Tigers vs Ospreys - HEC Round 2

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Tigers v Ospreys Sunday the 21st October 2012

Kick Off at 15:00
Welford Road

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Referee: Romain Poite (France)

Assistant referees: Cédric Marchat (France), Eric Soulan (France)

Television match official: Bernard Dal Maso (France)


Form
Statistics for Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys

Games played: 6 5.50%
Games won by Leicester Tigers: 3 50.00%
Games lost by Leicester Tigers: 2 33.33%
Games drawn: 1 16.67%
Most wins in a row for Leicester Tigers over Ospreys: 3
Most losses in a row for Leicester Tigers to Ospreys: 1
Largest points for Leicester Tigers: 32 32 - 32
Largest points against Leicester Tigers: 32 32 - 32
Largest winning margin for Leicester Tigers: 18 30 - 12
Largest losing margin for Leicester Tigers: 6 15 - 9
Total points for Leicester Tigers: 112
Total points against Leicester Tigers: 97
Average points for Leicester Tigers per game: 18.67
Average points against Leicester Tigers per game: 16.17
Average points difference per game between Leicester Tigers and Ospreys: 2.50

Leicester Tigers

15 Scott Hamilton 14 Niall Morris 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi 12 Anthony Allen 11 Vereniki Goneva 10 Toby Flood 9 Ben Youngs 1 Logovi'i Mulipola
2 Tom Youngs 3 Dan Cole 4 Graham Kitchener 5 Geoff Parling 6 Steve Mafi 7 Thomas Waldrom 8 Jordan Crane (c)

Replacements
16 George Chuter, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Martin Castrogiovanni, 19 Louis Deacon, 20 Richard Thorpe, 21 Sam Harrison, 22 George Ford, 23 Matt Smith



Ospreys:

Richard Fussell; Hanno Dirksen, Andrew Bishop, Ashley Beck, Eli Walker; Dan Biggar, Kahn Fotuali'i; Ryan Bevington, Richard Hibbard, Adam Jones, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), Ian Evans, Ryan Jones, Jonathan Thomas, Justin Tipuric.
Replacements: Matthew Dwyer; Duncan Jones, Aaron Jarvis, George Stowers, Joe Bearman, Rhys Webb, Matthew Morgan, Tom Isaacs.

Leicester hammering home their pedigree. Ospreys continue to show the lack of theirs.

34-22 as the fourth try TBP beckons.

Does he heck!!! His boot is cracking but his agility and threat is near non existant!!!

Ospreys poor back 3 showing their class now!

Care, Youngs or Phillips for Lions 10?

Leicester will get a TPB at this rate.

Everything has gone against the O's today, even the bounce of the ball

i mean 9

Morgannwg wrote:

nathan wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:You'd think Tigers are 50 points up with the way Barnes keeps talking about how amazing they are.

Rookie error, listening to anything Barnes says

too true!!

So why is he held in such high esteem by Sky Sports?

Answers on a post card please Nathan. If you can.

eh? i have no idea why the sky sports team love him, you'll have to ask them that.

Reason why i dislike him: He goes over the top with things.

Care youngs nor phillips for Lions 10

Phillips leads the chase though for 9.

BristolTaff wrote:Care, Youngs or Phillips for Lions 10?

?

What about Connor Murray for lions 9?

get in there, great finish in the end by the tigers!

Flood has been excellent today. First time i have seen him control a match for a long time.

just like to point out the offload by Manu, you don't see them often!!

Well done Tigers. What a shock to see a region capitulate after a promising start.

Awful

Ospreys threw it all away and may well have thrown away their chance in the HC by giving away 1pt and gifting Leicester one.

Pote roaring at an offide Ospreys player - Stop, stop!

Does he really need to be that kind to them?

Never mind, class shows through. Tuligai darts over the line. Bonus point.

Toulouse will be loving this.

Well deserved by Leicester, the better team in every way today. Only Tiperic won the individual battle. Can't believe the Ospreys imploded to come away with nothing and give them the BP.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Rhys Webb showing his quality there, facing away from Tuilagi as he dives over for the TBP...

And as predicted 3 regions out of europe and Ospreys holding on by a thread until round 3 anyway!!!

Hard to see how Tigers pulled out a bonus point win from this one, but they did it. Congratulations on a vital 5 points.

Never seen a club side turn it on like Leicester did after the interception. Ospreys imploded.

Immense performance from Flood.

Ospreys hit the self destruct button. There you go Leicester, gift wrapped.

agh, wish Sky wouldnt keep showing Floods dive!

could be an absolutely crucial BP for Leicester that, esp. after not getting anything last week...

Who cares anyway?!

10 years ago we had terrible clubs and an even worse national side that regularly shipped 50+ points in the six nations.

Now we have mediocre regions (with the Ospreys winning 4 leagues) and 3 grand slams and a good national side.

I'm still happy. It will be a long time before the Welsh challenge in the H cup.

nathan wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:

nathan wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:You'd think Tigers are 50 points up with the way Barnes keeps talking about how amazing they are.

Rookie error, listening to anything Barnes says

too true!!

So why is he held in such high esteem by Sky Sports?

Answers on a post card please Nathan. If you can.

eh? i have no idea why the sky sports team love him, you'll have to ask them that.

Reason why i dislike him: He goes over the top with things.

Seeing as he's the commentator then it makes it incredibly difficult to not listen to his droning doesn't it?

Good end to the game from Leicester, Ospreys fell apart and were the masters of their own downfall all game inc winding Poite up.

TBP Leicester and thank you, I had a tenner on 4 regional losses this weekend at 9/2.

BristolTaff wrote:Care, Youngs or Phillips for Lions 10?

Out of those 3, Youngs has probably played 10 most recently? Care and Youngs both started as 10s

Bristol

you still havnt answered me, what nationality are you?

