Ospreys prop Nicky Smith is obviously not ready to leave his home region just yet.

Smith is joining Leicester next season and this would have been his last game if Ospreys had not reached the play-offs.

His two-try haul earned him the player-of-the-match accolade and helped set up a trip to Munster next Friday.

Ospreys captain Justin Tipuric described his front five as “awesome” and Smith was the heartbeat of that.

Smith is 30, has played 46 internationals and been involved in two World Cups, so it might be assumed on such a basis that he is an established Wales performer.

But he has never entirely convinced the Wales coaching team and was left out of the Six Nations squad in favour of fellow loose-heads Gareth Thomas, Corey Domachowski and Kemsley Mathias, who also scored on Judgement Day for Scarlets.

The Ospreys fans appreciate one of their own, though, and they will have another chance to see Smith in action next weekend in Limerick.

They will again hope that is not for the final time.