Treviso vs Cardiff Blues (S4C 6.30 Saturday)

So, this is the Blues injury list for this game

Bradley Davies – Ankle ligament damage back in early May
Josh Navidi – Hamstring injury - fitness test next week
Sam Warburton – Knee injury - Assessed on Monday
Andries Pretorius – Shoulder reconstruction, back in early May
Tom Williams – Shoulder dislocation, back in pre season
Liam Davies – Back spasm
Rhys Patchell – Shoulder injury assessed on Monday
Jamie Roberts – Knee injury assessed on Monday
Alex Cuthbert – Grade two hamstring strain back in four to six weeks
Leigh Halfpenny – Sprained ankle fitness next week
Andi Kyriacou – Neck injury ongoing
Rhys Williams – Shoulder injury back in four weeks
Tom James - Fractured sesamoid (big toe) fitness assessed next week

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15 Jason Tovey 14 Owen Williams 13 Gavin Evans 12 Dafydd Hewitt 11 Chris Czekaj 10 Ceri Sweeney 9 Lloyd Williams

8 Luke Hamilton 7 Rory Watts-Jones 6 Michael Paterson 5 James Down 4 Filo Paulo 3 Benoit Bourrust 2 Kristian Dacey 1 Taufa'ao Filise

16 Marc Breeze 17 Sam Hobbs 18 Scott Andrews 19 Lou Reed 20 Thomas Young 21 Robin Copeland 22 Lewis Jones 23 Gareth Davies



Treviso: Brendan Williams; Ludovico Nitoglia, Tommaso Iannone, Gideon La Grange, Christian Loamanu; Alberto Di Bernardo, Fabio Semenzato; Alberto De Marchi, Leonardo Ghiraldini (captain), Lorenzo Cittadini, Francesco Minto, Corniel Van Zyl, Dean Budd, Alessandro Zanni, Manoa Vosawai.

Replacements: Giovanni Maistri, Michele Rizzo, Jacobus Roux, Antonio Pavanello, Paul Derbyshire, Simone Favaro, Edoardo Gori, James Ambrosini.

Blues injured team

1. Tom Davies
2. Rhys Williams/Andy Kyricau
3.
4. Bradley Davies
5.
6. Josh Navidi
7. Sam Warburton
8. Andries Pretorious
9. Liam Davies
10. Rhys Patchell
11. Tom James
12. Jamie Roberts
13.
14. Alex Cuthbert
15. Leigh Halfpenny

Interestingly enough the Blues is the only team in the league that remains undefeated against Treviso, that may change tomorrow!

Yep, can't see them winning

Is Harry Robinson injured and will Tovey get a crack at OH next season?

I'm guessing Robinson is unavailable but I don't know

If Robinson was fit I would either be playing Williams in the centres or Tovey at FH (Czekaj at FB)

Pity Cory Allen is away with the 7s (scored the winning try to beat Aus earlier) - After 2 seasons I am really getting annoyed at seeing Hewitt-Evans in the centres when it clearly isn't working.

Without Patchell it will solely be Copeland carrying this team - our undefeated against Italians is about to disappear in a bad way I fear

Filo Paulo's first game for the Blues, he best be the physical lock we need - because he is starting off with a big test

wales606 wrote:I'm guessing Robinson is unavailable but I don't know

If Robinson was fit I would either be playing Williams in the centres or Tovey at FH (Czekaj at FB)

Pity Cory Allen is away with the 7s (scored the winning try to beat Aus earlier) - After 2 seasons I am really getting annoyed at seeing Hewitt-Evans in the centres when it clearly isn't working.

Without Patchell it will solely be Copeland carrying this team - our undefeated against Italians is about to disappear in a bad way I fear

Swot I would've done too and Tovey needs match practice at 10 unless of course the management have different ideas.

Copeland on the bench??? Roberts always seems to be injured when he plays with the blues.

LeinsterFan4life wrote:Copeland on the bench??? Roberts always seems to be injured when he plays with the blues.

Didn't even notice Copeland was on the bench.

Looks like the coaches have given up on this game too

Treviso: Brendan Williams; Ludovico Nitoglia, Tommaso Iannone, Gideon La Grange, Christian Loamanu; Alberto Di Bernardo, Fabio Semenzato; Alberto De Marchi, Leonardo Ghiraldini (captain), Lorenzo Cittadini, Francesco Minto, Corniel Van Zyl, Dean Budd, Alessandro Zanni, Manoa Vosawai.

Replacements: Giovanni Maistri, Michele Rizzo, Jacobus Roux, Antonio Pavanello, Paul Derbyshire, Simone Favaro, Edoardo Gori, James Ambrosini.

Treviso by 11 in my book...

RDSguru wrote:Treviso by 11 in my book...

You're being generous to the Blues

Our 3rd choice backrow could well be single handidly beaten by Zanni.

Hope I am wrong, but the Blues pack is going to get destroyed without our internationals or our 2 best players this season - Navidi and Copeland.

I think the Blues will scrape home by 5.
Treviso are a monster at home, but away their normally pretty passive, with any luck Cardiff will kill them off early.

