Wales team to face Georgia
Six changes to the starting XV that beat Argentina,
Wales: Louis Rees-Zammit; Alex Cuthbert, George North, Owen Watkin, Josh Adams; Rhys Priestland, Tomos Williams; Gareth Thomas, Ken Owens, Dillon Lewis, Ben Carter, Adam Beard, Jac Morgan, Justin Tipuric, Josh Macleod.
Replacements: Bradley Roberts, Rhodri Jones, Sam Wainwright, Dafydd Jenkins, Taulupe Faletau, Dane Blacker, Sam Costelow, Leigh Halfpenny.
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Wales v Georgia:
Wales team to face Georgia
Six changes to the starting XV that beat Argentina,Wales: Louis Rees-Zammit; Alex Cuthbert, George North, Owen Watkin, Josh Adams; Rhys Priestland, Tomos Williams; Gareth Thomas, Ken Owens, Dillon Lewis, Ben Carter, Adam Beard, Jac Morgan, Justin Tipuric, Josh Macleod.
Replacements: Bradley Roberts, Rhodri Jones, Sam Wainwright, Dafydd Jenkins, Taulupe Faletau, Dane Blacker, Sam Costelow, Leigh Halfpenny.
Pivac doing his best Foster impression.
What the actual fuck?
LRZ arguably our best back playing his third match in a row with Australia on the horizon.
Should have started Halfpenny and brought LRZ on if needed.
Rest of the backline is good.
Cuthbert needs to show he's better than Dyer and Adams.
Adams needs to show he's fit, and hungry.
Watkin needs game time and if he has a blinder I'd be pairing him with Tompkins for the Oz match.
Is Hardy injured? Or is he being rested to start against Oz?
Gone with a strong pack because we need to. Georgia are no mugs.
Solid bench.
Wales by 10-14
EDIT
Tompkins out of OZ match - outside Test window
LRZ too
So giving LRZ a half or so at 15 makes sense
North and Watkin will be centre partnership for Oz match barring injury so have to test it out
@booboo said in Wales v Georgia:
Georgia? v Wales? In an official test window?
Cool
Welcome to the party
We've played them 3 times in the past 6 years
18 Nov 2017
Wales 13-6 Georgia
23 Sep 2019
RWC
Wales 43-14 Georgia
21 Nov 2020
Wales 18-0 Georgia
This will be the fourth meeting
So LRZ playing because he can't play next week as the Australia match is outside the Test Window.
We know what Tompkins can do, so rested to allow Watkin and North to build a rapport ahead of the Australia match (Tompkins is another of our England based players, so out next week too).
Christ is injured and can't play next week (Exeter)
Dafydd Jenkins gets a go before returning to Exeter
Why no Reffell? He can't play next week (Gloucester) so would have been nice to see him get a run
The selections now make sense(ish)
@MiketheSnow What can you tell us about the two new young loose forwards Morgan and Macleod? Their stats suggest mobility over size?
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Wales v Georgia:
@MiketheSnow What can you tell us about the two new young loose forwards Morgan and Macleod? Their stats suggest mobility over size?
Both have been very good at club level.
Morgan has been good so far for Wales
Very strong over the ball. Good ball carrier.
Macleod is arguably the closest thing to Faletau. His opportunity to prove it.
@MiketheSnow said in Wales v Georgia:
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Wales v Georgia:
@MiketheSnow What can you tell us about the two new young loose forwards Morgan and Macleod? Their stats suggest mobility over size?
Both have been very good at club level.
Morgan has been good so far for Wales
Very strong over the ball. Good ball carrier.
Macleod is arguably the closest thing to Faletau. His opportunity to prove it.
MacLeod has played very little rugby at all in the last year due to injury & hasn't played at 8 for a few years (and then only as cover).
Strange selection by Pivac here with Moriarty, Wainwright and Botham all omitted from the squad for this autumn despite being far better than Macleod at 8.
@pooler-fan said in Wales v Georgia:
@MiketheSnow said in Wales v Georgia:
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Wales v Georgia:
@MiketheSnow What can you tell us about the two new young loose forwards Morgan and Macleod? Their stats suggest mobility over size?
Both have been very good at club level.
Morgan has been good so far for Wales
Very strong over the ball. Good ball carrier.
Macleod is arguably the closest thing to Faletau. His opportunity to prove it.
MacLeod has played very little rugby at all in the last year due to injury & hasn't played at 8 for a few years (and then only as cover).
Strange selection by Pivac here with Moriarty, Wainwright and Botham all omitted from the squad for this autumn despite being far better than Macleod at 8.
Agreed
Botham should have been in the squad
@MiketheSnow said in Wales v Georgia:
Pivac doing his best Foster impression.
Hope you have not been unduly influenced by the Fern!
Why is Wales playing in a black jersey and ugly green shorts? Red jerseys don't clash with Georgia's white.
@Stargazer said in Wales v Georgia:
Why is Wales playing in a black jersey and ugly green shorts? Red jerseys don't clash with Georgia's white.
It's a bit bizarre, isn't it?
We have so many decent strike runners but continually fail to get any of them into space.
No creativity at all.
@Stargazer said in Wales v Georgia:
Why is Wales playing in a black jersey and ugly green shorts? Red jerseys don't clash with Georgia's white.
Awful isn't it.
Next Welsh attack coach should be a league man
Backline creativity and penetration in league is light years ahead of this shit
@Catogrande Looks like they will celebrate all the way home too, good for them.
What a great second half of rugby and Georgia played really well to win that..
Wales will be gutted but what a great advert for the global game
Truly awful by Wales in every aspect. Looks like they didn't have a coaching team behind them at all.
Glad we lost to be honest.
Google is joining in...
@Jailbreak7 said in Wales v Georgia:
Reckon Wales could do with Warburton right now
Listening to him after the match and he talks a lot of common sense. Hopefully the WRU are talking to him.
@sparky said in Wales v Georgia:
Wow! Wonderful for Georgia. Time to make it the 7 Nations?
I know it probably won't happen, but it would be great if a tour of NZ, Oz or SA, playing teams like the AB XV could be organised. Would benefit them and the game hugely.
@Victor-Meldrew Why not just relegate Wales and keep it as the Six Nations?
@Victor-Meldrew said in Wales v Georgia:
@sparky said in Wales v Georgia:
Wow! Wonderful for Georgia. Time to make it the 7 Nations?
I know it probably won't happen, but it would be great if a tour of NZ, Oz or SA, playing teams like the AB XV could be organised. Would benefit them and the game hugely.
I like that idea a lot.
@Jailbreak7 said in Wales v Georgia:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Wales v Georgia:
@sparky said in Wales v Georgia:
Wow! Wonderful for Georgia. Time to make it the 7 Nations?
I know it probably won't happen, but it would be great if a tour of NZ, Oz or SA, playing teams like the AB XV could be organised. Would benefit them and the game hugely.
I like that idea a lot.
Try playing your neighbours first
@MiketheSnow They are our neighbours
