05/11/2017 Scrum V

The centres of attention were back

for the Scarlets who had lost 14

players to Wales, but the back-ups

stepped up. A welcome return for

Gethin Jenkins as the Blues were

given a licence to thrill. The

Ospreys and the Dragons had

difficult away trips. Both were on

the road and both were up against

it. We may as well close the polls

with try of the season as Glasgow

continue their scintillating run of

form. It is the 100 up for this

50-something, and the ultimate

family affair. And two Wales star

warts look ahead to the autumn

series from an unusual perspective.

We are Barbir -- both obviously not

involved, you are injured, I am not

involved. -- I am too old.

Welcome

to the programme. We are a third of

the way through the domestic season

and six days away from the autumn

internationals. Martyn Williams and

Jonathan Davies here to reflect on

the weekend's action and look ahead

to the November tests but we will

start at last night's game at the

Arms Park

start at last night's game at the

Arms Park between Blues and Zebre.

Bright start from Zebre going

through the phases.

Just slipped up

the vital time. They are protecting

the ball well.

Great from Gethin

Jenkins.

That have scuppered the

momentum and turned over, chance for

the Blues to counter through Harry

how low. Lloyd Williams could go all

over the way, pins his ears back and

nobody will stop the scrum-half who

goes over in the corner, great work

from the Blues, quick turnover ball.

Halaholo scored last week and shows

the pace, and will score. The Blues

in second. A great individual try by

Willis Halaholo. All the attributes,

the quick feet, the pace.

Blues trying to turn the screw.

Blues trying to turn the screw.

Macauley Cook, around come the pack.

This will be hard to stop.

In the

whitewash, surely they can't stop

it, Matthew Rees under the pile of

bodies.

Williams. Shingler. Smith rises to

the first tackle. Shingler once

again. Now there is a chance. Lovely

ball.

Great player, and it is a

bonus point victory for the Cardiff

Blues.

A terrible kick, taken very quickly,

Matthew Morgan, no one at all,

Morgan and Tom James combining. An

easy walk in.

A pleasing night, good to get senior

players on the field and some had

outstanding performances. We were

ruthless tonight, attack and defence

in most of our game was on top of

where we needed to be and that's a

zebra site who have been improving.

We were certainly conscious of that

tonight and bounce back from a poor

derby last week.

So a good win for

the Blues. Jonathan, you have spoken

about how improved zebra had this

season. Bonus point, couldn't have

asked for more.

They were clinical.

The strength last year was attacking

play, tries scored, and they seem to

have found that again. A good

performance by the Blues, good

victory, and they are back with a

bit of confidence.

Attacks are

starting to gel, the tries were from

Zebre mistakes, some, but the

defence impressed you the most.

That

is key for the Blues, when they get

the defence right they are a

difficult side to beat. Yesterday,

impressed with their line speed and

work on the contact. The old man was

back, Gethin Jenkins, this verse

three four minutes led to Lloyd

Williams's try. Over the gain line,

Williams in the area. Good play by

Oliver Robinson to get it wide and a

good gasp by Lloyd Williams to get

it off. Right on the edge, you could

say he was offside but winning the

contact, winning the gain line, this

allows the defence to set up. Watch

the line speed, this is something

Edwards would have brought into the

Blues, winning the game, ten or 15

metres over the line, for Smith, a

strong game defensively. Great hit.

Look at his work after contact, back

on his feet, and when your centre

than winners do this, Scully

stealing the ball again, and the

last clip is how it finished.

Jenkins leading the line again,

Williams will ball, wins the penalty

at a crucial time, just after

half-time, that led to the kick to

the corner, the driving line-out, by

Matthew Rees which got the bonus

point. Defensively, if they can get

consistency and not drop-off, which

they do week in week out, they are

dangerous.

News tonight on the Blues

coaching front, their search for a

successor to Danny Wilson is

gathering pace. They have received

28 applications for the job. They

whittled it to a short list of three

calling them all strong and

experienced candidates and hope to

meet the next week and have an

announcement by the end of November.

We should know by the end of this

month who will be the next Cardiff

Blues coach. Short list of three,

who might be on the list and who

would you like on it?

