Catch and drive has been excellent
Ball transfer / decision making poor
Autumn Test 2024 : Wales
Match thread
Fiji
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
Wales making last weeks All Blacks looking smart. Honestly, why do Welsh media love Gatland?
They played the game right into Fijis hands.
He’s gotta be toast now surely.
We had more than enough possession and territory to win this match but unforced errors, terrible decisions and poor execution gave Fiji the ball too many times and they took their chances
Well done Fiji
Wales 19 - 24
Fulltime
@MajorRage said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Wales making last weeks All Blacks looking smart. Honestly, why do Welsh media love Gatland?
They played the game right into Fijis hands.
He’s gotta be toast now surely.
That was all the players
Game plan early was spot on
Why we stopped passing to Llewelyn baffles me
@Jailbreak7 
He needs to do the right thing on saying that there’s not a whole lot of cattle to work with in Welsh rugby
@Jailbreak7 said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Gatland has to go, get rid of the rotting fish!
That wasn’t about the game plan
If we’d stuck to it we’d have won
Biggest criticism was choosing Costello over James on the bench and Rowlands staying on the park too long
We left so many tries out there
@Steven-Harris said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@Jailbreak7
We have the cattle to beat Fiji
@Jailbreak7 said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Fiji playing much better than last week, Wales are in a really dark place right now.
Helps when they're allowed their players.
@African-Monkey said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@Jailbreak7 said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Fiji playing much better than last week, Wales are in a really dark place right now.
Helps when they're allowed their players.
Their choice to play outside the Test window
@sparky said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Fiji win.
Taxi for Gatland?
Worst thing we could do
@MiketheSnow said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@African-Monkey said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@Jailbreak7 said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Fiji playing much better than last week, Wales are in a really dark place right now.
Helps when they're allowed their players.
Their choice to play outside the Test window
It is, but it's also a reason for their improvement.