Going to be plenty of tries in this match
Autumn Test 2024 : Wales
Match thread
Fiji
Lake lying like a beached whale
Penalty to Fiji
Munts slots it comfortably
Wales 7 - 3 Fiji
12 mins
Fantastic pass from Tomos Williams splits the Fijian defence and puts Winnett in for Wales’ second try
Called back for clear out from Refell to head
YC
Correct by the letter of the law
Let’s see consistency
@MiketheSnow said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Going to be plenty of tries in this match
Suspect there might be quite a few cards too.
@Mr-Fish said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
That'll be a red card.
Winnett was low
Could go either way
Brilliant individual effort. He's really come of age this year. Fiji would have loved to have had either him or IAR at the World Cup last year.
@MiketheSnow said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@Mr-Fish said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
That'll be a red card.
Winnett was low
Could go either way
After it was judged to be foul play it was basically always going to be red.
I have no problem with this ref’s decisions
And he admits when he’s wrong
Wish he’d clean up the diving in at the ruck
Don't understand why Gats persists with Griffin at tighthead, I get that he has potential but hasn't played.
Henry Thomas is performing well this season, just a head scratching decision for me.
@Tordah said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Radradra's should have been YC. Mitigation: Oppo player at almost hip height
A player being low is not mitigation once foul play has already been determined (but it can result in no foul play being determined by the ref). A sudden drop in height can be - but that wasn't the case here.
Wales 14 - 10 Fiji
Halftime
Some great moments from both sides
But the cards have made it stop start
@Mr-Fish said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@Tordah said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Radradra's should have been YC. Mitigation: Oppo player at almost hip height
A player being low is not mitigation once foul play has already been determined (but it can result in no foul play being determined by the ref). A sudden drop in height can be - but that wasn't the case here.
Is that so? Whatever the process, I think a YC would have been the correct call here.
@pooler-fan said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Don't understand why Gats persists with Griffin at tighthead, I get that he has potential but hasn't played.
Henry Thomas is performing well this season, just a head scratching decision for me.
From the look of that pen I think the ref got it wrong
@Tordah said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@Mr-Fish said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@Tordah said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Radradra's should have been YC. Mitigation: Oppo player at almost hip height
A player being low is not mitigation once foul play has already been determined (but it can result in no foul play being determined by the ref). A sudden drop in height can be - but that wasn't the case here.
Is that so? Whatever the process, I think a YC would have been the correct call here.
The below list of mitigating factors is deliberately not exhaustive but low height has never really been taken into consideration with the new(ish) framework:
@MiketheSnow it looked like the loosehead got under Griffin for the penalty.
Think he'll be a good international tighthead in a few years.
He's not ready now though.
Great vision and execution from Tomos Williams sets up 50-22
First pass to Llewelyn in ages and he ties in the defence creating space out wide for Murray to go over but Thomas adjudged to have knocked on
Obviously nowhere near as good as yesterday’s England v Australia classic but this is a really hard fought Test between two teams at the lower end of the world rankings