LV=Cup 2012/13

[Draggs]

LV=Cup 2012/13
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Discussion goes here, I suppose.

Ospreys for Gloucester:

15 Ross Jones
14 Tom Grabham
13 Ben John
12 Jonathan Spratt
11 Will Price
10 Matthew Morgan
9 Rhys Webb

1 Marc Thomas
2 Matthew Dwyer
3 Joe Rees
4 Lloyd Peers
5 James King
6 George Stowers
7 Sam Lewis (Capt)
8 Morgan Allen

REPLACEMENTS
16 Scott Otten
17 Nicky Smith
18 Nicky Thomas
19 Rhodri Hughes
20 Arthur Ellis

21 Tom Habberfield
22 Sam Davies
23 Nathan Edwards

Plenty of debutantes.

 

[dullonien]

15 Ross Jones
14 Tom Grabham
13 Ben John
12 Jonathan Spratt
11 Will Price
10 Matthew Morgan
9 Rhys Webb

1 Marc Thomas
2 Matthew Dwyer
3 Joe Rees
4 Lloyd Peers
5 James King
6 George Stowers
7 Sam Lewis (Capt)
8 Morgan Allen

REPLACEMENTS
16 Scott Otten
17 Nicky Smith
18 Nicky Thomas
19 Rhodri Hughes
20 Arthur Ellis

21 Tom Habberfield
22 Sam Davies
23 Nathan Edwards

Hurrah!

Edit. Oh god, it's doing that 'splitting my quotes into two' thing again! What's up with it doing that?

 

[psychic duck]

I wish they would just ditch this joke of a tournament.

Either that or just call it a reserve team tournament.

 

[Draggs]

Well, to be fair to LV, they have been good to TRF, donating tickets to competitions.
I actually don't mind it, as I get to see some young players in action.

 

[psychic duck]

Well, to be fair to LV, they have been good to TRF, donating tickets to competitions.
I actually don't mind it, as I get to see some young players in action.

That's because hardly anybody actually wants to go to the crap competition. The last Ospreys match at the Liberty Stadium in this tournament got little over 2,000.

Figures were doubled when they moved to Bridgend for these matches and just under 5,000 would watch. But somebody has decided to move back to the Liberty Stadium again for these LV Cup matches. No idea why.

It just wastes time and clutters up the schedule. They should just call it a reserves tournament and play it alongside the actual teams play.

Romania's prop Paulica Ion said he couldn't play for Romania "to avoid issues with his club", I really hope that means London Welsh haven't told him that they want him to play in two LV Cup matches instead of two matches for Romania.

 

[Draggs]

Hurrah!

Edit. Oh god, it's doing that 'splitting my quotes into two' thing again! What's up with it doing that?

Missed this first time round, what happened?

Ospreys going to kick off soon, Blues already underway at CAP.

Nigel Davies' (Gloucester head coach) son is on the bench for the Ospreys.
Sam Davies, an outside half, was part of the Welsh U20 squad this season.

 

[Draggs]

Poor match, except for Nipper.
Two out of three drop goal attempts, and pushing Gloucester players off constantly. Certainly showing he can be physical, definitely a maturing player.

 

[dullonien]

Missed this first time round, what happened?

It's happened to a couple of my replies in different threads (can't remember the other one now). Basically, I copied the information in the quote, pasted it in a new reply and applied quotation brackets around it. Once I hit the submit button, for some reason it's added another set of quotation brackets around just the '15 Ross Jones' part. Editing my post and deleting the extra quotation brackets doesn't do anything, because the quotation brackets magically re-appear. In the other thread, it was a direct quote using the 'reply with quote' button (I remember it was one of Feics posts). All very weird.

 

[Draggs]

Hmm, take a screenshot if it happens again and post it in the forum help.

 

[dullonien]

Nigel Davies must be having some big mixed feelings. His son has come on for the Ospreys and has made a good start, slotting a penalty and supplying a try scoring pass.

Habberfield is such a prospect. He's a lovely balanced scrum half, bosses his forwards, a great pass and well placed box kicks.

Edit. Ross Jones also having a good match. Big fan of his as well and would like to see him some more in the Ospreys first team.

Further edit: is Sam Lewis, Ben Lewis' brother?

 

[dullonien]

Fair play, that is a response from the Ospreys. Lovely break by Habberfield from the lineout, then great work from Allen and the rest of the forward to get over the line.

