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The Pro12 is starting to get interesting so get your calculators | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
out. The Irish big three are racing ahead and there is a mid field | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
battle between the Welsh and the Scots for a place in Europe at | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
stake. The victory of the Dragons last week over Glasgow means they | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
are breathing hard over the Scarlets whose win over Edinburgh has kept | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
them ahead of their Welsh rivals and has dealt a blow to hopes in the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Scottish capital. But Edinburgh are in the race and could resurrect | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
their campaign with victory tonight. Steve Tandy and his men crossed the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
border with mixed emotions. And 11 try win against Treviso led to a | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
rise in optimism but they were brought back down to Earth by | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Munster a week later. The Ospreys are sitting pretty in the play-offs | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
own but there the rest rivals have games in hand, the Pro12 is alive, | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
four Welsh regions have something play ball. But the Ospreys, the | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
former Crewe times champions, the team we will be looking at tonight. | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
-- the macro times. They are at the Meggetland because of the worm | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
infestation at Murrayfield. It is a city that has been a happy | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
hunting ground in recent years. This is confirmation of the table. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Munster and Leinster comfortably out in front. | :01:47. | :02:04. | |
Good evening and welcome to Scrum V and it is the Williams boys joining | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
me tonight, Shane and Martin. Shame, you are not moving back to Wales | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
permanently just yet. Back out to Japan in April. I have been offered | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
an extension. I will probably go for another two years coaching and a bit | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
of playing. Looking forward to it. So you are winding down on playing? | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
I have trained to do that for the last two seasons, but another game. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
-- trying to. Another game tonight, Dragons facing Ulster in Ravenhill | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
and it is 15-0, Tommy Boase scoring. This was the first try by ruling | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Pienaar. Paddy Jackson knocked the conversion over. So there is still a | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
conversion. Tonight's game, let's look at the Edinburgh side. A real | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
foreign influence under Alan Solomons. Eight of the starting 15 | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
not Scottish. None of those are capped internationals, is that to | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
the detriment of Scottish rugby? Definitely, they only have two | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
professional teams and a small pool of players. With respect, those | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
players are not household names. So dicing with death when you bring | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
that foreign influence in. Dan Biggar and Justin Tipuric show have | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
both been released from Wales to start. -- have both. We have talked | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
about a lack of potency out wide in the Ospreys, have they addressed | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
that? I think so, great input with Jeff Hassler, hungry and looking for | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
work on the wing. They are not a conventional winger is that stay and | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
hope to score tries, they look for work and they play extremely well. | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
-- wingers. That is signing but players and to coincide with the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Welsh players. Both will have the contact. As you can see, they are | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
ready to kick off in Edinburgh. Welsh language commentary on your | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
red button. You can get involved via text or Twitter, but over to the | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
commentary team in Edinburgh. Scott Hastings and Gareth Charles. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
Thank you and welcome to Meggetland, home of several macro for the visit | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
of the Ospreys on a Italy called night in Edinburgh. -- Emile RFC. -- | :04:54. | :05:08. | |
Boroughmuir. Not the record number of fans here but enough to boost the | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
players. Peter Fitzgibbon is in charge this evening. And a good | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
couple -- a good tackle early on by Justin Tipuric. Grayson Hart has to | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
dig it out. Wicus Blaauw gets over the line. Great work by Sam Lewis. | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
With Justin Tipuric back in work tonight -- back in action tonight, | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
he has slipped to number six. We will see what effect they have in | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
the breakdown area, winning the first penalty. Scott, it is good to | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
see Scottish rugby back at its roots. It has come back to a smaller | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
ground than Murrayfield where former internationals from many years ago | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
in the 1970s and 1980s have played. They played for this club and plying | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
their trade in their second -- in the second division. Edinburgh Rugby | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
want more intimacy in this ground. They only get about 2,000, 3,000 | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
watching. The first line-out did not go | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
according to plan to be Ospreys, can they get it right second time. They | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
have the Canadian alongside James King this evening. Normally at | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
number six. Hanno Dirksen will give chase, and | :06:56. | :07:18. | |
so well Dan Biggar. Too early for the ball arrived. -- before. | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
The referee says he jumped into him, but he is challenging for the ball | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
so that is a freedom all as far as I am concerned. What is he supposed to | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
do. -- free ball. Certainly a challenge by Hanno Dirksen, and | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
import into the team. -- and import. He plays down in South | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
Africa. -- an import. Grayson Hart has also come in. And to the fight | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
has got away with that. -- Dougie Fife. | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
A good bit of carrying, not the best off-load by Geoff Cross. It will be | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
interesting, the width of the pitch is not as big as Murrayfield and | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
that may affect the way Edinburgh play. Not a good pass by Geoff | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Cross, it it is unacceptable, that type of play from an international | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
prop forward -- it is. These are the mistakes that have counted against | :08:51. | :08:51. | |
Edinburgh this season. Because Blau is chasing round rather | :08:52. | :09:23. | |
than pushing straight. -- Wicus Blaauw. Dan Biggar did not get off | :09:24. | :09:33. | |
the bench against France last time. When you are on international duty | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
and you get ten minutes of an international, it does not whet the | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
appetite so he will want to get a ball 18 minutes under his belt and | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
get Warren Gatland thinking about him as the Six Nations on hold. -- | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
80. Just checking back as he saw the touchline approaching. | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
King took the ball initially in the line-out. A change of direction from | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
Tito Tebaldi. A bit of room on the left-hand side for some Lewis. -- | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
Sam Lewis. The Ospreys using the web early on. -- width. That is a good | :10:28. | :10:41. | |
ball. Dan Biggar fires it out. Lovely play I Tito Tebaldi. -- | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Justin Tipuric. A beautiful ball out the back. Comfortable from the | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Ospreys, the way they attack. When Russia pay men -- when Justin | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Tipuric came in, the Edinburgh defence were left flat-footed. | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
Plenty of room out wide. Look at the angle, he comes right back. The | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
off-load is about angles and the running. A confidence booster for | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
the Ospreys. Great way by Justin Tipuric. The opening half couple of | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
minutes, he has proved his worth being released from the | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
international squad. -- play. An excellent start for the Ospreys. | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
Dan Biggar is comfortably over the 1,000 points mark in the league. He | :11:48. | :11:57. | |
puts that wide. But the Ospreys will be pleased they have a 5-point lead | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
after seven minutes. Let's go to the other side of the stand. To give you | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
a flavour of Meggetland, it it is very much a club ground, the crowd | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
