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Off Topic Ospreys, Wales & BIL

Discussion in 'Swansea City' started by Taffvalerowdy, Dec 9, 2016.

  1. glamexile

    glamexile Well-Known Member

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    England only 10-5 up against Italy after 35 mins. Ireland hot favourites at the moment.
     
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  2. Victor

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    Scotland were a better side, and deserved to win by more. ...... Wales were like headless chickens .
    No plan, and clueless at times, and are obsessed in kicking the ball away.. Need to start all over again
    Basics! ! ! !
     
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  3. daimungeezer

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    That was really painful to watch. You'd think if you live off scraps then you'd make the most of those scraps and not keep kicking the effin ball back to them :mad:

    How can you go from Grand Slam Champions to Italy wannabes in ONE season?!
     
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  4. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    Appoint the Scarlets coach ?
     
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  5. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    Read this on a Welsh rugby forum this morning:

    “The team that Pivac took over was ranked No1 in the world for a brief time last year.

    They were the defending Grand Slam champions of this tournament.

    They went into the 2019 World Cup on the back of a 14 match winning run.

    They were semi-finalists, and were tied 16-16 with the eventual champions at 76mins in that game. They went toe to toe with the eventual winners.

    You need to ****ing earn the right to take over that team, and the person that steps in has a responsibility to ensure progression, or at least to make sure there is continuity.

    5 defeats in 6 games.... 5 ****ing terrible, limp defeats....

    No honest observer can plead for more leniency.

    To take the helm of that National team, and to allow it to plunge so quickly to such ignominy is a dereliction of duty bordering on vandalism.“
     
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  6. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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  7. Victor

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    Very dissapointing season .... Pivac not the only reason, Some were slow of thought, others did not know some of the rules of the game, and gave a host of bloody penalties away, and looked lost. ........ I can't say that they all looked fit. ........... big improvement needed
     
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  8. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    He had the chance to go lower and didn't. Red

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  9. neveroffsidereff

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    Ouch!!
     
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  10. glamexile

    glamexile Well-Known Member

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    I guess Ron Trimnell would have given me a bollocking for tackling like that. How the game has changed.
     
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  11. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    He definitely would have!

    Ron played schoolboy football and cricket with my father - hard to believe that he played football <yikes>

    Got to know Ron really well in the 1990s - he was great company!
     
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  12. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    Ospreys are on Sky 422 & Freeview playing Zebre

    17-3 down at HT

    Can’t decide who is the most ****e - the Ospreys or the Irish ref
     
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  13. Victor

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    Ray gravell passed away. 13 years today, What a loss, ... what a character.
     
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  14. Taffvalerowdy

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    13 years - incredible

    RIP Ray <rose>
     
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  15. Taffvalerowdy

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    Pivac has thrown Hayward under the bus ... sacked with immediate effect
     
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  16. glamexile

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    Privacy could well be following him if we don't have a good set of results in the next few games
     
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  17. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    Which other Top 8 rugby nation would have appointed Pivac ......
     
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  18. glamexile

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    let me have a second to think ..........

    No sorry can't think of any
     
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    <laugh>
     
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  20. daimungeezer

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    Pushed to help Pivac cling on or a difference of opinion? If there's no obvious improvement in the upcoming games maybe it's best to get a new coach before the players forget what it was like to win a game.
     
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