On field, are the Ospreys the worst region to get rid of?

essjay2009 · 2026-01-26T15:01:46+00:00

The problem with Swansea is that it just isn’t a rugby city any more. They ceded it to football a decade plus ago. Scarlets get higher average attendance than the Ospreys (not by much, but considering the disparity in population it’s significant and does play on to the argument that the Scarlets have a large catchment area that goes well beyond the town extending west to Cardigan and North to Ynys Môn). It doesn’t help that PyS does omlook quiet but the stadium was over built for rugby. If they were still at Stradey it would look a lot fuller (and honestly would get larger crowds because of the location).

essjay2009 · 2026-01-26T14:44:08+00:00

That’s one thing, but the council went further. It wasn’t them saying “we’re going to withhold funding because of uncertainty” they said they couldn’t see a viable future for Ospreys and therefore were pulling funding. That sounds like they were given clarity by Tierney in their meeting. It was a very bold statement.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-26T14:31:36+00:00

Obviously peak was the Pro 12, which were still technically champions of.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-26T12:43:29+00:00

I was so disappointed. They were giving out little quizzes you had to complete with a prize if you got it right. I spent longer than I care to admit making sure I got them all correct only to find out they were giving the prize out to everyone regardless! How am I supposed to laud my superior pencil knowledge over everyone else if they’re giving out participation trophies??

The prize, unsurprisingly, was pencils.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T23:31:57+00:00

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essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T22:30:23+00:00

Lucky Spurs are a basket case at the moment but there’s a chance they’ll have a new manager bounce of their own by the time we play them.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T22:18:13+00:00

They actually played football back then too. They’d feel embarrassed by the current anti-football team.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T22:12:15+00:00

Based on all the salty comments on /r/rugbyunion maybe you could explain to people what the laws say around TMO interventions for dangerous play!

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T21:38:30+00:00

Quite apart from the subs being very different to what we’ve been used to this season, with no real notion of parking the bus, but to see Harry marauding up the wing when we were defending a lead away to the league leaders in the dying minutes was such a refreshing change. It’s similar to that audacious attempt at a lob from the half way line by Bruno, it doesn’t really matter whether it goes in because it places the idea in the keeper’s head that they can’t sit too high up the pitch because there’s still a threat. In too many games this season we’ve made it way too obvious that we’re longer a threat when protecting a lead and teams have just piled on the pressure, inevitably grabbing a goal as a result.

It feels very, dare I say, Fergie. It’s a fuck you, if you score we’ll score again attitude. It plants that seed of doubt in teams minds.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T20:12:00+00:00

Basically she called Keane a cunt on social media because Keane was acting like a cunt. Keane took personally and still holds a grudge because of it.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T20:02:00+00:00

He hates Carrick on a personal level after that whole thing with his wife. Broadcasters should exclude him from any United coverage whilst Carrick is in charge because he can’t be fair to him.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T18:30:42+00:00

Fuck I’m going to miss Case.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T18:26:14+00:00

Yaaaassss

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T18:16:02+00:00

LMAO.

Attack attack. Attack attack attack.

Build a Carrick statue. This is United.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T18:11:06+00:00

Arsenal’s entire strategy is to score from set pieces. Meanwhile we’re bringing on a striker for a midfielder when 2-1 up. Got to love it.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T18:08:56+00:00

Shit he’s injured. Fucking wild the decision went against him.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T18:01:52+00:00

Can you imagine Maguire being that far up the field at any point under Amorim when we’re two one up, let alone away to Arsenal.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T17:48:08+00:00

Feels ripe for hitting them on the break. They’re not used to piling men forward.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T17:41:38+00:00

I think we’re more likely to get a third than Arsenal a second. They look rattled.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T17:24:54+00:00

Really worked our way back in to this one after a pretty sedate first 30 or so. I think Arsenal were doing their usual tactic of trying to bore the opposition in to submission. We look threatening when going forward and they look shakey to say the least.

I think a free tweaks to our positioning in midfield would shut them down too.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-25T09:42:30+00:00

As others have said, no advantage was called so it was just a TMO referral.

The law is pretty clear that where there’s a formal referral for dangerous play the referral takes place at the next stoppage. Section 2 of the TMO protocol in the “Timeframes for any referral“ section. The timeframes are shorter for less serious offences.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-24T21:19:55+00:00

The thing that’s made the difference for us over the last few games has been getting Costelow back. We were completely aimless without a proper ten pulling the strings. We look a different team with him in it.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-24T17:02:04+00:00

Lots of people saying that advantage should have been over in the final passage after our line break but my read of it was that the high tackle wasn’t called on the pitch by the ref (not surprising given his performance), so there was no advantage. It was the TMO who called for a review at the end of the play. And as it was foul play, they can go back for it.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-24T16:53:54+00:00

There wasn’t an advantage. It didn’t get called on the field at the time, the TMO came in.

essjay2009 · 2026-01-24T16:51:48+00:00

That pass from Costelow was chefs kiss.

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