on top of the play. Not the width. Boroughmuir RFC produced a lot of | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
1970s great players. And Peter Wright, a Scottish prop. And | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
latterly, Chris Custer. The man on the microphone on a pair -- when a | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
penalty is given, he puts over to the crowd the reason for the | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
penalty. The press room is very good. It was in the changing room of | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
a leisure centre and you could book a badminton court! | :12:51. | :13:08. | |
Risky play. The blind pass over the shoulder. It could have cost them. | :13:09. | :13:20. | |
This type of players very risky. Edinburgh forcing too much of the | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
early rugby. I would like to see them play the territory and put the | :13:25. | :13:34. | |
pressure on. It is a good challenge in the front row for the Edinburgh | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
team. There is often a delay between the | :13:37. | :14:11. | |
scrum going down and the scrum half putting the ball in. | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
There is plenty of experience in those two front rows. Dan Suter is | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
the exception, the Ospreys tight head. It has gone down on this | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
occasion. Ross Ford, Geoff Cross and Wicus | :14:34. | :14:50. | |
Blaauw in the Edinburgh front row. Don't they go again on that side. | :14:51. | :15:18. | |
Dan Suter lies face down on the floor. The way he went down, it | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
seems to me his studs have gone. You don't bring a scrum down like that | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
when the pressure comes on. It gives Edinburgh chance to get some | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
territory and clear their lines. -- it gives Edinburgh a chance to get | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
some territory. A five minute -- a five-man land -- a five man line for | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
Edinburgh. Looking to get the drive on. And | :16:01. | :16:24. | |
doing so pretty effectively. Grant Gilchrist pumping his legs as they | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
get to the Ospreys 22. That is an excellent drive from Edinburgh. | :16:29. | :16:43. | |
Grayson Hart rounds it off. But that was one for the forwards. From the | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
set piece, didn't Edinburgh do well? Ross Ford was dropped from the | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
Scotland team but has 86% success level at throwing in in the | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
RaboDirect Pro12. Like all good scrum halves, Grayson Hart spot the | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
gap and takes advantage. The simplest of inversions for Carl | :17:09. | :17:30. | |
Bezuidenhout. The Edinburgh forwards coach will be pleased with that one. | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
That all came from a forward effort from the drive. Excellent play by | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
Edinburgh to get them ahead in this game. | :17:43. | :18:04. | |
Joe Bearman. He is 35 today. Driven back by Izak van der Westhuizen. | :18:05. | :18:18. | |
Solid defence from Edinburgh. Dan Biggar. Not the best of passes. Sam | :18:19. | :18:36. | |
Lewis with no chance to control it. Good play by Dan Biggar to switch | :18:37. | :18:48. | |
the play. He came to the blindside. But sometimes that left-hand pass | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
overdoes it and it spirals downwards. Dan Suter is getting a | :18:52. | :19:05. | |
bit of treatment. Let's get the latest from Ravenhill. Ulster | :19:06. | :19:20. | |
against the Dragons. We saw Ulster opening the score and not long | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
afterwards Tommy Bowe Cross for his first try of two. He is making his | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
comeback after three months out with a groin injury. It would not be a | :19:30. | :19:39. | |
huge surprise if he forced his way back into the Ireland team. This was | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
his second try. Tommy Bowe comfortably under the posts. The | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
Dragons are really under pressure at Ravenhill tonight. The half-time | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
score is 24-0. A great win for the Dragons against | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Glasgow last week but a difficult task out in Ravenhill and they are | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
suffering in that first half. Just a quarter of an hour up played here at | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
Maggetland. Edinburgh slightly ahead. Peter Fitzgibbon is of the | :20:25. | :20:41. | |
mind that Dan Suter is having trouble keeping up his side of the | :20:42. | :20:55. | |
scrum. It was actually 31-0 at half-time outing Ulster. We would be | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
happy with 31 points from both these teams in the first half year. It is | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
a stop start at times and problems in the scrum for the Ospreys with | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
Dan Suter under particular pressure. The referee has picked up a few | :21:13. | :21:30. | |
times. -- picked him up. Carl Bezuidenhout has started the last | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
two games at fly half. He has gone back to full back this evening but | :21:36. | :21:45. | |
has kept the kicking duties. The linesman thought about it and | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
eventually raised their flags. Not much wind around this ground and he | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
struck it low. Pretty still conditions. He hits it low. The | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
touch judges had a good luck but decided it was over. It has been a | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
lovely day in Edinburgh today with blue skies but it has been called. | :22:15. | :22:32. | |
-- cold. Scott Baldwin. Dan Biggar. Richard Fussell in the line. That | :22:33. | :22:44. | |
was slightly behind Ashley Beck. A bit of afters between Ashley Beck | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
and Harry Leonard. Ashley Beck thought the tackle was unnecessarily | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
-- forceful. Sometimes when the passes behind the shoulder it takes | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
the momentum above the move. Hanno Dirksen did well to stay in field. | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
Sam Beard the Edinburgh centre came in from an offside position. Good | :23:17. | :23:29. | |
position for the Ospreys. There is a penalty coming for the Ospreys. This | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
is a decent drive as well. Hanno Dirksen has taken it on. A really | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
good tackle I Sam Beard but they will come back for the penalty. A | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
word between Tito Tebaldi and Dan Biggar. Sam Beard has come from the | :23:55. | :24:15. | |
Bay of plenty. And he gave that tackle 20! -- plenty! | :24:16. | :24:29. | |
Tito Tebaldi with the pass but an excellent tackle by Sam Beard. The | :24:30. | :24:41. | |
scrum half delayed that pass slightly. | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
It will be good to see the Ospreys in this line-out. Edinburgh with a | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
great drive for their first try. If the Ospreys can get their body | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
position right, they will fancy their chances to score. Just waiting | :25:04. | :25:19. | |
for Justin Tipuric. A full line-out for the Ospreys. They have set it | :25:20. | :25:37. | |
well. Edinburgh have conceded a penalty. No way through for Dan | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
Biggar. Tito Tebaldi. James King with the carry. Joe Bearman. The | :25:45. | :26:00. | |
Edinburgh defence at quickly and Peter Fitzgibbon was playing a long | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
advantage from the line-out. Jonathan Spratt jogging up to have a | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
word with Dan Biggar. Peter Fitzgibbon wants a word first with | :26:15. | :26:38. | |
the Edinburgh captain. I have only seen the Edinburgh captain play a | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
few times but from what I can gather, he is doing very well. | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
Justin Tipuric could not hold onto the ball. Edinburgh can no clear | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
their lines. Grayson Hart pushes them to the 22. Still not a bad | :27:01. | :27:18. | |
position for the Ospreys. Scott Baldwin, sometimes they hooker gets | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
the blame at the lift was not quite there last time. Better this time. | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
Jonathan struck bringing in Hanno Dirksen. Richard Fussell in support | :27:32. | :27:43. | |
to secure possession. A nice little move using the blindside wing. | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
Duncan Jones in possession. Jeff Hassler at scrum half. Ashley Beck | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
to Jonathan Spratt. Hanno Dirksen. Not held by Harry Leonard. Ashley | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
Beck arrives. So there's Andres Strauss. Dan Biggar again. A change | :28:04. | :28:17. | |
of direction. Jonathan Spratt back to the blindside. Edinburgh | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
defenders they again and they have won the penalty. We saw it Sunday | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
against Munster. The Ospreys are playing a wide game but sometimes it | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
looks like going wide for the sake of going wide and not going forward. | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
They reversed it down the blindside and Hanno Dirksen got a bit flat. | :28:44. | :28:53. | |
Edinburgh will be confident on the defensive alignment because they | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
were split open before by good intrusion. Sport Wales is next. An | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
illuminating interview with Vincent Tan. | :29:05. | :29:15. | |
Tomorrow, it is the Scarlets against Munster. | :29:16. | :29:32. | |
And a round-up of the weekend 's offence on Sunday. Kingsley and | :29:33. | :29:43. | |
Jonathan will join Ross in the studio. | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
Next week 's classic game, it was a classic in Twickenham at 1988 and we | :29:51. | :30:06. | |
will be reliving that. That was a cracking try, and that England Wales | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