I have no

idea.

With your contacts?

If 28 have

gone for it, I just think, all you

need to do is put an experienced guy

in there. That for me is what they

need. They brought Danny and he

didn't have the experience of being

head coach, things haven't worked

for whatever reason, so you need to

go for the tried and trusted to get

a strong director of rugby, coach,

whatever, because that... They are

in limbo at the moment because they

are re-signing players because they

have two, and the new guy coming in

might not want those players. The

sooner they sort it out the better.

That was difficult, Danny Wilson

leaving early in the season. You

need to re-sign players. They need

to get the structure right, will you

bring in a head coach who

concentrates on the rugby side of

things and somebody above him to do

the signings or a director of rugby

to oversee everything? That is key,

and let them have carte blanche on

decision.

I hear there will be a

general rugby manager alongside head

coach.

I don't understand that to be

honest.

We will find out in the next

few weeks if the deadline is kept

to, end of November. Scarlets are

discovering this season that success

has its downsides. The fact they are

champions means they have 14 players

in the Wales squad so largely second

stream side welcoming Benetton to

Parc Y Scarlets.

COMMENTATOR: What are the options

here for the Scarlets? On the

blindside for pride Ebert two

defenders there. Again, the scrum is

rock solid. Parks on the dummy run,

Dan Jones, gets passed them easily,

and after a well-organised defence

for the opening stages, certainly

wasn't as Dan Jones steps over.

McKinley with a break and trounced

Tom Prydie easily, and the first

try, the first score of the second

half, goes to Benetton. Byrne

delivers it back to Elen Evans. --

Tad Byrne.

Still on his feet, try line if so

close, varies the ball for Evans.

It's going to be a yellow card.

Stop

short but deliberate knock-on.

We

have seen in recent weeks in games,

this will definitely be a yellow

card, tries in this situation.

It

will be a yellow

card for Bronzini. It will be yellow

card. Beirne. They will not give up

this defence. It is just what Dan

Jones does, picks up and scores.

this defence. It is just what Dan

Jones does, picks up and scores.

It

took us a while to break them down.

At 1303 we did quite well in the

first half but looking back into the

game with soft defensive play, we

were able to finish off with a try

at the end so it was nice.

It was

nice to have a game. To be fair we

have a good competition here and

Reese has done an excellent job and

deserves a spot with the Welsh squad

at the moment, just glad to have my

chance and take it and keep pushing

Rhys.

He played well, it's his first

game of the season and we know how

good he is. He has been working well

on his game. Tonight he was always

going to start and I thought he

played pretty well for his first

game out.

Praise for Dan Jones, man

of the match on the night, 15

points, and the try as well. He

played 15 times in the Pro14 last

season and in the Champions Cup so

we know him but he has to bide his

time with Rhys Patchell in the

driving seat and there are not

usually fly-halves on the bend,

using Asquith to cover.

Yes, I

thought, it's always difficult

coming in especially the way the

Scarlets had been playing and the

loss of internationals. Not the

greatest game but they ground it

out, the result, but he was just

solid, everything he did was solid.

If you look at the chip, you add

variety, keeping the Benetton

defence on this because there are a

bit narrow, lovely clearing kick,

but it away, then reset the

defensive line from the set piece.

He brought everyone into the line,

if someone shoots out he finds the

gap, putting into it, great pick-up

and keeps continuity. Give it the

short little stamp and Scott

Williams is through. Lovely try to

finish. He would have been happy

with that. With the Scarlets going

so well and playing such attractive

rugby, to fit into it is a good job

well done for them.

We spoke all

season about how the Scarlets don't

abandon their game plan even if

conditions don't suit it. You could

forgive him for wanting to stand

deeper and put leather on the ball

but he was mixing it up, diggs,

crossing kicks.

He had the

experience on the outside of

Williamson parks but a difficult

game for the Scarlets. Missing more

than any other Welsh region, 12

players, so many key players

missing. Benetton had improved,

sometimes you are too critical of

the Scarlets and we expect so much

of them but when you lose that many

players it will take time to gel.

Benetton are a tough nut to crack so

get the win, they have a couple of

games which are tough now in South

Africa but all in all they will be

pleased with Friday.

