U20 Championship - NZ v Wales

[Stargazer]

@Bovidae I hope Cooper Flanders will be the starting 7 in the next game. Not saying he's the answer, I just want him to get an opportunity.

[KiwiMurph]

@Stargazer Flanders looked handy in Wellington vs Aus I thought

[Stargazer]

@KiwiMurph Yep, he's not the biggest 7 in the squad, but he's a very good ball carrier, deceptively quick and has a very high workrate. Usually good on defence, too.

[Bovidae]

Laidlaw needs to select the largest and most physical forward pack possible to play France.

[frugby]

@Bovidae Or, do you go down the route that we can't beat them at their game, so we go with mobility?

[Bovidae]

@frugby said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

@Bovidae Or, do you go down the route that we can't beat them at their game, so we go with mobility?

That's not going to help when you are defending lineout drives or in the scrum. Unless mobility also means going backwards - fast.

[Stargazer]

[Stargazer]

Rugbypass stats (no player stats):

New Zealand U20 vs Wales U20 | Live & Latest Rugby Union Scores & Results | RugbyPass

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[bobily2]

There are player stats on the right-hand side

[Stargazer]

@bobily2 You're right! Somehow I've never noticed those arrows before haha.

[bobily2]

@Stargazer Now we just need height and weight figures for the players in each squad. It used to fairly reliably released on the World Rugby website 1 week before the tournament, but no cigar this year.

Edit: This has height and weight, though I dunno how accurate the figures are

Championnat du Monde U20 - Match report Wales U20s vs New Zealand U20s, le 24/06/2023

Match report Wales U20s - New Zealand U20s : lineups, points, stats...

[Stargazer]

@bobily2 Since World Rugby moved their website from a .org to a .rugby domain, all their older match stats and documents got lost. The search function on their website doesn't work, and important document are difficult to find. It's gone backwards with time, instead of better with improved technology.

[NTA]

Don't they have drainage in South Africa?

[antipodean]

@MiketheSnow said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

@Bovidae said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

A must-win game for NZ with France also in the pool. Wales (6) are seeded ahead of NZ (7).

That's nonsense

We'll get massacred

By a whole point.

[MiketheSnow]

@antipodean said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

@MiketheSnow said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

@Bovidae said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

A must-win game for NZ with France also in the pool. Wales (6) are seeded ahead of NZ (7).

That's nonsense

We'll get massacred

By a whole point.

Could have (should have) gone a number of ways

First 10 mins and I was ready to circle the waggons

Then we should have put the game away in the first half

First 20 of the second half, and we were trading treacle watching the scoreboard roll away from us

Then you took your foot off the gas / we had second wind and with a more accurate kicker could have stolen the match in the dying seconds

[frugby]

@Bovidae said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

@frugby said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

@Bovidae Or, do you go down the route that we can't beat them at their game, so we go with mobility?

That's not going to help when you are defending lineout drives or in the scrum. Unless mobility also means going backwards - fast.

I guess you could argue that will happen anyway though? The tight five is mud, so we are guaranteed to get stuffed there. Reckon going for mobility in the loose could at least give a portion of upside. That said, I don't know the players well enough to truly comment.

[Bovidae]

Viljoen was definitely representing Palmy with the mullet AND rats tail.

[MiketheSnow]

@Bovidae said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:

Viljoen was definitely representing Palmy with the mullet AND rats tail.

Automatic fine

[Jailbreak7]

@Bovidae Looked like a definite throwback.

[ACT Crusader]

Do they have to give MOTM to a player from the winning side? Because the Welsh number 8 Morse, was head and shoulders the best player on the field IMO. Not that Che wasn’t good, thought he did some very good things, but the workrate on Morse was great to watch.