Glasgow v Ospreys Sat March 1st at 19:35

Torn calf unfortunately for Rhys. I think Hire played for the Whites at the weekend after around 5 months out

I saw someone say that Moriarty has all but confirmed he has signed for us.

Do you think we also need short term hooker cover given Lewis Lloyd is not likely to be back for maybe the rest of the season?

If Beard is in fact going, then I would be happy with a couple of huge Aussie locks.

Boshoff is under contact to the Cheetahs for 25/6 so to extend him we would need to deal with them. I dont think anybody wants to replace Keith we just need more quality depth to allow rotation and not be exposed to injury. The first question is who will be the departures that create room in the squad. We know Tips will be one and the jungle drums suggest Beard and Owen Williams. I think we may see the likes of Cokasinga Luke Morgan and maybe Steff Thomas and Scully joining them in the departure lounge. We have suffered badly with injuries and there are some question marks over the durability of the likes of Will Griff Sutton and Rhys Henry given the repeated injury issues with them. So all in all I would be surprised if we did not have around six to eight additions including Boshoff Spencer and Conbeer becoming parmanent along with the likes of Cornelius Lewis Edwards and Germine becoming a part of the senior squad. Churn will always happen in pro sport.

I understand Lewis Lloyd may be back before the end of the season whilst Rhys Henry will not. I believe we have brought in the Swansea University hooker as short term cover. One of the Aussies was Tom Hooper who has now signed for Exeter. I have no idea who the other one was/is

A bit of a blow having 20 players unavailable. We would be in real trouble if DanEds, Sam and Ben Warren had not come back.

Glasgow also have 20 unavailable, mostly because of Scotland duty but have some strong returning players especially their back three.

1 Patrick Schickerling 2 Grant Stewart 3 Fin Richardson 4 Jare Oguntibeju 5 Alex Samuel 6 Euan Ferrie 7 Henco Venter 8 Jack Mann 9 Ben Afshar 10 Duncan Weir (C) 11 Facundo Cordero 12 Duncan Munn 13 Ollie Smith 14 Sebastian Cancelliere 15 Adam Hastings

Replacements

16 Johnny Matthews 17 Nathan McBeth 18 Sam Talakai 19 JP du Preez 20 Ally Miller 21 Angus Fraser 22 Sean Kennedy 23 Kerr Johnston

Yeah, their back 3 does look strong but so does ours. I think the respective benches could well be the decisive factor.

I would be much happier were Beard to be available and we could start Ratti at 6. Deaves is a demon but that extra four stone and five or six inches makes a difference at set piece.

Other than that one or two of those two metre transition boys should.. err.. transition.

Sherratt has been a strong advocate for Belcher so who knows how he will handle things. With Humphreys, Adam Jones and now T Rhys in there forward sessions must be getting crowded.

So Dewi has been called up by TW, and Sam, Dan and Ben Warren have been released back to us, can expect Sam to start, perhaps Dan as well, but with the way Owen played against Leinster and possibly his new practice time with WN might hold Dan to the bench, with Ben there as well.

WoL has news today that Sherratt has been using Wales training sessions and Adam Jones' coaching to give experience to Cardiff prop Rhys Barratt. More and more like a Cardiff Wales team.