Totally agree with you Logarrhea. In the first half the pack stood up well (apart from at scrum time, but that was always going to be the case with Cai playing). But in the second they were shocking, they coughed up any posetion before they could string 3 phases together. This is where the two props playing fall well short of the mark. Not only were both utterly desroyed in the scrum, but neither could be seen in the open or tight either. What's the point in them being there atall if they can't do anything well? Surely there are some props in the region (playing for Swansea or Neath maybe) that can do something well, at least hold the scrum would be great. The Ospreys persistance with those two bloody props is mind boggling. They are continuanly recruting more backs (Tiquiri) and ignoring their lack of depth in the front row. When everyone is fit (i.e. Adan and Duncan Jones) all is well, but those two cannot be expected to hold up the entire region!
Hallah is also still not performing like he should. He was decent in the first half, getting through lots of tackles and putting pressure on the Leicester halfbacks. But in the second half he was nowhere to be seen. The same can be said for the likes of Alun-Wyn Jones and Ryan Jones, who battled hard, but came out second best in that second period. Ian Gough also had no impact when he came on, I honestly think he's now past it for region and country. With Ian Evans now fit again, why is he not either starting or on the bench?
These things do need to get sorted, because for the quality the Ospreys posses in that pack, the backs find themselves on the back foot, or simply defending far to often. This shouldn't be the case, and a few years ago it wasn't. The Ospreys used to be able to physically bully the majority of teams they came up against, but over the past couple of seasons that's happening less and less often. The question is why?
