Edinburgh V Cardiff Blues

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Edinburgh Rugby team to play Cardiff Blues at Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday 22 April (kick-off 2.05pm) - BBC WALES
15 Chris Paterson

14 Sep Visser
13 James King
12 John Houston
11 Jim Thompson



10 Phil Godman
9 Alex Black



1 Kyle Traynor
2 Andrew Kelly
3 Jack Gilding

4 Robert McAlpine
5 Steven Turnbull

6 Alan MacDonald

7 Struan Dewar

8 Roddy Grant CAPTAIN

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Substitutes:

16 Alun Walker
17 Robin Hislop

18 Lewis Niven

19 Murray Douglas (Aberdeen Grammar)

20 Hamish Watson
21 Chris Leck

22 Harry Leonard
23 Dougie Fife



15 Ben Blair 14 Alex Cuthbert 13 Casey Laulala 12 Dafydd Hewitt 11 Tom James 10 Ceri Sweeney 9 Lloyd Williams
8 Luke Hamilton 7 Martyn Williams 6 Maama Molitika 5 James Down 4 Bradley Davies 3 Scott Andrews 2 Marc Breeze 1 Gethin Jenkins

16 Kristian Dacey 17 John Yapp 18 Sam Hobbs 19 Macauley Cook 20 Josh Navidi 21 Richie Rees 22 Dan Parks 23 Gavin Evans



Think it's fair to say this is pretty much a 3rd choice Edinburgh team, with young amateurs included!

Another humping on the cards then....

RDW_Scotland wrote:Just tuned in to watch - what kind of crowd is that? Looks like hundreds instead of thousands!

CCS boycott

wales606 wrote:Stupid knock ons

Cuthbert is not playing well at the moment.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Just tuned in to watch - what kind of crowd is that? Looks like hundreds instead of thousands!

That's what they get at Murrayfield isn't it? So not sure why it come across as a strange sight.

Yapp and Evans on.

Gethin Jenkins gets a standing ovation.

Rampage...

munkian wrote:

wales606 wrote:Stupid knock ons

Cuthbert is not playing well at the moment.

He wasn't, his first try was simple and it seems to have boosted his confidence and he has stopped trying too hard.

Still makes stupid mistakes - ie. that stupid knock on he just made.

5 - 6 to Glasgow

Bad for the Scarlets

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Lucky for Glasgow

Great try Leonard - really great prospect at only 19 years old!

Pressure in the Blues 22

Good kick through by Leonard and he runs through to score

31 - 13

Martyn Williams handling is beautiful

Really back to his best recently.

Edinburgh taking a bit of a risk resting their first team for Ulster next week, I mean won't the be a bit short of match practice?

Shouldn't Edinburgh be sending their best team down? They could do with some prep for their HC semi.

6 day tunraround and a trip home from Cardiff and out to Dublin again?

Would be a ridiculous decision to play the first team in a dead rubber game!

PARKS RAN INTO A TACKLE AND MADE AN OFFLOAD

Im confused...

Also it is the end of a long season and most of the 1st team played last week, so they are hardly short of match practice!

wales606 wrote:PARKS RAN INTO A TACKLE AND MADE AN OFFLOAD

Im confused...

Ben Blair cant quite slide over to finish off his time as a Blue.

Glasgow just got a try. Game over for Treviso and Scarlets.

Beautiful take from Ritchie Rees, he has played very well off the bench.

Treviso 8 - 6 Glasgow

JD1 think he will give Mike Blair a run for his money next season.

Dacey shows his no8 skills and breaks the line, brilliant pass to Navidi in support - Try

38 - 13

Glasgow scored 2 minutes before that score was announced. Poor commentary. 13-8 and clock is on red.

Good vision from Leonard, but Sep Visser can't control it and it goes into touch.

FT 38 - 13

Scarlets need 5 points and need to hope Glasgow lose next weeks game.

Glasgow win thanks to their long lost favourite Canadian son saving them at the death.

