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It is around 12 of the Pro12 and the race for the top four is heating up.

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Leinster would were looking to gold topped with a rare victory at the

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Liberty Stadium on Friday. The Scarlets two could have returned to

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the summit with a win over Connacht. There were a Tabasco law. -- a

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Basker law. Can the underdogs produce a shock as a mark and the

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war but is reveal one of the most commendable tricks. What's the worst

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thing you have forgotten? I did genuine even get his birthday.

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Shocking. Believing and welcome to the programme. A star-studded panel

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is always on scrum five. Jonathan Davies, Martyn Williams and Ryan

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Jones. All year to offer their expert analysis of the weekend 's

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action. We are good to start with a Ospreys. Hoping to stand their

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five-game winning streak against Leinster in the stadium. Our cameras

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were with them all week. It start of the wellness monitor. Because at

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that is just a profile the start of the day in terms some basic

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questions and tested and Summers objective around things like saunas.

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Sleep quality. But the thing. As well as some more objective markers

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around a range of motion, things accident reach, hamstring lie back,

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car Fandango movements and sister. It is the way of starting the day to

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see where we're at. To help is with that decision making process through

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the day. We are always tried to keep the string side of things going. It

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is a border from a muscle mass point of view. Across the week there will

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generally be at least one up to sometimes three left that they will

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compete. It may well be eight bodies A whole body left in the focus will

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vary as well. The weather is pretty challenging at this point in the

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year. We have multi-training purposes but in terms of just

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managing the training mode commie, always indoors. The soft pitches can

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aggravate some of the calf and hamstrings that we have got around

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some of the groups. It is always about managing a good service. Saint

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Helens is one of the best in Welsh rugby uncoupled along with that, it

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is nice to come down to one of the traditional bases in our region. It

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just freshens as they knelt as well. I don't want people chasing. Let's

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get some line speed. What is that mean for tackling? If we are ongoing

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with those two? You have got to work hard. The thing every game becomes

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huge for us in this blog. The Six Nations looming on the horizon and

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we will miss a lot of our big hitters. Points are paramount.

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Hopefully we'll get a atmosphere of the liberty. The Leinster game is

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always a good ding-dong with top international players going

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head-to-head. And there were rest as for teenager Sam Underhill and Owen

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Watkin. Leinster already out of Europe

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arrived at the liberty fully loaded, boasting 19 international cinema

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stay 23 with a combined total of 500 through the three caps. Victory

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would have sent them to the top the league.

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Great speed. Good break that first tackle and that is read determined

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running tours that try line. Paula 's elbow. No it wasn't, says David

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Wilkinson. It looked all the world but it was. It is a free play. It is

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a penalty. They should overdrive. His honours well outside. Dan Evans

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up in the line. Dirksen outside. Evans, tackled by O'Brien. One

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important as well. Dan Biggar looking for the drop goal to break

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the deadlock and he slotted. Nicely done, Daniel Biggar. McGrath get it

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out of Sexton. The cross kick to the other side this time about as well

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weighted as well. Dave Kearney reaches out and makes it. The kicker

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is precise. The taken the finish is very, very good.

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Great steel. James King. Superb work by Owen Watkin. What a break. Looked

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on the outside. Ask was not quite there. The races are now. Isa Nacewa

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is leading by a country mile. Great work by one Watkin. It is what they

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see in this youngster. Big space there. Sam Davies. Well played.

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Nicely done to Brendon Leonard. He is isolated slightly though. He has

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turned over. Knock-on. Unlucky for Luke McGrath. He just spilled it on

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the second grass. The crowd having no effect on Jonny

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Sexton. That is one way of shutting the crowd up. Have that. Where were

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the back-seat is only there? The ball was lost, I think. A distance

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away from Brendon Leonard. But Underhill does extremely well. But

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has gone forward. Sam Underhill is having a standing evening. Yes

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commie smashed him there. Again Sean O'Brien in the thick of

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it. It is a penalty on. Not much in else on at the moment. Well, they

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are building the pressure. They have just got to hopefully now... Dan

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Biggar will take this kick, they will get back up here, they have the

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upper hand at the moment. This is not going to be a high-scoring game.

