Ospreys v Glasgow Warriors, 8 May

by **George Carlin** Mon 27 Apr 2015, 3:33 pm

First topic message reminder :

Ospreys v Glasgow Warriors
Friday 8 May
KO: 19:35
The Liberty Stadium, Swansea

Live on BBC Wales and BBC ALBA

Referee: George Clancy picard

(IRFU, 71st competition game)
Assistant Referees: Neil Hennessy, Martyn Lewis (WRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Charles (WRU )
TMO: Derek Bevan (WRU)

A. Head to Head

25 Played 25
11 Wins 11
11 Losses 11
2 Draws 2
54 Tries 42
37 Conversions 29
57 Penalties 64
8 Drop Goals 1
539 Points 463
24 Avg. Age 25

B. Form

Sat 21 Feb 2015 - Glasgow Warriors 19 - 16 Ospreys

Fri 28 Mar 2014 - Glasgow Warriors 11 - 9 Ospreys

Fri 29 Nov 2013 - Ospreys 16 - 28 Glasgow Warriors

C. Teams

Ospreys
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15 Dan Evans
14 Jeff Hassler
13 Ben John
12 Josh Matavesi
11 Eli Walker
10 Dan Biggar
09 Rhys Webb

01 Nicky Smith
02 Scott Baldwin
03 Aaron Jarvis
04 Tyler Ardron
05 Alun Wyn Jones (Capt)
06 James King
07 Justin Tipuric
08 Dan Baker

16 Sam Parry
17 Marc Thomas
18 Dmitri Arhip
19 Rory Thornton
20 Dan Lydiate
21 Tom Habberfield
22 Sam Davies
23 Jonathan Spratt

Glasgow Warriors
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15. Stuart Hogg
14. Tommy Seymour
13. Richie Vernon
12. Peter Horne
11. Niko Matawalu
10. Duncan Weir
09. Henry Pyrgos

01. Ryan Grant
02. Pat MacArthur
03. Jon Welsh
04. Tim Swinson
05. Jonny Gray
06. Rob Harley
07. Chris Fusaro
08. Josh Strauss (Captain)

16. Fraser Brown
17. Gordon Reid
18. Euan Murray
19. Leone Nakarawa
20. Ryan Wilson
21. Lee Jones
22. Fraser Lyle
23. Peter Murchie

by VinceWLB Fri 08 May 2015, 8:00 pm

GLove39 wrote:Never knew you couldn't kick if you'd come on as a concussion replacement.

Me too! strange rule i must say

by cakeordeath Fri 08 May 2015, 8:04 pm

pretty even game so far, still think Ospreys have the upper hand.

by **RDW** Fri 08 May 2015, 8:11 pm

Hogg hasn't scored one of these for a very long time

by GLove39 Fri 08 May 2015, 8:13 pm

Oooft. Chance gone begging there

by **BigGee** Fri 08 May 2015, 8:21 pm

Very tight first half, nothing in it at all

by jimbopip Fri 08 May 2015, 8:23 pm

What happened to Swinson? I missed the start

by cakeordeath Fri 08 May 2015, 8:28 pm

jimbopip wrote:What happened to Swinson? I missed the start

Went off limping after about 10 minutes. Ankle or knee I think

by **BigGee** Fri 08 May 2015, 8:29 pm

jimbopip wrote:What happened to Swinson? I missed the start

Limped off after 10 mins, looked like an ankle. We may yet see Big Al again!

by GLove39 Fri 08 May 2015, 8:40 pm

This day just gets worse & worse

by **RDW** Fri 08 May 2015, 8:41 pm

Both Scottish teams losing.

I blame the SNP.

by VinceWLB Fri 08 May 2015, 8:42 pm

Great try from Ospreys

by GLove39 Fri 08 May 2015, 8:45 pm

RDW_Scotland wrote:Both Scottish teams losing.

I blame the SNP.

Ha. Fairly happy about that. But utterly devastated with Tory majority.

by **RDW** Fri 08 May 2015, 8:46 pm

Na na na na na na na na BATMAN!

by TheMildlyFranticLlama Fri 08 May 2015, 8:47 pm

RDW_Scotland wrote:Both Scottish teams losing.

I blame the SNP.

You want to be careful typing things like that from within the socialist republic of Scotland, you'll end up on one of Nicola's watch lists! censored

by GLove39 Fri 08 May 2015, 8:48 pm

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:
RDW_Scotland wrote:Both Scottish teams losing.

I blame the SNP.

You want to be careful typing things like that from within the socialist republic of Scotland, you'll end up on one of Nicola's watch lists!

Speaking of watchlists, remember to CC Thresea May & GCHQ into all emails from now on.

by GLove39 Fri 08 May 2015, 8:49 pm

Also Weir FFS

by **RDW** Fri 08 May 2015, 8:51 pm

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:
RDW_Scotland wrote:Both Scottish teams losing.

