Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji

[MiketheSnow]

@pooler-fan said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:

Don't understand why Gats persists with Griffin at tighthead, I get that he has potential but hasn't played.
Henry Thomas is performing well this season, just a head scratching decision for me.

From the look of that pen I think the ref got it wrong

[Mr Fish]

@Tordah said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:

@Mr-Fish said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:

@Tordah said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:

Radradra's should have been YC. Mitigation: Oppo player at almost hip height

A player being low is not mitigation once foul play has already been determined (but it can result in no foul play being determined by the ref). A sudden drop in height can be - but that wasn't the case here.

Is that so? Whatever the process, I think a YC would have been the correct call here.

The below list of mitigating factors is deliberately not exhaustive but low height has never really been taken into consideration with the new(ish) framework:

[pooler fan]

@MiketheSnow it looked like the loosehead got under Griffin for the penalty.
Think he'll be a good international tighthead in a few years.
He's not ready now though.

[MiketheSnow]

FFS Rowlands that’s twice

Hook him now

[MiketheSnow]

Trying to be too cute

Max Llewelyn was playing fuck early on

Hasn’t had a pass since

[MiketheSnow]

Muntz is having a blinder

[MiketheSnow]

Wales 14 - 16 Fiji
49 mins

Thorough deserve the lead

[MiketheSnow]

Great vision and execution from Tomos Williams sets up 50-22

First pass to Llewelyn in ages and he ties in the defence creating space out wide for Murray to go over but Thomas adjudged to have knocked on

[MiketheSnow]

Welsh ‘bomb squad’ could have the Fiji scrum in trouble

[MiketheSnow]

Obviously nowhere near as good as yesterday’s England v Australia classic but this is a really hard fought Test between two teams at the lower end of the world rankings

[MiketheSnow]

Well done Fiji

Shit attempt at tackle from Murray

Wales 14 - 21 Fiji
60 mins

[MiketheSnow]

Basics Wales ffs

[MiketheSnow]

Great reply from Wales

Wales 19 - 21 Fiji
66 mins

[MiketheSnow]

Fantastic defence Wales

[MiketheSnow]

FFS ref

Fiji over the top and kicking the ball in the ruck

Forward pass

[Jailbreak7]

Fiji playing much better than last week, Wales are in a really dark place right now.

[MiketheSnow]

Why the fuck is Costello there
Should be a stable boy he shovels so much shit

[Mr Fish]

If Winnet had given the ball out left a minute ago there was a three on one.

[KiwiInLondon]

What a magnificent weekend for the SH

[Grooter]

Well done Fiji! my Multi is a winner