Cardiff Blues V Edinburgh

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Cardiff Blues V Edinburgh

At BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park, 12.45pm Live on S4C/BBC ALBA
Referee: Dudley Phillips (IRFU, 47th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Ben Whitehouse, Neil Hennessy (both WRU)
Citing Commissioner: Jeff Mark (WRU)
TMO: Gareth Simmonds (WRU)

Teams

Cardiff Blues
Joaquin Tuculet, Richard Smith, Cory Allen, Gavin Evans, Tom Isaacs, Rhys Patchell, Lloyd Williams; Sam Hobbs, Matthew Rees (c), Adam Jones, Filo Paulo, Jarrad Hoeata, Josh Turnbull, Ellis Jenkins, Manoa Vosawai.

Replacements: Kristian Dacey, Thomas Davies, Taufa'ao Filise, Lou Reed, Macauley Cook, Tavis Knoyle, Gareth Davies, Adam Thomas.

Edinburgh

Jack Cuthbert, Dougie Fife, Sam Beard, Phil Burleigh, Tim Visser, Jade Te Rure, Grayson Hart, Rory Sutherland, Neil Cochrane, WP Nel, Ollie Atkins, Anton Bresler, Mike Coman (C), Roddy Grant, David Denton.

Replacements: Stuart McInally, Grant Shiells, John Andress, Fraser McKenzie, Hugh Blake, Nathan Fowles, Tom Heathcote, Andries Strauss.

Official Blurb

Pro 12 website wrote:Cardiff Blues have slipped to three straight Guinness PRO12 defeats but have not lost four in a row since this time last year, whilst their only victory at BT Sports Cardiff Arms Park in their last four fixtures in all tournaments was 104-12 over Rovigo in the European Challenge Cup on 16th January.
Edinburgh Rugby's three game winning run in the Guinness PRO12 ended at the hands of Ulster on Friday evening.

Edinburgh won their most recent away game in the competitions, 16-13 at Connacht, and have not secured back-to-back away victories in the competition since September 2009.

Edinburgh's 28-13 victory at BT Murrayfield in round 8 ended a three game losing run against the Blues, whilst they have not achieved a PRO12 season's double over the Welshmen since season 2009/10.

My blurb

Like two bald men fighting over a comb, this game may come down to whoever tries to lose the least.  The Blues had a bad defeat away to the worst team in the league last week, and Edinburgh somehow managed to lose to Ulster despite being a man up for the last 20 minutes and two men up for the last 6.

Recent form suggests that it was more of a blip from Edinburgh's point of view as they had won 3 pro 12 games before that, and Blues have lost 3 Pro 12 games in a row.

If Edinburgh can sort out their lineout and kick their goals I reckon we can win this one.  If not, home advantage will see the Blues home.

And he gets his reward!

Fantastic offloading out of the tackle over and over again.

Try of the season

Ellis Jenkins is having a stormer

Good try Blues, a well deserved lead. Our weekend is not getting any better!

Time to seek alternative citizenship

Looks like normal service is resuming - Edinburgh's season falling apart at the seams.

Burleigh was a bit lucky there, that did look late

Oh dear. What did Mister Leadership get carded for?

I assume that it wasn't for being Too Awesome.

Can't see us crawling this back either given how crap our goal kicker is.

Need to get Heathcote on, surely he can't play as badly this week

Heathcote is on

BigGee wrote:Need to get Heathcote on, surely he can't play as badly this week

I dunno, this is Scottish rugby we're talking about...

Edinburgh really are on top in the scrum. Take the points, its a long way to go

I'm off to the shops to buy clothes.

That shows how far my interest has dropped recently!

Innovative charge down there

RDW_Scotland wrote:I'm off to the shops to buy clothes.

That shows how far my interest has dropped recently!

I am still a long way from that stage!

Whatttt???

Damn it,

we are going to throw this game away as well

Visser doing what he does best

Good try Visser, great delayed pass by Heathcote. He has not scored enough of those this year

The wind looks like it really is going to be a factor in this game

Dammit - premature shopping trip!

That was a turnover, Blues lucky there

If we lose this because of Te Rures easy penalty miss I think it's fair to say my opinion of him won't be improved.

We're just gifting Edinburgh possession all the time

Yes! Dacey is on

The Blues defence is a joke Visser was not touched for that last try. This is more like it for the Blues

What is it about Scottish sides and rolling mauls. You would think we had never seen one before.

Some kick by Patchell

The wind helped there well judged

Missed tackle again by the 7

What can you say!

A yellow card when Turnball was on his feet over the ball and Edinburgh were not releasing



Poor

Finally we manage to find touch!

Good maul finished off by the ginger midget

So we can do a rolling maul as well, about time!

Cuthbert

Conceed a try then kick it out on the full

Just a minute Blues - you cannot horribly capitulate and hand the game to the opposition with some sweeties and a stripper in the last 10 minutes.

That's our job.

Conceed a try, kick the restart out on the full, conceed a penalty at the resulting scrum.

This is why we are the worst team in the league bar the Italians

He jumps into Fife

Why did Fife not jump, he gave that to them!

GLove39 wrote:He jumps into Fife

He jumped for the ball and Fife hit him with his arms not challenging for the ball.

Sorry, that is a clear card with the current laws

Lineout has been a disaster, we are really trying to throw this away.

Another penalty conceded.

This is laughable, all we had to do was keep possession and the game was won.

The tackling is shocking still Ed just need to keep ball in hand and run at the joke defence.

Without wanting to get into this debate again the current laws suck!

Last chance saloon!

Pretty sure time was up when that went into touch