I guess that is

when the depth will be tested.

We can see their second string beat

Benetton at home to two away games

in South Africa.

Playing at home,

making changes is easier. You are in

your comfort zone and there without

your international players. It will

be tough for them in the next couple

of weeks.

The autumn internationals

are now just six days away and as we

all know Warren Gatland has mixed up

and gone experimental this time. It

means, unusually, Jimmy Robertson

will be watching from the sidelines

alongside the injured Sam Warburton

-- Jamie Roberts will be watching.

Wales are over the line. Jamie

Roberts is there and Wales have the

try.

Obviously we are not involved for

different reasons, you are injured,

I'm too old and injured! It's been

different, I -- difficult, I'll be

honest, a couple of days of

mourning. Obviously I spoke to Robin

and Warren and they have gone with

younger lads. You understand that,

moving towards the World Cup they

need to expose the young lads to

test rugby and I've been told the

door is not closed so I will fight

for the Six Nations.

Wales had a

stable squad for the last six or

seven years and it is a good call to

try to expand that. The only way you

learn about guises throwing them in

the deep end. You don't find out

about the mud World Cup time, that

is not the time to experiment, you

need to know what they can deliver.

With the autumn, for a young player,

at home with 75,000 people willing

you on and guys nominated for world

Player of the Year or perhaps formal

ones will love that and want to

prove themselves and put them in

their place. That's where you find

out who the international and

regional players are, in the big

test arena, who relishes the

pressure and thrives on that.

First

at the labs are playing Australia,

obviously we have both played

Australia a bit and lost a few

games, the last time was in 2008.

When people talk about the sora, get

the monkey off the back, players

mentalities, players don't have

that, they don't thing, we haven't

beaten them so long. Statistics mean

nothing to a player. We both know we

have the making of beating Australia

on a few occasions but for one

reason or another it didn't work

out. Players will have that hanging

over their heads and relishing the

opportunity.

Second up, Georgia, bit

of an unknown quantity in world

rugby but certainly a team growing

rapidly.

It's good because they will

be in the World Cup pool as well. It

will be a good thing to play against

them. They are preserving 80% of

their squad who will be at the World

Cup, but that will be tough. It's

great for world rugby that you get

the chance to play tear two nations

in the autumn and help develop those

countries, and rather than have five

competitive teams in the World Cup,

12 or 14 competitive sides, which

Georgia are becoming quickly. Great

game for Wales and Georgia.

Third

game, the all backs, best team in

world rugby, have been for a long

time -- the All Blacks.

When you see

their bench they have games

conditioned to play 50 or 60 minutes

and guys who will play the majority

of their test careers off the bench

to create bad impact. The last 20

minutes is so important,

particularly the front five, a lot

of front five forwards are

conditioned to play 5060 minutes and

will be told that will happen. -- 50

or 60 minutes. The bench is so

important in internationals, to have

those guys who can come on and on to

influence the game for the better

and increase momentum, it is not

about surviving the last 20, you

need to overtake. Wales need a 23

and a bench that can provide a good

impact which will go a long way

towards victory.

Last up, obviously

great memories for Wales from last

year and 2014, beating the

Springboks in Cardiff. What you see

in the Springboks that could cause

Wales problems?

They have a style to

play and when they played well they

can beat anyone in the world. In the

22 they want to drive, they rely on

their forwards and in all

internationals you have a good

kicking game with territory. That is

what South Africa is about and I am

sure they will bring a squad that

will come over to Wales and have a

bee in their bonnet after Wales have

two good victories over them in the

last few years and will want to put

that right.

Hopefully Wales can sign

off with a victory in the last game

and we will obviously be watching

with interest in the stands, but

wishing you the best with your neck,

pal, hopefully see you in the New

Year as well.

Hopefully, mate,

fingers crossed.

Interesting stuff

in that interview. One thing that

jumped out was what Sam Warburton

said about expectations and to what

extent players live up to them.

There is an experience in the squad

but what better way to find out if

they are up to the task than

throwing them against the world's

best?

Like Sam said, you can play as

well as you want regionally, in the

autumn against the best in the world

is always surreal four levels up and

you find out a lot. Not about the

ability, everyone has ability, but

it is whether you can cope with it.