Morgannwg wrote:Hard to see how Tigers pulled out a bonus point win from this one, but they did it. Congratulations on a vital 5 points.

Experience and pedigree. Ospreys had a brilliant opening ten minutes and then regressed from there. At European level, Leicester know how to get on top and stay there. Ospreys still haven't made that step up. Their double header against Toulouse will be another opportunity.

Morgannwg wrote:

nathan wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:

nathan wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:You'd think Tigers are 50 points up with the way Barnes keeps talking about how amazing they are.

Rookie error, listening to anything Barnes says

too true!!

So why is he held in such high esteem by Sky Sports?

Answers on a post card please Nathan. If you can.

eh? i have no idea why the sky sports team love him, you'll have to ask them that.

Reason why i dislike him: He goes over the top with things.

Seeing as he's the commentator then it makes it incredibly difficult to not listen to his droning doesn't it?

eh, what is your problem.

I just replied to show my distaste for Barnes.

Leicester know how to get on top and stay there.

I have not seen much of that for a few years mate, except in the group stages against weakened opposition.

I'm a West Glamorganite

I believe you, honest!

There is one key fact from this game though...

Poite didn't allow one scrum to completion!!!!

Morgannwg wrote:

nathan wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:

nathan wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:You'd think Tigers are 50 points up with the way Barnes keeps talking about how amazing they are.

Rookie error, listening to anything Barnes says

too true!!

So why is he held in such high esteem by Sky Sports?

Answers on a post card please Nathan. If you can.

eh? i have no idea why the sky sports team love him, you'll have to ask them that.

Reason why i dislike him: He goes over the top with things.

Seeing as he's the commentator then it makes it incredibly difficult to not listen to his droning doesn't it?

There's hearing (hard to avoid without pressing mute) and listening. You've had a GF right? Should know the difference

nathan wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:

nathan wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:

nathan wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:You'd think Tigers are 50 points up with the way Barnes keeps talking about how amazing they are.

Rookie error, listening to anything Barnes says

too true!!

So why is he held in such high esteem by Sky Sports?

Answers on a post card please Nathan. If you can.

eh? i have no idea why the sky sports team love him, you'll have to ask them that.

Reason why i dislike him: He goes over the top with things.

Seeing as he's the commentator then it makes it incredibly difficult to not listen to his droning doesn't it?

eh, what is your problem.

I just replied to show my distaste for Barnes.

But you also agreed with it being rookie to listen to him. I'm just saying to you, that it's impossible to not listen when he is the Sky Sports commentator. Don't you understand?

And I agree, the best Tigers performance in Europe for a while. They should beat Toulouse at home, with Toulouse getting a LBP imo. That leaves Ospreys struggling to get 2nd place in the pool.

BristolTaff wrote:Who cares anyway?!

10 years ago we had terrible clubs and an even worse national side that regularly shipped 50+ points in the six nations.

Now we have mediocre regions (with the Ospreys winning 4 leagues) and 3 grand slams and a good national side.

I'm still happy. It will be a long time before the Welsh challenge in the H cup.

just to challege in a game would be nice

ChequeredJersey wrote:

There's hearing (hard to avoid without pressing mute) and listening. You've had a GF right? Should know the difference

Good point. But during a game of rugby, which is interesting, I do not switch off.

Great performance there by Tigers in particular their half backs.

I hope Adam Jones injury isn't too bad.

Shame we collapsed in the end but the O's offered liitle attacking threat in the second half. Fair play Leicester

Bristoltaff....your full of What was it last time? Wugbee? before that?, before that?

Think the interviewer wants a 3 way with Youngs and Flood

john

Thats the funniest thing Ive heard!!

Could they blow anymore smoke up Ben Youngs ass,

Cracking game. Real nip-and-tuck until the last few minutes. Well done Tigers, bad luck Ospreys!

Avalon wrote:I'm backing Tigers to bounce back from their rather tentative and mistake-laden performance v Toulouse.

Bonus point win for the home side.

To be fair, it didn't look like it for most of the game!

Fantastic play by the Tigers. not only to get a 4 try bonus point win, but to beat the Ospreys the way they did in the last 10/15 minutes of the game.

Osprey's heads went down after the intercept try and they just didn't have the leadership there to pick them back up. Ospreys could have done with a big ball carrier to come off the bench and give them some momentum as the pack flagged.

Good performance from Tigers. Goneva still looks a liability but the Youbgs brothers did good things, Flood put down a good marker. Cole was exceptional as well.

Fair play to Leicester - can't abide the buggers but they're virtually impossible to beat at home

Looks like a good performance went bad.

Only positive is that we are still ahead of Tigers in the pool on points difference. Could be a very tight group if OS can do well against Toulouse we may stand a chance. But they are a very good team.

Sean Edwards asked a telling question before the weekend -

Ryan Bevington will have a testing time against Dan Cole & it will be an indication of whether he is of international standard.

This together with the quality of the Tigers bench & the step up in form of Youngs & Flood made the victory almost inevitable.

It was a shame Duncan did not start the game he more than held his own when he was on

AWJones is no captain, he just does not seem to let the ref know he is missing infringements or is inconsistent e.g. the ref yellow cards his prop but just warns the home team prop for the same multiple offence there were other examples of inconsistent in the reffing that in the end resulted in penalties because other players in the Ospreys making comments.

The interception finished the game as a contest, it was so telegraphed, unfortunately all flyhalves suffer the dreaded interception at some point just wish it was in a less important game.

Overall a very exciting game and well done to the Tigers, Flood had a very good game and deserved MOTM everything went his way today and he took his chances. On this form he is in a good position for the Lions if he can keep injury free.

I think this group is far from settled as I think the big 3 will win all the home games.