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European Challenge Cup Pool Two leaders Ospreys, amassed 11 tries in thrashing Grenoble 71-3 at the Liberty Stadium.

Scott Baldwin, Dan Evans and Hanno Dirkson scored braces along with tries for Olly Cracknell, Ashley Beck, Brendon Leonard, Scott Otten and Dan Biggar, who kicked eight conversions.

Gilles Bosch landed a first-half penalty for the winless visitors who trailed 33-3 at half-time.

Here’s the Liberty Stadium talking points from what amounted to little more than a training ground run for the Welsh region.

Dan Biggar is on the brink of a momentous personal achievement

The Ospreys fly-half needs just 13 more points to become the first player to complete 2,000 in regional rugby.

No one else has even got close to the mark.

In fact, according to statistics’ on the various regions websites, only two other players — Ben Blair, with Cardiff Blues (1,078), and Rhys Priestland, with the Scarlets (1,064) — have passed 1,000 points for a region in competitive games.

It truly is some effort by Biggar, who didn’t take over as front-line goal-kicker for the Ospreys until 2009-10 after making his bow 18 months earlier.

He could reach the milestone against the Scarlets at the Liberty on December 27 or against Newport Gwent Dragons at Rodney Parade on New Year’s Day.

The 27-year-old was typically prolific in the 71-3 rout of Grenoble in the European Challenge Cup, finishing with 21 points.

But it would do him a disservice to suggest it was all about goal-kicking.

He had a strong all-round game, orchestrating play intelligently, claiming a try and supplying one of the moments of the match with a pinpoint cross kick from one side of the pitch to the other for Hanno Dirksen to climb high and gather for the try.

Out of position, but still outstanding — Sam Davies is simply a gem of a rugby player

It isn’t just the skill of Nigel Davies’ son that sets him apart on a rugby field.

He is also a clever player who thinks his way through games and has an awareness of how to hurt opponents and, if required — and it wasn’t very often against Grenoble, it has to be said — get his own side out of trouble.

In the past, he has looked uncertain at full-back.

But he was brave and assured at No.15 throughout Saturday’s encounter and frequently bamboozled the French with the variety of his passing.

Grenoble were struggling to shackle him even before he brilliantly twisted his body to send Dan Evans speeding over from long range, then Davies repeated the trick with a similar movement that changed the direction of play in the blink of an eye for Kieron Fonotia to put Dan Biggar across.

There was another try assist in the dying minutes when a lung-bursting sprint finished with an inside pass to Hanno Dirksen.

Unsurprisingly, he was named man of the match.

Olly Cracknell is upwardly mobile

There are some back rowers who might be described as seagulls, who flap around and are highly visible but are more style than substance. Such qualities won one chap of a few decades ago a series of international caps.

No, he didn’t play for Pontypool RFC in their steamrollering pomp.

Olly Cracknell is cut from different cloth.

He really isn’t someone you would have wanted to be in a toddlers’ group with. Biff, bang, wallop — two-year-olds scattered all over the place amid pleas to stop playing so roughly, invariably falling on deaf ears because the lad who is built like a brick outhouse knows no other way.

Man of the match in his previous outing against Glasgow Warriors, Cracknell came within an ace of claiming the bauble against Grenoble, losing by just one vote.

He is someone who just gives everything, and then a bit more. Grenoble had nothing like him, and couldn’t handle him.

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Wayne Pivac’s theory is about to be put to the test

The Scarlets’ coach reckons playing in the Champions Cup gives his side an advantage over the other regions because the better standard of rugby makes players battle-hardened.

A derby joust with the Ospreys in Swansea on December 27 will see how much that edge is worth.

The debate calls to mind the events of 1999 when Swansea and Llanelli met at Ninian Park in the Welsh Cup final. The Whites had been playing rebel friendlies against English clubs, while the loyalist Scarlets had been operating in the domestic league.

All season there were arguments about the respective strengths of the sides and the rugby they had been playing.

When push came to shove, Swansea destroyed the West Walians 37-10 in what became known as the ‘Men against Boys’ cup final.

The Ospreys hope they can make up for the low-calibre of opponents they have faced over the past two weekends with international-intensity training sessions, but they also have faith in the quality of their squad.

The clash will be one of the most keenly awaited in the regional era, with both sides boasting excellent league form.

The Ospreys have more than one wing who can score tries

Hanno Dirksen claimed a brace in just 21 minutes on the field, leaping superbly to wrestle the ball from a Grenoble defender for the first. His second saw him move into sixth spot in the Ospreys’ all-time try chart, overtaking Lee Byrne.

Dan Evans bagged a double, too, while Dafydd Howells has seven touchdowns in 12 games this term.

Out wide at the Liberty, it isn’t all about you know who.

Records all the way, so let’s get the party started

The Ospreys held their Christmas party on Saturday evening, after getting in the mood with a display that prompted some serious rewriting of the region’s record books.

Where do you start?

The 11 tries equalled the Ospreys’ record for the number of touchdowns in a match, set against Treviso in February, 2014.

The Welsh region also broke their European records for tries and points.

And the 71-3 success matched their biggest-ever margin of victory, again set against Treviso two years ago.