June - July Internationals 2022

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Spain v Barbarians
Sun 26/6, 7.00am NZT (Sat 25/6, 9.00pm local Spanish time) - Estadio El Molinón Enrique Castro “Quini”, Gijón

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Found a livestream of the Barbarians game with Spanish commentary. The half time score was 14 - 0 to the Barbarians.

The second half has now started and I notice that they're playing in a very empty stadium.

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Haha, there seem to be some communication issues with the Spanish refs.

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Reading on Rugbypass that this is the last game for Tom Wood (who has kicked at least two of the conversions), Devin Toner and Joe Tekori.

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And now my stream has died.

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The full time score is Barbarians 26 - 7 Spain.

I understand there were quite a few debutants in the Spanish side and from what I've seen of the game, they didn't play badly, despite the result.

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Highlights from the second Japan v Uruguay game:

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Hiding the result of Chile v Scotland A here, because those of you who have Premier Sports and haven't seen the game, have another chance to watch it:

Full time score:
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Chile 5 - 45 Scotland A
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I thought an interesting take on the ‘Tri Nations’ July games

https://www.theroar.com.au/2022/06/24/analysis-key-match-ups-and-strategy-plus-who-will-win-and-why-for-julys-three-massive-rugby-test-series/

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I haven't been able to find the Japan v France game in Sky's tv guide, so I assume they won't show it live or not at all. I also haven't seen that it will be livestreamed, although it may be worthwile keeping an eye on the World Rugby YouTube channel.

Because of that, there doesn't seem to be much reason for a separate match thread

Line-up Japan:

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[Bovidae]

Is Kazuki Himeno injured?

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@Bovidae Must be. He was named in the Japan WTG at the beginning of May, but hasn't played in the two tests against Uruguay either.

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@Stargazer Vakatawa back and a deserved chance for Hastoy.

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Italy beat Romania overnight in Bucharest. The full time score:

Romania 13 - 45 Italy

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Result from yesterday:

Japan 23 - 42 France

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On Monday morning (NZT time), Argentina XV beat Georgia 30 - 24 in Kutaisi, Georgia.

I think this result, as well as that of the Romania v Italy game (above), shows that Georgia and Romania aren't quite good enough to join the Six Nations. There still quite a bit weaker than Italy.