I blame the SNP.

You want to be careful typing things like that from within the socialist republic of Scotland, you'll end up on one of Nicola's watch lists!

Bring it.

Glasgow forcing things here. Plus Weir is having a mare.

by The Saint Fri 08 May 2015, 8:53 pm

Good try.

by **RDW** Fri 08 May 2015, 8:57 pm

Nakarawa's dodgy offloading causing Glasgow a lot of problems!

by GLove39 Fri 08 May 2015, 9:03 pm

Any chance we could go back for the squint lineout?

by VinceWLB Fri 08 May 2015, 9:04 pm

This is why Matawalu should never play on the wing!

by **LondonTiger** Fri 08 May 2015, 9:09 pm

GLove39 wrote:
TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:
RDW_Scotland wrote:Both Scottish teams losing.

I blame the SNP.

You want to be careful typing things like that from within the socialist republic of Scotland, you'll end up on one of Nicola's watch lists!

Speaking of watchlists, remember to CC Thresea May & GCHQ into all emails from now on.

Theresa May will be on the warpath. Her face was thunderous when she realised that her party was on it's way to a majority and her boss is now secure in his job for 5 more years. All that work building her leadership campaign gone to waste.

by VinceWLB Fri 08 May 2015, 9:12 pm

Leinster struggling past Treviso 7-0 after 70 min, they have really fallen away this season

by tigertattie Fri 08 May 2015, 9:16 pm

Poor basics from the Weegies

by **RDW** Fri 08 May 2015, 9:17 pm

VinceWLB wrote:Leinster struggling past Treviso 7-0 after 70 min, they have really fallen away this season

Given Edinburgh's current feeble performance against the Dragons I hope that continues into next week!

by Eejit Fri 08 May 2015, 9:17 pm

Just not turned up for this game at all. Pretty awful to watch too.

by IanBru Fri 08 May 2015, 9:19 pm

I've got to say, that was really poor from the boys.

Ospreys were better in every department, so well done to them.

by GLove39 Fri 08 May 2015, 9:20 pm

Very much second best.
Plethora of handling errors & Weirs kicking combined with Webb juicy try well & truly killed us.

Failure to pick up a bonus point huge

by **BigGee** Fri 08 May 2015, 9:23 pm

Not a good game for Glasgow. Just not in the game today, paid the price for no hard games in the past few weeks. Hopefully a wake up call for the rest of the season!

by funnyExiledScot Fri 08 May 2015, 9:26 pm

Thought Naka tried to force things too much - not the conditions for his crazy offloads and most went to ground. Strauss is off the boil as well. Not the Glasgow we are used to seeing, the intensity levels were not there.

I thought Rhys Webb was outstanding this evening. Top top class.

by **BigGee** Fri 08 May 2015, 9:29 pm

Agreed, it was a deserved win for Ospreys. Glasgow need to get back on their game and this may be the wake up call they need. Looks like Captain Kellock will be back in a Glasgow shirt at least once more as well!

by Totalflanker Fri 08 May 2015, 9:30 pm

Well deserved Ospreys. Also well done Derek Bevan on TMO, given some of the TMO efforts in the pro12 this year a very fair display, especially on the 'any reason not to award the try'

by cakeordeath Fri 08 May 2015, 10:00 pm

Well done Ospreys, poor night for Glasgow. O's looking good for a well deserved home semi

by The Great Aukster Fri 08 May 2015, 10:37 pm

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:
RDW_Scotland wrote:Both Scottish teams losing.

I blame the SNP.

You want to be careful typing things like that from within the socialist republic of Scotland, you'll end up on one of Nicola's watch lists!

In that famous watch list called the Radio Times, I'm sure I've seen Nicola appear as one of the Krankies.

by **RDW** Fri 08 May 2015, 10:42 pm

The Great Aukster wrote:
TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:
RDW_Scotland wrote:Both Scottish teams losing.

I blame the SNP.

You want to be careful typing things like that from within the socialist republic of Scotland, you'll end up on one of Nicola's watch lists!

In that famous watch list called the Radio Times, I'm sure I've seen Nicola appear as one of the Krankies.

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by **George Carlin** Sat 09 May 2015, 9:29 am

Oh dear - I didn't watch this but from the press I read, it seemed to go as I feared.

