The Ospreys have made the long journey to South Africa for a two week tour that will see them face the Stormers on Saturday and the Bulls the following week. After the disappointing loss to Gloucester in the Challenge Cup last time out, coach Booth will no doubt be looking for a positive response from his team. The squad will be bolstered by the return for these two games of the Cheetahs 3. Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake have travelled so I have included them in the potential squad of 23.
Potential Squad
N Smith G Thomas S Parry L Lloyd B Warren R Henry A Beard V Sekekete/J Ratti H Sutton J Ratti/H Deaves J Tipuric M Morris M Morse
RMW L Davies D Edwards O Williams K Giles O Watkin K Williams E Boshoff M Nagy J Walsh
*Edited to remove Lake and Morgan who will definitely not be involved nor will Tom Botha.
Got up early to watch the game.
It is so much nicer watching a match when you know the result.
Superb effort from the starting team and the impact off the bench was excellent as well.
Fantastic result. The whole squad and coaches deserve credit for the way they played and fought for one another. Our defence, on the whole was outstanding. I also thought that Andrew Brace refereed the game without many controversies.
Awesome result, ymlaen y Gweilch.😎
Could not be more proud of this team at the moment, they fight for each other and for the jersey. I have eaten humble pie for remarks I made about Booth before now , but I will eat it again and say that what he is building here is a squad of fully committed warriors from the least to the largest, and I was so wrong to doubt his being the right man for us. Well done to all involved in this wonderful result. Can we put in another performance against the Bulls?
Bloody brilliant!
A few surprises in this squad
Tom Botha has been suspended for 3 weeks so he will not play again until the 29th of April.
The prop tackled Atkinson in the 12th minute of the game and this was deemed to be worthy of a red card.
This has made our SA trip even harder.
Oh and by the way, Andrew Brace is the ref.
Dewi Lake might be able to play against the Bulls next week in some capacity but Jac Morgan is unlikely to be involved this week or next.
I thought by "Cheetahs players" being available Toby meant Lewis, Will, Tristan and Cameronprop. If he does mean Sekekete, Rudolph and Boshoff as well that is even better. Having a bunch of players acclimatised to the altitude found in Pretoria could be a game changer.
Tom Botha is facing a citing commission for an alleged high tackle in the Gloucester game. He will discover his fate tomorrow.