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Also, not the biggest issue but Tandy needs to start playing the bench more effectively. We'd made a shed load of tackles, so to not use two replacements was poor. Tomos is not playing like Dupont but he's treating him like he is.

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Theflier wrote: ↑Mon Nov 09, 2026 6:19 pm Penguin is rugby prozac

Shit as we were we got to see Eddie James sitting some poor little Japanese guys down and LRZ and Blair Murray beating 25 odd defenders between them. It wasn't all bad. Enough to get me through the week.

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Pretty ugly game, but to score four tries with those possession stats was a silver lining...aside from the obvious fact that we won the game. If Costelow hadn't got his blinkers on there were more opportunities to be had and our work out wide was as good as it has been for a while. Shambolic lineout...

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It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lig...

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Pleased that they've ditched the Hawkins-James midfield. I still think there's a better combination out there, but for now it'll do. I'd expect Costelow to look better for having Llewellyn on his shoulder. I am hoping we get to see a James-Hennessey midfield late on. Still feel like Adams needs to p...

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Give him time. I'm not convinced he's going to be at Shane levels and at his size he needs to be. Let him develop and see.

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Pretty grim from the ospreys. Attack is non existent barring individual spark from guys like Keelan Giles. Once Cardiff dealt with their maul they looked clueless. Cardiff look like a team who know exactly what they want to do. Steff Emanuel was fantastic but the general fight throughout was excelle...

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I look at the youngsters out there; Jordan Morris, Evan minto, Joe Westwood, brogan Leary, Morgan Lloyd, nick Thomas, Sam Scarfe, Owain James.... Great experience. In the past these youngsters would have been thrown in to losing teams... We're setting them up far better than previous years. Hopefull...

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Two teams missing loads of players. Poor quality but 5 points. Job done... Lovely.

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Carwyn Leggatt-Jones was excellent. Joe Roberts is exceptional. Scrum got pummeled and there were quite a few moments that they got unlucky, but always likely the bulls would pull away. They look a different side right now... Even with a makeshift backline they played great rugby. Gareth Davies and ...

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Phenomenal effort from the Scarlets. 26-26 after 55 minutes away against the bulls is fantastic. They've got Archie Hughes on the wing, missing so many players but they're giving it a real crack. A long way to go but brilliant so far.

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Bulls: Le Roux; Maart, Gans, Vorster, Jacobs; Bosch, de Wet; Tshakweni, Wessels, Mchunu, Vermaak, van Heerden, Rudolph, Liebenberg (capt), Hanekom. Replacements: Grobbelaar, Steenekamp, Klopper, Wiese, Coetzee, Burger, S de Klerk, Kunene. Scarlets: Nicholas; I Jones, Roberts, McDonald, Murray-Macgr...

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Dragons: O'Brien (capt); Richards, Inisi, Paea, Tuitavuki; De Beer, Williams; Morris, Dee, Coleman, Langton-Cryer, Screech, Lewis-Hughes, Minto, Keddie. Replacements: Coghlan, Martinez, James, Thomas, Scarfe, M Lloyd, Evans, Westwood. Zebre: Montemauri; Sodo Migliori, Zanon, Casarin, Gesi; da Re, D...

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Ospreys: Hopkins; Morgan, Watkin (co-capt), K Williams, Giles; Creighton, L Davies; S Thomas, Parry (co-capt), Botha, Ratti, Smith, Wright, Moriarty, M Morris. Replacements: Daniel, C Jones, Warren, R Davies, Morse, H Williams, Wilde, Boshoff. Cardiff: Young; Adams, Malan, Emanuel, Bowen; J Evans, ...

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Obviously there is a separate thread for the WRU's latest foray into throwing some sh*t against a wall publicly and seeing what sticks, but what gets me is that, once again, they choose to do this in the build up to the Autumn internationals. Just like last year, every time there was some actual rug...

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Derwyn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2026 9:04 am No one wants to watch a treviso or a shark or a penguin. They want real games. I’ve mentioned this before but I was actually a big fan of the old Celtic league - and not many were. But then it went silly. Really silly.

