Ross aiming to meet powerful Ospreys scrum head-on

THE Ospreys will return to the RDS this Friday for the first time since claiming the Magners League title at Leinster’s expense last May but Mike Ross’ appetite for revenge owes itself to a more recent meeting between the pair.

The Irish side was leading late on in Swansea when the sides last butted heads in November before two yellow cards for the visitors – one of them for lock Ed O’Donoghue – fashioned the crack which the hosts exposed courtesy of a penalty try from a scrum.

Ross is a noted scrummaging geek, the type who swats up eagerly on opponents past, present and future, so the concession of a score in such a manner has not sat well with the Cork-born prop in the five or so weeks since.