Guinness Pro 12 2014/15: Round 10

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Round 10 Fixtures

19 December 2014, 19:35
BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, Wales
Referee: N/A
TV: BBC Wales

19 December 2014, 19:35
BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland
Referee: N/A
TV: ALBA/Nuvolar

19 December 2014, 19:35
RDS Arena, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Referee: N/A
TV: TG4

20 December 2014, 14:40
Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland
Referee: N/A
TV: Sky

20 December 2014, 17:15
Liberty Stadium, Swansea, Wales
Referee: N/A
TV: Sky

21 December 2014, 16:00
Rodney Parade, Newport, Wales
Referee: N/A
TV: S4C/Nuvolari​

 

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Here are the teams for Edinburgh vs Treviso

Edinburgh: Cuthbert; Fife, Beard, Strauss, Visser, Tonks, Hidalgo-Clyne; Dickinson, Cochrane, Andress, Bresler, Toolis, Coman, Grant, Denton.
Replacements: Hilterbrand, Shiells, Nel, McKenzie, McInally, Hart, Heathcote, Dominguez.


Treviso: Hayward, Ragusi, Morisi, Christie, Nitoglia, Carlisle, Lucchese, Budd, Minto, Favaro, Van Zyl, Vallejos, Muccignat, Giazzon, Zanusso.
Replacements: Anae, Novak, Acosta, Fuser, Luamanu, Bacchin, Trevisan, Ambrosini.

 

[lexv]

Giazzon in the XV after a bad mouring in his family! I am courious to see the performance of Lucchese! Win the best!

 

[ruggabee]

Looking forward to this evenings match. Especially looking forward to seeing Bundee get a crack at Leinster in his favoured position.

 

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The Glasgow and Munster team for tomorrow's game

Glasgow Warriors: Peter Murchie, Sean Lamont, Richie Vernon, Peter Horne, DTH van der Merwe, Finn Russell, Niko Matawalu,. Gordon Reid, Fraser Brown, Euan Murray, Leone Nakarawa, Jonny Gray, Rob Harley, Tyrone Holmes, Josh Strauss (captain).
Replacements: Dougie Hall, Alex Allan, Jon Welsh, Tim Swinson, Ryan Wilson, Henry Pyrgos, James Downey, Tommy Seymour.


Munster: Johne Murphy; Andrew Conway, Pat Howard, Denis Hurley, Simon Zebo; JJ Hanrahan, Conor Murray; John Ryan, Kevin O'Byrne, Stephen Archer; Billy Holland, Paul O'Connell; Peter O'Mahony (captain), Sean Dougall, Robin Copeland.
Replacements: Niall Scannell, Eusebio Guinazu, BJ Botha, Donncha O'Callaghan, Dave O'Callaghan, Duncan Williams, Ian Keatley, Felix Jones.

 

[iINDOMINUSxx]

well that was quick

 

[ajwffc]

The Trevieso #18 will be getting a number of weeks holiday.

 

[iINDOMINUSxx]

The red card was the right decision, punching the guy directly in the face on the ground is not acceptable on a rugby pitch

 

[ajwffc]

The red card was the right decision, punching the guy directly in the face on the ground is not acceptable on a rugby pitch

It looked like he landed 3 punches to the player on the deck then another 3 to the Edinburgh 21(who's lack of aim stopped him seeing red).

 

[iINDOMINUSxx]

It looked like he landed 3 punches to the player on the deck then another 3 to the Edinburgh 21(who's lack of aim stopped him seeing red).

yeah it was three punches to the face and one on Hart,

anyway I didn't expect a 48 - 0 hammering good performance from Edinburgh, scoring some nice tries too off the hands.

 

[lexv]

Acosta? At least 6 months out of the pitch! At least! About the Treviso match...uhmmm...which match?

 

[iINDOMINUSxx]

Acosta? At least 6 months out of the pitch! At least! About the Treviso match...uhmmm...which match?

But what he did was terrible, he got Cuthbert on the ground and started punching him in the face.