It is not just the Test match but

the build-up to the week under

pressure on you, everything that

comes with a test week, it is a huge

step up from regional level which is

why when you look at Wales having

won an opening Orson -- having not

won an opening autumn international

since 2002 against Fiji, a draw in

Australia in 06 and we start so

slowly because the gap is so big.

Every level you go up, say we start

in senior rugby and you got through

the ranks, the difference in

incredible and you have to adjust to

adjust to that place. Some players

become international players and

some will only be regional players.

There is sometimes a difficult

balance, do you pick them, but you

have to pick one two, not everyone

because it is still about results,

you cannot go in to the autumn and

lose four. It is a very tough time

for Wales, in particular, maybe

Scotland, because they don't have

the strength in depth as well so if

you get injuries it is a tough time

for them.

Eco believed for some

cross which ever way you look at it!

-- a heck of a leap for Sam Cross.

We asked you to pick your composite

15 for the Australia game,

unsurprisingly, Martyn

15 for the Australia game,

unsurprisingly, Martyn, you have

picked

unsurprisingly, Martyn, you have

picked the pack, talk us through it.

Scarlets heavy and rightfully so.

Samson Lee gets the nod over

Francis, he has been outstanding

this year. In the second row, Davies

pushing a few weeks ago but after

the Blues game, Jake Ball came out

on top and his experience and bulk

is there. Fingers crossed Justin

Tipuric is a bit, we are monitoring

his fitness and six, you could argue

from the beady, Lydiate or Shingler,

three players who bring different

skills pitching has been outstanding

for the last 12 months and deserves

to start in the six jersey. The

forward pack is

to start in the six jersey. The

forward pack is easier to pick from

the backs!

I just want to pick you

up on a few of those things,

Shingler being the first one,

outstanding form for the Scarlets, a

champion winning side and the

Scarlets play far more mobile

versions of rugby and you see that

with the forwards and the backs,

Samson Lee has improved, Shingler is

a line line-out option, is that what

Wales need to do?

It is not just the

backs, you need to have forwards who

can use the ball and the Scarlets

ball in hand, they are comfortable

in their space and leave the game

well. Shingler is a good athlete,

gets round the park, he is quick.

The Aussies, the speed they bring to

the game, you need that. They

deserve it. The Scarlets are

settled, balanced units and the

backs get credit but the forwards

are outstanding as well.

You talk

about Tipuric, there is question

over him. If he doesn't play, it is

a big problem, I think.

I was

amazed, I thought Josh McGeady

should start at seven in that case.

-- I thought Navidi should play.

Young has been tearing it up in the

last two years and has been

outstanding. For Sam Cross to get

the nod over him and Will Boyde as

well, that was a big surprise. If

they throw some cross in if Tipuric

is not fit it is a massive call to

go up against his per -- Sam Cross.

Fingers crossed a bridge will be fit

on Friday.

That's the pack, what

three quarters line?

It has been

interesting. In my mind, what will

he pick and what would I

interesting. In my mind, what will

he pick and what would I pick, I

would go, Liam Williams, at

full-back, Halfpenny, Evans has to

play, Hallam Amos is playing well as

well. Jonathan Davies is nailed on

but this is the 10-12, what will

they play? I have gone for Williams

because he has played more at 12,

rumours about Patchell, he left

Scott Williams out and went with

Dan. Picked him out for the Lions.

The Ospreys aren't playing well so

maybe his form isn't great, then of

course Rhys Webb. I could have gone

all Scarlets, Patchell ten, Scott

Williams and Gareth because of

all Scarlets, Patchell ten, Scott

Williams and Gareth because of the

way they are playing, 2008 Gatland

went with 13 Ospreys.

With Mark

Jones. Tommy Bowe was Irish.

You

could go that way.

The Scarlets

could beat Australia, you mean?

Everyone was saying Ospreys could

beat England at the time. On form I

was very tempted to go with

Priestland, but I'm thinking, if you

have Owen Williams as well and the

big Fijian or restrain centres

coming down the middle, I might

leave Reese on the bench and have

the stability of down and bring him

on. It would be difficult to see

what style they will play. If you

have all the Scarlets guys who

chatted about, then you have Dan and

Owain Williams and they play

differently from the Scarlets. It

will be difficult to gel but they

might still go with Halfpenny at

full-back and Liam Williams on the

wing.