 

[Draggs]

Second half was decent then. Great power from the Ospreys, good response to the penalty try.
Not a great match on the whole, but some positive performances from Ospreys' players.

 

[Thingimubob]

So I heard the Blues actually won a game... pity its in a meaningless, though useful (developmental wise) tournament...
Ad yes Dull, Sam Lewis is Ben Lewis's brother. I remember when Ben Lewis was tipped as the next big prospect in Welsh rugby and tipped as Martyn Williams's successor... pity he had to retire so young, imagine if he'd developed into a class international back rower, we'd have 3 cracking options between him Warburton and Tipuric.

 

[kilkenny1]

Worcs v Scarlets should be a high scoring game tomorrow, though cant see the Scarlets getting witihin 10pts with that side

Warriors

15 Chris Pennell
14 Nikki Walker
13 Alex Grove
12 Jon Clarke
11 Andy Short
10 Joe Carlisle
9 Jonny Arr

1 George Porter
2 Ed Shervington
3 James Currie
4 Dean Schofield (c)
5 Chris Jones
6 Richard de Carpentier
7 Jake Abbott
8 Blair Cowan

Replacements
16 Ollie Hayes
17 Ceri Jones
18 Rob O'Donnell
19 James Percival
20 Neil Best
21 Ollie Frost
22 Andy Goode
23 Ben Howard




Scarlets A Fenby; K Phillips, G Maule (capt), A Warren, L Williams; A Thomas, A Davies; S Hopkins, K Myhill, J Adriaanse, J Ball, J Snyman, C Price, D Thomas, K Murphy.

Replacements: R Wilkes, G Thomas, P Edwards, G Earle, J Edwards, R Williams, O Williams, N Reynolds.

 

[Teh Mite]

How I wish Johnny Arr played for the Cornish Pirates.

Arrrrrrrrgh!

 

[TRF_Cymro]

So I heard the Blues actually won a game... pity its in a meaningless, though useful (developmental wise) tournament...
Ad yes Dull, Sam Lewis is Ben Lewis's brother. I remember when Ben Lewis was tipped as the next big prospect in Welsh rugby and tipped as Martyn Williams's successor... pity he had to retire so young, imagine if he'd developed into a class international back rower, we'd have 3 cracking options between him Warburton and Tipuric.

Would Tipuric have developed at the Ospreys had Lewis not been injured?

 

[Draggs]

Would Tipuric have developed at the Ospreys had Lewis not been injured?

Tipuric developed with Marty Holah in front of him, so it could have certainly happened.

 

[TRF_Cymro]

Tipuric developed with Marty Holah in front of him, so it could have certainly happened.

But I am fairly sure that it was down to Lewis injury that allowed Tipuric to come through.

 

[Draggs]

But I am fairly sure that it was down to Lewis injury that allowed Tipuric to come through.

Oh yes, but we still would have seen Tipuric.
Either way, he was a massive loss.

 

[Draggs]

Cardiff Blues 15. Dan Fish 14. Harry Robinson 13. Owen Williams 12. Gavin Evans 11.Tom James 10. Gareth Davies 9. Robert Lewis

8. Andries Pretorius 7. Thomas Young 6. Luke Hamilton 5. James Down 4. Macauley Cook 3 Ryan Harford 2 Marc Breeze 1. Sam Hobbs

16. Rhys Williams 17 Campese Mafu'u 18 Foa Filise 19 Cory Hill 20 Rory Watts-Jones 21 Lloyd Williams 22. Ceri Sweeney 23. Rhys Patchell

15 Ross Jones 14 Tom Grabham 13 Ben John 12 Jonathan Spratt 11 Will Price 10 Sam Davies 9 Tom Habberfield
1 Marc Thomas 2 Matthew Dwyer 3 Owen Williams 4 Ian Gough 5 Sam Williams 6 Joe Bearman (Capt) 7 Arthur Ellis
8 Morgan Allen

REPLACEMENTS
16 Scott Otten 17 Ryan Bevington 18 Nicky Thomas 19 Lloyd Peers 20 James King 21 Rhys Webb 22 Matthew Morgan 23 Tom Isaacs

Joe Rees out with a neck injury, probably requiring surgery. Rumours that Dirksen is out for the season. AWJ out until February, Adam out for another six weeks.