha dodgy penalty.

That was Turnbull offside wasn't it?

Pressure kick...

Why isn't Nick Evans kicking?

The Saint wrote:That was Turnbull offside wasn't it?

No the prop coming back i think.

CMON QUINS! I said quins would edge it, squeaky bum time!

Oh dear Priestland. His stupid kicks and missed kicks at goal is what has cost the Scarlets today. He doesn't deserve to be near the Wales squad.

Shame that a great game had to end by a dodgy decision at best.

Well played quins. A very tough hard fought game. But as they say a win is a win.

Entertaining game in the whole but a bit of a sour end for the Scarlets. Well done Quins and hard luck to Scarlets - could have gone either way really.

Very close match, and yep could have easily gone either way. What a fantastic game.

Totally agree with the comments above - good game in tough conditions.

Good game but bluddy hell our kicking game just isn't up to scratch, a lot of mindless kicking. It's the same with all the regions and the national team. We need to get in some good kicking coaches in ffs. Priest land aside because he played very well today and kicked well in open play but Scott and Kristian?

Why did we go for these two kicks, i knew Jordan wasn't going to get them from that distance; why didn't we go for ground.

We were the much better team but just didn't finish off on half of our chances. I'm gutted but Harlequins had the composure to win, one thing we don't have.

Much better team? Yeh right. You LOST! To a rubbish Quins side too.

Luck of the Irish wrote:Much better team? Yeh right. You LOST! To a rubbish Quins side too.

logansrun/toast/butter, is that you?

Excellent game and great handling by both sides especially considering the conditions. Disagree with jhamer that Scarlets were 'the much better team'. Thought it was very even.

Nice to see two sides willing to play rugby. Scarlets really looked dangerous even attacking from deep. I love watching Quins play.

Well done Quins! Dave Ward looks like one to watch.

Can't see beyond an English side winning the Amlin.

Luck of the Irish wrote:Much better team? Yeh right. You LOST! To a rubbish Quins side too.

Yep much better, that's what I said

Lets face it this game could of gone either way to be honest i thought when the scarlets went 2/3 points in front with about 10 minutes to go, that scarlets would win.

Can some please answer me this question? is Rys priestland Wales best 10?
Is he better that Biggar? In my mind Biggar is the better 10.
But the commantator did say that Gatland did prefair Priestland because he is the beat 10 in Wales.

Gutted with the result, thought a tmo/reversed pen was in order, but hard to tell where I was sat. I can't fault the Scarlets, we gave it everything, if Priest land had managed to squeeze that second conversion attempt in, and I though he had for a second, or if Jordan had hit one of those long range attempts, it would have set up a real grandstand finish.


Congratulations to Quins for the win, and to their travelling suooort , who were in fine voice.

Maj, Bigger is a better goal kicker, and slightly better tactical kicker, but Rhys is better with ball in hand, and spotting gap for himself and others. Seeing Halfpenny is Team Wales goal kicker, that just nudges Rhys ahead IMO.

ScarletSpiderman wrote:Maj, Bigger is a better goal kicker, and slightly better tactical kicker, but Rhys is better with ball in hand, and spotting gap for himself and others.  Seeing Halfpenny is Team Wales goal kicker, that just nudges Rhys ahead IMO.

You are joking Biggar has poor backs outside him, he better in all departments including tackling and these days he has the top 2 inches lacking in Preistland like that kick in the last minute, I would have thought he learnt from the games against Aus for Wales you don't boot the ball away. The guy should not be in the squad he is poor.

Luck of the Irish wrote:What a rubbish side Quins are!

Hmmmm


I reckon 6 days...

Bad luck Scarlets, good match. I'd ignore Luck of the Irish, he won't be here long. Good luck in the RABO

Shame the breakdown didn't go well, but in the end, the best team won- Scarlets should have been down to 14 all match, and missed kicks are part of the game. It's a shame but we've also lost games due to them so we know what that feels like

ScarletSpiderman wrote:Gutted with the result, thought a tmo/reversed pen was in order, but hard to tell where I was sat.  I can't fault the Scarlets, we gave it everything, if Priest land had managed to squeeze that second conversion attempt in, and I though he had for a second, or if Jordan had hit one of those long range attempts, it would have set up a real grandstand finish.


Congratulations to Quins for the win, and to their travelling suooort , who were in fine voice.

Well done to Scarlets on a really tough game.

But you can't go into ifs and buts when one Scarlets player should probably have been red carded and the Shingler try was dodgy to say the least.