Glasgow and Edinburgh matches both seemed to go as predicted, then.

Morgannwg wrote:Scarlets need 5 points and need to hope Glasgow lose next weeks game.

Morgan - if we lose against Connacht at home when we've done all the hard work, then we don't deserve to be anywhere near the professional sport.

Astonishing Schlong try in the last Scarlets match, incidentally.

Just saw the Edinburgh vs Cardiff "highlights". Pretty much as expected, men vs boys. Some of the Edinburgh tackling was beyond bad.

Agree with RDW, definitely the right thing to do resting the 1st XV. Ulster had to play full on against Leinster and it looks like they'll be going into the big game with a few injuries to some key players. Edinburgh should be fully fit and at full strength. Hopefully it'll be a leveller.

Its getting to the stage where I actually cant be bothered wasting my time watching Edinburgh in the Rabo anymore. Why waste my money going to watch them inevitably go out with a whimper like theyve done all season?

funnyExiledScot wrote:Just saw the Edinburgh vs Cardiff "highlights". Pretty much as expected, men vs boys. Some of the Edinburgh tackling was beyond bad.

Agree with RDW, definitely the right thing to do resting the 1st XV. Ulster had to play full on against Leinster and it looks like they'll be going into the big game with a few injuries to some key players. Edinburgh should be fully fit and at full strength. Hopefully it'll be a leveller.

No real injuries reported after the Leinster game, think Afoa will be the only one missing from Ulster's first choice team.

Artful,

Although the word on Wannenburg and Henry seems good we would very well be without Wallace.

funnyExiledScot wrote:Just saw the Edinburgh vs Cardiff "highlights". Pretty much as expected, men vs boys. Some of the Edinburgh tackling was beyond bad.

Agree with RDW, definitely the right thing to do resting the 1st XV. Ulster haddecided to play full on against Leinster and it looks like they'll be going into the big game with a few injuries to some key players. Edinburgh should be fully fit and at full strength. Hopefully it'll be a leveller.

Ulster will be match hardened and fit, and their systems will be up to speed They have an 8 day turnaround and less travel. (You can drive it in an hour and 3/4s)

I would say they will be handing out arsekickings like they were going out of fashion.

Artful_Dodger wrote:

funnyExiledScot wrote:Just saw the Edinburgh vs Cardiff "highlights". Pretty much as expected, men vs boys. Some of the Edinburgh tackling was beyond bad.

Agree with RDW, definitely the right thing to do resting the 1st XV. Ulster had to play full on against Leinster and it looks like they'll be going into the big game with a few injuries to some key players. Edinburgh should be fully fit and at full strength. Hopefully it'll be a leveller.

No real injuries reported after the Leinster game, think Afoa will be the only one missing from Ulster's first choice team.

That gives Edinburgh a chance at parity in the scrums then.

Morgannwg wrote:Scarlets need 5 points and need to hope Glasgow lose next weeks game.

Roy Orbison has a song about that.

Ooooonly in Dreamms, in make beeelieve.

George Carlin wrote:

Artful_Dodger wrote:

funnyExiledScot wrote:Just saw the Edinburgh vs Cardiff "highlights". Pretty much as expected, men vs boys. Some of the Edinburgh tackling was beyond bad.

Agree with RDW, definitely the right thing to do resting the 1st XV. Ulster had to play full on against Leinster and it looks like they'll be going into the big game with a few injuries to some key players. Edinburgh should be fully fit and at full strength. Hopefully it'll be a leveller.

No real injuries reported after the Leinster game, think Afoa will be the only one missing from Ulster's first choice team.

That gives Edinburgh a chance at parity in the scrums then.

More than parity perhaps, our back tightheads arent brilliant, a guy thats been out for a long time or a youngster.

MrsP - didnt realize Wallace is going to be out thought it would have been reported by now, thats very concerning, he keeps the backline running fluidly, Spence will always straighten and take contact at 12, not good.

