Ospreys v Connacht, Fri April 6th 19:35 TG4

I don't think he had a bad game or was the reason we lost, but I had no idea the Ben Whitehouse and Dan Bigger were so close. Ben Whitehouse is from Swansea and was in Dan biggars groom's party at his wedding.....the optics of him reffing an ospreys game where biggar gets man of the match are not great.

No more so than Frank Murphy reffing us tbf but something the league should look at.

wp_rathead wrote:

Borders no.2 wrote: Players In 2016/17
Eoin Griffin from London Irish
Conor Carey from Nottingham
Mornitz Boshoff from South Africa Lions
Cian Kelleher from Leinster
Dominic Robertson-McCoy from Northland
Josh Rowland from Ireland Sevens
Lewis Stevenson from Exeter Chiefs
Stacey Ili from Auckland
James Cannon from Wasps
Ivan Soroka from Clontarf
Naulia Dawai from Otago
John Andress from Munster
Tom Farrell from Bedford Blues
Steve Crosbie from Munster
Peter McCabe from Munster

Players Out 2016/17
Rodney Ah You to Ulster
Robbie Henshaw to Leinster
AJ MacGinty to Sale Sharks
Aly Muldowney to Grenoble
Api Pewhairangi to England London Broncos
George Naoupu to Harlequins
Jason Harris-Wright to London Irish
Ian Porter to Banbridge
Fionn Carr to Naas
Conor Finn to Buccaneers
Dave McSharry retired
Nathan White retired

Great post

Just compare and contrast the recruitment of the Scarlets team from their winning season:

Players In
Paul Asquith from Greater Sydney Rams
Tom Prydie from Dragons
Geraint Rhys Jones from Dragons
Tom Grabham from Ospreys
Morgan Williams from Wales Sevens
Leigh Halfpenny from Toulon
Steve Cummins from Melbourne Rebels

Players Out
Wales Liam Williams to Saracens
D. T. H. van der Merwe to Newcastle Falcons
Peter Edwards to Merthyr
Richard Smith to Neath
Aled Thomas retired
Morgan Allen to Bedwas
Gareth Owen to Leicester Tigers
Matthew Owen to Carmarthen Quins
Rynier Bernardo to Cheetahs

Scarlets lose players like DTH and Liam Williams but replace them with calibre of Leigh Halfpenny, Asquith and Prydie
We simply didn't do that unfortunately

And despite loosing Tadgh Beirne through no fault of their own, they've already signed Uzair Cassiem and Clayton blommetjies from the Cheetahs, two top quality signings. Meanwhile we offer contract extensions to Griffin and Ronaldson (Two players who clearly are not good enough) and let go Denis Coulson, a guy who showed lots of potential anytime he played. I'd love to see us sign Ox Nche to fill Coulson's spot but it'll probably never happen.

Murray Kinsella has it that TOH has been cited for contact with Jeff Hassler's eyes in the Ospreys match:

https://twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/984069425333710848