Treviso vs Cardiff Blues (S4C 6.30 Saturday)

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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.

Nevermind. Wales and Ospreys doing well.

No try...knocked on beforehand, but Treviso win for the first time against the Blues.

26-17 FT.

wales606 wrote:Camera clearly shows "contact with the eye area" - Should be a fairly long ban for that, if it is a gouge I don't expect we will see him on the pitch for a few months at least.

Seeing as he was subbed off at the next stoppage it seems like a sign of guilt to me. I can not understand gouging. If Reed had upset the bloke why not just give him a sly dig in the ribs in a ruck or maul? It's more manly, less dangerous and far less likely to be caught.

Haven't seen the game yet, who gouged Lou Reed?

I believe it was Dean Budd, the new zealander flanker.

"Beep...Beep...Beep" - the sound of Cardiff's scrum reversing.
It'll be a penalty m/c for the Os on Saturday.

Cardiff Dave wrote:"Beep...Beep...Beep" - the sound of Cardiff's scrum reversing.
It'll be a penalty m/c for the Os on Saturday.

The only way we are going to beat the O's is by keeping the ball away from contact with perfect handling skills, with Patchell, Allen and O.Williams in midfield.

In other words, we are not going to beat the O's