United Rugby Championship

[Wallpaperman]

Another nice try, Max Clark slides in. Came from a 50-22 lineout after a superb Sam Davies kick. Great conversion to for 14-17.

Wasteful from the Bulls, who have missed 3 consecutive kicks to touch, apart from the one that went out on the full !

[Wallpaperman]

Dragons do ok until half time, and will be happy to be back in it. Bulls will feel that they should be much further ahead.

Dragons will definitely lose if they can’t sort the scrums. It’s been a real Achilles heel in the last game and a half

[Wallpaperman]

Ollie Griffiths off at half time, Basham on. Not a bad replacement !

Griffiths played well after a rusty first 5 minutes.

Penalty Dragons, ball bounces back off the crossbar - still 14-17.

Dragons then knock on close to the Bulls line

[Wallpaperman]

Scrum Bulls, Lloyd Fairbrother is on now, hope there is an improvement

[Wallpaperman]

Not really. Penalty Bulls again

[Wallpaperman]

Bullls with possession, get up to the line, some good defence from the Dragons and an excellent lineout steal by Nott 5 metres from his own line.

Bulls chips back through, horrible error from Jordan Williams, penalty Bulls 5 metres out, they go for a scrum. Rob Evans on at loose head

[Wallpaperman]

And Evans folds straight in. Penalty again, scrum again. Still 5 metres out, ref must be thinking of a yellow card

[Wallpaperman]

Not much luck for the Dragons, 2 consecutive early shoves and on the second a free kick against Dragons for stepping back.

Pressure eventually tells, Forster comes in off a flat pass and crashes over, as there was a penalty advantage from the scrum. 14-24 now.

[Wallpaperman]

Bit of handbags then a Bulls penalty. We’re in the Dragons 22 again.

[Wallpaperman]

Flaming Ada. They’ve brought on Bismarck du Plessis. He gets a try from the lineout drive about 30 seconds after coming on.

Game over really, the Dragons are second best by some margin in the tight

[Wallpaperman]

Super kick by Bulls, Dragons we’re having a go, but a 50-22 means we’re a few metres from the Dragons line again. Ruthless, effective play

[Wallpaperman]

Wonky throw give some relief but it ends up a minute later with another Bulls 5 metre scrum

[Wallpaperman]

Some good defence from the Dragons, at last they are matching the Bulls at scrum time. Dyer almost clear, and ankle tapped.

Still 14-29, about 3 minutes to go

[Wallpaperman]

Ends up that way. Dragons had a good first 10 minutes in the second half but were pumped after that.

[UKHamlet]

I despair of Cardiff. We've been playing great, error free rugby for weeks. Along come the Ospreys and Scarlets, and we look like a team who have never met each other.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Cardiff v Scarlets was enjoyable for the neutral viewer. Good match.

Ospreys Leinster too (I imagine). The Ospreys forwards are pretty formidable these days - nice to see. Tough to lose it at the end when we'd led for so long. Could have gone either way but I guess Leinster just don't lose matches these days.

Dragons did their best but never raised my hopes.

[Sourdust]

Cardiff v Scarlets was enjoyable for the neutral viewer. Good match.

Ospreys Leinster too (I imagine). The Ospreys forwards are pretty formidable these days - nice to see. Tough to lose it at the end when we'd led for so long. Could have gone either way but I guess Leinster just don't lose matches these days.

Exactly that.

16-10 up and frankly dominating (albeit in a defensive sense) we never looked like winning because we always know that Leinster can just play their "Opposition magically misses 5 tackles in 5 minutes" card at any time.

[Sourdust]

Seriously good result for the Scarlets.

Bulls didn't get off the bus in the first half and Scarlets made them pay. Then they very much did, dominating the latter stages to the extent that the commentators had to occasionally remind us - and themselves - that Scarlets were still in the lead.

Baffling call by the Bulls to turn down penalty shots that would have surely won the match. Was it tiredness affecting their thinking? Because it smacked of arrogance, and Scarlets punished them for it. Whatever the reasons, it's great to see this purple patch for the regions continuing. Oh, and we've apparently got another great young prospect... at #7. That's nice.

[normanski]

Seriously good result for the Scarlets.

Bulls didn't get off the bus in the first half and Scarlets made them pay. Then they very much did, dominating the latter stages to the extent that the commentators had to occasionally remind us - and themselves - that Scarlets were still in the lead.

Baffling call by the Bulls to turn down penalty shots that would have surely won the match. Was it tiredness affecting their thinking? Because it smacked of arrogance, and Scarlets punished them for it. Whatever the reasons, it's great to see this purple patch for the regions continuing. Oh, and we've apparently got another great young prospect... at #7. That's nice.

The Welsh regions are starting to find some dog in the last quarter - something that’s been missing for a few years. You would have put your money on Bulls coming away with a BP win last night but all credit to Scarlets they took their chances at the death and denied the Boks a losing bonus point.

Gatland must be much cheered to see this happening as we go into to the 6Ns.

[normanski]

Jaco Peyper is such a homer ref. He’s letting Leinster get away with so many things at the breakdown and penalises Cardiff at every turn.

[pompey-zebra]

Blimey, ospreys are really handing this back to zebre. Two tries in first 7 minutes, then butchering numerous chances. Zebre hitting back with two of their own. O's really need to switch back.on.

[pompey-zebra]

Incredibly, ospreys now behind 19-14! Wheels really coming off . They need not to concede again before half time, which given their start is crazy.

[pompey-zebra]

Try Zebre! Unconverted but Ospreys 10 points down now.

[pompey-zebra]

At last, about an hour after their last try, ospreys get another! Morgan Morris, converted by myler.

And a fourth! Nice handling, and morgan-Williams goes over. Myler converts, 28-24 to the O's.

[pompey-zebra]

O's having to defend a Zebre line out in injury time. Zebre spill it, O's win!