F*ck you Derwyn.

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So based on the expectations of some of the Welsh on here, I'm expecting that we'll see full houses for virtually all of these matches given the intense Anglo - Welsh rivalry, right? The scale of the damage that the WRU have done the last few years (longer term too, but particularly the last few) i...

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Filthy conditions... Played to ospreys strengths and we played like idiots. From the moment tinus de beer got caught trying to run out early it felt like we were trying to play too much and we got punished. Lots of entries into the 22, more than the ospreys, but they were efficient and we weren't. T...

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Talking of hookers, still not impressed by McKee. If Scarlets had a functioning scrum and still had van Der merwe rather than a penalty machine, they'd be looking pretty good. Their attacking play is looking in really good nick and with Lousi back in the second row, and Anderson and Plumtree back, t...

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With Elias he's got some of the strongest stats for metres in contact and dominant tackles (at least I remember reading that a while ago). Still, if you can't do the core part of the job....

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Even more frustrating when we have a guy like Dee or, with a year to the world cup, younger, higher ceiling players like Evan Lloyd or Lewis Lloyd. I don't think he's better than Brodie Coghlan, or even Oli Burrows or Sam parry for that matter. I just don't get it. Generally Belcher has been guaran...

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Even more frustrating when we have a guy like Dee or, with a year to the world cup, younger, higher ceiling players like Evan Lloyd or Lewis Lloyd. I don't think he's better than Brodie Coghlan, or even Oli Burrows or Sam parry for that matter. I just don't get it.

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I went to watch Gloucester last night. Griffin did alright, bath scrum was good while he was on and he put himself about. Hennessy barely had anything to do. Llewellyn was ok at 12 but I do wish he'd use his size more. Freddie Thomas was good. Jac Morgan though. Just a freakishly good player. They g...

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Is Beetham injured? I thought he started the season really well and he's dropped off the radar at just the wrong time.

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Stormers: Gelant; Senatla, Simelane, Muller, Zas; Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Pead; Mchunu, Venter, Porthen, Norton, Evans, de Villiers (capt), Roos, Dayimani. Replacements: Vokozela, Reid, Fouche, Smith, Schickerling, Fourie, Reinach, Ahmed. Scarlets: Nicholas; I Jones, J Roberts, Hawkins, Page; Leggatt-...

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Cardiff: Cam Winnett; Josh Adams, Le Roux Malan, Steff Emanuel, Harri Millard, Jarrod Evans, Johan Mulder; Scott Sio, Liam Belcher (capt), Javan Sebastian, Josh McNally, Teddy Williams, Alex Mann, James Botham, Taine Basham. Replacements: Evan Lloyd, Danny Southworth, Keiron Assiratti, Tom Manz, Se...

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Ospreys: Rogers; Hopkins, Watkin (co-capt), K Williams, Giles; Edwards, Morgan-Williams; G Thomas, Parry (co-capt), Botha, R Davies, Smith, Wright, Deaves, Morris. Replacements: Daniel, S Thomas, Henry, Ratti, Moriarty, Davies, Creighton, Foketi. Dragons: Dyer; Rosser, Paea, Owen, Tuitavuki; de Bee...

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I don't think Tandy is a great selector either, just that I don't think those are crazy decisions.

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No Roberts, Grady or Beetham, but Hawkins, Mee and Murray is a travesty. No Dee or Lloyd(literally our only utility forward) but belcher and Seb? I'll defend a couple of those...Seb has been very good so far this season for us. Filo seems to have got him doing the proper grunt work as you'd hope fr...

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Great to see Rio back in the squad and Aneurin Owen too - so pleased for them both. I still don't get Liam Belcher being in ahead of Dee, Evan Lloyd, Coghlan...or Lewis Lloyd for that matter, but clearly they love him. Seeing Josh Adams get run down by Hendy the other day, it does worry me that he's...