If you were still in the

squad, Martyn at eight o'clock in

the morning you would be going to

Bristol on the bash for a live

scrummaging session against England,

I imagine you wouldn't be too keen.

I would love that. The phone would

be on the bus.

Dressing gown,

slippers and a pipe! See you, boys!

Some people have frowned upon it but

I can see why the coaches want to do

it because we mentioned at the start

we are always slow to start and you

can't have a warm up game. They were

thinking, what can we do have

different, and this will get the

players out of their comfort zone.

It's not ideal but I can understand,

you need something to spark you,

when you train against each other it

becomes messy and you know the calls

so they have Nigel Owens refereeing,

fingers crossed no injuries.

Also if

one of them gets one over

convincingly on the other one,

right, there is that psychological

edge for the game in the Six

Nations. That is the only thing I

would worry about if I was a player,

if they get a big, massive edge on

it and think Right, OK.

I wish we

could be there to see it! Moving on,

back to the Pro14, and the Ospreys

got back to winning ways against the

Dragons last week, could they follow

it up against Edinburgh this week?

Dragons last week, could they follow

it up against Edinburgh this week?

COMMENTATOR: Ospreys driven sideways

at the moment, but a bit of wit

could do something here. Quite

creative in the centre. Leonard

keeps it going. Dan Evans held up as

he looks to continue his try scoring

form. The Moldovan prop Arhip

crashes over for the first try.

Penalty advantage coming. A couple

of flicked passes from Edinburgh

knowing they have the penalty

potentially to come their way if

they don't get a try. Blindside,

lovely off-loads and Blair Kinghorn

is over in the corner for

Edinburgh's first try of the

evening.

Quick hands. A bit of confidence,

giving Fife room to move. Davies

managing to hold his progress. Du

Preez getting involved. Crosby

appealing for a high tackle. That

has been brought to the referee's

attention may be by one of his

assistants, slow to indicate that a

chance for Edinburgh if they don't

make more progress, bring them back

for the penalty in the centre of the

field.

Another silly bit of play

there. He has given him the yellow

card. An intentional knock-on and

that bit of play, something you

don't expect from Lennon.

-- Lennon.

Edinburgh have their noses in front

as he finds the target at 13-10.

Edinburgh going through the phases,

just inside their own half, and

finding an angle, and Kinghorn with

the break, looks to get it back to

Johnson, and Nathan Fowles. Ospreys

hit with a sucker punch at the start

of the second half. Brought down by

Mercer.

There will be tired Ospreys

defenders out there.

Jason Toby

cracks the Ospreys defence. Here

come Edinburgh, waves of pressure

from the black shirts. Edinburgh are

so close now, to Bradbury, barges

his way over, and Edinburgh do get

the bonus

his way over, and Edinburgh do get

the bonus point try.

The first half

we were pretty decent, second-half

defensively we were pretty

nonexistent. We came up with what we

felt was a strong team, good working

week but we didn't perform

particularly in the second half. The

boys have some time off now to

reflect, as coaches as well, looking

at what we are doing but ultimately

we cannot get away from the

disappointment. We need to get back

to winning weighs in Glasgow next.

I

spoke to Steve Tandy a couple of

times this season and he talks about

the working, spirit and attitude

being right but more often than not

that doesn't translate into what

happens on the pitch, is that

common, that training is likely a

dream but you don't perform in the

80 minutes?

Sometimes he would train

badly than focus on it and say, it's

gone badly, and it really focuses

your mind. At the end of the working

week the important part is that 80

minutes. Irrespective of what is how

the weakest judge, and for me, the

first half was good for the Ospreys,

they were solid in the game, in

control, but then they slipped and

fell off a lot of one-on-one

tackles, and for me... When they

don't play at that intensity and

they drop a little, everything goes

pear shaped with them and I don't

know why, they are so used to doing

it, the attitude has been their main

strength. When the chips are down

and everyone doesn't like us, that's

when they perform. For me the

intensity drops and everything seems

to fade away, and that's what they

have to do, keep the intensity

throughout the game and won the

intensity as though they do not miss

the tackles. No matter what you do

in training, right, if you miss

one-on-one tackles, you are dead,

you are gone.