 

[Rich Taff]

Am I reading the Cardiff v Scarlets reports correctly?
Nvidi playing at 8? I've always thought he was a bit too small to play at 7, let alone 8, but apparently he was 'all power' carrying several Scarlets tacklers with him on the first try.
Need to watch Scrum V tomorrow for definite.

Edit: That Edinburgh thing sounds like the coward who beat up O'Gara on the floor on the Lions tour of Australia. Hope he gets a huge ban if so.

 

[Hap]

Treviso needs a really hard reset.
First of all you cannot show up at this level without having a front row and a scrum. Muccignat is a no.1 which is forced to play 3, and he's come back from an injury too. Acosta and the other pacific aren't just good enough. Acosta maybe could recycle himself in professional box. Anyway it's clear that it's not just a matter of single players, it's clear that there is no a team work in the scrum, no cohesion.
Put this behind a not so extraordinary bunch of backs, leaded by a flyhalf whose religion apparently forbids tackles (thanks for sending us Carlisle, this is a huge sabotage move :lol and that's why you take much more tries than the given.

They are not a team, they aren't learning to play together and it's true, Treviso lost best players last years and 20 new players are a lot, but it's just taking too much.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Didn't see the game but I've been told there were signs of improvement but the usual problems shone through at times for Leinster. I like that we're swinging with the big dicks again and barring some strange happenings in Swansea we'll be in the play-off spot at the end of the round. Goal now is to get the triple crown of festive inter-pros and go into new year top of the league ready to finally take our Heineken Cup pool by storm.

 

[lexv]

Treviso needs a really hard reset.
First of all you cannot show up at this level without having a front row and a scrum. Muccignat is a no.1 which is forced to play 3, and he's come back from an injury too. Acosta and the other pacific aren't just good enough. Acosta maybe could recycle himself in professional box. Anyway it's clear that it's not just a matter of single players, it's clear that there is no a team work in the scrum, no cohesion.
Put this behind a not so extraordinary bunch of backs, leaded by a flyhalf whose religion apparently forbids tackles (thanks for sending us Carlisle, this is a huge sabotage move :lol and that's why you take much more tries than the given.

They are not a team, they aren't learning to play together and it's true, Treviso lost best players last years and 20 new players are a lot, but it's just taking too much.

I have to say that Treviso last summer was forced to build up a team in few days.

However it's not possible to be in this kind of situation after 5 years of PRO12. Something is going wrong in our rugby and in our Federation. To lose 2 matchs in this way, is not acceptble. No one victory in ten matches and just 2 BP! It's frustrating.

 

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Anyone looking forward to today's game ?, Think Glasgow and Munster will be a very close game, got no idea who will come out on top though.

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Oh and for anyone who didn't watch last night game of Edinburgh vs Treviso and wanted to see what happened you can watch it here:

 

[big ginger 8]

Better performance for Leinster. They went out with a real purpose. Jennings influence was massive and Reid looked very good. Still as has been said a lot recently despite us having the most TBP in the league we need to be more clinical.

 

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One thing I must say, disappointed I couldn't watch the game but what a comeback from Glasgow coming from losing 9 - 18 in the first half to comeback to win 21 - 18 without they're key players is a massive improvement from previous games. Well done Glasgow.

 

[Bluemoon]

Am I reading the Cardiff v Scarlets reports correctly?
Nvidi playing at 8? I've always thought he was a bit too small to play at 7, let alone 8, but apparently he was 'all power' carrying several Scarlets tacklers with him on the first try.
Need to watch Scrum V tomorrow for definite.

Edit: That Edinburgh thing sounds like the coward who beat up O'Gara on the floor on the Lions tour of Australia. Hope he gets a huge ban if so.

I think this is a common misconception with Josh. He's the same height as Sam Warburton, but he is about 1/2 stone to a stone lighter than him (or at least he was at the start of the season). I still don't see Navidi as an out and out 8. He's excellent at 7 and 6 and his three MOTM performances have really come from his carrying and his work in the loose. He's also quick over the ball.

Great win for Cardiff, although its no coincidence that a full strength backline is chosen and the defence improves drastically. On average Cardiff have leaked 25 points per game in the league. To keep it to 9 is an improvement. Dragons back to back now should see the Cardiff climb the table a bit.