Scarlets vs Blues

Anyone watching?

Great try from Cook, really good pressure from the Blues

7 - 5

I am, but the quality of the s4c stream isn't great

Yeah, it's very annoying.

Blues looks a completely different team from 6 months ago,

we have so many players looking to get involved, looking to carry - B.Davies, Copeland, Cook, Ice, Rees - it's a real change of attitude

Our backline finally has some organisation and are actually playing to their strengths (thanks Paul John) and as a result, Lewis Jones is in the form of his life and along with Ice, Allen and Cuthbert it's allowing us to play a wider game once our forwards have made yards.

I'm actually optimistic about next season with the new players arriving (though we are going to miss B.Davies and Copeland)

Also, who performed the miracle of teaching Blues props how to scrummage!?

Scarlets nick the lead at HT

10 - 8

Been an entertaining game so far, both teams in it.

This has been a very good game so far considering the gales battering South Wales today.

If you can't see the grounding it's a penalty try under the posts,...

so the one time you are hoping the TMO doesn't see the grounding,

Why not just give the penalty try?

...and it's a penalty try anyway

17 - 15

Our number of mistake at rucks has increased exponentially since Lloyd Williams came on,

I have no idea why Humberstone was playing SH just then, while Lloyd stood in the middle of nowhere

Scott Andrews comes on and our scrum falls apart.....Im starting to see the problem at the start of the season.

Pretty frustrated with this second half, we are throwing away opportunities

 

Good performance from the Scarlets, they beat a very good Blues team who have really benefited from the return of their leaders in the front 5.

Whilst the Blues front 5 are all seasoned professionals, the Scarlets have developed some very promising youngsters; props, Samson Lee, Rhodri Jones and Rob Evans and lock Jake Ball all played their part. in fact the front row that finished the game; Evans, Myhill and Jones looked very strong.

Its behind the scrum where the Scarlets have traditionally been strongest that they are likely to struggle in the future. Whilst Jordan Williams shows flashes of brilliance his defence is flaky as is Kristian. With Fox leaving they will need to recruit some quality three-quarters in the close season if they are not to get a pasting in Europe.