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Eugh. Ben Thomas-Rory Jennings centre combo again. Steff Emanuel off the bench too - at least that might brighten the midfield up. Last game for Halfpenny - hopefully knocks over a tricky one to win the game. That centre combo is only matched by our front 5. Absolutely shite Stormers centre combo i...

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Leinster: J O'Brien; T O'Brien, Ringrose, Henshaw, Larmour; H Byrne, Gibson-Park; Cahir, McCarthy, Slimani, McCarthy, Mangan, Conan (capt), van der Flier, Culhane. Replacements: Kelleher, Usanov, Furlong, Deegan, Doris, Gunne, Frawley, Lowe. Ospreys: Walsh; Giles, Boshoff, Watkin, Hopkins; Edwards,...

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Scarlets: I Jones; Rogers, Page, Roberts, Murray; Hawkins, Blacker; Morse, Elias, Holz, Price, Douglas, Taylor, Macleod (capt), Plumtree. Replacements: H Thomas, Sam O'Connor, Harri O'Connor, Davis, O Williams, G Davies, Leggatt-Jones, J Davies. Dragons: O'Brien (co-capt); Richards, Inisi, Owen, Dy...

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LandOTurk wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2026 5:41 pm
penguin wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2026 5:14 pm
Theflier wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2026 4:56 pm Hell of a way for the season to collapse, Thats a real shame for the squad
And to lose McNally to RAF commitments too - unfortunate timing. Hopefully Cardiff can scramble their way to something but tough ask.
Was that an intended pun?

I'm never knowingly funny.

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Theflier wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2026 4:56 pm Hell of a way for the season to collapse, Thats a real shame for the squad

And to lose McNally to RAF commitments too - unfortunate timing. Hopefully Cardiff can scramble their way to something but tough ask.

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Cardiff: Winnett; Beetham, B Thomas, Jennings, Bowen; I Lloyd, Mulder; Southworth, Belcher (capt), Sebastian, Nott, Thornton, Botham, D Thomas, Basham. Replacements: D Hughes, Barratt, Assiratti, Lawrence, E Lloyd, E Bevan, S Emanuel, Halfpenny. Stormers: Willemse; Hartzenberg, Simelane, Roche, Zas...

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Cardiff: Winnett; Beetham, B Thomas, Jennings, Bowen; I Lloyd, Mulder; Southworth, Belcher (capt), Sebastian, Nott, Thornton, Botham, D Thomas, Basham. Replacements: D Hughes, Barratt, Assiratti, Lawrence, E Lloyd, E Bevan, S Emanuel, Halfpenny. Stormers: Willemse; Hartzenberg, Simelane, Roche, Zas...

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Given that it's two years away, the likelihood of one of Scott, Pritchard, Cook, Hire, Godfrey or maybe even Hawley breaking through and being a better option by then seems higher to me. Maybe we'll find some welsh qualified lump....who knows, we can hope.

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But on one level he's correct - Sebastian is ahead of Wainwright in the pecking order at Cardiff (with good reason I think). It does again remind us of the lack of depth, but Sebastian qualifying for Wales would be an asset...even if we have to take the word asset in context.

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So we've only got depth issues at 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 15 then 3 is the only position where I think if we lose two people we're in real trouble. I think most of these we can paper over the cracks with solid players (lock we're not selecting guys like Rhys Davies or Levi Douglas - admittedly a bench o...

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My biggest concern is that we've got the potential to name some exciting players and combinations and we're going to choose players who are never going to be more than filler (Belcher, Ben Thomas being the main two). We're going to end up shuffling the centre combination so that guys like Bradley w...

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My biggest concern is that we've got the potential to name some exciting players and combinations and we're going to choose players who are never going to be more than filler (Belcher, Ben Thomas being the main two). We're going to end up shuffling the centre combination so that guys like Bradley wi...

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And Liam Belcher ahead of any of Dee, Coghlan and even Burrows for that matter.

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Really pleased for Harri Keddie who has been outstanding in recent months, but Rio Dyer missing out again is just ridiculous. He has been absolutely superb since the Autumn. Plenty of decent options in the back 3 but no one is playing as well as him. F*cking astonishing.

