Ospreys v Edinburgh, 21 September

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Ospreys v Edinburgh
 
Saturday 21st September 2013, KO 18:30
Liberty Stadium, Landore
 
Referee: Claudio Blessano (FIR, 5th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Gwyn Morris, Greg Morgan (both WRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Charles (WRU)
TMO: Paul Adams (WRU)
 
Live on S4C/BBC Heedrumhodrum
 
A. Teams:
 
1. Ospreys      
15 Richard Fussell
14 Jeff Hassler
13 Andrew Bishop
12 Ashley Beck
11 Eli Walker
10 Dan Biggar
9 Tito Tebaldi

1 Duncan Jones
2 Richard Hibbard
3 Adam Jones
4 Alun Wyn Jones (Capt)
5 Ian Evans
6 Tom Smith
7 Sam Lewis
8 Morgan Allen

REPLACEMENTS
16 Scott Baldwin
17 Ryan Bevington
18 Joe Rees
19 Tyler Ardron
20 Justin Tipuric
21 Tom Grabham
22 Matthew Morgan
23 Aisea Natoga
 
2. Edinburgh    
15 Greig Tonks

14 Nikki Walker
13 Dougie Fife
12 Nick De Luca
11 Tim Visser

10 Harry Leonard
9 Sean Kennedy

1 Alasdair Dickinson
2 Aleki Lutui
3 Geoff Cross
4 Grant Gilchrist
5 Izak van der Westhuizen
6 Dimitri Basilaia
7 Roddy Grant CAPTAIN
8 David Denton

Substitutes

16 James Hilterbrand
17 Wicus Blaauw
18 WP Nel
19 Ollie Atkins
20 Hamish Watson
21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne
22 Michael Tait
23 Jack Cuthbert
 
B. Form - head to head:
 
Ospreys/Edinburgh
 
22 Played 22
12 Wins 9
9 Losses 12
1 Draws 1
49 Tries 49
30 Conversions 36
64 Penalties 42
4 Drop Goals 1
509 Points 446
26 Avg. Age 25
 
C. Form - last season:
 
Friday 23 November 2012, 19:05: Murrayfield
Edinburgh Rugby 23 - 13 Ospreys
 
Friday 22 February 2013, 20:00: Liberty Stadium
Ospreys 24 - 7 Edinburgh Rugby

We really need Rennie back, we play so much better with him at flank

Haha comic timing from Robin Hislop "professional players should be able to catch the ball" just as Denton makes a massive knock on...

We should just give up and fold as a professional rugby club - I'm sick of this!

If I had a pound for every time Edinburgh cocked up and knocked on or fell off a tackle I'd hire some decent players...

The Ed team will be glad to head home tonight terrible performance. Fussell screws that one up.

Has nikki walker even been on the pitch?

Denton getting that ball shows how lazy he was getting back to not help his team mates

Hibbard MOTM  

Tips was a bit thick there getting that penalty away great tackle near the line, good defence.

O's work at the breakdown has been great tonight

Awh look at Morgs go!!!! What a try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great pace from Morgan!

Only Morgan can do that, cracking score

nice try! Very quick feet

I've said it a lot tonight. But that is shameful. Great run by Morgan he should have been smashed in his 22

Oh here we go...TMO...YAWN. It's got to be given That's got to be a contender for try of the season in this league.

50 50 that one great attempt by Walker deserved better.

OH YES YOU BLYDI CAN REF!!!!

 

44-10 duly converted by the man himself.

Wow.

the run itself deserved the try, tmo probably saw it that way too.

Just about got it on the line

 

Do ospreys have there personal officials? That last try was knocked on! A few not straight line outs in particular the one at the second try, offsides, Edinburgh played very poor and deserve to be beaten buy these decisions should be fair and didn't feel there was consistency tonight

What's really mad is with all the stoppages, TMO's etc the game kicked off at half 6 and here we are 2 hours later and it's just finished.

The scrum half kicks far too much for me, against better sides he could cost the team.

Good win

FT 44-10 Well done boys.  

Ole Ole Ole Ole Ospreys Ospreys...  

Well played ospreys - you can only beat the team in front of you........was there one in front of you?

Quick question to the Scottish fans - I switched it over to BBC Alba to see what it was like. How come they switch between English and Scottish language??? Is it just Scottish for the commentary and then English when talking to the guys in the studio? Thought I was going mad for a bit 'cause I could have sworn I understood everything they said, and then I couldn't understand anything!

