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Scarlets are looking lost against Benetton, early doors. The attack is so lateral. They just ship it down the line, with no one near an attacker. When the forwards go straight they are making yards... But they are so inaccurate. Really poor. Scarlets scrum totally destroyed just then. What?!? But t...

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Druid wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:38 pm Scarlets are looking lost against Benetton, early doors.

The attack is so lateral. They just ship it down the line, with no one near an attacker.

When the forwards go straight they are making yards... But they are so inaccurate. Really poor.

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Surely Thomas has to have some idea that he has that ball down? Should have been making it bloody obvious that it needed checking... Two disappointing results, but whereas ospreys made things hard for themselves, Cardiff looked pretty good and deserved that de beer kick to go over, for at least a dr...

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Tipuric is among the most gifted rugby players we've produced. Exceptional rugby brain, wonderful skillset that could have seen him play a number of positions. However if I was selecting the best Welsh XV of the professional era I would have Warburton at 7. Sometimes it's not about what you can do, ...

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We talked at the beginning of the season about either LRZ or Adams converting to FB...maybe now would be a good time for Adams to have a little challenge in that regard. I've still got hopes for Nagy. He's not the second coming of JPR, but he's solid under the high ball, has a boot on him...but mos...

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We talked at the beginning of the season about either LRZ or Adams converting to FB...maybe now would be a good time for Adams to have a little challenge in that regard.

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Grace could be a superstar, he certainly was in league. Hope he can stay fit because that would be a great addition. I'd also say that I think Keelan Giles is still worth a look. He's rapid, but he's also clever. In defence of Josh Adams, he's been excellent for years. While he has been really poor ...

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I'd like to see Max Llewelyn given another go - I know he's not been setting the world alight at Gloucester, but he's shown in the past that he can be a physical threat at 12, as well as having some nuance to his game. He's also played with Grady a lot. Like to see him included on the Summer tour. ...

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Maybe Grady won't be the all round player - sounds like he's quite quiet and not perhaps got the sheer arrogance that some top players have - but he showed a glimpse this weekend of what he can do. I'd take a limited 12 in terms of distribution with pace and power (and Grady has the potential to off...

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Sheedy might be the best bet for the medium term. It's not exactly an easy one to solve.... But anyone who plays ten needs a better platform, attacking shape and an all round team effort.

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I still think Costelow can be useful but that was dire. The best part about his game coming through was his ability to take the ball to the line. He's become utterly gun shy. All we're left with is a short kicking game and ball being shovelled on. I felt sorry for the players who had to be at the ba...

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Assume our U-20s lost. Amazingly, no. They were getting hammered, mainly due to the scrum disintegrating. Second half they turned it around and got their tails up. Forwards carrying effectively, a functional maul, some sharp play by the halfbacks... They looked competent. Amazing. Wouldn't have pre...

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Assume our U-20s lost. Amazingly, no. They were getting hammered, mainly due to the scrum disintegrating. Second half they turned it around and got their tails up. Forwards carrying effectively, a functional maul, some sharp play by the halfbacks... They looked competent. Amazing. Wouldn't have pre...

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Ospreys have signed Wales-qualified lock Will Greatbanks from French second-tier club Soyaux Angouleme for 2024-25.

Ospreys say the 21-year-old's father was born in Wales.

Ospreys stockpiling all the locks...

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Wales U20s: Matty Young;Huw Anderson; Elijah Evans, Macs Page, Aidan Boschoff; Harri Wilde, Rhodri Lewis; Josh Morse, Evan Wood, Kian Hire, Jonny Green, Nick Thomas, Thomas, Lucas de la Rua,Harry Beddall, Morgan Morse. Replacements: Harry Thomas, Jordan Morris, Sam Scott, Gethyn Cannon, Osian Thoma...

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Adams again? Jenkins back to the second row with Beard. Kemsley Mathias and Harri O'Connor on the bench is a worry for the scrums late on. North and Tompkins back. In some places not enough change, in others it feels too much. That front row we're going to end with is going to be unbelievably raw.

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Wales team: 15. Cameron Winnett, 14. Josh Adams, 13. George North 12. Nick Tompkins, 11. Rio Dyer, 10. Sam Costelow, 9 Tomos Williams; 1. Gareth Thomas, 2. Elliot Dee, 3. Dillon Lewis 4. Dafydd Jenkins (capt), 5. Adam Beard, 6. Alex Mann, 7. Tommy Reffell, 8. Aaron Wainwright Replacements: 16. Evan...

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We do have some players with more power but they are either injured (Lake, Faletau, Fender, Tshiunza, Jac Morgan, maybe Plumtree - haven't seen enough of him to be sure, Leon Brown), unavailable (Moriarty, Ball - still only 32), not selected (Henry Thomas, Thomas Young) or too fat to consider, whic...

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We do have some players with more power but they are either injured (Lake, Faletau, Fender, Tshiunza, Jac Morgan, maybe Plumtree - haven't seen enough of him to be sure, Leon Brown), unavailable (Moriarty, Ball - still only 32), not selected (Henry Thomas, Thomas Young) or too fat to consider, which...

