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   Well another very disappointing result and yet another defeat to add to Peel’s wonderful win record as head coach.We were largely very poor, we box kicked too much, we were very slow with that too, allowing the Pau defence to sit deep and move onto the kick.  There was on incident that summed us up in the first half where Ball made a powerful drive into the heart of the Pau midfield and made about 10 yards only for Archie to set up a caterpillar and box kick.
We gave them a 3 try lead, then managed 5 of our own only to then concede 3 in the last 20 minutes and end up failing to pick up a losing bonus point from a position where we were leading by 12 points.  This shows our lack of game management and leadership.
Dwayne still baffles everyone with his substitutions, when we scored our 5th try (to take a 12 point lead), Pau looked shell shocked and were struggled to cope with our recycling of the ball and going through the phases, but instead of going for the juggler and bringing on Carwyn (for an injured Roberts) and moving the shockingly bad Hawkins to centre he opted to leave Carwyn on the bench and brings on Ioan to play centre - so negative and really depressing for us fans to watch.
It looked to me like we threw the usual game plan out of the window in the first 20 minutes of the second half, choosing to go through the phases, offloading, moving the defence left and right and restricting the kicking game somewhat (almost as if they had decided to play their own game and not Peel’, only for Peel to put a stop on it by bringing on Nicholas to slow things down.
Peel has to go, given that we expect to get well beaten in Northampton next Sunday it would be a good time to give someone else a chance to try get some confidence back in the team.

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Legendinmybathroom Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Veteran Joined: 29 May 2017 Location: Burry Port Status: Offline Points: 4478	Post Options Post Reply Quote Legendinmybathroom Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 10 January 2026 at 11:38pm
	Well another very disappointing result and yet another defeat to add to Peel’s wonderful win record as head coach. We were largely very poor, we box kicked too much, we were very slow with that too, allowing the Pau defence to sit deep and move onto the kick. There was on incident that summed us up in the first half where Ball made a powerful drive into the heart of the Pau midfield and made about 10 yards only for Archie to set up a caterpillar and box kick. We gave them a 3 try lead, then managed 5 of our own only to then concede 3 in the last 20 minutes and end up failing to pick up a losing bonus point from a position where we were leading by 12 points. This shows our lack of game management and leadership. Dwayne still baffles everyone with his substitutions, when we scored our 5th try (to take a 12 point lead), Pau looked shell shocked and were struggled to cope with our recycling of the ball and going through the phases, but instead of going for the juggler and bringing on Carwyn (for an injured Roberts) and moving the shockingly bad Hawkins to centre he opted to leave Carwyn on the bench and brings on Ioan to play centre - so negative and really depressing for us fans to watch. It looked to me like we threw the usual game plan out of the window in the first 20 minutes of the second half, choosing to go through the phases, offloading, moving the defence left and right and restricting the kicking game somewhat (almost as if they had decided to play their own game and not Peel’, only for Peel to put a stop on it by bringing on Nicholas to slow things down. Peel has to go, given that we expect to get well beaten in Northampton next Sunday it would be a good time to give someone else a chance to try get some confidence back in the team.

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Legendinmybathroom Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Veteran Joined: 29 May 2017 Location: Burry Port Status: Offline Points: 4478	Post Options Post Reply Quote Legendinmybathroom Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 January 2026 at 11:43pm
	Sorry , wrong thread!

Derwynfawr Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 20 January 2026 Location: Llandeilo Status: Offline Points: 50	Post Options Post Reply Quote Derwynfawr Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 21 January 2026 at 1:55pm
	Joe Denman is ex Llandovery College captain, he's been playing in BUCS for Loughborough the last couple of seasons but retained by Scarlets on a contract, from what I've seen he's very good. Looks like he was in the Cardiff Pathway prior to going to Llandovery. Hudson Nevin the Loosehead is still in Llandovery College, it looks like he came through MMAD Dewar shield as a back 5 player but converted to LH, he's a year early but spotted he was called up by Ireland for their camp in December which went under the radar. It's on the IRFU website, if they're sniffing around him there must be some promise. Keanu Evans was part of the very special U18s team with Tiaan, he's played plenty of U20s as BR but looks as if they're trying to convert him to hooker, I watched him play for Ammanford a few times this season as he looks good, set piece needs work but what hooker doesn't. if he gets that right we'll have a good powerful hooker coming into the ranks. He's a Burry port product I think.
	D Fraw