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Don't quite understand what the Welsh coaches can gain from this?
The selection policy over the 3 games has been pretty strange, surely at some point you'd select something close to your 1st XV. -
Great day out in the sunshine
Crowd was in good voice and mood despite the drubbing
Dee is our starting hooker
Props not, but they’re improving each match
Second rows went well but offered little ball carrying go forward
Back row were ok
But I’d start Basham, Morgan, WainwrightHardy is most definitely our third choice 9
Costelow is this year’s Colin Stephens
Lacks top end speed and blew a great try scoring opportunity
Should have given it straight back to DyerJ Williams tried too hard
He’ll be staying homeGrady will come
Dyer was our best player
Shouldn’t have got yellow
And was very unlucky in that shit tackleRogers tried hard but you could see he was green
Cai Evans could have played himself on to the plane
Basham big impact
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Andrew Brace
A big disgrace
Missing shit all over the place
Singing
Andrew Brace is rubbishMissed so many forward passes
YC was a joke
Snayman was infringing at the lineout all afternoon and finally got penalised in the 70th minuteBoth hits in the air should have been looked at, both quite easily YC
The YC killed us
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@pooler-fan said in RWC warmup - Wales v Springboks -:
Don't quite understand what the Welsh coaches can gain from this?
The selection policy over the 3 games has been pretty strange, surely at some point you'd select something close to your 1st XV.They’ve worked out who’s staying home
And who should be called back in to the squad if there are injuries
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Why do the Boks and others get two WC warm-up matches while the ABs only get one?,
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@His-Bobness said in RWC warmup - Wales v Springboks -:
Why do the Boks and others get two WC warm-up matches while the ABs only get one?,
That's what they've organised, it's up to the abs to arrange, maybe that's all abs wanted
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@MajorRage said in RWC warmup - Wales v Springboks -:
SA proving the 2019 game plan isn’t dead.
They should be more in the mix for discussions around potential winners.
They were highly impressive today.
I think a team that has won it three times and consistently lifts for World Cup tournaments will always be in discussions.
Poor old Wales, an absolute hiding but they’ll still comfortably get out of their pool.
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@MiketheSnow Agree with most of this Mike but Dee worries me, he's excellent around the park but is a poor scrummager at test level.
Elias is a big loss in that regard, far more physical.
We don't have many options there unfortunately. I feel for those inexperienced props, you drop Marx Inbetween them & they'd look different players. -
@pooler-fan said in RWC warmup - Wales v Springboks -:
@MiketheSnow Agree with most of this Mike but Dee worries me, he's excellent around the park but is a poor scrummager at test level.
Elias is a big loss in that regard, far more physical.
We don't have many options there unfortunately. I feel for those inexperienced props, you drop Marx Inbetween them & they'd look different players.Agreed, but France showed the blueprint for beating Fiji last night
Kick long, kick dead, compete at lineout
To that end, I'd rather have Dee for his lineout throwing and mobility around the park over Lake and his scrummaging
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He's almost universally disliked on here, but Le Roux is aging like fine wine
His positional play yesterday was exemplary, and he got the backline flowing often taking the ball at the 10 position
He's integral to SA scoring tries from phase play and from the counter attack
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Well I expected a thrashing, but hoped it was going to a smaller one than that. Glad I'm not the only one dumbfounded by the YC / penalty try decision, a truly WTF moment that had an adverse effect on the game.
Not many positives for Wales. SA looking very good, as we knew they would.
Next stop Bordeaux
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I didn't see the game but was expecting to see the Dyer YC as being similar to Cowan-Dickies one v Scotland last year but actually it was quite different. My take was he slapped the ball out of the SA wingers hand to prevent a try and it subsequently went into touch. Not even a penalty for me.
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@Catogrande said in RWC warmup - Wales v Springboks -:
I didn't see the game but was expecting to see the Dyer YC as being similar to Cowan-Dickies one v Scotland last year but actually it was quite different. My take was he slapped the ball out of the SA wingers hand to prevent a try and it subsequently went into touch. Not even a penalty for me.
My take was the SA winger had overrun the ball when it took a wicked bounce
He was never in a position to gather it
As the ball bounced past him, Dyer instinctively tried to catch the ball but failed
Ball hit his hand and went out of bounds
No penalty, no YC, no penalty try
Not sure what happens next tbh
Scrum 5?
Drop out from goal line?
Drop out 22?That incident totally changed the landscape of the match
Huge error from Brace and his team
All as fucking blind as each other
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Just watched it back
In fairness to Brace he was talked out of it by Joyce, whomever the fuck she is
Moody touches the ball first and changes the trajectory of the ball which Dyer then hits into touch and goal
Looked like Moody was in goal, so that's a 22 drop out I think?
Clarification on that ruling please
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@MiketheSnow fair enough, I've not seen all the France vs Fiji game. I'll have to watch it back.
The bits I did see Fiji looked very dangerous.
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@MiketheSnow would have a knock on in goal so a goal line kick off (based the SA v NZ game with the knock on call on Kolbe)
(The ref was playing advantage to SA in this instance so the question is academic)