Can any of my fellow smellies who saw the came comment on what did/didn't happen?

by jimbopip Sat 09 May 2015, 11:09 am

It's a difficult one to analyse, at least it is for me as I'm not as cute as Mike Blair. In the first half we seemed to be disrupting and pushing back their scrum. Ditto driving back their maul. Fozzie was all over every breakdown and it looked like just a question of time before the tries came. That really is the end of the positives, George.
Meatball kicked a lot but to no real effect. Conversely the O's kicked to Mata all night and he paid them back by running into dark alleys and causing more problems for us than them. In true MadMata style he broke the line a few times and looked exciting but ultimately nothing came of it. Conversely, they avoided kicking to Seymour who barely touched the ball all evening. Next time we have a genius/liability debate around Niko that might be worth bearing in mind.
The backs had starvations rations all evening so other than tackling themselves to a standstill Furra Linee and Richie V didn't really do anything.
It looked like a flat, tired performance. The pack were good in the tight but were very undynamic (if there is such a word) going forward. Naka had a nightmare with ball in hand and seemed intent on showing that he could run up more cul de sacs than his fellow Fijian.But then who can we bring in to liven things up? Batman looked lacking in match fitness. Ashe and Hugh Blake for the flankers? Do we have another fit second row? Cue The Captain? Oh yes I almost forgot, WeePee looked as if he had been studying at the Mr Chinhook School of Squint Throwing, which didn't exactly help the cause.
If Ulster win today and we beat them on Saturday then we should be runners up and have a home semi.

One last thought ; Clownshoes was reffing and I actually heard Jiffy say "I think Gl;asgow have been slightly unlucky, it seems that very fifty-fifty decision has gone the Osprey's way tonight." Doh

by **George Carlin** Sat 09 May 2015, 11:50 am

You're a good 'un, Jimbo.

by wayne Sat 09 May 2015, 5:30 pm

My take on last night, excellent atmosphere for which was still a dissapointing crowd, given the offers that were on offer, not a great night weather wise.
As for the game, I was very vocal over some of Clancy's decisions, which when looking back on television, he wasn't too bad, the penalty against Ardron for the lineout steal was ridiculous, it was only justice, that Weir missed. For Glasgow your 2 Fijians are great entertainers, but are also loose cannons IMO, I said yesterday we needed our experienced players to stand up and did they, AWJ, Tipuric, Biggar were up there performance wise with MOTM Matavesi, the thought process and execution by Baldwin, Smith and Webb for the latter's try was excellent, and John had another very good game
(and NO, Saint I'm NOT advocating him for a Wales call up), our challenging for lineout ball is also improving, I think that had a lot to do with your hookers poor arrows, I just hope Hassler has NOT aggravated his long term injury, and one further plus Lydiate when he came on was used as a lineout option and he carried with a decent bit of aggression, he will need to offer those things in abundance next season to get ahead of both Ardron and King, hopefully they will not be needed in the 2nd row with the 2 South Africans Steenkamp and Bernardo available with Peers with the 2 Welsh U20 Internationals as further back up.
With todays draw out in Belfast leaving our fate in our own hands, it has been an excellent weekend so far.

by **George Carlin** Sat 09 May 2015, 5:58 pm

Cheers Wayne - the paddies locked on a non TBP draw was the best possible result for each of us.

Surely it would be regarded as a disaster if the Os didn't score a home semi now? We put more than 30 points on Connacht in Galway with a makrshift team, so I would imagine that doesn't hold too many fears for you.

by The Saint Sat 09 May 2015, 6:46 pm

wayne wrote:My take on last night, excellent atmosphere for which was still a dissapointing crowd, given the offers that were on offer, not a great night weather wise.
As for the game, I was very vocal over some of Clancy's decisions, which when looking back on television, he wasn't too bad, the penalty against Ardron for the lineout steal was ridiculous, it was only justice, that Weir missed. For Glasgow your 2 Fijians are great entertainers, but are also loose cannons IMO, I said yesterday we needed our experienced players to stand up and did they, AWJ, Tipuric, Biggar were up there performance wise with MOTM Matavesi, the thought process and execution by Baldwin, Smith and Webb for the latter's try was excellent, and John had another very good game
(and NO, Saint I'm NOT advocating him for a Wales call up), our challenging for lineout ball is also improving, I think that had a lot to do with your hookers poor arrows, I just hope Hassler has NOT aggravated his long term injury, and one further plus Lydiate when he came on was used as a lineout option and he carried with a decent bit of aggression, he will need to offer those things in abundance next season to get ahead of both Ardron and King, hopefully they will not be needed in the 2nd row with the 2 South Africans Steenkamp and Bernardo available with Peers with the 2 Welsh U20 Internationals as further back up.
With todays draw out in Belfast leaving our fate in our own hands, it has been an excellent weekend so far.

That's alright then. I'd be surprised if he did get a call-up even if he does continue this form through the remaining games of the season, it seems an area of strength right now.

by wayne Sat 09 May 2015, 7:01 pm

George Carlin wrote:Cheers Wayne - the paddies locked on a non TBP draw was the best possible result for each of us.

Surely it would be regarded as a disaster if the Os didn't score a home semi now? We put more than 30 points on Connacht in Galway with a makrshift team, so I would imagine that doesn't hold too many fears for you.

George we only beat them at home 26-11, even though we had a makeshift team out as well due to the Autumn Internationals, we very rarely hammer them home or away, they seem to up their game for us, I think we will do very well to get 4 points, and if you and Munster get 5 it will not be enough.

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