Scarlets U18 v Cardiff U18, tonight 7pm
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Topic: Scarlets U18 v Cardiff U18, tonight 7pm
Posted By: Dai Guevara
Subject: Scarlets U18 v Cardiff U18, tonight 7pm
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 12:50pm
| Unless our recent improvement in form is making me hallucinate I'm pretty sure I heard that S4C is covering the above match online tonight but have yet to find a link. |
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Posted By: 157cb
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 1:09pm
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Yes it is live ,probably live on s4c clic live .
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 2:13pm
Any age group Scarlet side should be on the TV. We are the Scarlets. ------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty" "All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us" |
Dai Guevara wrote:Posted By: ScarletBear
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 5:35pm
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Hijacking this a bit but can anyone tell me about Luca Giannini - just picked in U20 team for Wales Is he a Llanelli boy? Anyone know his dad's name? ------------- Scarlets before Wales |
Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 6:28pm
Again, iirc, he is local and it’s either quite a good story or he’s a vg prospect (or both). Hopefully, the person in the know will confirm the exact position.
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 6:36pm
| full Games are isually on youtube, highlights on s4c later on |
Posted By: ladram
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 6:49pm
| Is his dad the one who won the irish grand national ?forget the name of the horse |
Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 6:57pm
| His brother ex under wales 20 i think ? St michaels boys |
Posted By: 157cb
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 6:59pm
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Lucas Dad and family ran the Chippie in New Dock Road for many years ..So the young man his Llanelli born and bred .
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Posted By: hoppy
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 7:33pm
| Rugby Pawb twitter Page live just kicked off |
Posted By: hoppy
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 7:54pm
| Scarlets 0 Cardiff Blues 14 |
Posted By: Llanelli1963
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 8:11pm
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Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 9:14pm
He looks big enough for an openside.
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Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 9:17pm
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Lost 29 - 17. Cardiff are strong this season. They had 3 good teams in the College League. We played better in the second half but never got close enough to threaten a win.
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Posted By: Dai Guevara
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 10:00pm
| Yes, we did improve in the second half but Cardiff were still by far the better team. They seemed better prepared physically and tactically. We had a few big players, but they were nowhere near as athletic as their opposite numbers.This is not surprising when you compare the population and catchment areas of the two regions. They have so many big players that a number will also be skilled and athletic, whereas in some positions we are even struggling for size, to say nothing of the great distances along country roads some would have to travel to train let alone play. m |
Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 10:31pm
| How many games our 18 won last year and this? |
Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 10:45pm
None last year. 2 out of 4 this year. Both losses to unbeaten Cardiff.
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Posted By: ScarletBear
Date Posted: 01 February 2023 at 11:50pm
Is his name Salvatore? ------------- Scarlets before Wales |
Posted By: Mr Ian
Date Posted: 02 February 2023 at 7:50am
Salvatore typical south italian, sicilian, name..
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 02 February 2023 at 7:56am
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Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 02 February 2023 at 8:46am
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Posted By: Wil Chips
Date Posted: 02 February 2023 at 9:23am
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The age grade league isn't so much about results for me, 3 or 4 guys that look like they can make it all the way is the success criteria for me. The Wales U20 side that Scott played in only had 3 Scarlets, all 3 made it to full internationals, the only others that went on to win caps were Navidi, Beck and Faletau. |
Posted By: Gate12
Date Posted: 02 February 2023 at 9:59am
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I tend to look for a handful of individuals too more than the collective performance, although it would be nice to see similar patterns to the senior side purely to make the transition to senior rugby easier. I would like to see the regional age grade competitions later in the season leaving the college/6th form and club games culminate towards regional selection, not a fan of the squad being picked so early in the season, I'd rather the regions view the players throughout the season as players can develop a lot within months at the age of 16 to 18. We do also seemingly sometimes pick players in certain positions to get a result or for the general make up of the team rather than go for their long term potential position, for example we might have some players who will never have the height for second row playing there when they're realistically better off getting used to playing front row or 6.
