Montpellier vs Cardiff Blues

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MONTPELLIER v CARDIFF BLUES - Saturday 15TH December - 7pm KO

Cardiff Blues

15. Jason Tovey 14.Alex Cuthbert 13. Gavin Evans 12. Dafydd Hewitt 11. Harry Robinson 10. Rhys Patchell 9. Lewis Jones

8 Andries Pretorius (c) 7. Sam Warburton 6. Josh Navidi 5. James Down 4. Lou Reed 3. Benoit Bourrust 2. Rhys Williams 1. Taufa’ao Filise

16. Marc Breeze 17. Sam Hobbs 18. Scott Andrews 19. Macauley Cook 20. Robin Copeland 21. Robert Lewis 22. Gareth Davies 23. Owen Williams



Not available for selection:
Leigh Halfpenny- Severe stinger in match against Australia and is receiving on-going review by specialists

Bradley Davies- Suffered concussion in match against New Zealand. Expected to be back in training on 11 December


Jamie Roberts- Suffered elbow hyperextension in match against Australia and seeing specialist on Wednesday 5th December. Expected back 6 weeks

Andi Kyriacou- Suffered concussion against Ospreys. Expected to be back week leading up to Scarlets or Dragons match4 - 6 weeks

Michael Paterson- Fractured little finger against Ospreys. Surgery Thursday 6 December. As per specialist review but expected back in 4 - 6 weeks

Chris Czeckaj- Foot ligament injury. Surgery to remove pin 13th December, expected back early January

Dan Fish- Suffered shoulder nerve palsy in match against Zebre and seeing specialist. Awaiting results

Tom James- Fractured sesamoid (big toe). Surgery to remove pin on Wednesday 5th December, back 6 weeks post operation.

LONG TERM
Jake Cooper – Woolley right knee ACL injury 4 months
Tom Davies- ACL knee reconstruction this week 4 months


Montpellier

Montpellier: Martin Bustos Moyano, Timoci Nagusa, Matt Carraro, Paul Bosch, Yoan Audrin, Santiago Fernandez, Julien Tomas, Yvan Watremez, Rassie van Vuuren, Juan Figallo, Mickael Demarco, Aliki Fakate, Alexandre Bias, Kelian Galletier, Johnnie Beattie

Replacements: Mickael Ladhuie, Na'ama Leleimalefaga, Barry Fa'amausili, Thibaut Privat, Fulgence Ouedraogo, Eric Escande, Shontayne Hape, Benjamin Thiery

No, youve been excusing the amount of unforced errors by Welsh fly halfs. The odd missed touch is not what is the problem, missing touch numerous times in 1 game is unacceptable, and to make it worse it's numerous international prospects, missing touch, regularly. Carter misses touch once a year possibly, he is still human!

I haven't been excusing them, I've been saying you shouldn't be surprised when a player makes a mistake. So a few Welsh outside halves missed touch recently, there's no need to wet your pants about it. It's not the end of the world.

Not the end of the world, but the begginning of the end of Welsh rugby as a euro tier 1 nation!!!

But obviously thats not worth worrying about.

And you're predicting this impending calamity based on a few missed kicks to touch? I'd hate to see how you react when something genuinely bad happens!