-- England and Wales coming up, write anticipation. -- great. That | :30:13. | :30:26. | |
is interesting, to say the least. Dougie Fife is looking for work. | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
After spending a good deal of time in Edinburgh territory and not | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
adding to their score, Ospreys have defending to do. | :30:37. | :30:48. | |
That is a great turnover from Jeff Hassler. | :30:49. | :31:05. | |
Tito Tebaldi. There is a gap from where the fullback came but Cornell | :31:06. | :31:21. | |
Du Preez is covering it. And the kicking battle continues. | :31:22. | :31:30. | |
Trying to put the ball behind the winger, Dan Biggar. Breaking | :31:31. | :31:42. | |
through, Jack Cuthbert. And Sam Beard goes over in the corner! And | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
the kicking game of the Ospreys is punished, Jack Cuthbert initially | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
with a rake, with Sam Beard for a second for Edinburgh. -- rake. | :31:55. | :32:08. | |
Edinburgh latched on and we have seen more of him playing at | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
fullback. Was this a forward pass? It was probably lateral. The big | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
scented did well at Edinburgh punished a Blues kick in chase, but | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
Jack Cuthbert broke the line and he gets the support on the other side. | :32:27. | :32:38. | |
-- kicking. A blow for the Ospreys, having had so much possession, but | :32:39. | :32:45. | |
Edinburgh get points. A clinical finish, a loose kick and a broken | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
tackle. And good support play from Sam Beard, getting his first try for | :32:51. | :32:52. | |
Edinburgh. He could not be any nearer the | :32:53. | :33:22. | |
touchline, and good effort. He has given the post a real shaking. A ten | :33:23. | :33:30. | |
point gap now, given Edinburgh a bit of a comfort zone. -- giving. | :33:31. | :33:53. | |
That is the fullback with the clearance kick. | :33:54. | :34:17. | |
Rory Grant and Mike Coman both went in. And when they spun out of the | :34:18. | :34:38. | |
contact situation, they both fell and gave the referee... The referee | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
wants them to stay on their feet. They are trying their best to get | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
the ball from the Ospreys, they are in an offside edition so they get | :34:50. | :34:59. | |
penalised. -- offside position. The Ospreys are looking to close the | :35:00. | :35:07. | |
gap. Hanno Dirksen is on his own and looks to get support. | :35:08. | :35:14. | |
Nobody is out on the left wing. Hanno Dirksen is slowly making his | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
way back. He is told to release it and I think | :35:21. | :35:34. | |
this will be a yellow if it is given. A couple of times, Edinburgh | :35:35. | :35:43. | |
are giving away needless penalties Ulster for now, they have ten | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
minutes without Geoff Cross. And the Ospreys, even though they are a man | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
short in the scrum, going for goal. Each time the Ospreys have come down | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
after that initial opening try, they have failed to convert points. They | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
fancy points now and Dan Biggar will fancy three points. Get territory | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
and put pressure on this Edinburgh scrum with a man up. | :36:13. | :36:24. | |
Just about on the half hour mark, Dan Biggar gets the penalty and the | :36:25. | :36:33. | |
Ospreys back within a converted try. Bill. You have had plenty of | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
territory and possession but have conceded tries, is that a worry? | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
Big-time. There was a schoolboy error in the way we fashioned our | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
defence and the kick chase was bad with two sloppy tackles. What about | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
the fact it is a club ground, have you had to modify things? | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
Not overly, we are trying to get more powerful carries because of the | :37:02. | :37:03. | |
compact nature. Thank you. We certainly have seen a lot of | :37:04. | :37:21. | |
Justin Tipuric. And Hanno Dirksen. I would echo that. The Ospreys have | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
had the ball and they look a bit more fluent when they have got it, | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
but Edinburgh have and are fitted from one can to attack off a roof | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
chase. -- loose chase. Edinburgh are in command and yet they have not had | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
a lot of territory or possession. Leonard switches wide to Sam Beard. | :37:43. | :38:03. | |
Just about hangs onto him. Grant Gilchrist on the far side of the | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
field and his partner Izak van der Westhuizen. | :38:07. | :38:19. | |
As Edinburgh vary the width... This time, it is the latter as far as | :38:20. | :38:31. | |
Andre Strauss is concerned. -- Andries Strauss. One of three | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
Edinburgh forward players driving up. Patient from Edinburgh. As they | :38:38. | :38:51. | |
go up to the 22. Harry Leonard. Gilchrist again providing the go | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
forward. Sam Beard and Ross Ford on the try-line. It is coming ever | :39:01. | :39:08. | |
closer. Very effective stuff from Edinburgh. Grayson Hart is | :39:09. | :39:22. | |
controlling things from scrum-half. It is the number eight, Cornell Du | :39:23. | :39:36. | |
Preez. Close to the try-line. Plenty of possession. | :39:37. | :39:44. | |
Leonard looks back inside for the inside ball. This is a really | :39:45. | :39:52. | |
excellent and patient build-up by Edinburgh. And it is as easy as that | :39:53. | :40:00. | |
for Grayson Hart to get a second, the defence just ran out of numbers. | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
Great hold-up by Edinburgh, nothing fancy, but ever so effective! You | :40:05. | :40:12. | |
have to applaud Edinburgh, the great driving. It was Izak van der | :40:13. | :40:15. | |
Westhuizen who set it up because he got on the front but and got front | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
but rugby going and each player got responsibility. For Grayson Hart to | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
find space down that's near side is a defensive error. They just run out | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
of numbers, the Ospreys. Absolutely sucked him and guilty of looking in | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
on that ball and Grayson Hart, how simple was that? You should always | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
have somebody out there and maybe Jeff Hassler was lazy to get back | :40:43. | :40:51. | |
into the defensive alignment. That is terribly disappointing for the | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
Ospreys to concede a try like that. For Edinburgh, deserved. They went | :40:57. | :40:58. | |
through the phases and worked forward. They kept hold of the ball | :40:59. | :41:08. | |
until the try came. And down to 14 men without Geoff Cross, so big | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
impact and good carries from Mike Coman. A good strike again from Izak | :41:13. | :41:20. | |
van der Westhuizen, successful this time from far out and a big gap | :41:21. | :41:29. | |
opening just before half-time. Edinburgh will gain a lot of | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
confidence from that. During their Heineken cup campaign, there were | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
times that when they were laying multiple ways rugby, -- playing | :41:39. | :41:46. | |
multiple phase rugby, they were messing up, but that was patient. | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
Edinburgh have only been in the Ospreys 20 to three times and have | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
come away with three tries. Evans has been yellow carded. Down to 14 | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
men. As Edinburgh have proved going down | :42:01. | :42:15. | |
to 14 men is not necessarily a recipe for disaster. But it is for | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
the Dragons because they have another try! They have already got a | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
bonus point. Edinburgh on short of a bonus point here. -- are short. Only | :42:26. | :42:34. | |
once previously this season have they had the winning bonus point. | :42:35. | :42:45. | |
Interesting that they have old Roddy Grant off and it will be interesting | :42:46. | :42:54. | |
to see if the Ospreys can finish off with a solid scrum and put Edinburgh | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
under pressure and claw-back some of the lead Edinburgh have got. | :43:01. | :43:10. | |
There is a lot of talk about the worth of the imports and Willem Nel | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
has featured in every game this season. His contribution has been | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
good. I did not think he was contributing an awful lot last | :43:24. | :43:34. | |
season but the Edinburgh coach has brought a real understanding of the | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
game. There has been criticism about bringing in the South African | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
influence. Six South Africans and two New Zealanders started tonight | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
was mat game. But it is up to the players in Scottish rugby to respond | :43:53. | :43:55. | |
and put pressure on the overseas signings. So a lot of pressure for | :43:56. | :44:13. | |
places now. The Ospreys desperate for points. Edinburgh have scored | :44:14. | :44:27. | |
three tries. Dan Biggar obliges with his second penalty. That is three | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
points of the deficit. Tito Tebaldi. A good kick. The | :44:33. | :45:14. | |
breeze may be slightly favouring the Ospreys in this first half. Carl | :45:15. | :45:25. | |
Bezuidenhout has kicked a long ball and it was returned with interest by | :45:26. | :45:27. | |
the Ospreys. A bit of indecision but it bounced | :45:28. | :45:46. | |
kindly in the end for Richard Fussell. A good challenge by Richard | :45:47. | :45:55. | |
Fussell. The ball safely out of play. Let's go down to Phil Steele. | :45:56. | :46:10. | |
Keep your eye on Dan Biggar. After he kicked that long-range penalty | :46:11. | :46:12. | |
goal he came back holding his right knee. -- he does not look that | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
happy. That will be a worry for the Ospreys. I think that came from the | :46:21. | :46:30. | |
tackle that Sam Beard made about ten minutes ago when they told to Bali | :46:31. | :46:37. | |
