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Springbok Marvin Orie joins Ospreys on loan

Marvin Orie

Ospreys have signed South Africa international Marvin Orie on a short-term loan as second-row cover for their World Cup stars.

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Alun Wyn Jones, Adam Beard and Bradley Davies are all in Japan with Wales, while James King and Ben Glynn – himself signed as cover earlier this month – are both injured , leaving the Swansea-based region short of lock forwards.

Orie, who has three Springboks caps to his name and arrives from the Lions, is expected to join the squad early next week and will be in south Wales until December 26.

The big lock, who represented the Springboks in the Rugby Championship, is currently on standbye for the Bok squad after narrowly missing out on selection for the Rugby World Cup and is excited about the prospect.

“I am looking forward to joining a great club like Ospreys. There are a few big fixtures coming up for the club and hopefully I can be part and contribute,” he said.

“While watching some of their recent games I am impressed with the character of the team to pull off a couple of close wins. I believe I will also learn a lot playing in a different league and different conditions from what I am use to which makes this couple of months with Ospreys even more exciting.”

Orie is waiting for his visa before heading north to a club that already has three South African familiar faces in Tom Botha, Hanno Dircksen and Shaun Venter playing for them.

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– PA, additional material PRO14

Eddie Jones, John Mitchell and Owen Farrell hold a top table press conference as England begin a week of preparations ahead of facing Japan in a World Cup semi-final in Japan.

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JW 19 minutes ago
Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

This piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.


I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.


Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.


The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.

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