I heard that Wanneburg has a knock but can play through it (hardly ideal but I guess he'll be fine). Scan on Henry all clear. Wallace could well have been judged concussed, meaning that he'll be out (along with Afoa that's a key loss).

The argument as to battled hardened vs fresh will of course be judged with hindsight, but because the turnaround for Edinburgh would have been so short, and because Edinburgh have no depth in their squad, it was a good call I think.

Official attendance 3,580

Blues supporters need to have a good hard look at themselves - this was the last home game for some great servants - Nugget, Melon, Blair .....etc. I know they want to go back to CAP, but to choose this game to boycott ?

they've been boycotting the last few Penfro, not just this one.

Think it's just completely poor form though for this game, Martyn, Geth, Molitika and the others have given so much over the years, they deserved so, SO much better.

There's no organised boycott, it's just people don't want to pay £22 to Cardiff City Football Club. It's a shame they didn't get a big send off, but hopefully this has opened PT & Co's eyes that CCS is not a viable option and only ever was had we been selling out the CAP for several years and the demand was there.

Jenifer McLadyboy wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:Scarlets need 5 points and need to hope Glasgow lose next weeks game.

Roy Orbison has a song about that.

Ooooonly in Dreamms, in make beeelieve.

Not impossible is it? I pointed it out for all the Scarlet hopefuls. I expect both of those teams to get 5 points though.

PenfroPete wrote:Official attendance 3,580

Blues supporters need to have a good hard look at themselves - this was the last home game for some great servants - Nugget, Melon, Blair .....etc. I know they want to go back to CAP, but to choose this game to boycott ?

I guess it is somewhat disheartening playing your last game for a club after several seasons and looking around at an empty stadium, must have felt like a training session.

IronMike wrote:

PenfroPete wrote:Official attendance 3,580

Blues supporters need to have a good hard look at themselves - this was the last home game for some great servants - Nugget, Melon, Blair .....etc. I know they want to go back to CAP, but to choose this game to boycott ?

I guess it is somewhat disheartening playing your last game for a club after several seasons and looking around at an empty stadium, must have felt like a training session.

Must also have felt like the fans don't give a F about you either - particularly after the last Welsh derby when it sounded like a Scarlets home game

Blues considering 3 options as regards to home fixtures next year, permanent change to CAP, mixture of games at CCS and CAP and the current one of playing at the CCS regardless.

How they would move back to CAP permanently would require someone with a hell of allot of money and a genius of a negotiator to get out of that contract. The mixture wouldn't work either, as we've seen for the bigger games this season, they still get small crowds. If you play at a home stadium you would want it full or near enough for every game. 11,000 at CAP is an intimidation atmosphere, whereas 11,000 in CCS, although a decent figure for a regional game, but looks awful at the CCS and sounds more like 6,000.

I would prefer CAP to be regenerated and thus the MS can be fully built into the bowl structure it was intended to be.

Perhaps the low attendance was due to the non-competitive selection by Edinburgh.Still a shock for their players to have over 3000 turn up.
Blues should have offered discounted prices for this discounted game.
Bit of a shame for the Blues stalwarts that were taking a bow today.
Cannot really blame Edinburgh as they rested their 6/7 decent players.

Primarily, besides issues with the ccs, i believe it's the scheduling. 2pm on a sunday? I'm just settling down for sunday lunch!

Says something especially when Dragons, who are routinely slagged off as the 4th region with poor support, can get that attendance for a nothing LV cup game.

Still maybe the Blues fans can get what they want from this boycott - ie Games moved back to the CAP, with the Blues paying for the CCS, paying to redevelop the CAP, and having all their fans of the Amlin semi glory days rushing back - ohh wait there's a max capacity of 10k at the CAP, so not all will be able to fit...

All they need to do is get the Health and Safety license upgraded. Then it will go back to the 12,500 it used it be before the move

gcBlues wrote:All they need to do is get the Health and Safety license upgraded. Then it will go back to the 12,500 it used it be before the move

Will the fans actually turn out for every game though...