After the disappointment of the loss last week to the Dragons, the Ospreys will need to pull together and find a performance that will help to silence the doubters, as they prepare to face Connacht. However, the Ospreys will be without their Team Wales players so the squad will be put to the test.
A likely 23...
G Phillips R Henry S Baldwin E Taione T Botha B Warren H Sutton J Regan R Davies M Morris E Roots H Deaves W Hickey
R Webb RMW J Walsh S Myler/D Edwards K Giles K Williams M Collins L Morgan M Protheroe M Nagy
Have I forgotten anyone who could be available?
It’s agony watching us play, and it doesn’t matter which squad or members are out or called up the results and the style of play are all exactly the same. Kick away possession in the last 6 or 7 minutes when you are losing ….yeh great game management. Awful boring negative and no hope on the horizon an absolute horror story this season has become just like every previous season. When every single first choice player is available we still butcher tries and lose games from a position of being in control. The only good thing that has come from Booths coaching manual is we now have a good driving maul, and our scrums are improving but then so is most other teams . Looks like Dai Flanagan is working some magic over at the Drags and I think they will go from strength to strength .
That was some start from the Ospreys but to be fair to Connacht they worked themselves back into the game.
I thought Sutton had a standout game at 5 but individual errors at key times cost us in the end.
When we have 14 players away with Wales and nine players injured, this was always going to be a bare bones squad. All we can do is get behind them tomorrow night and hope they perform.
1 Henry
2 Baldwin
3 Botha
4 Davies
5 Sutton
6 Root
7 Deaves
8 Morris
9 RMW
10 Walsh
11 Giles
12 Williams
13 Wheeler
14 Morgan
15 Nargy
16 G Phillips
17 Parry
18 Warren
19 Regan
20 T. Davies
21 Aubrey
22 Scully
23 Collins
OFF, Sam Parry has definitely been in the pre match routines for the last 2 home games, do you think some of the players in the Wales squad who need game time could be allowed back if fit eg Anscombe, Lydiate and Cuthbert, other than that I think you are pretty close, perhaps TTW. I really would like to see Protheroe in as he does provide a real spark for me.