Ospreys Vs Treviso

Ospreys

15 Richard Fussell
14 Hanno Dirksen
13 Andrew Bishop
12 Ashley Beck
11 Shane Williams
10 Dan Biggar
9 Kahn Fotuali'i

1 Paul James
2 Richard Hibbard
3 Adam Jones
4 Alun Wyn Jones (Capt)
5 Ian Evans
6 Ryan Jones
7 Justin Tipuric
8 Joe Bearman

Replacements:

16 Scott Baldwin
17 Ryan Bevington
18 Aaron Jarvis
19 James King
20 Tom Smith
21 Rhys Webb
22 Matthew Morgan
23 Tom Isaacs

The following players were not considered because of injury:

George Stowers - Neck
Jonathan Thomas - Illness
Huw Bennett - Achilles
Duncan Jones - Medial ligament
Will Price - ACL
Cai Griffiths - Arm
Richard Kelly - Wrist
Ben John - Groin
Gareth Owen - ACL
Nikki Walker - ACL



Treviso

15 Kristopher Burton
14 Tommaso Benvenuti
13 Tommaso Iannone
12 Alberto Sgarbi
11 Ludovico Nitoglia
10 Alberto Di Bernardo
9 Edoardo Gori
8 Manoa Vosawai
7 Alessandro Zanni
6 Francesco Minto
5 Corniel Van Zyl
4 Antonio Pavanello (captain)
3 Lorenzo Cittadini
2 Enrico Ceccato
1 Michele Rizzo

On the bench:

16 Franco Sbaraglini
17 Matteo Muccignat
18 Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet
19 Valerio Bernabò
20 Gonzalo Padrò
21 Marco Filippucci
22 Fabio Semenzato
23 Luke McLean

No Tommy Bowe? I see this as a comfortable Ospreys win but no bonus point. But good chance I'm wrong and they can get the 5 to be honest.

I'd agree Notch, this is a very weak Treviso team to be honest.

No Leonardo Ghiraldini at hooker, Brendan Williams or Luke McLean to start, in fact I'd say only about 4-6 of that Treviso team are first choice players.

Considering they lost to us 44-17 in the Heinaken Cup in January at the Liberty I think they know we will be out for blood after when they did to us away in the Heinaken Cup.

Looking forward to this one. Treviso are a good team. Hopefully the o's have the legs.

Not happy that Webb is benching for Khan...!

If the Ospreys can't get 4 tries, questions need to asked why as they need to get to second for the play off's.

It will be interesting to see the turn out against a weak team after the good effort at Leinster.

glamorganalun wrote:If the Ospreys can't get 4 tries, questions need to asked why as they need to get to second for the play off's.

It will be interesting to see the turn out against a weak team after the good effort at Leinster.

Just happy to see a win to be honest. I don't think anyone underestimates Treviso or overestimates the ospreys.

Notch - No Tommy. Disappointed My Boy's not there. Hopefully he's just having a well earned rest and he'll be back for the remaining fixtures this season. I hope they're not being funny cause he's decided to go home.

Anyway, O's have put out a good team, so hopefully they can get a decent win out of this. Would be a nice 21st birthday for Dirksen if he scores.

3 - 0 after a penalty kick from Biggar.

Burton kicking for a penalty now. Well taken 3 - 3 after 13 minutes.

Oh dear....Ospreys manage to get themselves back to the halfway line after being a couple of metres from the try line. Scrappy play. Biggar getting treatment for something. Seems OK though.

Birthday Boy offloads to Beck to get the Ospreys their first try when he could've gone on himself. Excellent!

10 - 3. Duly converted.

Well played Biggar, poor play by the FB

Awwwwh just seen My Boy sat in the crowd there. Lush!

Behave Cari

eirebilly wrote:Behave Cari

A girl has to get her kicks somewhere!

Biggar gets another penalty over 13 - 3.

Going well there

Wow! Adam Jones makes a break and offloads to paul James who possibly got over the line...but he might just have lost it. TMO...

Why did Adam pass, he was away

TMO allows the try!



18 - 3 before conversion.

He lost the ball but did he recover it?

I guess so...TMO says he did. I thought he lost it at first, but he must've touched it down.

20 - 3 after the conversion.

I think Adam Jones fancies himself as a centre Dirksen just a metre short again. O's still in possession, but it's scrappy, and they're pinged for holding on.

One last scrum before HT, but Treviso kick it out.

20 - 3. HT

The forwards are on top and look the most likely to score, the Wales boys are all looking good unlike the Blues last night.

Showing the highlights Biggar kicking most of the time, the best kick was from Beck into space.

Hopefully the O's will get a BP win. Makes a change the forwards are looking good...usually one of them is the first in the bin. I hope they don't do that tonight!

There's loads of people wearing Adam Jones wigs...even the little kids doing the tag rugby at HT

Beck in with a try!! Have the TV on for this game and the Irish derby going on a stream....so I might get confused

27 - 3. Come on O's get the WBP!

Great rip by Ryan to turn over the ball

Why not play the adavantage and allow the scrum to contniue?

Great shot of Tommy having a cup o'tae on the terraces with Duncan J.

Beauty and the beast!

Ha yeah Glam!

Oh dear, shane's had a knock. Seems OK...

Who the hell cuts Shane's hair?

I hope the citing commisioner picks up on that off the ball charge, that was terrible.

glamorganalun wrote:Who the hell cuts Shane's hair?

Mother Nature. Shane's just got perpetual bad hair. Doesn't matter what he does, it always looks crap. Well, you can't have everything...

Treviso in with a try...admittedly I missed it cause I had to check on my pizza cooking in the oven.

27 - 8 before conversion.

Weak tackling all around

Subs coming on I rather they change when the bonus point is in the bag.

Oh I don't know, Treviso seem to be getting back into this now. Hope an O. doesn't get binned now.

The scrum is a mess over 2 mins gone and then a free kick. Another scrum over 3 mins gone and the ball is not in

Need to bring on Morgan as Biggar will kick the ball away as he has just done.

Shame Nigel Owens is ref'ing the Irish derby...he's sorting the scrums out. no messing about.

Biggar might well be replaced soon.

LOL, apprently there was incident on the plane en route back to Cardiff from Glasgow. Gavin Henson involved! What did he do this time!

Well looks like he has blown his last chance

Morgannwg wrote:LOL, apprently there was incident on the plane en route back to Cardiff from Glasgow. Gavin Henson involved! What did he do this time!

Oh no. Really? To be fair to him, we don't know the details, but maybe he was wound up by a mouthy Weegee on the plane

Thank goodness for that push over, the forwards win the day.

Well done spreys for getting a try bonus point.

I am interested to hear about it Cari. We don't know who's fault it was. Got a feeling another team in Wales would want his services though. Dragons perhaps.

Excellent scrum gives Beerman the BP try. Wooop!

34 - 10.

I'm sure the Western Fail will be all over it Morgan. He's moved about so much will anyone want him??