Off Topic Ospreys, Wales & BIL

Eddie Jones photographed just after he’d been told the names of the team selected by Pivac for Saturday .... ?

 

England: Daly; Joseph, Slade, Farrell, May; Ford, Youngs; M Vunipola, George, Sinckler, Itoje, Launchbury, Curry, Underhill, B Vunipola.

Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Genge, Stuart, Hill, Earl, Willis, Robson, Watson.

 

I wait with baited breath to see how the centre pairing and the back row go. I hope to be pleasantly surprised but then again...

 

Surely not one of the weakest. We have a long history of being (well) beaten by England.

I'll have to agree on the coach though... at the moment. Wait until his master plan falls into place. It's a five year plan though, so be patient

 

A team containing the likes of Bateman, Alfie, Gibbs and Jenkins lost 60-26 - in my humble opinion, every single one of those guys would strengthen the team selected for Saturday

 

Very true but then that wouldn't have been the weakest team we ever fielded against England

just having a Guinness Foreign Extra - actually tastes great for a strong beer!

 

I was merely showing that ‘decent’ teams have been on the wrong end of a hammering like that side.

I just honestly believe that the team for this Saturday is relatively weak as well as being short in confidence.

That said, I sincerely hope I’m wrong.

Nevertheless, I’ve taken the precaution of cancelling Sunday’s and Monday’s papers

 

Fair enough Taff

For all the points you make - "relatively weak as well as being short in confidence" - I think it's going to be embarrassing. The only hope is that England have an off day (over confident) and we just click on the day

 

If I had the choice, 3pts for the Swans or a Welsh win - definitely the former

(If it were a Six Nations or a World Cup game, it would probably be the latter)

 

It’s all part of Pivac’s master plan of lulling the rest of the rugby world into a false sense of security

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55114365

 

Oooops! I would have thought they had enough to worry about without looking for more

 

Everyone set for the game?

I've got my Guinness chilling... but that's only for washing down copious amounts of anti-depressant

 

Doing better so far - much better - than I anticipated.

TMO tried to persuade Poite that Biggar's charge down was a knock on; sadly for him an experienced ref didn't buy it but arguable it's either a level of rugby ignorance or dishonesty that should be intolerable at this level.....

 

Just as well our defence has improved but struggling big time up front. I cant see us keeping it up in the 2and half

 

Floodgates could open - like the Argies this morning against the ABs

 

The ref seems to listening to the TMO more this half

 

Think that the TMO must have been reading the comments by Welsh rugby fans on Social Media this last week ......

 

A result that means that this coaching set up will remain in situ for some time yet.

I’m waiting for comments like “give him time”, “going in the right direction” etc

 

Ref had a howler

Biggar was tackled in mid air. That’s a penalty and a yellow card but instead ignoring the video ref they play on and score a try

Two penalties came from scrums when the truth is they were pulling down, another 6 points gifted

Josh Adams was the victim of a high tackle with no arms, that should have been a red card

Close yo the end their player Genge headbutts a welsh forward, that’s another red card not given

All in all an absolute shocker from Poite, but not as much as the shocker Pivac had. He is out of his depth and has to go