Ospreys v Edinburgh, 21 September

by **George Carlin** Tue 17 Sep - 9:20

First topic message reminder :

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

by Tramptastic Sat 21 Sep - 20:13

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

by GLove39 Sat 21 Sep - 20:14

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

by **RDW** Sat 21 Sep - 20:14

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

by GLove39 Sat 21 Sep - 20:16

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...

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 20:19

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

by **RDW** Sat 21 Sep - 20:20

Has nikki walker even been on the pitch?

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 20:21

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

by Cari Sat 21 Sep - 20:22

Hibbard MOTM clap

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 20:23

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

by bsando Sat 21 Sep - 20:24

O's work at the breakdown has been great tonight

by Cari Sat 21 Sep - 20:25

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

by wales606 Sat 21 Sep - 20:25

Great pace from Morgan!

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 20:25

Only Morgan can do that, cracking score

by bsando Sat 21 Sep - 20:25

nice try! Very quick feet

by GLove39 Sat 21 Sep - 20:25

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

by Cari Sat 21 Sep - 20:26

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.

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 20:27

50 50 that one great attempt by Walker deserved better.

by Cari Sat 21 Sep - 20:27

OH YES YOU BLYDI CAN REF!!!!

Yahoo

44-10 duly converted by the man himself.

by The Saint Sat 21 Sep - 20:27

by Totalflanker Sat 21 Sep - 20:28

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

by wales606 Sat 21 Sep - 20:29

Just about got it on the line

thumbsup

by poddy89 Sat 21 Sep - 20:29

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

by GLove39 Sat 21 Sep - 20:30

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.

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 20:30

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

by wales606 Sat 21 Sep - 20:30

Good win

by Cari Sat 21 Sep - 20:31

FT 44-10 Well done boys. clap

Ole Ole Ole Ole Ospreys Ospreys... music

by Totalflanker Sat 21 Sep - 20:34

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

by Guest Sat 21 Sep - 20:36

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!

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 20:42

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.

by Manky-Flanker Sat 21 Sep - 20:46

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.

by The Saint Sat 21 Sep - 20:53

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.

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 21:20

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.

by Guest Sat 21 Sep - 21:20

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!

by Guest Sat 21 Sep - 21:24

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???

by Cari Sat 21 Sep - 21:31

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

Very Happy

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 21:34

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.

by **RDW** Sat 21 Sep - 21:40

We made 34 errors tonight. 34!!!

by GLove39 Sat 21 Sep - 21:47

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... vomit

by **RDW** Sat 21 Sep - 21:49

Welsh journo - rabbo pro 12 account re-tweeted it

by glamorganalun Sat 21 Sep - 21:50

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

by **George Carlin** Sat 21 Sep - 21:50

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

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

by GLove39 Sat 21 Sep - 21:52

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

by **RDW** Sat 21 Sep - 21:58

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

by GLove39 Sat 21 Sep - 22:08

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

by Cari Sat 21 Sep - 22:11

George Carlin wrote:
RDW_Scotland wrote:We made 34 errors tonight. 34!!!
Jesus. The first one apparently being deciding to turn up.

by Taffineastbourne Sat 21 Sep - 22:11

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.

by **RDW** Sat 21 Sep - 22:13

Nasty edge?

by Taffineastbourne Sat 21 Sep - 22:16

RDW_Scotland wrote:Nasty edge?

Sorry,I meant dirty.

by GLove39 Sat 21 Sep - 22:16

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

by **RDW** Sat 21 Sep - 22:18

Ok, same question, replace nasty with dirty?

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