The surprise was not that they lost,

because Edinburgh are difficult, and

Edinburgh were missing key players,

but the way they lost after what had

been a positive three weeks, we

thought they would get the season

back on track, but to lose like that

it feels like back to square one.

And the Ospreys have a couple of

weeks to dwell on it and you do want

to get back on the horse and play

again, so it's a long couple of

weeks.

When they were in their pomp,

if they were not good enough to win,

the collection of those players,

they have to be at their best and

intense to win the games.

Onto the

Dragons, and they had a tough away

trip to Munster, who were preparing

to say goodbye to their coach.

Duncan Williamson. Here is JJ

Halloran. He has support from Rory

Scannell. A little twist, and

Scannell gets the first try for

Munster. Munster using the big man,

Chris Klute, and that is an easy

second score. Simon Zebo. Charlie

Davies relieving the pressure. It is

Robin Copeland, beating the first

tackle and go storming over the

halfway. Add to the cat flap to Jack

O'Donoghue, and the flanker makes

it. -- out of the cat flap.

Munster are loving this sort of work

close in. It will be form an orderly

Klute, and Darren Sweetnam does the

necessary that the bonus point --

orderly queue. James Hart, using the

blindside. Hanrahan stepping out

again into the 22, with Sam Arnold

on his toes, and he gets a fifth for

Munster. Here we go, do some good

old-fashioned Jurassic stuff. That

is in the Munster tradition. It is

Kevin O'Byrne at the back. And they

are over, and I take it it must be

him. Yes, it is. Can Munster finish

with a flourish? Zebo, Sweetnam. And

Sam Arnold finishing it off. We will

discuss the Dragons game in a

moment, but if you've not seen this,

take a look. Yesterday, Glasgow

against Leinster. And absolutely

sensational try. It all started from

virtually on the try line,

counterattacking from deep.

Matawalu, what about this? The chase

is on good down the right-hand side

by Leinster, but then just watch

this, fantastic. You have to ask

yourself, would Jeffrey have passed

this?

No way.

Terrible defence

though. It is a great kick and what

they do, they don't expect him to

gather and kick.

That was the final

scoring that one, 30 1-21 thanks to

the amazing try, and it was not

Matawalu, Nick Grigg. -- 31-21.

Ulster running out victors

eventually against the Southern

Kings. The Kings got themselves a

couple of bonus points. Glasgow with

a perfect record in the league and

12 points clear of Munster. The

Ospreys dropped to seventh on the

Cardiff Blues office. In conference

B, the Scarlets are still top, seven

victories from eight. They are six

points clear of Ulster. The Kings

are finally off the mark. No

victories, but they have losing

bonus points.

A bit of news for you tonight about

the Dragons in terms of recruitment,

they have signed three players from

Bristol for next players, all of

them Welsh, two of them

internationals. Rhodri Williams has

been capped, Ryan Bevington as well,

in the Six Nations, and Jordan

Williams, the material Jordan

Williams, a former player for the

Scarlets, and all three currently

playing for Bristol. Ross Moriarty

remains a target for them, strong

rumours he will come home because of

the new 60 cap rule for Wales. Three

new signings and some positivity,

but the game against Munster showed

they desperately need to recruit

more. They said they wanted at least

12 new signings.

If he thought he

had a tough job at the start,

Jackman, he knows where he is now.

It is simple to me, they have

conceded 36 tries, putting that in

context, the Scarlets only conceded

40 in the whole season. That is the

easiest part of the game to fix, the

defence. You can go to Munster and

lose and people will say, that's

expected, but you have to become a

stubborn side. It's all well and

good focusing on the home games, but

it's no good winning all of them and

then losing by 40 points away.

There

seems to be a buzz about the

Dragons. The feel-good factor,

talking them up, and results like

that, the Ross Moriarty of this

world that will put him off, but

looking at piano three-year plan.

