The Autumn Internationals are done for the year and attention now turns back to the URC. The Ospreys are travelling out to Galway to face Connacht in what should be a very good game.
The Ospreys starting team is as follows:-
N Smith E Taione
T Botha
B Davies
R Davies
S Cross
J Morgan
E Roots
R Webb (c)
S Myler
L Morgan
J Hawkins
O Watkin
M Nagy
D Evans
Reps
S Parry, G Thomas, R Henry, W Griffiths, M Morris
R Morgan-Williams, J Thomas, C Evans
I think that certain player are being held back to recover from the AIs and to get them ready for the HEC games.
Once again we struggle to defend against a team who play fast unstructured rugby. We are ok against sides who like us play a slow game going from one set play to another but when things speed up we struggle. Our midfield is slow off the mark and lack the flair and agility to react to something different all our centres are very similar and rely on physicality and strength to play the game and a slow fullback adds to the problem. On the plus side it was good to see a side willing to play attacking rugby even though it wasn’t us and proving rugby doesn’t have to be the boring arm wrestle it’s becoming.