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 02 February 2023 at 10:03am
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Posted By: greypower1
Date Posted: 02 February 2023 at 11:54am
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It's usually because they are bigger. France, England and Ireland have much bigger pools of players to select from than we have and i would suspect are better developed and monitored from an earlier age. ------------- Keep the faith |
Posted By: ScarletBear
Date Posted: 03 February 2023 at 2:32am
Most Italians in Llanelli are from Sicily I believe. ------------- Scarlets before Wales |
Posted By: scarletabroad
Date Posted: 03 February 2023 at 7:39am
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Think the bench made improvements in the second half which helped, the centre who came on was very effective and broke the gain line very well whereas the previous partnership were well beaten on the night The replacement 10 controlled the game much better putting us on a more forward footing Front row replacements seemed much bigger than starting front row and appeared to have more dominance which gave us better go forward ball. They have the Ospreys on Sunday 5th as a re-arranged fixture I believe |
Posted By: hoppy
Date Posted: 08 February 2023 at 7:28pm
| Scarlets U18 v Dragons U 18 live on you tube now |
Posted By: hoppy
Date Posted: 08 February 2023 at 7:51pm
| Dragons 5 Scarlets 5 |
Posted By: hoppy
Date Posted: 08 February 2023 at 8:11pm
| Dragons 12 Scarlets 12 Half Time |
Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 08 February 2023 at 8:46pm
| I’m enjoying this match. Both teams look well coached and have good skill levels. |
Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 08 February 2023 at 9:14pm
| It finished 29 - 17 to the Dragons. This was our U18s second game in four days so was a decent effort. A late interception took the wind out of our sails as it looked like we were going to push on to win. Both teams played some nice stuff. |
Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 08 February 2023 at 10:41pm
| We play good rugby but lack size and power. 2 wins in 2 seasons isn’t a great stat but lets see if any of these lads can kick on to become pros |
Posted By: reesytheexile
Date Posted: 09 February 2023 at 12:14am
Most Welsh Italians have been in Wales for 75 years or so .getting away from Musselini or for economic reasons. Great Welsh people whose culture and food in itself has added so much to our parochial society. We are lucky they came aren’t we.👍
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Posted By: Mr Ian
Date Posted: 09 February 2023 at 8:18am
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watched yesterdat our u18...a nice game, interesting prospects in our team, specially n. 10 Jones, Impressive aggressive style of dragons players..
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 09 February 2023 at 10:23am
| Lots of welsh italian champion boxers a sport they really have excelled at |
Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 7:44pm
| Playing the ospreys tonight its live on you tube we 5 nil down |
Posted By: Oracle
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 8:17pm
| Do you have a link , I can't find it on utube |
Posted By: hoppy
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 9:01pm
| Scarlets 17 Ospreys 22 Full Time |
Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 9:19pm
| Was a good game our 9 and 13 played well and scrum was good . Ospreys front 5 v good at driving maul and their blonde winger v good. |
Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 9:26pm
Macs Page is an interesting player. He’s short for a centre, but has decent strength and power for his size. His acceleration and footwork looks very good. Physically he reminds me of Gordon D’arcy.
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 9:30pm
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All our boys had a go in fairness, the worry is the lack of size in our team. Can’t see any of that pack going on to do much at test level unless they have a growth spurt. We really need to Get these lads into s and c programmes earlier
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 9:31pm
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Posted By: Dai Guevara
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 10:28pm
| The Scarlets need two of the 4,5 and 6 to be tall, for lineout purposes, and everyone to be strong (mentally and physically), fit, and tough. Without the population density to compete with the three other regions, finding the two with the complete package is always going to be more difficult and the reason why we need to save our pennies for the likes of Lousi and Fifita. |
Posted By: reesytheexile
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 10:33pm
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 15 February 2023 at 10:36pm
Can’t we get louisi and fifita to have a few wq kids when they here!
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Posted By: Dai Guevara
Date Posted: 16 February 2023 at 10:31am
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Thought we were well on the way to a selective breeding programme when Derek Quinell teamed up with Madora, Barry John's sister!! Well it produce Scott and Gavin Quinell.
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Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 16 February 2023 at 1:11pm
Unisex rugby now? That is real progress! The form blonde is usually used to refer to women, and blond to refer to men. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/blonde" rel="nofollow - https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/blonde ------------- “You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift) |
Posted By: scarletabroad
Date Posted: 16 February 2023 at 4:54pm
The tight head last night for scarlets is 16 6ft4 and 19 stone not exactly small🤷♂️ |
Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 03 March 2023 at 11:50am
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We’ve got 4 players in the 38 man Wales U18s squad heading up to Scotland for a couple of friendly matches. I thought that was a bit low considering we had a competitive U18 this season, albeit one which only won 3 of their 8 matches. Then I saw that the Ospreys only have 2 in the squad despite winning the RAG tournament with 7 wins from 8 matches. That seems very strange. 12 of the 38 are currently studying outside of Wales. Not sure how many are ‘exiles’ and how many are local boys who’ve gone away to college.
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Posted By: Gate12
Date Posted: 03 March 2023 at 12:15pm
Yeah there were a few good performers in the Scarlets games, and with Coleg Sir Gar getting to the final of the College league and Strade winning the schools/6th form final I'd have hoped for a couple more. As you say the Ospreys representation feels very small bearing in mind their performances.
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