Three-year plan will be most

important. The second year is now

where he will sign to get players

for that second year. He has given

players an opportunity and some of

them are not good enough.

Critical

times for the Dragons, and his

predecessor, Kingsley Jones, he is

arguably the most travelled coach in

world rugby. He is now coaching

Canada and his first game in charge

was not exactly what he hoped for.

It was a heavy defeat to the New

Zealand side, 51-9. We caught up

with him in Istanbul airport en

route to the next game against

Georgia, and I began by asking him

what he had learned in that first

game in charge.

We had two hours

together and we worked on the

breakdown stuff and we looked at the

double tackles. It is really the

positive to take from it that we

turned the ball over once in

contact, which is a big improvement

and they go hard on the break

points. It is just errors, and there

were nine kicking errors they called

-- scored from. It is just loose

play and they were devastatingly

awesome. They have great

individuals. I think the players,

thankfully, what we have prepared

for, we can do that in review and we

have to be smarter and stick to the

game plan a bit more. This group are

lacking a bit of confidence and

there are some good athletes and

skills. We have the likes coming in

in the window, Ann Taylor Paris,

some good players coming back.

The

World Cup draw has just been done,

and you have the incentive of May be

playing against Wales.

As soon as

they offered me the job, that was

something I looked at. It is a great

pool with Fiji, Georgia, Wales.

There are some teams in their new

would really want to play against.

You have a six-day break before we

play Wales, so there is Georgia as

well and then we play Wales. That is

where you have to do the job. A lot

of work to be done in the next 14

weeks to qualify. But I'm sure this

group have the ability to do that,

but it's getting them some

confidence. Hopefully we will get a

win or two and give them some

confidence going into this game.

You

have Georgia this week and you know

them well from when you coached

Russia. Wales the following week and

we know you have the set piece

strength, but any players we should

be looking out for?

There's a lot of

talk about them New Zealand coach,

but it is in their DNA, they keep

going back in the scrum and that is

the way they are playing. They are

trying to string a bit more out in

winning the games, so they they have

the full-back who can protect the

ball very well, but we think we can

pressure him, and the same for the

Number ten. But we know the

challenge, it isn't end of the scale

challenge in terms of the Maoris and

Georgia, you couldn't have more

contrasting teams. For us, it's a

simple thing, if we get parity up

front, we have a good chance.

Lovely

stuff will stop have a good show.

Hopefully if nothing else they can

soften up the Georgians before they

come to Cardiff to play Wales. Let's

find out what went on in the

Premiership and Phil Steele has all

the details.

Irish official Joy Neville became

the first female referee for a

principality Premiership game. Her

first test was Pontypridd against

Ebbw Vale. The bonus point in the

bag after just 15 minutes. They

managed another three tries,

including a brace for the winger.

There was a much-needed victory for

Crosskeys despite a bright start

from the home side, the visitors

controlled the final 14 and winger

Matthew Powell took advantage --

final 40. Despite Cardiff being the

better side in the opening

exchanges, a brace from Kyle Evans

secured the win, and the second was

a great solo effort. There was a

real battle at Rugby Parade on

Friday night -- Rodney Parade. The

home side took the lead but the

visitors hit back with a try through

Michael Cowell. The black and

numbers added to their try tally,

all square, but Newport were awarded

a late penalty and Matt O'Brien kept

his head to seal a dramatic win.

Pontypridd go top, Cardiff and

Newport are mid-table non-movers.

Ebbw Vale and Bargoed slip to the

bottom. Struggling Swansea were

welcomed to the tall but athletic.

Robert Dudley Jones were the only

try, parrying over with a five metre

scrum -- Tolbert athletic. Six wins

from six and no defeats at home, and

Morgan Griffiths secured a bonus

point try in the second half and the

Welsh All Blacks are without a win

since the start of September. There

was a bonus point win for doing the

double over Bridgend. Two converted

tries in a quarter of an hour before

the full-back Christian Jones added

his name to the scoresheet. Our GC

dominated with a bonus point win.

Six tries are the visitors and 16

points from the boot of Jacob

Butterfield will stop Llanelli

secured a valuable losing bonus

point. Our GC stay top with

Llandovery behind them.