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Forwards Rhys Barratt, Taine Basham, Adam Beard, Liam Belcher, James Botham, Rhys Carre, Ben Carter, Ryan Elias, Seb Davies, Tomas Francis, Archie Griffin, Kane James, Dafydd Jenkins, Dewi Lake, Dillon Lewis, Alex Mann, Jac Morgan, Taine Plumtree, Nicky Smith, Gareth Thomas, Aaron Wainwright, Teddy...

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Fair play. I thought Scarlets would struggle with that front five (scrum creaked and Newcastle did make yards in the tight exchanges) but they were superb. Really enjoyable to watch. Not a great side they were up against but they still played some great rugby.

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Northampton: Pater; Sleightholme, Hutchinson, Thame, Hendy; Belleau, Mitchell; Fischetti, Smith, Kundiona, Lockett, van der Mescht, Kemeny, Taylor, Chick. Replacements: Langdon, Els, Neculai, Prowse, Ulcoq, McParland, Smith, Dingwall. Cardiff: Young; Grady, Millard, Emanuel, Bowen; Evans, A Davies;...

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Scarlets: Murray; Mee, Roberts, Williams, Page; Costelow, G Davies; Mathias, McKee, Harri O'Connor, Cuckson, Groves, Lousi, Macleod (capt), Anderson. Replacements: Elias, Sam O'Connor, Hawley, Plumtree, Davis, Blacker, Hawkins, James. Newcastle: Hodge; Ene, Harris, Hutchison, Jackson; Dalziel, Elli...

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Black Lions: Tsirekidze; A Tabutsadze, L Tabatadze, Akhvlediani, R Makhatadze; Babunashvili, Spenderashvili; Abdushelishvili, Kvatadze, Khatiashvili, Babunashvili (capt), Curry, Narsia, Tsikhistavi, Leavasa. Replacements: Jincharadze, Mamaiashvili, Chkhartishvili, Chachanidze, Mamamtavrishvili, Gio...

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Dragons: De Beer; Dyer, Inisi, Owen, J Rosser; J Lloyd, Hope; R Jones, Coghlan, O James, Langton-Cryer, Carter (capt), Lewis-Hughes, Beddall, Keddie. Replacements: Dee, W Jones, Lewis, Screech, Minto, R Williams, F Paea, Tuitavuki. Perpignan: Tedder; Toganiyadrava, Reece, de la Fuente (capt), Grane...

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Looking forward to seeing how Matty Young goes - his tries last week in the SRC were fantastic. Glad to see he's been rewarded for his good form. The only downside is Beetham being switched back to the wing. Malan at 12 is interesting and at some point seeing Emanuel and Malan as the centre combo is...

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Scarlets: Murray; Mee, James, Hawkins, Page; Costelow, Blacker; Mathias, Elias, Henry Thomas, Groves, Evans, Lousi, Macleod (capt), O Williams. Replacements: McKee, S O'Connor, H O'Connor, Cuckson, Anderson, G Davies, J Roberts, J Williams. Benetton: Gallagher; Lynagh, Mey, Marin, Ratave; Umaga, Ga...

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Leinster: Keenan; Kenny, Ringrose, Osborne, J O'Brien; Prendergast, Coffey, Usanov, Sheehan (capt), Furlong, McCarthy, Ryan, Deegan, Penny, Conan. Replacements: Kelleher, Dooley, Clarkson, Spicer, Ericson, Gunne, Gabriel, Henshaw. Cardiff: Young; Beetham, Millard, Malan, Grady; Sheedy, Davies; Sout...

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Dragons: Anderson; Dyer, Paea, Owen, Tuitavuki; de Beer, Hope; Martinez, Dee, Hunt, S Davies, Carter (capt), Lewis-Hughes, Beddall, Keddie. Replacements: Coghlan, R Jones, Coleman, Langton-Cryer, Young, R Williams, O'Brien, Inisi. Ospreys: Rogers; Koroibete, Boshoff, K Williams, Giles; Edwards, Har...

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