Cardiff Blues v Edinburgh Rugby, 6 October

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Cardiff Blues v Edinburgh Rugby
 
Sunday 6 October 2013, KO 14:05
The Arms Park, Cardiff
 
Referee: George Clancy (IRFU, 56th competition game)  
Assistant Referees: Neil Hennessy, Neil Perkins (both WRU
Citing Commissioner: Denis Jones (WRU)
TMO: Gareth Simmonds (WRU)
 
LIVE on BBC Wales/BBC ALBA
 
A. Teams:

I. Cardiff Blues

 
15 Leigh Halfpenny
14 Alex Cuthbert
13 Owen Williams
12 Cory Allen
11 Harry Robinson
10 Rhys Patchell
9 Lloyd Williams

8 Andries Pretorius
7 Sam Warburton
6 Josh Navidi
5 Filo Paulo
4 Bradley Davies
3 Taufa’ao Filise
2 Matthew Rees (c)
1 Gethin Jenkins

16 Kristian Dacey
17 Scott Andrews
18 Sam Hobbs
19 Lou Reed
20 Robin Copeland
21 Lewis Jones
22 Gareth Davies
23 Dafydd Hewitt
 
II. Edinburgh Rugby

 
15 Jack Cuthbert
14 Dougie Fife
13 Joaquin Dominguez
12 Ben Atiga
11 Tim Visser
10 Harry Leonard
9 Greig Laidlaw (c)

1 Alasdair Dickinson
2 Ross Ford
3 Willem Nel
4 Sean Cox
5 Izak van der Westhuizen
6 Dimitri Basilaia
7 Tomas Leonardi
8 David Denton

16 James Hilterbrand
17 Wicus Blaauw
18 Geoff Cross
19 Ollie Atkins
20 Cornell Du Preez
21 Sean Kennedy
22 Matt Scott
23 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne

B. Form - head to head:
 
25 Played  
14 Wins 11
11 Losses 14
0 Draws 0
61 Tries 40
43 Conversions 30
57 Penalties 44
2 Drop Goals 8
568 Points 416
24 Avg. Age 25
 
C. Form - last season:
 
Friday 7 September 2012, 19:05: Cardiff Arms Park
Cardiff Blues 19 - 21 Edinburgh Rugby
 
Friday 15 February, 19:30: Murrayfield
Edinburgh Rugby 16 - 17 Cardiff Blues

 

Why put on replacements for that scrum?

Andrews and Hobbs are terrible scrummager.

VinceWLB wrote:Andrews and Hobbs are terrible scrummager.

Andrews is pretty decent, he has shown that for Wales several times now

Who's the Andy Goode look-alike?

Dacey still got the pace of an 8, pity he lacks the scrummaging of a hooker

wales606 wrote:

VinceWLB wrote:Andrews and Hobbs are terrible scrummager.

Andrews is pretty decent, he has shown that for Wales several times now

I would have him as 3rd choice for the Blues, behind Bourrust and Filise who did well today.

whistle, whistle, whistle

Good win,

pity we didn't get at least 1 more try with all that pressure in the last 20

Oh, and Copeland has to start next week

Nice to see a pitch invasion

Well positives were a much improved first 60, a strong set piece and Laidlaw and Denton played well.

Still far too many mistakes and easy points to the opposition.

Slightly less terrified about Munster in the hk next week, but still think we're on for a doing!

RDW_Scotland wrote:
Slightly less terrified about Munster in the hk next week, but still think we're on for a doing!

The second top try scores in the Rabo meet the team with the worst defence, could be quite a horror show  

What a hit from Paulo! Van der Westhuizen is 18 and a half stone and was running at full speed on an artificial pich:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbrquWzzYw&hd=1

About time we put in a performance like that.

Commentators moaning about 1/2p kicking all the time, he's got that from Team Wales and not the Blues. Doubt they'd ever criticise them though.

Thought the centre's (all 3) did well yesterday, shame williams got injured as i think him & Allen were working well together. Hewitt did his job when he came on too so can't take anything away from him.

Defensive line is still a bit wobbly, but that's what you geet when your defence coach was the defence coach for the London Broncos...one of the worst rugby league teams in the Super League, known for getting thumpings.

Owen Williams looked the most threatening back, running good angles at pace.

It all seemed to be going quite well for Edinburgh in the 1st half. Clearly our Forwards are pretty formidable but our backs leave a lot to be desired.

Corey Allen and Owen Williams in the centres looked very good, showed glimpses of what they both can do.

About time, fans have been calling for that partnership to start getting a run out together since last season.

The edinburgh pack were strong, not sure the blues pack is the best to measure themselves against at the moment mind. Munster will be an entirely different propostition......

Do Cardiff look like they're getting their act together???

profitius wrote:Do Cardiff look like they're getting their act together???

Still have a long way to go, coaching setup is a bit of a mess right now

Something has to change at the Blues coaching setup.