gave Dan Biggar a short pass. -- when Tito Tebaldi. A bad price from | :46:38. | :46:44. | |
Tito Tebaldi putting the Ospreys midfield under pressure. -- a bad | :46:45. | :46:58. | |
pass. That was loose by Tito Tebaldi. The referee deciding there | :46:59. | :47:10. | |
is no time for the scrum at the end of the first half. That is a lot of | :47:11. | :47:15. | |
talking to be done in the Ospreys changing room. They will be | :47:16. | :47:18. | |
disappointed with that first-half performance. Edinburgh have a | :47:19. | :47:21. | |
comfortable half-time lead. We are looking at some of the tries | :47:22. | :47:43. | |
in the other game out in Ulster. Tommy Bowe scoring twice on his | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
return after a three-month injury lay-off. The score is 38-3 to Ulster | :47:47. | :48:02. | |
against the Dragons. It is a really tough night for the Dragons in | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
Ravenhill. We will have a look at the story of that first-half but | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
first of all, your old side have been under pressure. They started | :48:12. | :48:19. | |
quite bright. A great try for Jeff Hassler in the corner. But since | :48:20. | :48:25. | |
then it has been all Edinburgh. The Ospreys have been passive in the | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
tackle and not getting on with the gain line. Edinburgh's defence has | :48:29. | :48:39. | |
been very direct and aggressive. It has been quite a lacklustre | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
performance, very lateral attack and have not created much. Let's remind | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
ourselves of what happened in that first half. The Ospreys started | :48:50. | :48:59. | |
rightly. Justin Tipuric showing some good handling skills for Jeff | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
Hassler to cross. Edinburgh hit back strongly. Grayson Hart and Sam Beard | :49:05. | :49:18. | |
scoring tries for Edinburgh. The Ospreys trying to get back into it | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
and Geoff Cross saw a yellow card and Edinburgh played the last ten | :49:23. | :49:31. | |
minutes of that half with ten men. But it didn't matter because Grayson | :49:32. | :49:38. | |
Hart then scored his second try. As you can see, the Ospreys have most | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
of the territory and possession but crucially, Edinburgh scored three | :49:44. | :49:54. | |
tries. Pretty clinical for Edinburgh. Let's talk about that | :49:55. | :50:09. | |
Jeff Hassler try first. Sam Lewis got a fantastic turnover in the | :50:10. | :50:12. | |
first minute. The Ospreys are trying to put width on the ball. Poor | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
defence from Edinburgh. They have got numbers. Look at just -- Jack | :50:17. | :50:26. | |
Cuthbert Dom he is looking at Richard Fussell. It is a fantastic | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
angle from Justin Tipuric and a good off-load. It was the perfect start. | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
Edinburgh will be disappointed with their defence. Not long after that | :50:37. | :50:47. | |
Grayson Hart scored a try for Edinburgh and it illustrates the | :50:48. | :50:50. | |
negative of having a lightweight back five. That is why this can | :50:51. | :51:02. | |
happen. When you think of the Ospreys you think of their dominance | :51:03. | :51:08. | |
upfront. This is the downside of having more or less five back row | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
players in your back five. It is poor defence. Fair play to Grayson | :51:12. | :51:27. | |
Hart. Because he has seen the gap. That all comes down to the initial | :51:28. | :51:30. | |
driving line-out and poor defence from the Ospreys. That gave | :51:31. | :51:38. | |
Edinburgh a bit of impetus and it wasn't long after that that Sam | :51:39. | :51:47. | |
Beard scored. The kick chase seemed to be well organised and players | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
were chasing up in a line but it was just poor tackling. He steps and | :51:52. | :52:01. | |
hand up -- hands of Joe Bearman. It is just sloppy tackling. The three | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
tries have been from mistakes by the Ospreys. This should have been | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
covered early on. A good finish in the end but he should not have | :52:15. | :52:17. | |
broken that defensive line in the first place. Grayson Hart scored | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
again when the Ospreys had a one-man advantage. It was just too easy. | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
They went through a lot of phases. The Ospreys tackling has been | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
passive. Edinburgh have been getting over the gain line all game. In the | :52:35. | :52:42. | |
end it was just a walkover. The damage was already done and he | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
crosses the line. It is a cracking weekend so far and it is a great | :52:50. | :52:55. | |
period of time for rugby lovers because the Six Nations are | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
dominating the schedules. Sport Wales is up next. If you pick | :53:01. | :53:09. | |
a team of experts in all the different areas, they can all work | :53:10. | :53:19. | |
together. We are not going to buy a player for ?40 million. The Scarlets | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
welcomed Munster to West Wales tomorrow night. Can they claim the | :53:24. | :53:28. | |
spoils at home to keep the heat on the top four? Join me on Sunday when | :53:29. | :53:40. | |
Kingsley Jones and Jonathan Davies review the weekend's Pro12 action | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
and we get the thoughts of Sam Warburton ahead of the big one. I | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
could never play for anybody else and I know the passion the Welsh | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
fans have for these matches. And then we travel back to Twickenham in | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
1988. Adrian Hadley will go for the line. What the try! | :54:05. | :54:12. | |
Plenty to look forward to on BBC Wales. The lights are -- the nights | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
are getting longer and the touch rugby season is approaching and this | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
week the head of rugby at the WRU announced a new touch initiative. | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
Alex Cuthbert and George North both got involved. It is hoped it will | :54:28. | :54:36. | |
inspire more people to have a go. If you want to get involved, you can | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
check out a few websites to find out where the teams are near you. We | :54:40. | :54:55. | |
will get back to tonight 's game and the Ospreys have a bit to do. They | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
have some period is on the bench. Ryan Jones is there. I would be | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
surprised if Ryan Jones does not come on soon. It is a very light | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
back row and they have learnt their lesson from that driving maul. They | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
need to calm down a bit. They seem to be going wide when they don't | :55:20. | :55:22. | |
have to. They are not being direct enough. Ryan Jones will bring some | :55:23. | :55:29. | |
leadership. He was in try scoring form against Treviso couple of weeks | :55:30. | :55:36. | |
ago. But his dive has been quite heavily criticised. What do you make | :55:37. | :55:49. | |
of this? Is it technically died if your foot does not come off the | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
floor! This is how it should be done. I nearly put my back at! -- | :55:56. | :56:14. | |
out! The Ospreys are under pressure. It was this time last year | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
when they did drop critical points in that race for the play-offs. If | :56:19. | :56:24. | |
they want to get into the play-offs this year they will have to pick | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
their game up in the second half. They are missing a lot of key | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
international players. It is a concern of Dan Biggar is carrying a | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
knee injury. They have had plenty of possession. I was surprised that | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
they were going to the corner early on instead of building a lead. They | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
need to do more with their possession and beam of clinical. -- | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
be more clinical. What will Steve Tandy be doing now? He will be calm | :56:54. | :57:01. | |
in the dressing room. Steve Tandy is not much of a shelter. He is very | :57:02. | :57:06. | |
technical in what he wants out of the players. They will know it is | :57:07. | :57:09. | |
not their best performance. They started well but Edinburgh have done | :57:10. | :57:21. | |
well. It is just about patients. They need to go through the phases | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
rather than try and score out wide every time they get it. They need to | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
get over the gain line. The Edinburgh contact area is strong at | :57:33. | :57:34. | |
the moment. It is about ball retention. I have to ask you about | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
the game a week Sunday, England against Wales. It feels like a cup | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
final because whichever side loses will be out of the running for the | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
Champion ship. Last weekend was the perfect weekend in terms of result | :57:52. | :57:58. | |
-- results. We beat France and England beat Ireland narrowly. It | :57:59. | :58:05. | |
has set it up. We know how dangerous this group of players is once they | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
get some confidence. I expect us to go there and win. We have some key | :58:11. | :58:18. | |
players backlight Jonathan Davies and hopefully Alun Wyn Jones. | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
England are missing a few key players. Psychologically speaking, | :58:23. | :58:31. | |
England have beaten New Zealand and Australia and France but they have | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
not even scored a try against Wales in the Stuart Lancaster. Wales have | :58:37. | :58:43. | |
to be confident. The performance against France showed the spirit | :58:44. | :58:49. | |
they have in the camp. They will be full of confidence. The important | :58:50. | :58:52. | |
thing is that Warren Gatland and Wales know they can play better. I | :58:53. | :58:56. | |
think they have another gear whereas England are top of -- are on top of | :58:57. | :59:01. | |
their game at the moment. I agree with Martin. I think Wales can go to | :59:02. | :59:08. | |