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Dan Biggar successful. Ospreys back within a point. Jonny Sexton. Up

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comes... Lovely off-load. Setser Noel Reid. So nicely. That is class

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from Ben Te'o. What a brilliant off-load this is. The ball comes

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out. The rerun. They have a second role against him. Goes on the

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inside. Lovely off-load. You can see Leinster now, their tactical brain

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is going. We will have a penalty or drop goal and robbed them of the

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bonus point. Very well with Dan Dave Kearney slides in for a second, does

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he? Has he got the ball down? Yes. Yes, he has. But is the one to

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settle it. The thing we have got to make sure is that we learn and we

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have probably been guilty of not taking the learning from games and

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into trainings and padding to games over the past two weeks. Again, we

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have got to make sure we regroup, just keep moving forward.

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Leinster 's first victory at the liberty since 2009. It took them to

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the top of the table. The Ospreys had more of their fair share than

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possession but just lacked a cutting edge. There is, they would as

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clinical. They had three opportunities and scored three

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times. That was it. The well marshalled by Jonny Sexton. They had

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just had that extra little X Factor when they needed it and that was the

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difference really. Interims of the X factor behind, we saw Ben Te'o there

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and we saw the winners, Dave Kearney coming into the game as well, was it

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just those plays against what the Ospreys had quiz and marketed it was

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a very good team effort but I think thought the Ospreys actively well

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but they had the opportunities and they took them. If we look at the

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first try and Leinster and Ireland always do this will stop just watch

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this a minute. As the ball comes out, he has only just come on. He is

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roughly the right position but look at the winger. He has to drop back.

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As a winger, you have to drop a little bit and you see what is in

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front. As a cc that, he could have moved up. Now we are scored in no

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man's land. Sam Davies tries to tackle. It is brilliant executed. It

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is a great finish. Second try, forwards, all front five, Baldwin

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has a Rush of blood, get out of the line and that is an easy run in four

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Ben Te'o. Again, dissenting special, offload, inside tracking and he is

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over. That was the difference. The Ospreys pig territorial. Dan Biggar

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kicked well. They were in the gale. They missed a couple of kicks which

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might make the difference but when it came to the crunch, when the

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opportunity think of it can't I was differently. They'll be frustrated.

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They had good territory and good possession and it conceded tries

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from two defensive tactical errors. Scott Baldwin has jumped out of the

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line and come across and someone as has come over and blitzed. It has

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cost them dear. The difference with that though, the forwards are going

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well and we all are set against the Scarlets colleges pick and drive,

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pick and drive. They do lack that cutting edge and pace out wide. If

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you're in your own half in the 40 metre any, they have scored some

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lovely tries in Europe but I think it is throwing the ball about

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because they are chasing the bonus point. They have not really created

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anything from distance which I can remember. And that holds them back

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of the, I think. The King at the positives, much of the talk during

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and after the game was the performance of 19 euros Sam

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Underhill. That was made of the fact that Justin Tipuric was rested but

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that man look to the manner born. Yeah, here's a guy that all players

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are raving about. We saw a huge physical side of him on the weekend.

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He is a young man who the mock Ospreys have managed to it

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Gloucester. He is involved in everything. A lot of good in his

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game. He has a huge physical presence. Time at him again, we saw

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him getting stuck in. He gets Sean O'Brien relatively quiet. But there

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was another guy, Owen Watkin. He was immature. Again the Ospreys have put

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a lot of faith in him. He was involved in any season and he has

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been held back on conditioning period, if you like, ready for this

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period now over the 6-nations and finale of the league. That will

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allow him to Caernarfon stab at this level. Again, he is a young man in

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aim real man's body. He is a big lump. The driver selection, with

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what is on the night, it is a public address, I suppose you rests on guys

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with an eye on Europe, two very big fixtures in Europe coming up front.

