2023 World Rugby U20 Championship
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Thank fuck for that
Wal 27 - 19 Jap
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Fantastic from Morse
Another Welsh MOTM performance
Wal 34 - 19 Jap
78 mins -
Brilliant from Morse again
Wal 41-19 Jap
BP win for WalesJapan architects of their own demise
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Huge finish for Italy
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Huge wins for Italy and Georgia
SA 26 - 34 Italy
Arg 0 - 20 GeorgiaCurrently Eng 10 - 7 Fiji
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South Africans going into meltdown mode after that result against Italy.
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@antipodean said in 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship:
South Africans going into meltdown mode after that result against Italy.
Blaming the ref?
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@Crazy-Horse said in 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship:
@antipodean said in 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship:
South Africans going into meltdown mode after that result against Italy.
Blaming the ref?
They shouldn't
They had their chances
Didn't take them
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@Crazy-Horse said in 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship:
@antipodean said in 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship:
South Africans going into meltdown mode after that result against Italy.
Blaming the ref?
No, bemoaning losing to Italy. How can they go from Craven to that seems to be the prevailing concern.
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@MiketheSnow said in 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship:
@Crazy-Horse said in 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship:
@antipodean said in 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship:https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/6027/2023-world-rugby-u20-championship/71#
South Africans going into meltdown mode after that result against Italy.
Blaming the ref?
They shouldn't
They had their chances
Didn't take them
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O OomPB referenced this topic on
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Actually we played last year in the NH u20 summer series in Italy and they were very good. Many of their u20s played in the URC. Our u20s dont have that kind of experience, so I expect a tough match. We have a good backline but our forwards always will struggle against them.
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Italian forwards are big and mobile. Thought they were very good.
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@Crazy-Horse No one blamed the ref ya pillock. SA beaten up fair and square. Italy are a good side. Have come on nicely over the past few years.
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@OomPB Next to no experience retained from last year in the forwards - only the hooker (who played prop in 2022) and Paul de Villiers (who has largely been anonymous in the JWC). Some selection errors were made by the coach namely not having Jean Smith on the bench (although he should have started imo)
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But the under-20s had stumbled well before Covid. The last world championship won: 2017. They won the first four world titles from 2008-2011 before South Africa dethroned them in the final in 2012. Since then – fourth in 2013; third in 2014; won in 2015; fifth in 2016; won in 2017; fourth in 2018; seventh in 2019, their worst placing since the tournament began.
While under-20s dominance does not automatically translate onto the senior world stage, it’s a pretty good indicator. Sir Steve Hansen said this last year, aiming a rocket at NZ Rugby: “Our high-performance department at the moment has to be squirming at our record at under-20 level. Are we getting that business right? I don’t think so. If we’re not winning under-20 World Cups, we’re not producing world-class players at a younger level to bring into this team [the All Blacks].”
Paul Lewis: The grim under-20 results that indicate where NZ rugby is heading
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