Shifty wrote:I think the Blues will scrape home by 5.
Treviso are a monster at home, but away their normally pretty passive, with any luck Cardiff will kill them off early.

They are playing in Treviso

Shifty wrote:I think the Blues will scrape home by 5.
Treviso are a monster at home, but away their normally pretty passive, with any luck Cardiff will kill them off early.

Isn't the game in Italy?

Oh and 606, yeah I am being generous! No, I think the Blues will be rather stubborn. Just an inkling.

wales606 wrote:

Shifty wrote:I think the Blues will scrape home by 5.
Treviso are a monster at home, but away their normally pretty passive, with any luck Cardiff will kill them off early.

They are playing in Treviso

More to the point, the Dregs got hammered therefore HEC qualification in the bag almost.

looking forward to watching filo paulo play. seen him train a fair bit recently, and looks impressive. reckon he could turn out to be a good signing.

what's the score with campese ma'afu? not playing or on the injured list. see he is still training with the blues, but is he out of the door this summer?

He's been playing for Cardiff RFC and by what i've been told isnt really setting the world on fire.

The blues will have a stiff challenge tonight but we can thank our stars for Sweeney.

Thats it. One name. Sweeney. when you are known by one name you have reached the pinnacle. Sting. Dana. Liberace.

Sweeney will guide us to a not so terrible defeat.

pioden gorllewin wrote:looking forward to watching filo paulo play. seen him train a fair bit recently, and looks impressive. reckon he could turn out to be a good signing.

what's the score with campese ma'afu? not playing or on the injured list. see he is still training with the blues, but is he out of the door this summer?

Campese was unfit when he arrived and has apparently been cr*p since

wales606 wrote:

pioden gorllewin wrote:looking forward to watching filo paulo play. seen him train a fair bit recently, and looks impressive. reckon he could turn out to be a good signing.

what's the score with campese ma'afu? not playing or on the injured list. see he is still training with the blues, but is he out of the door this summer?

Campese was unfit when he arrived and has apparently been cr*p since

Ive heard that Mafu was judged to be unfit or less than 100% when he arrived with the promise of recapturing his form and fitness of 2 seasons ago pretty quickly... He is apparently at his physical peak though and wat below pro standards.

Not impressed with the side but was anyone expecting to see a welsh international play again this season? Whats their incentive, nothing to play for, HC qualification safe enough, and the Lions tour just around the corner. They will all keep these 'injuries' for 4 weeks or so each!!

Happy to see Dacey start, and Hamilton at 8 where I think he'll end up. Shame Allen isn't there he needs some exposure soon!!

Bit of a varied start, both teams testing each other out

Fair few mistakes from both sides

Evening...just got in from getting some chips. Looks like I haven't missed much since kick off...

Really poor errors from the Blues so far.

The weather won't help there either. It's chucking it down. They would've been better off coming to Cardiff tonight

Decent work at the scrum, Blues fighting the hit and leading to a knock on

Only 2 penalties in the first 10 minutes, and both have gone to the Blues.

Blues with a chance to put points on the board

Not such a bad start for the Blues as was possible.

They have held Treviso well at the rolling maul and the scrum

Tovey should not have gone for that ball, gifting Treviso a 5m lineout

Try Treviso

If only Halfpenny had been playing - Tovey is very much to blame for that.

zanni over with the try. Great kick by the Treviso player helped that.

7-3 at 14 minutes. Excellent conversion kick.

Paulo's first big carry, makes ground - but knocks on

Some big kicks by Treviso, Blues hemorrhaging field position.

Break in midfield and it is almost a second for Treviso

Tovey's gone to pieces. Great.

Blues have about 10 players in the ruck, to Treviso's 4.

Sorry Wales, got sidetracked by writing another post there. Blues really missing their big boys, eh?

Cari wrote:Sorry Wales, got sidetracked by writing another post there. Blues really missing their big boys, eh?

Missing the players they had in 2008/9

Even the internationals wouldn't make much difference at the moment.

Really? You've got some great internationals missing.

Ah! Great Blues try there from Hewitt.

7-10 at 28 minutes.

Looks like some internationals are of use.

Lloyd Williams snipes and puts Hewitt in for a try

Cari wrote:Really? You've got some great internationals missing.

Ah! Great Blues try there from Hewitt.

7-10 at 28 minutes.

I would swap Warburton for a good backs/attack coach

And sack whoever keeps selecting Owen Williams out of position, and leaving Cory Allen out of the side

Treviso playing some 7s.

That should have been a try, lucky for the Blues he knocked on a try scoring pass

Blues scrum being destroyed, now where have I seen that before

Blues really need to stop Trev getting anything from here now. They've got a great attacking position. Good scrum by Trev too.

Blues scrum is going to lose them another game by the looks of it - already 3 turnovers and a penalty

We may have signed Gethin and Rees, but unless they are joined by Mitchell and Gill we will still lose close games next season

10-10 just before HT...that's frustrating.

It's lucky Treviso can't hold onto possession in contact and Hamilton can claw the ball out of a scrum going backwards at the speed of sound - or the Blues would really be in trouble

SO MANY TURNOVERS