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Due off to look at the Pro12. The Ospreys now in seven. Should they

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have go that fixture as Leinster did Mark is a difficult situation. They

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have such a poor start in the World Cup, they are behind already in the

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league. In real danger of missing out on top six was look at the

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league table, you will see later on, they played more games than the

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others around them. They are four points adrift of six. The latter

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given huge gravity still be in the European tour about this stage. They

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are only have crew but they have had to forfeit really a home game

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against Leinster. Clermont Auvergne NetSuite is one of the biggest game

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the region have had in a long time. The loser, they are out of Europe

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and they are behind in the lead as well. As it is the first Sunday sure

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the year, we thought we would remind you what happened over the festive

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period and for those who did tune in, we had some Christmas crackers

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to savour. Tom James outside him. Tom James, this will be a try for

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the Blues. Huge kick the Rhys Patchell. The flags go up. The

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fullback has done it for the Blues. What a run, gives it a Walker on the

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outside. But is brilliant by Dmitri Arhip. Do or die for the Scarlets.

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From the boot of Steven Shingler. Has he pulled it question mark

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guess, he has. And the Ospreys have held on to the closest of victories.

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They get over in the end. Eventually, something had to give.

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What an incredible game. The Blues take the spoils. There was a welcome

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return from injury for John Barclay on the openside, Samson Lee, Ken

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Owens Rob Evans fold and all international front row. Behind the

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scrum, Regan King return the starting line-up, while Aled Davies

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started at scrum-half in the absence of namesake Gareth, who was out with

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an illness. Pat Lam 's side were looking to end a three-game losing

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streak but would have to make history to do so, having never won

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at Parc y Scarlets. Their site featured just one change from the

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one that lost to Leinster. Remember, Connacht are down to 14. Good vision

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from the scrum-half spotting that gap. Jack Carty again. Ronaldson.

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Well tackled by Steff Evans. A bit of work now for the scholars to do

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as well. Excellent tackle on Jake Heenan. They could go upstairs. Thus

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they're going to go upstairs. Anybody the ball will do. Adding

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that is a try. It is now gone green, scrum five. Good luck pass. Here is

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an opportunity. One-handed off-load. It is a straight foot race and at

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Healy is going all the way. From his own 22. Often the best way to

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attack, the best place to attack from and after some good handling,

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Matt Healy goes over try the game. It is great work again. He is over

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in the corner. They will go upstairs surely but after some lovely

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build-up play, Matt Healy is over in the corner. It is another one of

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those. Does he have done the pressure got him out now. He has

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dropped at. That is the right decision. It is Davies again. Lewis

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Rawlins continues the movement. Regan King. Floats one of the parks.

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Flat torque across the line to Evans and it is Evans over in the corner.

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Very well worked try the Scarlets. Williams, flat ball to Regan King.

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They have numbers outside. Flows to his fullback. Can he get there?

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Comment and it's over. Centigrade is a try that the Scarlets aired. Jack

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Carty, well... Iris and what used to do. They'll go back from penalty.

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Great strike. Hamid Ansari see it where... Shingler is on the pitch

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and he has the opportunity. And there it is. Well, it is yellow card

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offence. And that means that will be a penalty. 93 seconds to go, the

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Scarlets might have an opportunity to take the lead. Strike the ball,

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the crowd will tell you that that has gone over. Once again, it is

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Steven Shingler. A broad smile from the replace and outside-half. He has

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kept his nerve. Playing them in three weeks' time at their place, it

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is important to get a result. We got stuck in and we knew it would be an

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effort and that is what it took. We had quite a few opportunities there

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and suddenly we got our attacking game back and we did not finish a

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few tries. Yeah, it was tough at the end there to take and I said at the

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beginning of the game, it would be close. Two good teams and they

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scored a lot of good tries to. Fortunately we got pipped at the end

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there. Pat Lam not quite as angry as we thought he may have been posed

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much. It was an intriguing one because both sides have shared the