Twickenham and win. The teams are back on the pitch. Let's rejoin our | :59:09. | :59:10. | |
commentary team. Let's see if the Ospreys can get | :59:11. | :59:23. | |
some inspiration from the Welsh performances and turn things around | :59:24. | :59:27. | |
because they need to in the second half if they want to stay in the top | :59:28. | :59:31. | |
four and keep themselves in the play-off places. | :59:32. | :59:38. | |
Glasgow, who are fifth at the moment, Orrin Munster tomorrow. -- | :59:39. | :59:50. | |
are in Leinster. The Ospreys are starting the second half with | :59:51. | :59:51. | |
intent. James King. Sam Lewis is brought down by Cornell | :59:52. | :00:02. | |
Du Preez. Again, they go wide. Andries Strauss | :00:03. | :00:30. | |
with the tackle. Justin Tipuric. Dan Biggar. | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
The Ospreys have held on to possession. It is the commentator 's | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
curse! Jonathan Spratt put boot to ball. That is an Ospreys advantage. | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
Tito Tebaldi gets it away. Beard with a tackle, slipped away by Sam | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Beard. Two men waiting for Joe Bearman. | :01:04. | :01:20. | |
Leaving the ball behind and the turnover, could be a chance to break | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
away. That missed Jack Cuthbert but after the referee called advantage | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
over. An opportunity for Edinburgh to break wide, they just delete the | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
ball. This was the loose pass and it went immediately to Jack Cuthbert | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
who had snow defence. A couple of mistakes from the Ospreys in the | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
lead up to that. -- no defence. That is the difference between the teams, | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
mistakes coming in from the Ospreys. The Ospreys, even though they go one | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
way and the other and they stretched the Edinburgh defence, they cannot | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
break it at the moment. Good tackle I Geoff Cross on Jeff Hassler. -- | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
life. A little bit more of that, variety in the attack. Edinburgh are | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
not committing anybody to the break down, keeping men out wide ready for | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
the next attack, the Ospreys are out wide. Dan Suter has had the ball | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
ripped away from him. This is Hanno Dirksen, not known for | :02:39. | :03:07. | |
his kicking game but a strong runner. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
This is a change of tack Tick. A high kick towards Jack Cuthbert -- | :03:14. | :03:30. | |
tactic. Well played. Stolen by Justin Tipuric. That was an | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
opportunity perhaps, allowing Justin Tipuric to turnover the ball and see | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
what might have happened. Dan Biggar is eager to get points on the board. | :03:44. | :03:55. | |
A good open side. The one thing he did, the minute you get isolated on | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
those balls, the turnover is inevitable. Jack Cuthbert did very | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
well but the way Justin Tipuric latches onto the ball, he got his | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
body position right, he went over the ball because Ross Ford got | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
isolated. The Ospreys are finding it difficult | :04:14. | :04:27. | |
to penetrate this Edinburgh defence. They are relying on the boot of Dan | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
Biggar. He is on his way. Just adjusting the | :04:30. | :04:48. | |
ball. He has a minute to take his kick. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
That is an excellent kick from Dan Biggar. And three much-needed points | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
for the Ospreys as they tried to claw their way back into this game. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Dan Suter is breathing a heavy sigh of relief because the Ospreys got | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
turned over in the 22 Webber was an opportunity for Jack Cuthbert to dig | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
deep and it was about him becoming the isolated player. Edinburgh 's | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
isolated player was Ross board. It keeps the Ospreys within touching | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
distance of this Edinburgh performance. | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
Trying to take the Ospreys out of their own 22. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
It is the left boot of Richard Fussell which takes them down field. | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
Only as far as Harry Leonard who has indicated he is going to put the | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
ball back into the air, a clean catch. There is no fullback. Jack | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
Cuthbert has dropped back with Cornell Du Preez. Sam Lewis, but it | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
is Edinburgh 's ball. The referee says no, it is given | :06:13. | :06:25. | |
away anyway. A loose pass. Did not find the man. James King stooped | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
down from six foot three to pick it up. Dan Biggar this chase to Tito | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
Tebaldi and does enough this time to introduce a slight knock-on. The | :06:42. | :06:52. | |
Dragons have not given up. Ross Waddle has got a try for them but | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
they are still trailing 38 points against eight at Ravenhill. And he | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
got the late try against Glasgow last week to give them an excellent | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
win. That when against Glasgow did the Ospreys a favour by keeping them | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
in the top four -- win. That this Geoff Cross who has had a yellow | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
cross. And if any more scrums go down, there is going to be a yellow | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
card. That will be interesting because if Jess -- if Geoff Cross | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
goes down and gets another yellow, that is a sending off, so Edinburgh | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
on ice here. Both front rows have been warned. Both props have had ten | :07:46. | :07:57. | |
minutes in the bin, last weekend at the Millennium Stadium. | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
It would be interesting if they kept both teams out for 80 minutes! When | :08:07. | :08:23. | |
was the last game of frog be used or without a single change? -- rugby | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
you saw. You think sometimes it is just done by numbers. He has already | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
given them a formal warning! He is just repeating himself! That is a | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
formal, formal warning. Dan Suter has had problems. A bloke | :08:45. | :09:00. | |
and put the edge on. -- a low can put. He has his edge over his | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
opposite number. The ball is out. Beard with an | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
important tackle for Edinburgh. Joe Bearman to James King. Tito | :09:14. | :09:36. | |
Tebaldi. Turned back for Jeff Hassler. And he is trying to time | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
his run. Straight through the middle and it did not quite work out. Jeff | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Hassler spent a bit of time on the Canadian sevens circuit and I spoke | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
to Gareth recently, the formance director, he is keen when he sees | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
people like this and Tyler getting opportunity to get 15 aside rugby. | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
Jeff Hassler and Hanno Dirksen work hard off the ball, they always make | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
good ground. I think we can see that Ross Ford | :10:10. | :10:26. | |
try now, and over to Ross Harries. The Dragons have hit back at | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Ravenhill but still behind on the scoreboard. But something for the | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
fans to cheer about, Ross Waddle making the score 38-8 with a | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
conversion to come. A long night for the Dragons but at least they got | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
some consolation. Back to you, Gareth. | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
Izak van der Westhuizen just leaving the field after taking a bit of a | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
knock-on the head. Waiting for his replacement. Let's go to the far | :10:59. | :11:08. | |
side. Damp pitch side alongside me you can | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
see Ryan Jones from the stand -- down. The big players are coming off | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
for the Ospreys. The cavalry is arriving! Hopefully! | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Thank you. Ollie Atkins has come on for Izak van der Westhuizen. From | :11:24. | :11:47. | |
Hobart. And Jeff Hassler is a handful when he gets going. Dan | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
Biggar. That is a let off for the Ospreys. Not happy. As you can | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
imagine. Tito Tebaldi has players outside | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
him. A bit more of the aerial tennis | :12:10. | :12:34. | |
coming into the game in the second half. There have been a couple of | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
passes from Tito Tebaldi in front of Dan Biggar like that, does not quite | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
find his man. Looking at the kicking, a lot of the players now, | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
we see them kick end on end. As a result, there is more accuracy. But | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
I would like to see a spiral kick, especially on a kick that Jack | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Cuthbert had because he gave the ball to the Ospreys but Richard | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Fussell at HMM disc kick in. With a spiral kick, you get it right into | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
the 22. -- Richard Fussell at a great kick in. -- put. A good | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
platform to work from four Grayson Hart. | :13:31. | :13:44. | |