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Forwards (27) Rhys Barratt (Cardiff), Rhys Carre (Saracens), Nicky Smith (Leicester), Gareth Thomas (Ospreys), Liam Belcher (Cardiff), Ryan Elias (Scarlets), Dewi Lake (Ospreys) Evan Lloyd (Cardiff), Keiron Assiratti (Cardiff), Dillon Lewis (Dragons), Sam Wainwright (Cardiff), Ben Warren (Ospreys),...

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Dragons confirmed leaver list, to go along with the likes of Cummins and Funaki mid-season. Aaron Wainwright, James Benjamin, Luke Yendle, Ewan Rosser, Niall Armstrong, George Roberts, Mackenzie Martin Would like to have kept Martin. A little surprised about Armstrong, he's been good for us and thou...

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Ospreys: Walsh; Hopkins, Watkin, K Williams, L Morgan; Edwards, Hardy; S Thomas, Parry, Botha, R Davies, Smith, Ratti, J Morgan (capt), Morris. Replacements: L Lloyd, G Phillips, Warren, Sutton, Moriarty, Morgan-Williams, Giles, Boshoff. Scarlets: Murray, Rogers, J Roberts, James, Page; Hawkins, Bl...

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Dragons: O'Brien (co-capt); Dyer, Inisi, Owen, J Rosser; de Beer, R Williams; Martinez, Coghlan, Lewis, S Davies, Carter (co-capt), Keddie, Young, Wainwright. Replacements: Dee, R Jones, Coleman, Screech, Woodman, Armstrong, Ackerman, Anderson. Edinburgh: Paterson; Graham, Tuipulotu, Thomson, van d...

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That backline is held together by plasters. At least Jennings isn’t starting. I’ll take a LBP At least they figured out that Thomas and Jennings doesn't work as a centre partnership. Unfortunately Adams at 13 is a gamble too. I'm hoping we start to see Steff Emanuel get some more gametime, although...

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Glasgow: McKay; Steyn (capt), McDowall, Sione Tuipulotu, Rowe; Lancaster, Horne; Bhatti, Matthews, Z Fagerson, Miller, Samuel, M Fagerson, Darge, Dempsey. Replacements: Hiddleston, Schickerling, Talakai, Oguntibeju, Duncan, Vailanu, Afshar, O Smith. Cardiff: Winnett; Beetham, Adams, B Thomas, Bowen...

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Hennessy played really well for Bath at 13 yesterday. Yes, I was watching out for him and he seems to enjoy a lot of the physical aspects. He was clearing out a lot of rucks, looking to get involved with the pick and goes, defended well then did some really nice skillful stuff on the front foot. Th...

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Hennessy played really well for Bath at 13 yesterday. Yes, I was watching out for him and he seems to enjoy a lot of the physical aspects. He was clearing out a lot of rucks, looking to get involved with the pick and goes, defended well then did some really nice skillful stuff on the front foot. Th...

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Huge effort, lots of good moments and plenty of heart but we needed an A performance and got that in defence. Unfortunately it was only a C+ in attack and a D at set piece and there were too many general errors. Considering the gulf between the teams it's a credit to how far we've come that I feel ...

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Huge effort, lots of good moments and plenty of heart but we needed an A performance and got that in defence. Unfortunately it was only a C+ in attack and a D at set piece and there were too many general errors. Considering the gulf between the teams it's a credit to how far we've come that I feel d...

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Dragons RFC: Angus O’Brien (cc), David Richards, Fine Inisi, Aneurin Owen, Rio Dyer, Tinus de Beer, Niall Armstrong; Rodrigo Martinez, Elliot Dee, Chris Coleman, Levi Douglas, Ben Carter (cc), Ryan Woodman, Thomas Young, Aaron Wainwright Replacements: Brodie Coghlan, Wyn Jones, Dillon Lewis, Seb Da...

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There has generally been a lot of positivity about the Dragons (which is greatly appreciated) but I would like to say that Scrum V managed to spend most of their chat talking about history (albeit some quite interesting stuff) rather than the actual game this weekend. And Wales Online have decided t...