Of course that wasn't Phil Neal --

Phil Steele. But this is his the

good feud guide, carefully, honours

even at 15-15. Caerphilly.

There is a remarkable family affair

and I will not reveal the actual age

of Rosie Snape, but she is in her

50s and today she got to celebrate

her 100th appearance for the club,

and got to do so by packing down

alongside her two daughters.

I'm

getting my boots and I will be

ready. I have been playing in ten

years and I have been involved for a

while because my children have been

with me since I was very small. My

eldest daughter plays flanker. My

husband is Gordon, and he coaches

the women and is a very good coach

and he knows what he's talking

about. I am playing my hundredth

game and it will be really important

to me. I am a big passionate fan of

rugby and it's a big achievement for

me.

Get between the ball and lead

him out.

She is a typical farmer's

daughter. Old-fashioned, ball at the

jumper, go for it. She can have

quite a high tackle occasionally,

and she has had few yellow cards in

her playing career. She is good

around the ruck area and makes loads

of tackles and she is quite hard to

get down as well. She likes to get

involved. Stop, get back. You are

doing it wrong on purpose to annoy

me. She will never make a winger,

but she's fitted in well at property

keeps tight to the ruck and tackles

anything that moves. It will be a

proud moment. I have complete and

utter respect for her and it will be

great to say I've played alongside

my mum and sister.

Especially when

my mum won her 100th cap.

Right,

jumpers, get on the three jumpers. I

am really proud. It's been a long

time coming. Let's be fair, at all

the things in life, I think Robbie

Paul's people together. To me, rugby

is a family game. -- I think rugby

Paul's people together.

Command. -- come on. She tackled

well, but they have the ball wide,

so we need somebody on the other

side it gets younger, fresher legs.

No doubt I'll get told about it

tonight, so that's about it, really,

isn't it?

On behalf of the club, we would like

to present Rosie with a signed

shirt. Thank you very much, Rosie.

It's

shirt. Thank you very much, Rosie.

It's overwhelming, really. No

thoughts of retirement?

It's overwhelming, really. No

thoughts of retirement?

No, not just

yet. When B hanging the boots up

yet.

Fantastic. What a story and

congratulations to Rosie and here's

to a least one more season. A couple

of minutes left to discuss what is

going to happen on Saturday. We've

already discussed the team and squad

selection. The burning question, can

Wales bring a 12 game losing streak

against the Wallabies to an end?

They can, but defensively, we've

talked about the attacking game, but

against the Australians if you're

not on the ball defensively you get

embarrassed, which we did last year

when we lost the collisions and they

tore us apart. They put 60 points on

Japan yesterday and they are lethal

with the ball in hand. If we can get

the defence right, we have the

quality to win, but it will be very

difficult like we mentioned earlier,

but the first game is so difficult

for the players.

60 points on Japan

yesterday and they beat the All

Blacks in the last game before they

left down under.

We are all going,

oh, yes, a poor season for the

Australian franchise because one of

them has been dumped, and then all

of a sudden they turn it round, as

they always do. They are so creative

and I love watching them play. That

is why the book is have them one

plus one -- the bookies. It is a

tough ask for Wales, based go into

it with a warm up game and it's all

about defensively, if they can keep

them down. The selection is

interesting. Australia have to start

as favourites for me.

Briefly, how

relieved will Wales be the Israel

Folau is not lining up?

He is their

best player, but Kurtley Beale has

been on fire am aware that they play

12 or 15. The league winger is a

dynamo, so there's no problem.

He is

brilliant, their best player. He is

world class and against New Zealand

he created and scored, so that is a

massive loss for them.

A big loss

for them. Will it be Wales's Lucky

charm? You can watch the game live

on BBC Wales television on Saturday

at 4:45pm. Can Wales bring the

nine-year wait for a win against the

Wallabies to an end? Will we be

celebrating in the Scrum V club next

week? We hope so. See you then.

Shall we get the guests out?

Yes.

Shall we get the guests out?

Yes.

And he is back with his analysis,

housewives favourite, Sean Holley.

I've been really impressed, to be

honest.

He is such an exciting

talent.

Star behind the bar is Mr

James Hook.