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Ryan Jones is confident Ospreys can reach the Heineken Cup quarter-finals

Image: Ryan Jones: Hopeful over the Ospreys' chances of making it through to the knock-out stage of the Heineken Cup

Wales star Ryan Jones believes the Ospreys hold realistic quarter-final ambitions despite being handed a tough Heineken Cup pool draw.

Treviso hopes

Treviso, though, are first up on Friday night and they will arrive at the Liberty Stadium after defeating the Ospreys this term and beating last season's Heineken Cup semi-finalists Edinburgh away from home on their last league outing. "The benefit of this pool is that any one team is capable of beating another, so it's going to be extremely tight," Treviso boss Franco Smith said. "It is undoubtedly another difficult pool for us, but once again we don't have that much to lose. "We want to be the first Italian club in the history of the tournament to qualify for the knockout stages, and it is all about creating belief among the players. "We've beaten some top sides at home and we've played some good rugby away from home, and now we have got to stop feeling sorry for ourselves. "Italian players have caught up technically and physically over the past three years, and now we need to focus more on the mental aspect. We don't want to be dominated in any way this season. "We will be striving more to play rugby on our terms, and we have to be defensively stronger. There is no way we will be giving away four tries in every game."

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