The defences up quickly. Ashley Beck did not look. Ashley Beck had a free | :13:45. | :13:57. | |
pass. Tito Tebaldi spots at the gap. He is appended by his opposite | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
number, Grayson Hart. The Italian scrum half is back on his feet. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
James King. He makes the ball available. Joe Bearman comes on a | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
run. Another penalty coming to the Ospreys. And another three points if | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
that is what they want. Dan Biggar should keep -- take the three | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
points. The Ospreys are doing well to get themselves back into the | :14:37. | :14:48. | |
game. Ashley Beck was almost gifted a try but instead they will go for | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
three points. Edinburgh will have to be very careful about the number of | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
penalties they are giving away or they will be down to 14 men again. A | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
couple of replacements ready to come on for the Ospreys. Ryan Jones is | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
among them. One just before half-time and to | :15:14. | :15:36. | |
just after half-time for Dan Biggar and he has brought the Ospreys back | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
within striking distance. Let's go down to Phil Steele. Ryan Jones is | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
coming on. Three substitutes for the Ospreys. | :15:51. | :16:04. | |
Sam Davies has slotted back to fullback. The two men up front are | :16:05. | :16:18. | |
also on. Plenty of carriers for the Ospreys in the shape of Ryan Jones | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
and Dan Biggar. The Ospreys have not shown any sign | :16:21. | :16:48. | |
of panic in this game. The Ospreys will now try and put pressure on | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
this Edinburgh eight. Grant Gilchrist safely takes the line-out. | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
For once they are forced to kick from the line-out. A first touch for | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
Sam Davies. Tito Tebaldi. Dan Biggar spots a gap in time the defence. | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
Good pressure from Dan Biggar. Dan Biggar did well initially with | :17:21. | :17:40. | |
the chip and chase and managed to get Grayson Hart on the floor but | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
when Ashley Beck made the secondary tackled up in the scrum half on the | :17:46. | :17:54. | |
deck, he gave away the penalty. Griff Rhys has joined Phil Steele. | :17:55. | :18:04. | |
Ryan Jones is on. What are you looking for from him? A bit of | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
physicality. A bit of maturity. Someone just to give us a clear | :18:12. | :18:23. | |
focus. And Sam Davies as well? He has been playing well recently. We | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
have played pretty well in this quarter of the game. And you feel | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
you are still in it? Yes. A good head by Dan Biggar. -- a good | :18:32. | :18:54. | |
hit. Edinburgh were jumping up and down when that was turned over and | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
the referee agrees it was done legally. Another final warning. | :19:01. | :19:17. | |
Individuals are coming in and playing the ball on the ground. Both | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
back rows have been guilty of playing the man on the deck as well. | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
They have been a lot of penalties in the scheme. -- in this game. It is | :19:30. | :19:42. | |
the first penalty the Ospreys have given away in a kickable position | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
quite a while. No wonder Mike Coman wants to go for goal. | :19:54. | :20:10. | |
The crowd behind the posts immediately knew that one was safely | :20:11. | :20:20. | |
over. The Ospreys have the score twice again as things stand. | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
An excellent strike. Slightly against the run of play. Edinburgh | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
will be delighted to extend their lead. | :20:38. | :20:57. | |
That was straight out of place of the Ospreys will have a line-out | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
back in the 22. Dan Biggar is in a hurry to get on with it. Let's talk | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
to Martyn Williams in the studio. Do you expect the Welsh boys, Dan | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Biggar and Justin Tipuric, to stay on for the whole game? I do. I think | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
Dan Biggar and Justin Tipuric need gametime. They will be desperate to | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
stay on and lead the fight back for the Ospreys. | :21:37. | :21:51. | |
Ryan Jones wearing 19. Ryan Jones is in possession in the Edinburgh 22. | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
Tito Tebaldi. The replacement is trying to have an impact on the | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
game. Jeff Hassler trying to time his run. That will be one for the | :22:05. | :22:21. | |
TMO to sort out. Jeff Hassler thinks he got the first touch down here. | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
Hanno Dirksen and Jeff Hassler work hard around the pitch. Let's watch | :22:28. | :22:41. | |
it. Who got the first touch? Jeff Hassler's right hand might have | :22:42. | :22:52. | |
beaten Cuthbert's left. You don't actually need downward pressure. | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
Iain Ramage is the TMO. What busy make of this? -- what does he make | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
of this? He is going to slow this one down. I | :23:06. | :23:29. | |
don't think Jack Cuthbert got any piece of it. It is whether it is a | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
try or a knock-on. The try is given. Jeff Hassler did get the | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
touchdown. He has brought the Ospreys right back into it. The | :23:45. | :24:00. | |
crowd stunned into silence but Iain Ramage had plenty of looks at it. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
Jack Cuthbert did not get any of the ball and Jeff Hassler's right-hand | :24:06. | :24:24. | |
was enough. That was an important try for Jeff Hassler going into the | :24:25. | :24:25. | |
final quarter of the game. Dan Biggar's kick is outside the | :24:26. | :24:45. | |
right-hand upright. There is now a 3-point gap. It is closer than it | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
has been since 15 minutes into the game. A flat line defence. Jeff | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
Hassler's angles of running have impressed throughout this | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
performance. He had to force himself between Jack Cuthbert and Grant | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
Gilchrist. Tremendous determination from the winger. | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
The Ospreys keeping the ball off the floor and winning the scrum. | :25:26. | :26:08. | |
Sam Davies up on the far side of the scrum. Hanno Dirksen outside him. | :26:09. | :26:20. | |
Dan Biggar, the two centres and Jeff Hassler on the open side. | :26:21. | :26:33. | |
A decent looking Edinburgh scrum but the Ospreys get the ball away. Sam | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
Davies to Hanno Dirksen. Ryan Jones. Tito Tebaldi. Dan Suter. | :26:43. | :27:03. | |
Wicus Blaauw with the tackle. Ryan Jones with a good pass to Hanno | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
Dirksen. That was better use of the blindside. They had players coming | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
from a deeper angle and they had momentum. Previously, they have been | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
too flat when they have executed that. Failing to stay on their feet. | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
They have given away the penalty. Aisea Natoga coming onto the field, | :27:27. | :27:57. | |
replacing Hanno Dirksen. Another powerful carrier of the ball. The | :27:58. | :28:07. | |
Ospreys are trying to take this game from Edinburgh. Wicus Blaauw. Sean | :28:08. | :28:20. | |
Kennedy, the replacement scrum half, with the kick. Sam Davies looks to | :28:21. | :28:28. | |
have overrun it but he readjusted. Dan Biggar kicks it downfield and | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
that is a huge gap there. Natoga made a mess of that. Good | :28:32. | :28:55. | |
yardage game for Edinburgh. Bringing in a replacement winger. Probably | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
got the biggest cheer from the crowd. A let-off because Edinburgh | :29:03. | :29:10. | |
's kicking has not been dynamic in this game. A lot of kicks have been | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
overcooked allowing Dan Biggar to return with a lot of interest, but | :29:17. | :29:18. | |
they get away with with some territory for the mistake on | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
replacement Natoga. A good steady scrum for Sean Kennedy | :29:23. | :29:48. | |
to work from. All the way to Jack Cuthbert out. He is ready and | :29:49. | :29:57. | |
waiting for Kennedy. Lovely delivery from Ollie Atkins to Gilchrist. -- | :29:58. | :30:09. | |
from Mike Coman. Every time they have been in the 22 of the Ospreys, | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
they have come away with a try, not on that occasion. Justin Tipuric | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
check got under the rib cage and got -- and held him up long enough. | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
Edinburgh, the way they passed the ball, that allows the Ospreys | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
defence to be reset and that was excellent defence from the Ospreys. | :30:32. | :30:43. | |
Less than quarter of an hour remaining. A 3-point Edinburgh lead. | :30:44. | :30:55. | |
At one stage, they had to 22 points to make up. -- 22. | :30:56. | :31:05. | |
They could does very well. The scrum does look under pressure. -- Baker. | :31:06. | :31:21. | |
The scrum-half is a Jack of all trades, comfortable in the centre | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
and superb as a flanker. And can also play in scrum-half. Dan Biggar | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
sits back again and he finds that relieving touch goal and suddenly | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
Edinburgh are attacking from the ten metre line. Edinburgh is strong in | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
the scrum but can they dominate in the 22 metre line? Edinburgh are | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
playing faces of possession that we saw in the first half but they did | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
not have continuity in the second half. -- raises. The play is | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