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lead of this table for most of this season so far but both were coming

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into it after the back of disappointing Christmas period. A

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big win for the Scarlets. It is a massive win. Irrespective of how it

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came. Some of the tries. I thought Regan King was Brion. I thought that

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they were slightly lucky we the TMO. As of three of us agreed. It was a

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definite try by Masterson. But a Brion game. A big win. They were

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little bit importunate to get away with it. Let's have a closer look at

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that. I think this is a definite try. A disabled visit. The board

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does bounce in the air. For me, that sends out the system that is as

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downward pressure. But as a trial day long, that is. I really don't

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understand what the TMO and the referee did not see it. How is that

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not a try was a and this one, from the other angle, it shows an aside,

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said Arnold, it does visited may have lost a going over over but I

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think that again, if Apple is a Scarlets winger was going on, we

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would be up in arms. They rode 11 deserve the credit for the Scarlets

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because they have so many key injuries. Deserved a little bit of

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luck. They have had some bad luck of the gritters period. Full credit to

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them. It is nice to see Shingler kicker kick. The previous two games

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they have lost by a pod. They looked like they were going to lose this

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bicycle point as well. Here or zero. You will lead in the papers...

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Blinking to watch. And when. Both teams look to play. Wedding the

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Scarlets because they are underpowered, they are not the

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biggest team. They have to play they way they have but some of the tries

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they score, brilliant game. We all to see that. Here is a guy with

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hugely relieved from that. I think it was just reward. They have stuck

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in there and they are becoming a difficult team to beat, the

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Scarlets. Wayne Pivac has brought a steal, if you like, to that forward

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play. They are starting to pride themselves on... Bunged up: the

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Scarlets horizon is this deepening injury crisis. Jack Condy and at

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this week as well. Will the potentially derail what could be

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winning campaign? Hopefully Scott Williams Liam Williams, no Lia

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Williams were back at the end of January. They are out of Europe so

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maybe the next two weeks... The problem have with Europe is you do

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not want to be losing by or 50 points and getting complete

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hammerings. It does not confidence. John Barclay is bad. With European

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games, they might rest him. 40s by the job was Bjorklund guide

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injuries. It is very unlucky few other string of them. Visit of game.

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There are also have their eye on the 6-nations. They have to make sure

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their players come through that too. Plenty to think about. Moving on

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now, one other feature the boot of this again. It was a tween Edinburgh

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and Treviso. The rest were cancelled to allow this bold European games to

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take place. Edinburgh welding to capitalise on about the back damages

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over Glasgow resource. Any breaking into the game off the back of a

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double over Glasgow and were ten lap early on some unorthodox passing,

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the knock-down for David Holden to finish. Two penalties for James

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Anderson before half-time cut the deficit. Two replies from

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Hidalgo-Clyne the store the gap before the home forwards dominance

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saw the referee lose patience and awarded penalty try on the hour. But

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Treviso showed some resistance after the midweek exit of their coach,

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replaced for now... Marco Barbini and a fitting from the Greenwald

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about -- slip over. Edinburgh may have been celebrated desperately did

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not get the bonus point but they did manage a third try on the whistle.

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Somehow, they twisted a a second try. Edinburgh boosting their top

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four challenge. They actually temporary went top with added on

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Friday night before Leinster beat the Ospreys and went top. Scarlets

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are now the third team to go top as again. Then I wake points clear of

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Munster in fifth, giving them a bit of breathing space in the top four.

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Ulster insects, the in seven. The Blues one of those scenes at how

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weakened off this weekend. Their securities muster was one of those

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buzzbomb. We took the opportunity to catch up with Sam Warburton, Wales

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captain. Happy New Year. You we are again at the beginning of a New Year

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on scrum five. You have done hundreds, thousands of these

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interviews now. Hamid Ansari sat down together as a close ties. Will

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mix it up a little bit this time. Gets an innocent who knows you

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weather than a mouse. I will shoot off because there is someone

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downstairs was good to come and ask you questions. I look forward to it.

