Ospreys v Munster 2.40 sky sports 1

LuckyGent88

Didn't see a thread.

Ospreys: 15 Dan Evans, 14 Tom Grabham, 13 Jonathan Spratt, 12 Josh Matavesi, 11 Hanno Dirksen, 10 Sam Davies, 9 Tom Habberfield; 1 Ryan Bevington, 2 Scott Otten, 3 Aaron Jarvis, 4 Lloyd Peers, 5 Tyler Ardron, 6 James King, 7 Justin Tipuric (c), 8 Dan Baker.

Replacements: 16 Matthew Dwyer, 17 Nicky Smith, 18 Dmitri Arhip, 19 Rory Thornton, 20 Olly Cracknell, 21 Morgan Allen, 22 Martin Roberts, 23 Ben John.

Munster: 15 JJ Hanrahan, 14 Felix Jones, 13 Keith Earls, 12 Denis Hurley (c), 11 Ronan O'Mahony, 10 Ian Keatley, 9 Duncan Williams; 1 Dave Kilcoyne, 2 Eusebio Guinazu, 3 BJ Botha, 4 Donncha O'Callaghan, 5 Billy Holland, 6 Dave O'Callaghan, 7 Sean Dougall, 8 CJ Stander.

Replacements: 16 Kevin O'Byrne, 17 John Ryan, 18 Stephen Archer, 19 Donnacha Ryan, 20 Jack O'Donoghue, 21 Neil Cronin, 22 Andrew Smith, 23 Andrew Conway.

Big game for both teams but probably a must win for the Ospreys. They could loose touch with top 4 with a loss.
Hope we play to a similar level to last week against Glasgow. Earls to have another stormer.

Fireball07

It's a "must-win" for Ospreys, but if we want to finish in the top 2, I think we need to win this as well. It will be difficult, because no one has beaten Ospreys in Wales in the league this season but we are finding form.

The return of Earls has been huge.

Fireball07

Great start by the Ospreys, some excellent ruck play.

Fireball07

Nice restart from Keatley, almost messed it up, but gained a lot of yards.

Anatidaephobia

We're playing well. Nice passing.

Fireball07

Lovely take from Jones there!

Nice line by Botha but then tried the offload when Keatley wasn't expecting it. Good stuff so far.

LuckyGent88

Seems to be our forwards who are managing to find the big gaps.

thomond2006

Brilliant take from Jones, shame the attack died afterwards.

Fireball07

First scrum ends in a penalty for Ospreys

LuckyGent88

Terrible penalty to give away by Botha.

Fireball07

Botha's given away a couple of penalties and caused a knock-on already.

thomond2006

Who did Ben John come on for? It means Roberts (replacement 9) is their only back on the bench.

Akrasia

Fireball07 wrote: »

Botha's given away a couple of penalties and caused a knock-on already.

The knock on was a forward pass anyway

thomond2006

Great play to get out of the 22 twice.

Tox56

That ole ole ole song coming over the PA is the most hilariously pathetic attempt at creating atmosphere i have ever seen

ulster_Beef

ole ole ole.... "ospreys" "ospreys" must have been the stupidest thing I have ever heard over a PA

ulster_Beef

Tox56 wrote: »

That ole ole ole song coming over the PA is the most hilariously pathetic attempt at creating atmosphere i have ever seen

Beat me to it. Its actually embarrassing

Fireball07

Earls is just very good at this game. Ospreys defence very good, and the breakdown work is decent. Will be hard to score against.

thomond2006

ulster_Beef wrote: »

ole ole ole.... "ospreys" "ospreys" must have been the stupidest thing I have ever heard over a PA

ulster_Beef wrote: »

Beat me to it. Its actually embarrassing

It's even worse when it's played to an echo.

Anatidaephobia

What was that for?

Fireball07

thomond2006 wrote: »

Who did Ben John come on for? It means Roberts (replacement 9) is their only back on the bench.

Dan Evans- possibly a blood sub though?

Akrasia wrote: »

The knock on was a forward pass anyway

I was talking about the one where he threw it off Keatley who was attempting to join the ruck.



6-0 down, that was poor to lose ground so easily.

Akrasia

Anatidaephobia wrote: »

What was that for?

The ball couldn't have been further out of that ruck...

LuckyGent88

Deliberate??

Anatidaephobia

Hmmm.

Mahatma Geansai

Deliberate knockon. Should be a yellow.

Fireball07

Lucky lucky Dirksen, we were in for a try there. Don't think he could have caught that realistically.

irishbucsfan

Big miss by the ref there, especially in that position.

thomond2006

Ah that should be a card.

Guinazu has been brilliant in the loose, his hands have been excellent.

Mahatma Geansai

Calls going against us.

Fireball07

And now a free-kick, ffs. Surely the captain should be having a word with the ref over that?

thomond2006

And we turnover the ball at the scrum, ****ing hell

razorblunt

Munster simply have to make a big deal of that deliberate knock on.

Wang King

Went from a being a def yellow card to giving the pen away
It's going to be one of those days

Bridge93

Potential penalty try and yellow?

LuckyGent88

Lots of silly errors from us so far.

Mahatma Geansai

Bridge93 wrote: »

Potential penalty try and yellow?

Should have been. Ref has cost us a 10 point swing with incorrect calls so far.

Fireball07

We're making more ground now though, as long as we don't panic, we are making holes. Just a bit too elaborate that time. For a while, I'd just punch a few holes with the big lads- Stander, DOC2.0, Hurley, Killer, Guinazu.

Anatidaephobia

Why is it always Botha running onto the ball off setpiece? Get Stander out there.

Anatidaephobia

Christ, Duncan.

razorblunt

Give that man a new contract ...

thomond2006

Ah DW that was slow ball, what were you trying to do?!

Mahatma Geansai

Now we're getting a warning from the ref for Williams going for a ball which looked to be out of the ruck. Interestingly, it occurred after we got no return from disintegrating their scrum.

LuckyGent88

Ahh ffs.

Anatidaephobia

Christ.

Fireball07

A yellow for us, ffs.


That take from ROM (I think) was incredibly good.


This is awful now though, we were about to score a try, now we're down to 14.

razorblunt

That is pathetic, completely unprofessional stuff.

thomond2006

Nightmare stuff so far.

Fireball07

SHÍT

thomond2006

Mahatma Geansai wrote: »

Now we're getting a warning from the ref for Williams going for a ball which looked to be out of the ruck. Interestingly, it occurred after we got no return from disintegrating their scrum.

He should never have taken the risk. The ball was slow.

Lovely delayed & lofted pass there.

total former

Lovely hands from a backrow forward to hold that pass though.