Scarlets u18s 22 - Dragons u18s 13

Another great win for the Scarlets under 18s tonight against a strong,committed Dragons team who included players who have appeared in the Dragons senior Xv .

Wing Kieran Jones with two well taken tries put the Scarlets in front but a magnificent performance by Captain and Number 8 Josh Macleod secured the Third bonus point win a week for his team .

Macleod his a rare talent a big athletic quick forward ,who tackles and his superb at the breakdown ,quite simply the best back row prospect I have seen come through the Scarlets system since Scott Quinnell .

Edited by 157cb - 19 November 2014 at 10:10pm

Tonight's game wasn't a particularly great game with some basic skills lacking at times, but the win was important.

Yes, not a bad shout. Tom Phillips and Josh McLeod could both very well find themselves featuring together in the Scarlets back row at some point in the future! Shaun Evans has a great engine and is very committed though size may be an issue for him in the future, given that size seems to have more precedence over skills!

Any tidy locks in the U18's?

It's been an area we've struggled to develop our own in TBH.

So, we already know that the second row is an area where we will eventually have to spend some money on outside players (and that it is vitally important to keep Jake Ball and the S.Africans).
Let's start looking now, not just at established second rows but any big, physical, intelligent, athletic youngster, who we may be able to tempt with a scholarship to Llandovery or elsewhere and mould into the players we will need. We did something similar with Rhodri Jones and George North, although, at the time mid and north Wales were part of the Scarlets region.