disrupted. Illegal interference. There is a chance to open up a gap | :32:02. | :32:18. | |
again. The Williams boys before were saying they are confident about | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
Welsh victory in top -- in Twickenham, how do you see it? It | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
took magic and brilliance from France in Paris to deny England | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
victory. They holding towards home advantage. England were seething at | :32:34. | :32:42. | |
the loss last year and is losing out on the championship. Wales have the | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
ability to outplay England but that was a very good performance by | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
England and they will take a lot from that. I am going to be going | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
out, I am delighted. I have a feeling England might edge it. But | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
if Wales play with that confidence we saw in the game against France | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
last Friday night, rather than the game against Ireland in Dublin, that | :33:10. | :33:11. | |
will be the difference between the teams, whether Wales can produce | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
that sort of performance again. A long-range effort safely over. And | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
as we approach the final ten minutes, the Ospreys have to get a | :33:24. | :33:31. | |
converted try to win it again. A great kick by Edinburgh 's fullback. | :33:32. | :33:38. | |
They are just finishing off. In the Six Nations, a four teams are right | :33:39. | :33:46. | |
in with a couple of weekends to go. Every time the Six Nations is on, | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
you cannot keep your eye off it. Jack Cuthbert takes pole advantage | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
and slips into the arms of Tito Tebaldi. -- full. Kennedy, to | :33:58. | :34:08. | |
Leonard. He slowed it down halfway. He has to be careful not to concede | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
a penalty. A good off-load back, lost either prop and Ryan Jones | :34:15. | :34:22. | |
spins it round to Ashley Beck who does well to step away from | :34:23. | :34:30. | |
Dominguez. Scott Baldwin. Driven to ground I Ross Ford. Tito Tebaldi, to | :34:31. | :34:40. | |
Dan Biggar. He is creating the angle for Sam Lewis. A knock and advantage | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
is being played by Edinburgh at the moment. -- knock-on. Egg great | :34:45. | :34:56. | |
off-load by Willem Nel. -- a great. Wrapped up by Baldwin. Everybody is | :34:57. | :35:07. | |
looking at Natoga to see if he will come through to offside desertion. A | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
catalogue of errors. -- offside position. Jonathan Spratt was | :35:14. | :35:20. | |
looking more alert and it was a free ball for him. The Ospreys were out | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
over the ten yard line. Edinburgh is still under pressure and alongside | :35:27. | :35:34. | |
others is the Edinburgh winger, I wonder how good he is. On a Gaelic | :35:35. | :35:45. | |
speaking channel. A bit of Dutch thrown in, maybe! | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
Sam Davies waits. He gets it away well. A dangerous run out. Dan | :35:52. | :36:05. | |
Biggar with a kick in goal. Duncan Jones. 35 years young. Dan Biggar, | :36:06. | :36:21. | |
Sam Davies. Ashley Beck. Jonathan Spratt, they are running out of room | :36:22. | :36:23. | |
on the right-hand side. Dan Baker got into the 22 before | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
being brought down by Gilchrist. The Ospreys are getting ever | :36:31. | :36:45. | |
nearer, a converted try would edge them ahead. | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
Good build-up by the Ospreys. Can they finish it off now? Just like | :36:53. | :36:59. | |
Edinburgh did in the first half. No, they lost the ball, and the number | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
eight Cornell Du Preez puts boot to ball. The ball is still alive. And | :37:05. | :37:12. | |
Sam Davies is looking for the safety of the touchline and just about | :37:13. | :37:21. | |
makes it, very relieved. Dougie Fife did well, with Cornell Du Preez. Sam | :37:22. | :37:29. | |
Davies managed to nudge the Edinburgh winger out of the way. It | :37:30. | :37:34. | |
could have been a try either end, good pressure. And the mistake | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
coming in at a crucial time for the Ospreys, a turnover ball allowing | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
Edinburgh to kick the ball downfield. Edinburgh have a great | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
opportunity to see out the game in this period of territory against the | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
Ospreys. Ospreys will have to look for magic, will it be from a big | :37:54. | :38:00. | |
ball like Dan Baker? From Natoga on the wing or will it be the magic and | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
experience of Dan Biggar to get them out of this? Edinburgh have laid | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
well this evening at Meggetland and maybe just edging it. | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
But to take by Gilchrist. -- a good take. Kennedy. A deep pass. Now the | :38:16. | :38:29. | |
Ospreys have to get a bit of defending in again. | :38:30. | :38:49. | |
There is a penalty coming the way of Edinburgh and that could be | :38:50. | :38:58. | |
telling. A gap will open up if they go for it. They want the try, a | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
bonus point. Andries Strauss. He slips through far too easily! The | :39:05. | :39:12. | |
last man Mike Coman cannot hang on to the inside ball, the try is | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
denied and they will have to come back to the penalty. The Ospreys | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
need to look at the defence. Andries Strauss found a great gap. This was | :39:25. | :39:34. | |
the knock-on. An offside decision on Jonathan Spratt. He promised a | :39:35. | :39:42. | |
yellow card at the start of the half and he delivers it against the | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
Ospreys centre. Ashley Beck is leaving, so the Ospreys will have to | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
finish with 14 men. And they need a score from somewhere if they are not | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
going to come away from Meggetland with nothing. Mike Coman, the | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
sensible option, win the game first and Edinburgh have an opportunity to | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
perhaps get that bonus point in the victory. This kick is vitally | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
important for the South African fullback playing his trade here for | :40:16. | :40:17. | |
Edinburgh. -- plying. He has already kicked 13 points for | :40:18. | :40:27. | |
the team. Converted two of the three tries and | :40:28. | :40:40. | |
landed three penalties. This is to take a bonus point away from the | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
Ospreys. Gets it just inside that left-hand side, just as enough. Now | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
the Ospreys have to score from somewhere to get anything from this | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
game. He just snatched it. He has extended that Edinburgh read to the | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
two scores Ospreys now need. Can Edinburgh finish with a flourish and | :41:03. | :41:14. | |
get that bonus point? Tom Habberfield is coming on instead of | :41:15. | :41:22. | |
Tito Tebaldi. Duncan Jones, the Ospreys looking to get within strike | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
range. Trying to get a losing bonus point. | :41:28. | :41:40. | |
Tyler Ardron, one-handed to Scott Baldwin. Justin Tipuric in midfield. | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
Ashley Beck, off the field. Just one man. Just one man outside | :41:47. | :42:11. | |
Dan Biggar, so he took the hit. Baldwin looking to give the Ospreys | :42:12. | :42:14. | |
a toehold in the Edinburgh 22. Jeff Hassler appearing everywhere he | :42:15. | :42:37. | |
can. Less than two minutes remaining for the Ospreys now. Just cannot get | :42:38. | :42:45. | |
asked that 22 metre line at the moment. Justin Tipuric is looking to | :42:46. | :42:51. | |
free his hands in the tackle. But they have got the penalty and they | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
have got the chance to reclaim a losing bonus point. That is Izak van | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
der Westhuizen, who has been awarded the man of the match this evening. | :43:02. | :43:13. | |
Another yellow card. It was Tomas Leonardi, the Argentine who has come | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
off the bench. Dan Biggar will take that three points just to get a | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
bonus point. They might have one last shot to score a converted try. | :43:23. | :43:31. | |
Another Dan Biggar penalty. It gives the Ospreys something as they go | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
into the final minute. They reclaim a losing bonus point. | :43:37. | :43:49. | |
It also gives them the outside chance of sneaking a victory with a | :43:50. | :44:01. | |
converted try. Then at ago waiting to come on. He may not have a | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
chance. Edinburgh kick the ball dead. That is crazy from Edinburgh. | :44:08. | :44:16. | |
That gives the Ospreys scrum on the half way line. The last attack of | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
the game and it gives the Ospreys one last chance. Then at ago will | :44:23. | :44:51. | |
come on for one play. -- Ben Atiga. It is all about what happens here. A | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
good scrum allows the backs to attack. Alex Allan on the loose head | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
for Edinburgh. He is celebrating his 22nd birthday today. This will be | :45:04. | :45:13. | |
the final play of the game. The Ospreys look to have salvaged a | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
point. Can they possibly sneak an extra three? | :45:18. | :45:35. | |
Jonathan Spratt a lone figure on the right-hand side of the Ospreys | :45:36. | :45:46. | |
attack. They are having trouble getting this scrum set. I don't | :45:47. | :45:56. | |
think the referee would issue to cards for the last scrum of the | :45:57. | :45:57. | |
game, would he? Ulster have cemented their position | :45:58. | :46:14. | |
in third with a thumping victory over the Dragons. The Ospreys | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
clinging on to fourth at the moment and Glasgow to play tomorrow night. | :46:21. | :46:29. | |
A loose pass. Sam Davies to Isaiah in a toga. -- Isaiah in a toga. | :46:30. | :46:52. | |
