Those of you who frequent the Welsh rugby forums will know that a lot of people, at least those that post, tend to have a problem with the Magners League, and with good reason. It has lacked intensity, it sees far too many 2nd teams sent out and for years has been a competition that you pretty much only won by accident. Remember how daming the Ospreys were when they won it?
And that hasn’t really changed. Until the end of the season anyway.
The playoffs actually seem to …

It is hard to believe anyone can respect Leicester these days. Oh they are still a decent team, and with a long proud history. Their fans are right out of the top draw, no question, the set up is quality and they have a coach who seems to be doing the right things. So what am I talking about?
Their sour grapes at losing, or more accurately their Director’s continued sour grapes. I am finding it hard to get my head around but the Director of Leicester, …

It is the question on many Ospreys’ fans lips (and Welsh rugby fans’, maybe) – just what will Leicester try next to get themselves into the quarter finals?
After failing to get in through their rugby ability – coming third in the group in which the Ospreys qualified in 2nd they turned their attention to other matters. First was the official complaint by the Tigers board about the Lee Byrne, 16th man disaster… it was fairly obvious form the comments being made by the board they hoped to get the …

The Western Mail has again managed to outdo itself in poor journalism, this time with its efforts to cast light on poor attendances at the regions. Now don’t get me wrong, I do think things need to improve on that front, and in some cases rather drastically, but yet again the levels of investigation and consideration of all the facts leave a lot to be desired.
This is the artice that I am talking about.
Firstly let us look at what has to be the best line of the whole article…
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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, …

Scott Johnson, the Ospreys Director of Coaching (whatever that title means) is hopeful that the Liberty Stadium based region could welcome Welsh international loose head prop Duncan Jones back into the team to take on Clermont Auvergne.
“He went to the wire this week,” said Johnson.
“But we felt it wasn’t appropriate to do that and put him in for a game of that level.
“However, he’ll certainly come into the reckoning for the Clermont game as we’re pretty confident of him returning.”
The Welsh international prop was certainly missed in the 32 all …

Dafydd James is a Cardiff Blues, Welsh rugby and British Lions player. A Welsh rugby legend he is also the top scorer in the heineken cup.


Of course such a legend of Welsh rugby deserves his own profile on the Welsh rugby blog!

Newport Gwent Dragons have the unfortunate distinction of being the Welsh team in the last ever play off with an Italian team for a Heineken Cup place at the end of the season, which also means that any players picked in the Welsh squad to tour North America won’t be going.
This is because the Scarlets managed a win against a weakened Cardiff Blues side, condemning perennial play off team the Dragons to yet again play an Italian side to see which will take part in the premier competition of European …