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Dragons RFC: Angus O’Brien (cc), David Richards, Fine Inisi, Aneurin Owen, Rio Dyer, Tinus de Beer, Niall Armstrong; Rodrigo Martinez, Elliot Dee, Chris Coleman, Levi Douglas, Ben Carter (cc), Ryan Woodman, Thomas Young, Aaron Wainwright Replacements: Brodie Coghlan, Wyn Jones, Dillon Lewis, Seb Da...

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Louie Hennessey starting at 13 for Bath in their Champions cup semi final. Hopefully a great springboard to start more often (admittedly in this case through injury with Redpath out) but he looked very good last weekend, albeit on the wing. Still hoping to see a James-Hennessey Wales midfield sooner...

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Dragons RFC: Angus O’Brien (cc), David Richards, Fine Inisi, Aneurin Owen, Rio Dyer, Tinus de Beer, Niall Armstrong; Rodrigo Martinez, Elliot Dee, Chris Coleman, Levi Douglas, Ben Carter (cc), Ryan Woodman, Thomas Young, Aaron Wainwright Replacements: Brodie Coghlan, Wyn Jones, Dillon Lewis, Seb Da...

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Mackenzie Martin also confirmed as off to France. Not sure what has happened there, but he looked like he'd hit form against Leinster, got injured and then nothing has been seen this year. With Wainwright off I'd have liked to keep hold of him.

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Short Man Syndrome wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:37 pm I’m presuming Dragons didn’t manage to snatch victory in the last 2 mins that I switched off from?

Naive to think they’d overcome one of the juggernaut Italian teams…

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Suggestion on WOL that Kane James is going to throw his lot in with us. I really haven't seen a lot of him, but clearly he's highly thought of - will be interested to see him in action. Went away to Racing 92 in Europe as a 20yo earlier this season, and was really bloody impressive. That said, do w...

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Cardiff: Winnett; Beetham, B Thomas, Jennings, Bowen; Sheedy, Mulder; Barratt, Belcher (capt), Sebastian, McNally, Thornton, Lawrence, D Thomas, Basham. Replacements: Hughes, Southworth, Assiratti, Nott, E Lloyd, Mann, Bevan, I Lloyd. Ospreys: Walsh; Kasende, Watkin, K Williams, L Morgan; Edwards, ...

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Zebre: Montemauri; Faissal, Bertaccini, Mazza, Gesi; Da Re, Fusco; Buonfiglio, Di Bartolomeo, Neculai, Canali, Krumov, Ortombina, Odiase, Licata. Replacements: Klein, Hasa, Nocera, Stavile, Locatelli, Dominguez, Zanon, Trulla. Dragons: O'Brien (co-capt); Richards, Paea, Owen, J Rosser; de Beer, R W...

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Suggestion on WOL that Kane James is going to throw his lot in with us. I really haven't seen a lot of him, but clearly he's highly thought of - will be interested to see him in action.

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What a collapse. Fair play Cardiff. I have no words. Plumtree yellow strikes again. He'd played so well until that point too. Menace at the lineout, physical around the park, offloads, looked like an 8/10 performance until the yellow. If Cardiff score there but Scarlets stay at 15 then they see the...

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Theflier wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2026 4:14 pm Steff and Elijah are injured, should be Bowen, Ben, Beetham, Mason, Cammy.

Odd game to throw

Ah, fair enough. That's going to be a great 12-13 partnership before long though.

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Saw a tweet from the SRC podcast saying Caio Parry is going to sign with the Dragons next season from RGC. 15 tries this season with some absolute stunners amongst them. Looks lively.

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Fully agreed about that midfield. Emmanuel looks class and Elijah Evans is worth bringing through. Given there are so few genuine 13 options in the squad - he's a pretty big unit but with a good all round game from what I've seen. Darwin-Lewis has been ok the times I've seen him, but not much more, ...

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Dragons: C Evans; Rosser, Inisi, Paea, Dyer; de Beer, Armstrong; W Jones, Dee, Coleman, Douglas, S Davies, Woodman, Beddall, Keddie (capt). Replacements: Burrows, R Jones, D Lewis, Screech, Young, M Lloyd, Ackerman, Anderson. Bulls: D Williams; Kriel, Gans, Vorster, Moodie; Pollard, Papier; Steenek...

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