I was just reading that I could go to watch the Ospreys vs Viadana for a fiver.  Good piece of marketing that.  But in the same article something struck me as being a bit off.  Namely Ryan Jones’ comment.

For those that missed the fairly innocuous looking line it says

The match against Viadana is probably the biggest game of the season so far for the Ospreys.

Fair enough… or not. Well firstly I have my doubts. Of the season so far surely Leicester or Clermont Auvergne were more important, and bigger, games. I know we need the 5 points from each of the two Viadana games to help the cause in the Heineken Cup but surely we must consider this game smaller than some of the Magners League games.

Only it looks like we don’t. We just beat Munster when shorne of 5 British Lions, a massive win that puts us back into contention at the top of the league. But we are still in 5th whilst top 4 go into the play offs – every game counts. But that isn’t considered as important a game.

To most Welsh fans it is the derbies that matter most, but one look at the side that the Ospreys sent to Cardiff (sorry, Cardiff City stadium, what a crap name) and you’ll see that they obviously didn’t care about that game either, the points or the fans feelings about it.

So I have to ask (and indeed have done so here) do the Ospreys care about the ML at all?

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