With a fantastic RCC away win against Montpelier, a home URC win against the Scarlets and an away URC win against Cardiff in their last three games, the Ospreys will be full of confidence going into their URC match against unbeaten table-toppers Leinster. I think that the Ospreys make look to freshen up the squad and they might even rest some players in readiness for the RCC games coming up in the following 2 weeks. Obviously, whatever side Leinster send over will be a great one, but I expect them to ring the changes as well.
I think the squad could look like this if Booth does rest certain players...
G Phillips G Thomas S Baldwin S Parry T Botha R Henry AWJ R Davies H Sutton J Morgan H Deaves M Morris T Davies
RMW M Aubrey O Williams J Walsh K Giles K Williams M Collins L Morgan C Evans J Hawkins
It will all depend on Booth's mindset and if he believes we can get something from the Leinster game or do we target the HCC?
I'm not normally one to criticise the officials, but they had a large bearing on that result last night, the penalty against Nicky when Al'alatoa (sp) went flat on his face, the lack of response of the Ref and the touch judge when Justin was not allowed to come back to the ground, when he was talking to both of them, he then went to the TJ to query why we were not awarded a penalty for that, the call for a forward pass against Kieran when it was clearly flat. They were all point scoring opportunities for us.
As others have said the defensive organisation and workrate was superb, but what it so clearly should have been was 4 points for us.
Well done Ospreys