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<sigh> I know...

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What does everyone want to see next week for Italy? I'd say it's fairly clear that there should be some changes. I really like Assiratti but this hasn't been an easy time for him, so I'd bring in Dillon Lewis, and retain the other two front rowers with Gareth Thomas and Dee both showing plenty of wo...

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Monk Zombie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:31 am I don’t understand the doom and gloom. There is a lot to take away from the Welsh performance. At times the French looked very jittery in defence.

It's our default setting.

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My point is that you're saying "this bloke who's had 4 caps in 7 years would have made a difference". I'm telling you that sounds mental. Nothing is certain, but putting on a raw 21 year old blindside was our choice, and we could have had a guy who has mixed it with the best and looked good, albeit...

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Thomas Young is a fine club level player. There's nothing to suggest he can do it at test level, and you'd be insane to think he'd have made a shred of difference out there today. Very little to suggest he can't step up given he's been given four caps since his debut in 2017. He's class at the leve...

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Did you see the final score? Do you really think that sifting through the binjuice on offer by the reejuns to fill the bench would have really made a difference? Thomas young is binjuice? 👌 If you're taking that line then there's really very little middle ground we can agree on. Thomas Young is a f...

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So Thomas Young and Nicky Smith are the answer? I think you might have forgotten the question... Reffell going off was huge. Young is about the best like for like replacement we have. So yes. Selection was an issue, particularly the bench. We were 24-23 with fifteen minutes to go. A better bench mi...

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Bringing on young when you lose reffell would have maintained breakdown presence. Smith would have been a breakdown threat too as well as a different kind of challenge for a big scrum. Someone who has had more than a year at hooker, and any professional start would have given them an option to fres...

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Bringing on young when you lose reffell would have maintained breakdown presence. Smith would have been a breakdown threat too as well as a different kind of challenge for a big scrum. Someone who has had more than a year at hooker, and any professional start would have given them an option to fresh...

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And had the wru been able to offer some flexibility we could have had a new star in feyi-waboso... Instead we're likely to see a Cardiff lad in white for a decade.

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In some cases gatland has been forced to choose inexperienced players but on others he has deliberately left out the likes of Francis, Henry Thomas, and originally Dillon Lewis. He chose a youngster like Lloyd at hooker rather than a shorter term solution like a Sam parry. Today he got unlucky but w...

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If we can manage two halves of rugby we might actually win a game one day. Clearly we wanted to keep the pace high but you still need some territory. Also, that winnett butchering of the overlap right after France scored around the hour was a huge moment. First time he's done something really wrong...

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If we can manage two halves of rugby we might actually win a game one day. Clearly we wanted to keep the pace high but you still need some territory. Also, that winnett butchering of the overlap right after France scored around the hour was a huge moment. First time he's done something really wrong ...

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I think we're doing pretty well under him, but I do think that there is a ceiling with Gatland. He makes us tough to beat, and it was a good move to bring him in for the world cup to right the ship in such a short space of time...but I would have liked to have seen someone come in after the world cu...

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Wales team: 15. Cameron Winnett, 14. Josh Adams, 13. Joe Roberts, 12. Owen Watkin, 11. Rio Dyer, 10. Sam Costelow, 9 Tomos Williams; 1. Gareth Thomas, 2. Ryan Elias, 3. Keiron Assiratti, 4. Will Rowlands, 5. Adam Beard, 6. Dafydd Jenkins (capt), 7. Tommy Reffell, 8. Aaron Wainwright Replacements: 1...

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Ryan Jones
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Sorry to break it to you
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, although super supportive of the game for Spacey (which will be awesome) it’s a different Ryan Jones on the team sheet - undoubtedly better than me anyway!!

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He's already said he's not playing. Some kind of miscommunication.

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Team for France. I suspect it will be a typical over-powering up front...but hopefully we see some more of the glimmers of quality from the likes of Morse, Ackerman and Anderson that give us something to cling to. Not 1 single Jones in the starting line up :thumbdown: It’s all been downhill for the...

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The Dragons are having a close look at a massive Canada lock who is set to play for Pontypool in the Premiership until the end of the season. Four-times capped promising prospect Izzak Kelly to train with Dai Flanagan's squad. He's 6ft 6 and 19 stone 7...so I'm not calling him small but 'massive' i...

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Wales U20s: Huw Anderson; Harry Rees-Weldon, Macs Page, Harri Ackerman (Captain), Walker Price; Harri Ford, Ieuan Davies; Josh Morse, Harri Thomas, Kian Hire, Nick Thomas, Osian Thomas, Lucas de la Rua, Luca Giannini, Morgan Morse. Team for France. I suspect it will be a typical over-powering up fr...

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We don't have a defence coach and we're missing 18 players through injury... What are people expecting? At this low point I'll take some youngsters stepping up and looking like they can play at that level. Get some players back, maybe even recruit some proper front five players and then if we're st...

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