Ospreys v Scarlets, 26 March

 
Ospreys v Scarlets
Saturday 26 March 2016
KO 15:00
Liberty Stadium

Live on Sky Sports

Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU, 20th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Ian Davies, Wayne Davies (both WRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Charles (WRU)
TMO: Jon Mason (WRU)

A. Head to Head

25 Played 25
17 Wins 7
7 Losses 17
1 Draws 1
549 Points 387

B. Form

26/12/15 - Scarlets 26 - 27 Ospreys
03/01/15 - Scarlets 22 - 10 Ospreys
27/12/14 - Ospreys 17 - 15 Scarlets

C. Teams

Ospreys 

Dan Evans; Jeff Hassler, Ben John, Josh Matavesi, Eli Walker; Sam Davies, Rhys Webb; Paul James (capt), Scott Baldwin, Aaron Jarvis, James King, Rory Thornton, Dan Lydiate, Sam Underhill, Dan Baker.

Replacements: Sam Parry, Nicky Smith, Dmitri Arhip, Adam Beard, Olly Cracknell, Brendon Leonard, Dan Biggar, Owen Watkin.

Scarlets

Michael Collins; Steffan Evans, Regan King, Hadleigh Parkes, DTH van der Merwe; Dan Jones, Gareth Davies; Rob Evans, Ken Owens (capt), Peter Edwards, Jake Ball, David Bulbring, John Barclay, James Davies, Morgan Allen

Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Dylan Evans, Samson Lee, Maselino Paulino, Will Boyde, Aled Davies, Aled Thomas, Harry Robinson

Scarlets pic tickled me. Glad my game is off to watch this. I'd watch Neeport v Keys, bar the £12 price.

Very good win for the Scarlets. Serves Ospreys right for picking a back row at lock and a tighthead who can't scrummage in the 1st half. They will be lucky to finish above Cardiff Blues now.

Well done Scarlets, thoroughly deserved. Umm ? Siberia, Romania, Italy .... who will we have in the Challenge Cup pool ?????

Must be enjoyable to be in your house tonight

RiscaGame wrote:Must be enjoyable to be in your house tonight

The pro's and con's of a "mixed" relationship laid bare and we're going to the local to watch my mate, who just happens to be a Scarlet, and his band

How are you mo chara, you going to "Judgement Day" ??

I think so. Not overly keen on it, but I think I will be going. I've collected my ticket already anyway. Just have to book a night shift off

VinceWLB wrote:Very good win for the Scarlets. Serves Ospreys right for picking a back row at lock and a tighthead who can't scrummage in the 1st half. They will be lucky to finish above Cardiff Blues now.

Reckon the Jack boys will have to get used to finishing below Cardiff for the foreseeable future.

This is the most genteel sledging I have ever seen.

Probably the worst second half by the Ospreys I've seen at the liberty. Take nothing away from the scarlets, they totally bossed it for 40 mins and deserve the spoils. Jarvis starting?  King in the second row? Webb was poor. Sam Davies cannot kick to touch more than 10 metres. Awful...

RiscaGame wrote:I think so. Not overly keen on it, but I think I will be going. I've collected my ticket already anyway. Just have to book a night shift off

We're going too, give us a shout and we'll share some

I'm going to jd4. Sitting with the the dragons fans in L11.

Breadvan wrote:I'm going to jd4. Sitting with the the dragons fans in L11.

We'll chuck some scraps down, we're in U11

I think the Ospreys biggest problems is their team is based around AWJ, Biggar, Lydiate, Webb and Tipuric. We have a few promising players such as Baldwin, Beard, King, and Baker. But in reality the rest of the squad are untested and / or erratic performers. You take out too many of the main 5 players and things go south quickly, were over reliant on them.
Our outside backs are basically an injury prone mess at the best of times.

On paper the Ospreys should of made a much better fist of this game, and the selections are crazy. Beard should of started, as well at Watkin. Dmitri Arhip is much better than Jarvis, and I've no idea why Tandy or indeed Gatland insists on selecting him.

Came home from the game very disappointed yesterday.
Really poor performance.
Sam Davies' kicks to touch were making about 10m ....what was that all about?
Well beaten in the scrum, probably due to the lightweight second rows chosen as some on here have alluded to.
Some of the line-out moves were terrible, no creativity, just catch and drive to be eventually out-muscled by the Scarlets pack and turned over.
Eli Walker has gone backwards big time, couldn't understand why he wasn't making the team in recent matches ...I can now.
Searching hard for positives, I think Webb had a decent game, creative and lively. I thought Lydiate stepped up in AWJ's absence and made some hard yards.

The ref seemed to not know what to do at many of the scrums and seemed to favour the Scarlets in many decisions, although I admit I am far from impartial. Why wasn't the Scarlets hooker carded for the slap? ....wouldn't have affected the outcome but just wondering.

If Jarvis was in the scrum I'd ping him every time, every other ref does, he's useless at scrumaging.

Shifty wrote:If Jarvis was in the scrum I'd ping him every time, every other ref does, he's useless at scrumaging.

May be the reason his contract has not been renewed he can t do the basics.