Eddie Butler, writing in The Guardian, believes that the Ospreys' victory over Glasgow has reaffirmed their Heineken Cup credentials.
"This was going to be about kicking, which I am sure you would have found riveting. I had this little log worked out, a grid-map of who was kicking from where to where at Firhill, the home of Partick Thistle, perfect for the experiment because of its crown‑green slopes and its narrowness, local conditions that would highlight the contrast between Glasgow and the Ospreys in the their Magners League encounter on Friday night.
"That was the idea, but what began as a rather dry investigation into kicking ended with a thorough appreciation of the Ospreys. It's just that on Thursday, placed on the spot in this mighty organ's very own Heineken podcast, I seemed to blurt out that the Ospreys, in defiance of all the evidence thus far and in line with no logic, would be H Cup finalists.
"My well-intended kicking map had begun to look like the sketch of Jim Furyk's swing we commissioned at the Open golf one year, a blur of lines, a porcupine with split ends, that ended up on the spike, as they say in the porcupine world, the cutting-room floor, the bin."
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