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Cheers, Ross. Higher, Sam. It is only me. I do remember first money

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into the Blues, do you find is awkward? The first week maybe but

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after that, because we trained together, when Willard 15, we had

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like a multigym in the garage. And we would go running and go down the

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park and kicking and passing. I am partly the reason why you are good

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at defence. We had a little corner of grass. We used to run at hard as

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we can at each other. Yes, all. Would go down there and just try and

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Sammy Jenner. Run at each other. We were only like 11. I have often

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attended to be you, have you ever pretended to be me quitting Mark I

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was in a pair and a woman came over to me who was drugged and I did not

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want to do with her so I said I was Ben the physio. She did not believe

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me. -- drunk. Have you pretended to be me? Cause I have. Why did you

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give up the drums and take up golf question are a bitter middle-aged,

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isn't it quitting Mark all the boys play golf. I knew now live in a

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semidetached house and there is only single pane of glass. Everyone can

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hear me bashing the drums. I had to get rid of the drums. He has better

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skills than me. He has better handling skills than me. Ever will

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be saying, that is not hard. Golf, everything. We are both going to

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having a short fuse. What is the angriest you have been question mark

:27:22.:27:24.

when I was young, I was a lot more hot-headed. It was advice Paul Tito

:27:25.:27:29.

gave me. Never take it personal what you do at openside because whoever

:27:30.:27:32.

you are playing against, you will target the openside. Whenever people

:27:33.:27:37.

do go for your downstairs, you're what sets in games, they might go

:27:38.:27:41.

for a couch or choke you or anything, never to get personal. I

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used to be really hot-headed. We both have aggressive streak. Mum and

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dad have always said that. We get it from. Forgetful as as you were

:27:51.:27:57.

straight. What is the worst thing you have forgotten? The worst thing

:27:58.:28:03.

I have a garden, I went on the bus for the Grand Slam gaining 2012 and

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our team manager had to come on with my boots. A birthday? And I did

:28:08.:28:14.

genuinely forget Ben 's birthday. Shocking. I viewed as bad 's

:28:15.:28:19.

birthday coming up, busy. Because it was my birthday. Either the guidance

:28:20.:28:24.

and tomorrow, next in you wake up and he was given the card. I ran to

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the kitchen and said that, give me to adequate. I need to give N

:28:31.:28:35.

adequate. I haven't got adequate cash army. Tell me why you came last

:28:36.:28:43.

in a hundred metres at school when we were ever after winning your heat

:28:44.:28:47.

in the semifinal. My number a cheeseburger. You got the

:28:48.:28:51.

cheeseburger because man thought I was a good way to give you energy.

:28:52.:29:00.

She's clueless. Cost me a medal. Do you think you are good patient? Yes.

:29:01.:29:07.

We need to get you fit to play well. One of the European games we will

:29:08.:29:10.

target and then you can play a game before the 6-nations. If selected.

:29:11.:29:16.

You have been quoted as saying you would like to end your career at the

:29:17.:29:20.

Blues. Do you really mean it quitting Mark yes. We are both

:29:21.:29:26.

Cardiff boys. We love watching them as kids. I grew up watching Martyn

:29:27.:29:30.

Williams and I know where the number seven jersey, which I love. I love

:29:31.:29:41.

the Cardiff Blues. We have already rinsed Sam for forgetting his

:29:42.:29:44.

brother 's birthday. Very pleasing news for all Blues fans to here

:29:45.:29:47.

Martin at the end of that treaty. No hesitation when he said he would

:29:48.:29:53.

stay at the Blues. How pleasing is that for you to hear guys like he

:29:54.:29:57.

has always said that. I do think it is just a sound bite. He loves the

:29:58.:30:02.

club, the region, anti-has always looked at it as well. I think it is

:30:03.:30:06.

a sign of what is happening really. A lot of players have gone to France

:30:07.:30:08.

who still have international ambitions are coming back as you do

:30:09.:30:14.

get flogged and it is very physical. I think in back or staying is

:30:15.:30:19.

looking a lot more inviting than it was maybe two or three years ago.

