Babbling 'brook

Birch's assessment of the requirement for our front five to take on the Welsh is spot on. Pivac has picked a team of pace (back-row, mid-field & back-three) to attack Ireland. Pace is useless if you don't have the ball. This is not a Welsh team set up for a defensive last stand. In fairness to ...

We have gone for two open sides and a quick back line, suggesting we will be spinning it wide The line out and the defence is a big worry for me especially stopping your ball carriers in the back row and aki in the centre, but that wales side will give you problems with ball in hand. Hope the weathe...

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welsh team

Jenkins is imo the best of all the fit and available welsh back rowers, and clearly the best at the breakdown Personally I would have made him captain but the fact he isn't suggests Pivac may well drop him A lot of talk adams will be 13 with a back 3 of liam , mcnicholl, and lrz The welsh pack lacks...

Very little debate / discussion re Ireland Squad for weekend, but lots more contention in Wales. The suggestion is they'll go largely with status quo, because of injury profile and we could see something like this: https://ranked-list-images.files.bbci.co.uk/Wales-SixNations-2022-Ireland-XV-71f58d6...

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/19892988.dragons-quartet-selected-face-ireland-wales-u20s/ That's the welsh team, jac Lloyd on the bench is brother of ioan the Bristol and wales player, Hawkins has played for the ospreys The scarlets centre james is highly touted so is mann the captain, Houst...

Beirne is head and shoulders above rowlands imo, t Williams will be 9 for wales good player but weak in defence, basham seems the likely 7 with either Jenkins or moriarty at 6 Personally I hope we pick Jenkins Basham and moriarty but I doubt we will You'd have to pick henshaw and then decide on who ...

Scary differences in terms of carrriers in each pack and in the quality of centre pairing, I prefer our wingers and that is about it!

Will that Sheehan make it onto the bench? him and Coombes both look very good prospects, what has happened to stockdale?

James Botham is the grandson :shock: of Ian "Beefcake" Botham. Christ I'm getting old. He's also a very fine player. Real hard grafter. Son of Liam who got capped I think? Nope, got called up for a tour, played some games but wasn't capped. No, Liam came close. He toured with England but ...

blockhead wrote: ↑January 28th, 2022, 12:36 pm James Botham is the grandson of Ian "Beefcake" Botham. Christ I'm getting old.

Gareth Llewellyn (old wales second row) centre is on the bench to

That's a good blues back row, all 3 are good players and hard workers surpised botham is 8 and not boyde though

what is your likely starting xv? I would guess wales would be liam w lrz Tomkins halaholo adams biggar t Williams w jones elias francis rowlands beard Jenkins/moriarty basham and wainwright. Just don't see enough quality especially up front to cope with you guys out in Dublin. The centre position is...

The URC ( and it's previous guises) serves a purpose there is no doubting both the welsh and Irish national teams have improved greatly since it started. Both have won grand slams both have even made it to number 1 in the world rankings, imagine that in the 80s? Not to mention the many European succ...

Ahh fair enough, I don't see France losing there then

Scotland have some good fixtures as well, they must fancy their chances but they always seem a bit flaky to me,

Got some cracking attacking players though

The blues have had a few players released to them from team wales (carre and lewis the props) Lane is in good form for them and will be one to watch in their back 3 Evans at 10 is a very good footballer and will give you problems ball in hand as will leeloo and if he plays Thomas in the centre but a...

Wales are in a real mess, missing a lot of starters with injuries owens,awj,tips, navidi toby f, and North Others really struggling for form, john davies and liam Williams for example Really don't see any way we can win in Dublin or Twickenham and I fully expect the French to have too much for us ev...

Wales govt have gone full on over this, we don't have any isolation hotels here so they are making anyone who comes from a red list country ,isolate in either n Ireland, Scotland or England for 10 days before they can set foot in wales. Cardiff will have the vast majority of their squad in isolation...

How does this new variant leave the urc? surely no one will be going to SA for the foreseeable future?

Well Connacht tore us a new one right enough! We were awful especially in defence but they played some great rugby especially in what looked like poor conditions their back play was excellent. I thought we had them in trouble in the scrum but from 9 to 15 they were a different class to us They won't...

Not sure why eztebeth threw that pass out after his break late in the the game, he should have just run right over that that England full back If Pollard had his kicking boots the boks win that with ease, unusual to see an England pack dominated so much especially at home , but credit to them they ...

Not sure why eztebeth threw that pass out after his break late in the the game, he should have just run right over that that England full back If Pollard had his kicking boots the boks win that with ease, unusual to see an England pack dominated so much especially at home , but credit to them they l...