Scarlets v Edinburgh, 28 March

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Scarlets   v   Edinburgh Rugby
Saturday 28th March 2015
KO 14:40
Parc y Scarlets

Live on Sky Sports 1

Referee: John Lacey (IRFU, 43rd competition game)
Assistant Referees: Chris Williams, Martyn Lewis (both WRU)
Citing Commissioner: Ray Wilton (WRU)
TMO: Derek Bevan (WRU)

Head to head

23 Played 23
11 Wins 11
1 Draws 1
59 Tries 42
477 Points 461
25 Av. age 25

League position

P/W/D/L/Points

Connacht     17 9 1 7 43
Scarlets      17 7 3 7 40
Edinburgh    17 8 1 8 39


Teams

Scarlets

15 Jordan Williams
14 Harry Robinson
13 Regan King
12 Scott Williams
11 Hadleigh Parkes
10 Steven Shingler
09 Aled Davies

01 Rob Evans
02 Ken Owens (c)
03 Peter Edwards
04 Jake Ball
05 George Earle
06 Lewis Rawlins
07 James Davies
08 John Barclay

16 Emyr Phillips
17 Phil John
18 Jacobie Adriaanse
19 Jack Payne
20 Rory Pitman
21 Gareth Davies
22 Rhys Priestland
23 Michael Tagicakibau

Edinburgh

01 Rory Sutherland
02 Stuart MacInally
03 WP Nel
04 Anton Bresler
05 Ben Toolis
06 Mike Coman (c)
07 Hamish Watson
08 David Denton

09 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne
10 Greig Tonks
11 Tim Visser
12 Andries Strauss
13 Phil Burleigh
14 Tom Brown
15 Jack Cuthbert

16 Neil Cochrane
17 Grant Shiells
18 John Andress
19 Fraser McKenzie
20 Roddy Grant
21 Nathan Fowles
22 Tom Heathcote
23 Sam Beard

Blurb

Must win game for both teams here. Connacht are away to Munster so there is a real chance to even things up in the league.  Edinburgh could have been leading the race by this stage but some inconsistent performances have left them playing catch up.  Scarlets have been playing well, with a recent win over Leinster.

A win for Edinburgh and we're right back in it, a loss and it we really will be struggling.

Player wise Edinburgh should have pretty much all the Scotland Internationals available, but need to balance the squad due to the impending Challenge Cup knock-out rounds meaning we don't have a week's rest after this game like a lot of teams will have.

I think we'll see all of the Scotland players back bar Dickinson and Ford.  Sutherland and Cochrane/McInally have played well in their absence so that shouldn't affect us too much.

Doubt that comment is due to sour grapes as I doubt its come from a Scarlet fan, the only criticism of anyone I've heard or read has been of our own players not turning up for the game and been taught a lesson in respect and desire to play, by a well fired up Edinburgh team, even John Lacey has been complemented on his handling of the game, which is kind of unheard of normally. Edinburgh deserved their win and most in the crowd felt the margin could of been much bigger than it was.

MrsP wrote:

My son once played in a game where the ref had lost his cards so the blatant trip on him went completely unpunished. Actually he did not even give a penalty so perhaps he had forgotten his specs too. They even had to decide who kicked off with a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors as he had no coins either!

We should do that in every international game! - On the halfway line, after the anthyms!

We could also use it in Scotland games to decide the match outcome!

ScarletSpiderman wrote:Just seen the headbutt it looked more like he wanted to punch the Embra kad, but couldn't get his hands free so nutted him instead.  Totally stupid, and if he plays again this season he can consider himself lucky.

I agree, deffo red, what was he thinking, well done Edinburgh, I did not think you would win that one, but you did fair do's.

Full game here for anyone that missed it (me)

http://www.s4c.cymru/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=522196339

https://www.606v2.com/t58381-london-irish-v-edinburgh-5th-april-2015-match-thread#2981778 created a match thread for the LI match

I found a link - great game - well deserved win. Edinburgh beginning to look like a team worth a mid table place!