Looking at a number of publications BBC, Telegraph and Eastern Fail, they've all named what they think the Welsh Backs are going to be for Saturday versus England Sanjay LRZ, George JD2, Adams, Biggar and Hardy, I wonder if any players not in the squad will be released back to the Regions, could Watkin come back to us as probably all other Ospreys will be in the 23, it's not a lot but it could help against Ulster.
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The alternative view of Friday evening's match -
https://www.ospreyssupporterstrust.co.uk/post/monday-morning-quarterback-view-12
Some good news from Italy. Dargons lose 26-15 and get no points. We need some similar good news from Dublin tomorrow evening when Glasgow send a very good side to Leinster.
Literally no chance we get anything in Glasgow on current form.
5-0 to them.
Your bad players beat you and we had a lot of bad players on the pitch.
Can‘t see us making Europe with the liabilities we’ve got.
Match report - https://www.ospreyssupporterstrust.co.uk/post/ulster-v-ospreys-friday-feb-26th
Cannot fault the effort and commitment and we deserved more from the game. Our inability to convert pressure into points cost us dearly. Our attack lacks any bite and TTW does not help with some of his options. We are so predictable and for all our possession in the first half we rarely threatened the Ulster line.
More like it from Ulster. Ref has not done us any favours this half.
38 FANTASTIC Ospreys minutes completely undone by an awful kick and resultant error that cost us 7 points and lost us Luke Morgan.
OMG What the hell is TTW doing? He literally just cost us a try and that was the only time that Ulster got in our 22 and Luke Morgan did his hamstring.
Only thing we can hope for is no injuries or suspensions.
Yes i agree, but if we could sneak a bonus point that could help at season end if we lose to dragons for example.
Ulster side looks very strong indeed. we are going to need a phenomenal effort and application tomorrow night.
You could also add Bradley, Myler and Dan Evans to that list.
Problem is , in a year or so time AWJ, Lydiate, Tips and Webb possibly our four best players will be coming to the end of their playing days and so far I haven’t seen any credible replacements in our Premiership teams so it will be very expensive to buy in replacements.
We are so limited and lightweight in the back five our options are a major problem. Perhaps we could have resigned Baker instead of the Dragons on a short term contract .
A few weeks ago after the Wales Ireland game Gethin Jenkins was asked about how pleased he was about the Wales defence in that game, he answered, although he was reasonably pleased with the lack of penetration of Ireland he was not at all pleased that we were so dependant on our defence. I feel the same way when we select the likes of Ashley and Cracknell, if we had selected Cross either instead of Cracknell at 7 or Griffiths had been selected in the 2nd row and Cracknell gone to 6 and Cross again gone to 7, if either or both was a dominant tackler like Lydiate it would be a reasonable selection, neither ever complete a dominant tackle from what I see. At least we would have had a reasonably competent 3rd line out option from the start, I'm a firm believer in at least a 3 lineout option and a good scrum fundamental
Where is Bradley?
Here is the team to face Ulster....
Pretty much picks itself. Mat Protheroe rested. Luke Price returns on the bench.
@ogwrwayne In a funny kind of way, we don't have to worry about this game or the Leinster game as we are very unlikely to win either. All we need to do is to come through the game without any more serious injuries. The two most important games are the Dragons and Glasgow. Win them and we will finish in third place and qualify for next season's RCC.