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Ospreys fans predict future of 'reject' Sam Davies after Anscombe deal

Sam Davies in the Ospreys colours

With the imminent announcement that Gareth Anscombe will be joining the Ospreys from the Cardiff Blues next season, fans have given their opinion on what the future holds for current fly-half Sam Davies.

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Anscombe’s future has been unclear since guiding Wales to Grand Slam glory last month, with rumours circulating that he will be turning his back on Wales and opting for a more lucrative move abroad. However, Welsh fans are pleased that the fly-half has chosen to remain in Wales, keeping his international career alive.

This is great news for Ospreys fans, but questions are now being raised as to what the next step is for Davies. One of the main reasons behind Anscombe’s move could be that he is deployed a lot as a fullback for the Cardiff Blues, with Jarrod Evans at fly-half, but prefers to play 10, as he does for Wales. The Ospreys could offer this opportunity to him, but at the expense of Davies.

In light of this announcement, this is what the fans from all Welsh regions are saying on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/lyndjnkns/status/1117802823519997952?s=20
https://twitter.com/turkishrebel/status/1117802758827065345?s=20
https://twitter.com/Poundey15/status/1117805757431463937?s=20
https://twitter.com/JJRoberts1990/status/1117802035590639616?s=20
https://twitter.com/ieuanbeal15/status/1117798229368815621?s=20
https://twitter.com/petethomas15/status/1117792671542730752?s=20
https://twitter.com/Cymru_Forever/status/1117791281487462401?s=20
https://twitter.com/BedwyrG/status/1117788513645285376?s=20
https://twitter.com/ospreys2008/status/1117787627078455297?s=20
https://twitter.com/Sc0ttMackay/status/1117784339440394241?s=20
https://twitter.com/JustNathanD/status/1117783480270761985?s=20

What seems apparent is that Ospreys fans seem quite pleased that Davies could be leaving the Liberty Stadium, or is at least being replaced. The 25-year-old always had big boots to fill with Dan Biggar departing last season, and many fans feel that he has not been an able replacement. Anscombe, who rivals Biggar for the Welsh 10 shirt, would surely be a better option.

However, very few Cardiff fans seem particularly interested in Davies moving to the Welsh capital, as he is seen as inferior to Anscombe, and would not rival Evans for a starting berth.

This effectively leaves the Dragons and the Scarlets as the only two viable options for many fans, with a move to the Dragons being the popular option. That would leave a situation whereby Anscombe, Evans, Davies and Rhys Patchell will be the starting standoffs for all four regions, which would be great for Welsh rugby.

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But as is the case with many transfers, ultimately one player suffers, and in this situation that is Davies, with many expecting him to go at the end of the season.

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JW 4 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


He was of course only 23 when he decided to leave, it was back in the beggining of the period they had started retaining players (from 2018 onwards I think, they came out saying theyre going to be more aggressive at some point). So he might, all of them, only just missed out.


The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


The 'mercenary' thing that will take longer to expire, and which I was referring to, is the grandparents rule. The new kids coming through now aren't going to have as many gp born overseas, so the amount of players that can leave with a prospect of International rugby offer are going to drop dramatically at some point. All these kiwi fellas playing for a PI, is going to stop sadly.


The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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