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Whilst Wales play Georgia this weekend it is also derbies in the Anglo Welsh cup.

BLUES V OSPREYS

The Blues look the stronger set up for the Starting team
great to see Anscombe back on his recovery and it seems like Assiratti is fit to play again.

Cardiff Blues: Rhun Williams; Harri Millard, Owen Lane, Steven Shingler, Tom James; Gareth Anscombe, Lewis Jones; Gethin Jenkins (capt), Kirby Myhill, Anton Peikrishvili, George Earle, Damian Welch, Macauley Cook, Sion Bennett, Shane Lewis-Hughes.

Reps: Ethan Lewis, Rhys Carre, Keiron Assiratti, Ben Murphy, Luke Crocker, Dane Blacker, Ben Thomas, Max Llewellyn.

Ospreys: James Hook; Dafydd Howells, Tom Williams, Kieran Williams, Jay Baker; Luke Price (capt), Reuben Morgan-Williams; Gareth Thomas, Scott Baldwin, Rhodri Jones, James Ratti, Rory Thornton, Guy Mercer, Will Jones, Rob McCusker.

Reps: Ifan Phillips, Rowan Jenkins, Alex Jeffries, Bradley Davies, Morgan Morris, Matthew Aubrey, Sam Davies, Rhys Williams.

DRAHONS V SCARLETS
Some regulars for the Dragons ...it may be the differance but the Scarlets may havery a few nuggets launching their careers.

Dragons: Angus O’Brien; Jared Rosser, Joe Thomas, Adam Warren, Joe Goodchild; Arwel Robson, Dan Babos; Josh Reynolds, Gerard Ellis, Lloyd Fairbrother, Joe Davies, Matthew Screech, Ben Roach, Ollie Griffiths (capt), Huw Worthington.

Reps: Ellis Shipp, Sam Hobbs, Brok Harris, Rynard Landman, James Benjamin, Callum Morris, Gavin Henson, Connor Edwards.

Scarlets: Tomi Lewis; Morgan Griffiths, Rhodri Jones, Billy McBryde, Thomas Rogers; Jack Maynard, Lee Rees; Steffan Thomas, Torin Myhill, Javan Sebastian, Josh Helps, Jack Jones, Stuart Worrall, Dan Davis, Tom Phillips (capt).

Reps: Steffan Phillips, Craig Thomas, Scott Jenkins, Christian Long, Joseph Powell, Gareth George, Scott Lloyd, Dale Ford.

The Scarlets side is pretty much an U20s side.

Good to see Carre on the bench for the Blues, he's a man mountain that lad.

What is the point of this now? Is it a development competition or a first team one? Looking at last weekends fixture it seems no one really knows.

Is this on TV at all?

Sandydragon wrote:What is the point of this now? Is it a development competition or a first team one? Looking at last weekends fixture it seems no one really knows.

YES. .that's a fair evaluation
It has been supposedly a development competition certainly for most. It is really what each team consider development to be... either a fully development or a mix and match .
What I see some of the some team selections it seems more of a little bit of development mix with regular bench warmers and second choices and injury returns.

Sandydragon wrote:What is the point of this now? Is it a development competition or a first team one? Looking at last weekends fixture it seems no one really knows.

it really highlights the depth of Aviva squads compared to our teams.

Son of Mathonwy wrote:Is this on TV at all?

The odd match on Sky Sports, they showed Scarlets v Exeter last weekend.

Numbers wrote:

Son of Mathonwy wrote:Is this on TV at all?

The odd match on Sky Sports, they showed Scarlets v Exeter last weekend.

Thanks, yeah, I used to be interested in the Anglo Welsh, when it was on TV and the clubs actually cared. Now it's pretty irrelevant.

Son of Mathonwy wrote:

Numbers wrote:

Son of Mathonwy wrote:Is this on TV at all?

The odd match on Sky Sports, they showed Scarlets v Exeter last weekend.

Thanks, yeah, I used to be interested in the Anglo Welsh, when it was on TV and the clubs actually cared. Now it's pretty irrelevant.

Yeah, for the Welsh sides it's almost impossible when the likes of Exeter field Jack Nowell.

Numbers wrote:

Son of Mathonwy wrote:

Numbers wrote:
The odd match on Sky Sports, they showed Scarlets v Exeter last weekend.

Thanks, yeah, I used to be interested in the Anglo Welsh, when it was on TV and the clubs actually cared. Now it's pretty irrelevant.

Yeah, for the Welsh sides it's almost impossible when the likes of Exeter field Jack Nowell.

Wasn't quite that bad - that was Exeter 2nds, but it was just against Llanelli 4ths/Colts. It is a weird mix-up of a competition though - Leicester vs Bath was academy vs almost first team. You can see why neither fans nor sponsors are particularly interested.

Maybe they should do like the football and have it so you can only have 3 players over the age of 23. Set some rules to it so that you don't get literal men against boys matches.

Puja

Puja wrote:

Numbers wrote:

Son of Mathonwy wrote: Thanks, yeah, I used to be interested in the Anglo Welsh, when it was on TV and the clubs actually cared. Now it's pretty irrelevant.

Yeah, for the Welsh sides it's almost impossible when the likes of Exeter field Jack Nowell.

Wasn't quite that bad - that was Exeter 2nds, but it was just against Llanelli 4ths/Colts. It is a weird mix-up of a competition though - Leicester vs Bath was academy vs almost first team. You can see why neither fans nor sponsors are particularly interested.

Maybe they should do like the football and have it so you can only have 3 players over the age of 23. Set some rules to it so that you don't get literal men against boys matches.

Puja

Good idea.

Son of Mathonwy wrote:

Puja wrote:

Numbers wrote:
Yeah, for the Welsh sides it's almost impossible when the likes of Exeter field Jack Nowell.

Wasn't quite that bad - that was Exeter 2nds, but it was just against Llanelli 4ths/Colts. It is a weird mix-up of a competition though - Leicester vs Bath was academy vs almost first team. You can see why neither fans nor sponsors are particularly interested.

Maybe they should do like the football and have it so you can only have 3 players over the age of 23. Set some rules to it so that you don't get literal men against boys matches.

Puja

Good idea.

Agree with that

It was on Channel 5 as a revue of last weeks matches but it won't be on a national channel if it's only the Welsh sides playing this weekend. ..and understandable but why S4C or BBC 2 Wales don't have at least a summary show !!!!. .it may get 3 minutes after the dissection of the Georgia match...high profile huh....

Just looked & tonight's games aren't on anywhere.

BT or Sky are showing them (can't remember which) - their advertising didn't even mention any of the Welsh sides!

wayneha50 wrote:Just looked & tonight's games aren't on anywhere.

BT or Sky are showing them (can't remember which) - their advertising didn't even mention any of the Welsh sides!

SKY seems to have nothing...BT has Glaws vs Saracens on the Aviva Premiership tonight .