:30:20.:30:24.

Sand to stay at the Blues until the end of his career, somebody who will

:30:25.:30:29.

be starting his Blues career, Matthew Morgan, you know him very

:30:30.:30:33.

well, lift share body of yours in the Bristol days? Yes, he is not the

:30:34.:30:39.

brightest. Again he is a very exciting talent and it will be great

:30:40.:30:43.

to see him linking up with Danny Wilson. On that Blues pitch that

:30:44.:30:48.

everybody has spoken about. He is an electric ten who has grown in

:30:49.:30:51.

confidence since his time at Bristol. He has been handed the

:30:52.:30:56.

reins and has too developed from the guy they bring on, he has had to

:30:57.:31:00.

learn those game management skills and the like and shown real

:31:01.:31:05.

security. At signed as a 15, is that his best position? I think he is one

:31:06.:31:11.

of these guys, you need him on the ball. He will not be a 15 who will

:31:12.:31:16.

sit deep. Again I think it will bring another string to Wales' blow

:31:17.:31:19.

as well, something they have pushed for. They think 15 is possibly his

:31:20.:31:28.

best position. But it is what teams need in modern rugby, and he can be

:31:29.:31:35.

either. Fans will be very excited if the bus on social media is anything

:31:36.:31:39.

to go by. Weather has been atrocious in the past weeks and it did its

:31:40.:31:43.

level best to wash out the sway like cup as we got just four of the

:31:44.:31:45.

scheduled ten games. -- Swalec Cup. This weekend is the start of the

:31:46.:31:56.

Swalec Cup and this is a competition with great tradition down the years

:31:57.:32:02.

for giant-killing. Newport being beaten. A trifle Kevin Gary Moore!

:32:03.:32:08.

Pontypridd being beaten, and of course Saint Peters beating Cardiff.

:32:09.:32:17.

Oh, yes. The magic of the cup. Today we have come to Port Talbot. Tata

:32:18.:32:28.

Steel are taken on clinically. Can the underdogs can drop some magic

:32:29.:32:37.

and conjure a result? That's find out. Abracadabra. It is pouring

:32:38.:32:50.

down. We have a championship side. You ready? One, two, three.

:32:51.:32:58.

Cup day. Made a lot of the magic of the cup and the potential for

:32:59.:33:05.

giant-killing, does that still exist? Yes, the cup is a thrashing

:33:06.:33:11.

change from the league for us, chance to get away from the pressure

:33:12.:33:17.

of points every week. Not many clubs like Tata Steel, are there? Works

:33:18.:33:22.

team effectively. It is a taste of the background of the club. The

:33:23.:33:28.

rugby section has been going along time. It was really hard in there,

:33:29.:33:33.

as I'm sure you've heard. We are just going to try to get going and

:33:34.:33:37.

get through this rough patch. Tata Steel have been good enough to

:33:38.:33:40.

provide sporting facilities for the various sections through the years.

:33:41.:33:44.

I just hope we keep going and get through it. I am here to watch my

:33:45.:33:50.

other half play. He is playing for Tata Steel? Yes. Was he nervous

:33:51.:33:55.

today? I think he is nervous, obviously playing a Premiership

:33:56.:33:58.

team, that little step up. Nothing they can't seem to handle at the

:33:59.:34:05.

moment. Who is going to win this? I'm going to go with my heart and

:34:06.:34:11.

say Tata Steel. Good for you. We've seen some incredible shocks, haven't

:34:12.:34:15.

we? Newport, Saint Peters against Cardiff. This is the beauty of the

:34:16.:34:22.

rugby, isn't it? You look at the two teams out there today, and you'd

:34:23.:34:25.

swear they were in the same division. It is a leveller, these

:34:26.:34:30.

conditions. It is a good game, actually. Not too many knock-on is

:34:31.:34:34.

for the conditions they are playing in, I think they have done well.

