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Scarlets head coach Dwayne Peel at the end of the match(Image: Huw Evans Picture Agency)<\/p>\nIt was a hectic day for the Scarlets head coach but it all turned out well in the endScarlets head coach Dwayne Peel at the end of the match(Image: Huw Evans Picture Agency)<\/p>\n
Scarlets head coach Dwayne Peel missed part of his sister’s wedding to guide his team to victory over Cardiff<\/a> at the Arms Park on Friday night.<\/p>\n The former Wales scrum-half was in the Welsh capital on Friday evening to take charge of the 21-17 win over Cardiff.<\/a> However, his duties as head coach were sandwiched between the family event in west Wales – with Peel having spent some time at the wedding ahead of kick-off before shooting off afterwards to join the celebrations once more.<\/p>\n In order to get back on the M4<\/a>, Peel didn’t do all of the usual post-match press duties – although he did speak to broadcast crews after the Scarlets<\/a>‘ latest victory in the Welsh capital.<\/p>\n The west Walians haven’t lost at the Arms Park since 2019 – with a hard-fought victory built on defence and two tries from Gareth Davies extending that run.<\/p>\n “It wasn’t great for the nerves today,” said Peel. “Three yellow cards put us in a difficult position but we fought hard.<\/p>\n “We talked about the Arms Park in terms of being here to compete. We took our opportunities when they came. We had some sloppy moments.<\/p>\n “I thought we fought splendidly well for each other. It was a bloody good win.”<\/p>\n He added: “It’s my sister’s wedding today. I was there for about an hour.<\/p>\n “I’ll hopefully get back there in time. It’s back in west Wales. If I get back in time, I might have a cheeky Guinness.”<\/p>\n The former scrum-half was unsurprisingly full of praise for match-winner Davies, with the 35-year-old scoring two tries at the Arms Park for the third consecutive season.<\/p>\n “He’s always been pretty good,” said Peel. “I can’t speak highly enough about him because he’s the ultimate professional.<\/p>\n “He’s 35. He keeps himself in great shape. He said to me before he fancied a double so he backed that up.”<\/p>\n With Peel needing to hit the road, Scarlets assistant coach Albert van den Berg also faced the press – with the South African singing the praises of the head coach after the Scarlets’ second league win of the season.<\/p>\n “He’s been good for us,” said van der Berg. “He’s taken the lead.<\/p>\n “Coming into these games, we haven’t had one of the best starts in the URC. We’ve had a couple of tough games.<\/p>\n “He just stuck in there. He said to the boys that we know what we stand for.<\/p>\n “We keep working hard and we’re here to compete. That’s his drive for everyone and it showed tonight in the boys, they really competed.<\/p>\n “It’s tough for him. He’s driving back two-and-a-half hours for his sister’s wedding tonight.<\/p>\n “Credit to him for doing that, still being here for the team and then going back for that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a hectic day for the Scarlets head coach but it all turned out well in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,47464,4884,15033,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-644235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dwayne-peel","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scarlets","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115751962354809244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}