Steve Tandy insists the Ospreys can upset the odds and make the Guinness Pro12 final, despite their record defeat to the Scarlets and a major injury concern over Dan Biggar. Tandy saw his team hammered 40-17 at Parc y Scarlets on Saturday – their fifth defeat in six matches – and they will now travel to face Munster on May 20 in their semi-final.

Steve Tandy has promised his Ospreys team can ruin Liam Williams’ Scarlets farewell on Saturday by securing their place in the Guinness Pro 12 play-offs. The Ospreys travel to Parc y Scarlets on the final day of the regular season looking to join their neighbours in the knockout stages. Wales full-back and Lions tourist Williams will make his final appearance at his home ground ahead of his summer move to Saracens.

Just two Welsh players – Scarlets pair Ken Owens and James Davies – have made the Guinness Pro12 Dream Team for this season. Owens, who is off on his first Lions tour later this month, makes the side at hooker, whilst Davies – who could make the Wales squad for their South Seas tour this summer – is included in the back row. But that is it as far as representation from the four Welsh regions is concerned with no-one from the Ospreys, The Cardiff Blues or the Newport Gwent Dragons making the cut.

The Ospreys have regularly been able to boss the West Wales derby. But with the Guinness Pro12 play-offs looming, Gareth Hughes reckons the Scarlets are now in the driving seat. On Saturday at Parc y Scarlets, arguably one of the biggest games in Welsh rugby for a decade will take place, with both sides playing for play-off places, to decide the 3rd and 4th positions in the Pro12. The Scarlets have turned their home ground into a fortress this season and with a potential full house will use that to their advantage. The Ospreys beat much-fancied Ulster last week, ending a run of defeats that threatened to derail their season.

Just as those who wanted to do an Irish jig on the grave of Welsh regional rugby were reaching for their dancing shoes, two of them go and make the Pro12 play-offs. Not only that, says Robin Davey, but there are other reasons to be cheerful. It seems the much-heralded demise of the Welsh regions was something of a damp squib, after all. Just at the time when most, if not all, the pundits were fearful of where Welsh rugby was going – amid the sound and fury of the English and French scattering all before them – the Welsh regions have been staging something of a revival.

Wayne Pivac says he does not care who the Scarlets play in their Guinness Pro12 play-off semi-final. The head coach saw his team clinch their top four place with a convincing 3-8 victory at Connacht on Saturday night. The victory followed the Ospreys’ 24-10 win at home to Ulster and it means two Welsh sides have made the play-offs for the first time.

Ken Owens’ Scarlets have been warned to expect a fired-up Connacht side this weekend – determined to deny Welsh progress into the Pro12 play-offs. The Scarlets visit Galway on Saturday in a crucial penultimate fixture of the regular season, which happens to coincide with Pat Lam’s last home game in charge of the Irish province.

A fortnight ago he was celebrating his 200th game for the Scarlets and now he has an even bigger landmark to toast – becoming a British & Irish Lion. Ken Owens wonderful season simply gets better and better and now the 30-year-old is hoping to keep his side on track for a play-off place in the Guinness PRO12 before he heads to New Zealand for the second summer in a row.

Judgement Day offered points and plaudits for the Cardiff Blues and the Scarlets. WRU Finals Day underlined the progress made by RGC. But Geraint Powell says other results – the financial ones – point to a Welsh rugby structure that no longer adds up. Spring is always a difficult season for the non-Test tier of professional rugby in Wales, the time of year when the hybrid regions/”super” clubs are compelled by UK company law to publicly file/disclose their financial performances for the preceding rugby season.

The Scarlets strengthened their position in the race for the Guinness Pro 12 play-offs by beating Newport Gwent Dragons 21-16 on Saturday. The west Walians safely avoided an upset on Pro12 Welsh Judgement Day thanks to tries by Lions hopefuls Jonathan Davies and Liam Williams after they had trailed 6-3 at the break. It may not have been pretty but it was job done for Wayne Pivac’s side, who have won 15 of their last 17 in the league, after their neighbours the Ospreys were beaten by Cardiff Blues in the first game of the Welsh double-header in Cardiff.

Newport Gwent Dragons outside-half Angus O’Brien is looking forward to bringing up a half-century of appearances when his side take on Scarlets at Judgement Day. The 22-year-old kicked 10 points in last season’s 34-20 Judgement Day IV loss to Wayne Pivac’s side but the youngster – capped at Wales Under-20 level – is relishing the opportunity to run out at the home of Welsh rugby for the second time.

Kingsley Jones reckons there will be no pressure on his side when they take on the Scarlets in Judgement Day V on Saturday – even though they are yet to break their duck . The Dragons have not won a Judgement Day fixture since its introduction in March 2013. But director of rugby Jones believes his side have a license to go and play as some of his players target summer tour places with Wales.