:34:35.:34:38.

Would you be out there playing in this weather? I would, actually.

:34:39.:34:44.

When you are out there, when you first go on it is freezing cold. I

:34:45.:34:51.

had water in my shoes. When you go on, all of the water just goes in

:34:52.:34:57.

your shoe and then warms up. Do you think you can pull it off today,

:34:58.:35:02.

Tata Steel? Got a second-half performance in them? I can't see why

:35:03.:35:06.

not, we are dominating them in the scrum, keeping our shape. You gave a

:35:07.:35:10.

penalty try away because of your scrum! Check your eyes.

:35:11.:35:23.

So the magic unlike the rain proves to be in short supply, no great

:35:24.:35:32.

shock today. Two teams going at each other in the mud in the great

:35:33.:35:35.

tradition of Welsh cup rugby. Hocus-pocus. And I'm here craving

:35:36.:35:42.

the trench foot at soggy Saint Helens as Swansea take on a repeat

:35:43.:35:51.

of the 95 final, could there be more magic? Ryan Thomas, good early

:35:52.:36:03.

pressure from the whites. In their digging, and a penalty given. Early

:36:04.:36:06.

chance for Ian Brooks to put Swansea on the board. Wells. That's the

:36:07.:36:18.

halfway line. That's gone awry, and blocky is away! And sliding in for

:36:19.:36:23.

the game's for the first try. Swansea mistake, and he did the

:36:24.:36:31.

rest. Taken by Barnes. On comes the drive. Barnes, out of the blue. How

:36:32.:36:38.

vital could that be? That's two scores ahead for Pontypridd. It the

:36:39.:36:47.

Barnes Wallis clearance from Lewis Kay Williams. Got plenty of

:36:48.:36:48.

distance, though. Not taken on the Pontypridd 22 and

:36:49.:37:02.

Swansea have a chance. Pop in support. Well, he started it, and he

:37:03.:37:11.

finishes it. Swansea with a bit of fight. This pitch now resembles the

:37:12.:37:17.

innards of a dodgy meat pie but Swansea still going. Here is a foot

:37:18.:37:24.

race, Jed Evans for Swansea, can he get there? Just beaten to it, but

:37:25.:37:31.

you cannot fault but Swansea effort. We are disappointed that we haven't

:37:32.:37:35.

turned them over today. Even though we put pride into the jersey and

:37:36.:37:38.

showed there is not that much of a difference between the Premiership

:37:39.:37:41.

and a championship, we have come away bitterly disappointed. We are

:37:42.:37:47.

acclimatised to it, it is or is tough on the touch judges as well. A

:37:48.:37:53.

lot of things going on out there. I thought our set piece, the scrum in

:37:54.:37:56.

particular, was really good. As long as we had something to build around,

:37:57.:38:01.

which was our scrum today, it kept as together in moments when it got

:38:02.:38:05.

tense. You had Gareth Jenkins on the line, throwback to the old school

:38:06.:38:10.

days? Fair play to him, you was keen to have a go in his old ground. Not

:38:11.:38:17.

really sure what he was doing. Three Jack Main Yard and Ortiz saw them

:38:18.:38:25.

home at Church bank but the best conditions were in Colwyn Bay where

:38:26.:38:31.

our GC flew the flag against the cup Crusaders of the 1980s, Llanharan.

:38:32.:38:39.

Bottom of the championship with no wins from 12 and our GC showed no

:38:40.:38:44.

mercy racing into a 43-0 victory. They scored 15 tries in all. Tom

:38:45.:38:48.

Hughes and Tom Sutton scored four each. A further 50 points followed

:38:49.:38:56.

in the second half as they ran up the biggest score in their history.

:38:57.:39:03.

In the only other match to survive, Newcastle Emlyn won comfortably at

:39:04.:39:12.

