Trying to be too cute
Max Llewelyn was playing fuck early on
Hasn’t had a pass since
Autumn Test 2024 : Wales
Match thread
Fiji
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.
@African-Monkey said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@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.
Sorry that doesn't make sense
@sparky said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Fiji win.
Taxi for Gatland?
Just got back from pub here in Wales, and can assure you mate, talking to locals, dumping Gats isn't on anyone's mind, just sorting out Welsh rugby from top to bottom is what they want.
Despite a disappointing defeat today I would not be surprised if we beat Australia next weekend
@MiketheSnow said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@African-Monkey said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
@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.
Sorry that doesn't make sense
Well they weren't allowed their top side last week (due to it being outside the international window as you mentioned). Today, they were, and their performance was obviously a lot better than last weeks showing. This is in reference to jailbreak's post.
@MiketheSnow said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Despite a disappointing defeat today I would not be surprised if we beat Australia next weekend
Same. Australia very rarely put 2 good performances together these days, and will go into this game with a bit of expectation.
Will be a close on either way. England struggled to slow Australia's ball, Wales will put a major focus on it and try and force the Aussies to play with static ball, make things messy at breakdown I feel. If they can do that, I think they're a big chance.
I watched the last 20 mins live. You can't blame the coaches for the lack of basic skills from the players. Williams' long passing is really laboured at halfback. Gatland must have went for the spew in frustration.
Well done Fiji.
Seriously not gloating but fuck me, you lot are in a dark place atm. Potential record breaking losing streak and likely looking at a calendar year of losses. Not seen since 1937 (3 games). Domestic game all over the place.
Hats off to Gatland for taking that poisoned chalice and more so for sticking with it.
It’s tough to be an England fan currently, but you boys are doing it tough.
Thanks lads
I’m not as disheartened
We could and should have won that if we’d done what Gatland had asked of us
If we’d fluffed our lines because of intense Fijian pressure then I could accept our failings
But this was all about poor decisions and poor execution
Those calling for Gatland to quit are deluded
If he doesn’t jettison Costello then they have a case
Second run trying to execute Garland’s plan could be very different
@Catogrande said in Autumn Test 2024 : Wales v Fiji:
Seriously not gloating but fuck me, you lot are in a dark place atm. Potential record breaking losing streak and likely looking at a calendar year of losses. Not seen since 1937 (3 games). Domestic game all over the place.
Hats off to Gatland for taking that poisoned chalice and more so for sticking with it.
It’s tough to be an England fan currently, but you boys are doing it tough.
It's pretty dire at the moment.
On Gats, I wouldn't feel too sorry for him - we're paying him 580k a year. He was a world class coach a decade ago but don't think anyone else would be stupid enough to pay him anywhere near that money these days but the WRU aren't too clever.
I admire Mike's optimism but we'll have to improve immeasurably to get anywhere near Australia next week.
I haven’t watched it back but we had two mauls inside their 10m which we blew
Rowlands messes up a pick & go about 5m from their line
We arsed about with pick & drives and blew another try when we should have done exactly what we did for the disallowed try
Winnett blew a 3 on 1 at the death
That’s 5 definite try scoring opportunities with no return
Contrast that with SA who had about 6 chances yesterday and scored 4 tries
I’ve been very critical of Gatland but yesterday it was all on the players except for having Costello on the bench