The second festive Welsh Derby sees the Ospreys make the short trip across the Loughor Bridge to take on local rivals the Scarlets. Neither side fared particularly well in their last outing, so both teams will be desperate for a much needed win. There is a lot of conjecture about AWJ and whether or not he will play on Thursday but I hope he does and will include him in my starting team that looks something like
Nicky Smith, Scott Otten, Ma'afu Fia, Adam Beard, AWJ, Dan Lydiate, Justin Tipuric (c), Morgan Morris, Aled Davies, Marty McKenzie, Luke Morgan, Scott Williams, Tiaan Thomas-Wheeler, Hanno Dirksen, Cai Evans.
Bench
D. Lake, S Gardiner, R Fawcett, BBBD, O Cracknell, S Venter, K Williams, L Price.
Discuss.....
Our set piece is relatively good it’s our back play that continues to let us down, there’s no flow or intensity in our game . We have no speed until we reach the wings even with our first choice players fit and either lack flair or it is being coached out of us.
The longer that this is allowed to continue we will become even less of a viable entity. More and more regulars are telling me that they have had enough.
Our forwards are competitive but from the moment the 9 gets his hands on the ball we are utterly clueless. I sat in their East stand with Turk family members totally embarrassed.
@Fiddler something has to be done and heads need to roll.
It’s our lack of intent to play attacking rugby even with our better players available. We just want to grind out wins by playing boring phase rugby at the expense of flair and skill and select and buy players to suit that system. We are so boring and our fans are beginning to desert a sinking ship.
TBH, I'm surprised that the money men are waiting this long, I'm told they are shrewd businessmen and I fully understand this is a long game. However, the longer this malaise goes on (and let's face it, its not just been this season), the more permanent the damage will be. The commercial guy should be out the door tomorrow morning, how on earth can they defend PR that was asked to be removed by the actual players .... it clear that what the region should be about isn't in his DNA.
We can make excuses about injuries and unavailability but that display was embarrassing we offered absolute nothing Our recruitment policy when compared to the Scarlets is dismal.Once again our attack is completely disjointed and ineffectual. Worst day in Osprey history.
Only watched 25 mins of the second half, appalling, truly appalling, not unexpected of course .. Scarlets should be over 60 tbh
Some Ospreys players are not good enough and have cost us at least two of the Scarlets countless tries. SHOCKING!!!!! 44-0 and still 6 minutes left. I am sitting here devastated, absolutely devastated.
What a shower of shit. This is dreadfully poor from the Ospreys.
We should have taken the 3 points on offer instead of going to the corner. Scarlets go up the pitch and score again, f*ck this shit!!!!!
Bonus Point for the Scarlets on the hour mark. Hang your heads in shame Ospreys. 30-0.
We cannot blame the ref or the weather or anything else....
WE CANNOT TACKLE! CANNOT PASS! CANNOT ATTACK! CANNOT DEFEND. 25-0
Clear foul play FFS!! Penalty and a yellow card - seriously?
Otten and Fia off for Lake and Gardiner.
Price on for the ineffective MacKenzie to start the second half. I have to sit through another 40 minutes of this....
It is half time at PYS and we are already down by 20 points. I don't know what the answer is but a decent bloody coach would not go amiss. You can see the influence that Mooar has had on the Scarlets and you can see that they can play an exciting brand of rugby that we can only dream of.
This is so painful, we are so poor going forward. Scarlets penalty 13-0. Scott Williams looks to have failed his HIA and Hook is on in his stead.
Bollocks Scarlets score a try to go with an earlier penalty 10-0. Gonna be a long day.....
We have NO attack whatsoever
Just noticed on WOL that Kieran Williams and Klim are out with injuries. TTW and Tom Williams replace them. Neither of the original two were involved last week, so what the hell is happening during training? Unless they have over-indulged of course!