Glyneath. STUDIO: We have to give credit to the teams who got their

:39:13.:39:16.

games on, with that awful weather. Some of these photos are just an

:39:17.:39:19.

illustration of quite how bad the weather was. Some classic grassroots

:39:20.:39:23.

images, there. Looking at these you are probably thinking you are glad

:39:24.:39:32.

you are all retired. The worst thing was the outfit he was wearing, he

:39:33.:39:42.

looked like a clown. I played one weekend for Ponty in the cup.

:39:43.:39:53.

Classics, they were. Whatsoever. We must congratulate RGC, but other

:39:54.:40:00.

than that they were all pretty close, because when the weather is

:40:01.:40:03.

like that and on pitches like that it is a level. And they don't want

:40:04.:40:11.

to be there either, the top boys. It is never going to be expansive. Must

:40:12.:40:18.

have played in some like that. A few. Doncaster and all those

:40:19.:40:23.

far-flung places. Doncaster has a nice pitch now. We don't have a

:40:24.:40:27.

great deal of time left and the next time we are on air is for the Six

:40:28.:40:31.

Nations preview programme. For we go off air tonight and going to ask you

:40:32.:40:35.

to gaze into the crystal ball. The squad announced on the 19th, ten

:40:36.:40:40.

days away. We know the usual suspect, but anybody you have seen

:40:41.:40:45.

who you think might sneak in? I can't see anybody coming in. He will

:40:46.:40:50.

pick his tried and tested players. Phillips retired now. Rhys Webb is

:40:51.:40:57.

not going to make it. Who will be the third scrum-half? That will be

:40:58.:41:02.

the interesting one for me. You can come out of international

:41:03.:41:05.

retirement, that has done before, hasn't it, Martin? Yeah, yeah. I

:41:06.:41:09.

think he has been there before and done it. Tom James. I think you will

:41:10.:41:15.

be in the squad but it will be interesting to see if he is phoning

:41:16.:41:20.

against Ireland out in Dublin, because he deserves his shop -- if

:41:21.:41:26.

he is thrown in. A winner for me, I think Harold Dixon might be in with

:41:27.:41:30.

a chance of being included. Lloyd Ashley might be in with a shout. But

:41:31.:41:36.

I can't see Warren Gatland going too far away from what he knows. We

:41:37.:41:39.

shall wait and see. Warren Gatland will pick up the phone in a few

:41:40.:41:42.

days' time to tell those who's in and who's out. We will keep you

:41:43.:41:46.

posted on the website. That's all for tonight. Back on the 31st for

:41:47.:41:51.

our scrum five special. Hope you can join us for that. We heard from the

:41:52.:41:55.

Warburton Brothers earlier in the programme, I think they both agreed

:41:56.:41:59.

that Sam was the better rugby player but what about some of their other

:42:00.:42:04.

attributes? Let's find out. CU soon. Who is the hardest? Cheers. Why did

:42:05.:42:16.

you say me? You are bigger. Because you are the coolest. Only because

:42:17.:42:22.

he's got more money so he can buy what he wants. I agree with that.

:42:23.:42:31.

Who is the best chef? Oh, yeah. Glad you said that, definitely me. He

:42:32.:42:36.

comes into training every day and we have chickens and stuff, he comes in

:42:37.:42:41.

with jam sandwich, cheese, white bread. Ham and cheese today? He

:42:42.:42:49.

lives on ham and cheese sandwiches. Signature dish? Chilli con carne. I

:42:50.:42:55.

like cooking chilli. What have I cooked for you when you came over?

:42:56.:43:00.

Chilli. Yeah, Chile is my dish, lots of meat. Who is the most romantic?

:43:01.:43:16.

Hang on. Was that you? You are very soft. I like to keep my women happy.

:43:17.:43:23.

My woman. Who is the angriest. Definitely, hands down. Who is the

:43:24.:43:30.

most musically gifted? That's only because you go for it. You always

:43:31.:43:37.

ask for my playlists as well. I might know the answer. Who is the

:43:38.:43:40.

biggest party animal? I'm not a big party animal, but much more than

:43:41.:43:43.

sand. That's right.

:43:44.:43:47.

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