November is some month for the Ospreys facing three of the four Irish sides and the two Italian sides all inside thirty days. The hits just keep on coming with the Ospreys going to Ireland to face the mighty Munster next Sunday on the back of two loses against Zebre and Leinster. Whilst the performance and result was not so good against Zebre, there certainly were promising signs against Leinster and I expect those to continue next Sunday. I would like to see the following matchday Squad
R Jones S Otten M Fia BBBD A Beard D Lydiate D Lake G Evans (but Lake will probably start at 2 with Griffiths at 6)
S Venter S Myler H Dirksen K Williams J Hawkins M Protheroe C Evans
Reps
G Thomas I Phillips T Botha R Davies W Griffiths R Morgan-Williams J Thomas C Carson
If and when we can select from a full squad I believe we are two players short of making a very competitive team. We need a more athletic second row to compete at line outs and an aggressive ball carrying number eight to get over the gain line.