I watch Alba because there is more English that Scottish. The S4C pundits all said Ed were terrible tonight and seem to be caught between playing the open game of last year and this year's forward game. I thought that was a good observation.

BBC Alba commentate in Gaelic, however they usually have a Scottish rugby player as a guest. So they speak in Gaelic unless talking to the guest player, in which case they switch to talking in English, before switching back again.

Cari wrote:FT 44-10  Well done boys.  

Ole Ole Ole Ole Ospreys Ospreys...  

I think a few of the French, English and Irish teams would have put 60 points on an Edinburgh team playing like that. Ospreys need to continue to improve. Nice to see the leading players were hungry, it's inspirational to the other players around them.  

The Saint wrote:

Cari wrote:FT 44-10 Well done boys.

Ole Ole Ole Ole Ospreys Ospreys...

I think a few of the French, English and Irish teams would have put 60 points on an Edinburgh team playing like that. Ospreys need to continue to improve. Nice to see the leading players were hungry, it's inspirational to the other players around them.

It did not help having a scrum half hoofing the ball away also the Ospreys had 4 Lions out of 5 in the front and second row and another came into the back row, I can't think of to many teams that have a pack that came match the Ospreys and Bearman and R Jones did not play.

Manky-Flanker wrote:BBC Alba commentate in Gaelic, however they usually have a Scottish rugby player as a guest. So they speak in Gaelic unless talking to the guest player, in which case they switch to talking in English, before switching back again.  

Cheers for the explanation!

glamorganalun wrote:

The Saint wrote:

Cari wrote:FT 44-10  Well done boys.

Ole Ole Ole Ole Ospreys Ospreys...

I think a few of the French, English and Irish teams would have put 60 points on an Edinburgh team playing like that. Ospreys need to continue to improve. Nice to see the leading players were hungry, it's inspirational to the other players around them.

It did not help having a scrum half hoofing the ball away also the Ospreys had 4 Lions out of 5 in the front and second row and another came into the back row, I can't think of to many teams that have a pack that came match the Ospreys and Bearman and R Jones did not play.

What was worrying for the Ospreys was the number of penalties and free kicks conceded at the scrum. For a team with so many Lions in the pack I would have expected them to dominate the scrum, but maybe the new laws do not favour strong scrummaging teams???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Z27soqWRM&feature=youtu.be

Griff:

It does look like the team putting the ball in is under pressure as the hooker now has to hook and not push so the scrum gets disrupted resulting in a mess as we saw tonight.

We made 34 errors tonight. 34!!!

RDW_Scotland wrote:We made 34 errors tonight. 34!!!

Yikes! Where'd you see that stat?
Also imagine playing the 'Edinburgh rugby mistake drinking' game tonight...  

Welsh journo - rabbo pro 12 account re-tweeted it

Could be worse you could have lost to Zebra at home!

RDW_Scotland wrote:We made 34 errors tonight. 34!!!

Jesus. The first one apparently being deciding to turn up.  

Anyone got an email address for Solomons? Need to send him this so he can hopefully pass on the instructions to the team http://www.wikihow.com/Teach-a-Child-to-Throw,-Catch-and-Hit-a-Ball

GLove39 wrote:Anyone got an email address for Solomons? Need to send him this so he can hopefully pass on the instructions to the team http://www.wikihow.com/Teach-a-Child-to-Throw,-Catch-and-Hit-a-Ball

Try whathaveigotmyselfinto@worstproteamever.com

RDW_Scotland wrote:

GLove39 wrote:Anyone got an email address for Solomons? Need to send him this so he can hopefully pass on the instructions to the team http://www.wikihow.com/Teach-a-Child-to-Throw,-Catch-and-Hit-a-Ball

Try whathaveigotmyselfinto@worstproteamever.com

 

George Carlin wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:We made 34 errors tonight. 34!!!

Jesus. The first one apparently being deciding to turn up.  

 

Edinburgh got more than they deserved from that match.Used to them being poor but they have added a nasty edge which makes them even more unpleasing to the eye.They have gone for big lumps but have not one Rugby player in their side.
I hope they get all that they deserve this season.

Nasty edge?

RDW_Scotland wrote:Nasty edge?

Sorry,I meant dirty.

Taff you wouldn't happen to be called Sian Chetty would you?

Ok, same question, replace nasty with dirty?