Nikki Walker, Duncan Jones, Ian Evans, Ben Lewis and Andy Lloyd remain long-term Ospreys casualties, while Jonathan Spratt and Gareth Owen should return in the new year.

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The Ospreys won two of their three Magners League Welsh derbies with 10 players on their injury list, including internationals Shane Williams, Huw Bennett, Ian Evans, Duncan Jones, Nikki Walker and Andy Lloyd.

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Prop Duncan Jones, lock Ian Evans and back-rower Gareth Delve were not considered due to injury.

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He exposes in print what clubby archaeologists from Oxford and Cambridge have long known but kept to themselves: that Evans was a mediocre field archaeologist, who relied on his skilled, hard-drinking assistant, Duncan Mackenzie, to manage the Cretan workmen and build a chronology for the different phases of occupation and destruction at Knossos.

ECONOMIST: Bullshot

The Barbarians squad for the upcoming fixture includes Nick Evans and Joe Rokocoko of New Zealand, Dimitri Yachvili and Imanol Harinordoquy of France, James Hook, Duncan Jones and Dwayne Peel of Wales, Sergio Parisse and Mario Castrogiovanni of Italy, Francois Louw of South Africa, and Kahn Fotuali'i of Samoa.

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