Cardiff Blues v Sale

Current score:

3 - 7

Updates here:

http://matchdaylive.ercrugby.com/heineken/index.php?mobile=0

Halfpenny just missed a penalty - he has not been in the right percentages the last few weeks since he returned.

If the Blues lose this match, it will be a huge step backwards.

9-7. ESPN scrum scoresheet is more efficient.

Why is this not on match choice on the red button?

I was using ESPN, but the other one seems to have more detail

Blues will all the penalty attempts, makes be think they are dominant having given away a silly early try.

thebluesmancometh wrote:Why is this not on match choice on the red button?

Because all of Sky's viewers would rather watch 2 french teams play each other, or Connacht play Zebra yesterday rather than a Welsh and English team play each other

J.Navidi is having a stormer apparently.

It's on live here in France, blues are playing very well.

maestegmafia wrote:It's on live here in France, blues are playing very well.

So you can watch a Welsh vs English team play in France, but only a French vs French match in Britain. Sigh.

Who's playing well for the Blues?

And why haven't we scored a try!

Whats the score and whos doing what MM?

Second half just starting now. Blues looking good all round. Backrow doing good work. Possibly had the lighter side of the referees breakdown interpretation to be fair.

Commentary is in French, I get some of it but this bar is quite lively.

I think Patterson just came on at HT. Possibly for one of the locks???

Is this his first game back

Blues conceded a try strait away there.

Same as at the start of the match. Soft defence.

Good news is they got one too. I think it was Lloyd Williams who scored

Game has a bit of edge now. 16-14

Lloyd Williams did something good

Paterson's second game of the season after getting re-injured in his first game a few months ago. Good to see him back.

Another missed penalty, 2 in one game from Halfpenny used to be a once in a blue moon event

He has been missing a few recently, lets hope he turns it around before the 2nd

Paterson makes his return with a 73rd minute try, which should seal a much needed victory

23 - 14

23 - 14. Patterson try.

FT

23 - 14

Is Patterson Wales-qualified? (I know he's played for NZ under 21s.)

Well played Blues

Ospreydragon wrote:Is Patterson Wales-qualified? (I know he's played for NZ under 21s.)

Not yet, I think he has stated he would like to play for Wales when he becomes qualified (which I think is next year) - he is a very good lock/6, far better than Pretorious.

Sorry lads Internet died...! Great game Cardiff did really well. Conceded soft tries, lapses in defence.

And Lloyd Williams is MOTM

Final score was 26 - 14.

Only blwdi game of the day that wasn't televised???!!!!

Wales606 -- agree with you re: Patterson -- far better than Pretorious.

thebluesmancometh wrote:Only blwdi game of the day that wasn't televised???!!!!

Probably because it was a dead rubber

Highlights of Blues match (and Scarlets agsinat Clermont A, which starts at 8 pm) on S4c tonight at 10 oclock.

mike

Unlike the Connact Zebre qualification decider?

and apparently Lloyd Williams created both of the Blues tries.

whats the bet he will be fantastic for the rest of the season, just to mock me.

Just to mock us wales!

I would like nothing better but do you see it?

Hope no Blues players start for Wales. Halfpenny a possible exception

wales606 wrote:And Lloyd Williams is MOTM

He played really well. A few French lads were asking who he is!

Glad to see him play the way he showed when he first hit the scene.

thebluesmancometh wrote:Just to mock us wales!

I would like nothing better but do you see it?

I would settle for him not being as bad for the rest of the season.

Pity they didn't televise the game, I would have liked to probably judge how good a game Williams had.

maestegmafia wrote:

wales606 wrote:And Lloyd Williams is MOTM

He played really well. A few French lads were asking who he is!

Glad to see him play the way he showed when he first hit the scene.

Just typical, same thing happened when I started slating Eli Walker after his dire performances last year.

Maybe I should just criticise all the Welsh players. I've been annoyed at Roberts, but he has been good the last few weeks and almost got a couple of tries today apparently.

Sam Hobbs is awful, he will never be able to outscrummage everyone on the loosehead

wales606 wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:

wales606 wrote:And Lloyd Williams is MOTM

He played really well. A few French lads were asking who he is!

Glad to see him play the way he showed when he first hit the scene.

Just typical, same thing happened when I started slating Eli Walker after his dire performances last year.

Maybe I should just criticise all the Welsh players. I've been annoyed at Roberts, but he has been good the last few weeks and almost got a couple of tries today apparently.

Sam Hobbs is awful, he will never be able to outscrummage everyone on the loosehead

Good work mate, keep it up...!

We need all the help we can get. Even if it is an obscure way to get players into form it seems to work well...!

How did Gray do?

Tell me what you think about Davies wales too

Just back from the game. Was very impressed with the crowd considering the weather we've had. First off the Sale fans were great, top banter and they kept behind their team all game. We were in good voice too, which still surprises me. There was some very good rugby at times. I've bashed Lloyd Williams a lot lately but he had a good game and was very influential. Josh. . . This guy, what a work horse. He must judge his own performances by how many bruises he can get in a game. Because he is body on the line every chance he can.

Leaking two tries in the first few minutes of each half was worrying, there was a period of the game that lasted 20 odd minutes where Sale lived in our half and had all of the possession. Fantastic defence from the boys, some really big hits driving them back. The first proper phase of possession we had after that was a line out just outside of their 22, and Lloyd to his credit sported a gap and threw a basketball pace 20 yard to Pats who jogged it in. Worth standing in the cold for. BLOOOOOOOOOOS!

Good to hear Coleman

Blues will always win a dead rubber match, just never when they need to.

Great achievement beating the worst team in the history of the English premiership.

Well done Blues. Players deserve a night out in Ponty tonight.

Cheers rose Good to have your support!

Sorry Rose, but aren’t Rotherham the worst team in the History of the English Prem as they went a whole season without winning a game? I don't think Sale are even close to being the worst.

Rose is 3rdgrandslam, Roger Lewis, Scrumdown, onlyonewelshregion among others. I think we can agree that he is a lot more embarrasing to Welsh rugby than the team was in the Autumn Internationals.

Nothing is more embarrassing than Wales post grand slam 2012.

Who is scrumdown?

very cold second half. coleman is right, navidi had a massive game. halfpenny missed a long range pen but not by much, short on acuracy not distance.
jamie roberts messed up a chance when he passed to lloyd on the inside with three men outside him. (someone shouted he should go to france)

sale had a lot of ball in the second half and batered the blues line and played in their 22 for a solid 10 munites and came away with nothing. huge effort from blues to absorb all that pressure.

really good team performance. williams deserved the motm but many others did enough to be concidered.

said hello to cipriani in the tunnel on the way out. he was too cool to say alright.