The more is called. That is enough. The Edinburgh skipper prevents a | :46:53. | :47:03. | |
late Ospreys come back and gets Edinburgh back to winning ways after | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
three defeats in a row. Edinburgh come away with a victory. They did | :47:09. | :47:15. | |
not get a bonus point. The Ospreys did the losing. It is a hard-fought | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
win for Edinburgh which keeps them in the hunt for European places. | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
They have become the Ospreys 31-25. And a deserved victory. Edinburgh | :47:28. | :47:36. | |
played very well in the first 40 minutes. My man of the matches Mike | :47:37. | :47:43. | |
Coman the captain of Edinburgh. He played so well. This is a good | :47:44. | :47:52. | |
Ospreys team. They are right up there in this league. Edinburgh at a | :47:53. | :47:59. | |
work in progress. They will take a great deal of delight from that. It | :48:00. | :48:09. | |
is a hard-fought victory for Edinburgh and a bonus point for the | :48:10. | :48:15. | |
Ospreys. We can hear now the thoughts of Dan Biggar who is with | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
Phil Steele. How frustrating was that? We were not clinical enough. | :48:23. | :48:32. | |
We conceded a couple of soft tries and we were always chasing the game. | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
It is hugely disappointing to come away with only one point. You did | :48:38. | :48:44. | |
well to salvage that one point. We are not happy with one point. We | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
have to look at ourselves in the mirror. We gave away some soft | :48:49. | :49:01. | |
tries. How is your knee? It is fine. Nothing too serious. How good was it | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
to get a full 80 minutes on the belt? It was great to play but just | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
disappointing we did not pull through in the end. We need to show | :49:14. | :49:22. | |
a bit more skill. How are you looking forward to being part of | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
that squad for the Wales against an in game? If I can get myself in the | :49:27. | :49:36. | |
squad and push for selection, that would be great. It would be | :49:37. | :49:43. | |
something special to be a part of. Justin Tipuric is here. How are you | :49:44. | :49:51. | |
feeling ahead of next week? It was a really tough game. A bit | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
disappointed with the result. They are a physical side. They play the | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
South African way and that is how they won tonight. He made a few too | :50:01. | :50:09. | |
many errors. Silly errors. We did not execute things in their 22. Did | :50:10. | :50:17. | |
you think you are going to sneak it at one stage? Definitely. We never | :50:18. | :50:26. | |
gave up. It was one of our worst first halves all year. But we were | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
still in it. Edinburgh were very physical. You had five back rowers | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
in your back five. Did you feel you were lacking a bit there? No. We | :50:39. | :50:45. | |
tried to help -- hold them up. You have to get them to the floor early | :50:46. | :50:52. | |
and get over the ball. And was it nice to play at the club ground? A | :50:53. | :50:59. | |
little bit difference. -- bit different. It makes things a bit | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
real. How are you looking forward to token? -- Twickenham? It doesn't | :51:07. | :51:15. | |
matter whether the game is for the wooden spoon or the Six Nations, it | :51:16. | :51:22. | |
is always a tasty one. Hopefully we will have a good week in training. | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
Do you think the English will remember last year's game? Last year | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
's forgotten. It is a new chapter. We have to do the basics well. They | :51:34. | :51:40. | |
are favourites. We have to show everybody what we can do. | :51:41. | :51:47. | |
It was a great start for the Ospreys away from home. Jeff Hassler | :51:48. | :51:54. | |
touching down after just six minutes. After that Edinburgh | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
enjoyed a purple patch. Three tries in half an hour. Grayson Hart | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
crossing for the first one. Jack Cuthbert with a break before putting | :52:04. | :52:14. | |
Sam Beard away. Another one from Grayson Hart on the blindside. The | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
Ospreys started well in the second half with two penalties. Then it was | :52:20. | :52:28. | |
Edinburgh's turn to fight back. Jeff Hassler then scored his second try | :52:29. | :52:36. | |
for the Ospreys. But ultimately, it was Edinburgh who struck back and | :52:37. | :52:43. | |
one thanks to this last-minute penalty. Dan Biggar got a penalty to | :52:44. | :52:56. | |
get a losing bonus point. The Ospreys did enjoy the greater share | :52:57. | :52:59. | |
of territory and possession that they did not make it count. Shane | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
Williams, you would probably take on a wave bonus point but the Ospreys | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
are a bit more ambitious than that. It was disappointing. The Ospreys | :53:11. | :53:20. | |
wanted to win that game. But they were the second-best team out | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
tonight. Far too many errors. Too much complacency and defence. They | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
gave themselves too much work to do in the second half. They started | :53:30. | :53:35. | |
very well in the second half. But they lost the ball interiors and | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
gave themselves too much to do. They chipped away at the lead and then | :53:41. | :53:47. | |
Jeff Hassler got his second try. It looked at that stage as if perhaps | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
they would get back into it. They came back into it well and got some | :53:53. | :54:00. | |
momentum. We were calling for Ryan Jones and Sam Davies to come on. He | :54:01. | :54:08. | |
is a great foot olive. He checks the defence with a dummy and it is a | :54:09. | :54:16. | |
beautiful kick. That is sheer determination to score the try. We | :54:17. | :54:25. | |
will freeze this in a minute. He does get downward pressure. It is a | :54:26. | :54:32. | |
brilliant try. We thought they were coming back into it. But ill | :54:33. | :54:38. | |
discipline and a lack of composure cost them. They were not clinical | :54:39. | :54:51. | |
enough according to Dan Biggar. The Ospreys got into the Edinburgh 22 | :54:52. | :54:57. | |
several times but made mistakes. You can't afford to do that. It was | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
always going to be a tough game away from home. When you go into the 22 | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
you have to get the points. They were far too many errors. It has | :55:08. | :55:15. | |
been a miserable night of all four regional rugby fans because the | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
Dragons were put to the sword against Ulster in Ravenhill. The | :55:19. | :55:27. | |
final score was 38-8. This was the first try for Ulster. Then Tommy | :55:28. | :55:34. | |
Bowe back after a groin injury showed he had lost none of it | :55:35. | :55:45. | |
sharpness. Two tries for him. Great news for Ireland who face Italy in a | :55:46. | :55:55. | |
week's time. Ross Ford will did cross late on for the Dragons to | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
give them a consolation try. But that is a pretty heavy defeat out in | :56:00. | :56:08. | |
Ravenhill. Let's have a look and see how those results leave the table. | :56:09. | :56:44. | |
Let's look more closely at that Scarlets against Ulster game -- | :56:45. | :56:52. | |
Munster game. Jonathan Davies has been released to play in that game. | :56:53. | :57:02. | |
It is fantastic to see Jonathan Davies back. He tried to make a | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
comeback a few weeks ago but did not feel quite right. I fully expect him | :57:08. | :57:14. | |
to come back in and start against England next week. He is that | :57:15. | :57:23. | |
important to the team. The English backline is inexperienced and you | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
are looking for people Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts and George | :57:30. | :57:31. | |
North to intimidate them. Hopefully he'll come through that game and he | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
will play at Twickenham. Do you think you will start, Shane | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
Williams? -- do you think he will start? He was one of the players of | :57:44. | :57:51. | |
the Lions tour. Providing he comes through unscathed for the Scarlets, | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
I think he will slot straight acting. He has been the form 13 for | :57:56. | :58:04. | |
Wales for the last two seasons. Wales will have to get George North | :58:05. | :58:10. | |
involved earlier than in previous games if he is back on the wing. | :58:11. | :58:16. | |
With Jonathan Davies back and George North running angles, it is | :58:17. | :58:23. | |
exciting. Steve Tandy is with Phil Steele back in Edinburgh. ?1 gained | :58:24. | :58:32. | |
or four lost? Definitely four lost. It was a disappointing first half. | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
It is not a happy dressing room. It is disappointing. We fought back | :58:38. | :58:41. | |
hard but you cannot concede sloppy tries away from home. But is the | :58:42. | :58:51. | |
season still on track? Yes. We are disappointed tonight. We have a bit | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
of a break now and we will have to regroup and win at least five or six | :58:57. | :59:02. | |
games to get into the top four. What have you learned from last season? | :59:03. | :59:08. | |
We have to be more clinical in what we do. Too many soft tries were | :59:09. | :59:15. | |
conceded in the first half. That is not good enough. We have to come | :59:16. | :59:23. | |
back. We have the Blues next up. That is at the Liberty Stadium. Yes, | :59:24. | :59:28. | |
then we go to Glasgow. We will have to start picking up some big wins | :59:29. | :59:37. | |
quickly. Some straight talking from Steve | :59:38. | :59:42. | |
Tandy. Very briefly, disappointing for the Ospreys tonight. They are | :59:43. | :59:50. | |
still in the mix. They are probably the only Welsh team will have a | :59:51. | :59:53. | |
chance of getting in the top four. They have to regroup for the big | :59:54. | :59:58. | |
derby game next up against the Blues. Thank you both for joining us | :59:59. | :00:02. | |
tonight. That is all we have time for tonight. Commiserations to Steve | :00:03. | :00:10. | |
Tandy and his players. But they are still in the hunt for the play-offs. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Sport Wales is up next and there is some strong language in that. It is | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
good night from us. | :00:19. | :00:24. |