Scarlets PROFILE

The Scarlets’ season is over, but they went further than any of the other Welsh regions and Dwayne Peel reckons the future is bright.

Not many teams beat Leinster in Dublin, but Josh Macleod insists the resurgent Scarlets are capable of doing so this weekend, as Graham Thomas reports.

It's the awards season in rugby as we near the end of the domestic campaign and in the United Rugby Championship that means three Scarlets players are in with a shout, as Simon Thomas reports.

The Ospreys and Scarlets seem to have nowhere to go in Welsh rugby, so Graham Thomas reckons they should break for the border.

It’s now a whole year since the Welsh Rugby Union launched the headlines for a strategy they have been unable to agree with their regions.

Few gave the Scarlets much of a chance in South Africa - where they had not won in four years of trying - but their win has opened the door to the play-offs.

No many Welsh teams beat Leinster and the Scarlets hadn't managed it for seven years. But a win over the Irish giants has revived the Scarlets' hopes of making the URC play-offs.

Judgement Day Part Two on Saturday will see the Dragons take on a Scarlets team who have no margin for error.

Judged by the standards of the season so far, there is work to do for all four teams on Judgement Day this Saturday.

Scarlets head coach Dwayne Peel has laid down the challenge to his players to remain in the top eight of the United Rugby Championship. Peel’s men have held onto to sixth place – but closed the gap between themselves and fifth-placed Cardiff to just two points – after a gritty, hard-earned 30-24 win over Edinburgh that extended their unbeaten run at home to six games.

Dwayne Peel is looking forward to his Scarlets team going to the home of their biggest rivals, the Ospreys in an all-Welsh showdown in the last 16 of the European Challenge Cup. The match, scheduled for the weekend of 5 April, will see the two Welsh regions face off in a contest that promises to add another chapter to their history of fierce contests.

Dwayne Peel has warned his Scarlets youngsters they are in for a Shed-load of abuse on Friday night – and he couldn’t be happier. The Scarlets coach sends his team across the border to face Gloucester, knowing that a victory over the in-form English club will put them in sight of a place in the knockout stages of the European Challenge Cup and the last 16.