Wales v Georgia
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Good first half. Wales had most of the ball and has been attacking for most of those first 40 minutes, but the Georgian defence is holding well. Can they keep that up for 40 more minutes though?
Georgia has hardly had the ball in the first half, with only one reasonable chance with that grubber kick. 10-3 to Wales at half time.
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Georgia knock over a penalty on 50 mins.
10-6 to the Bois
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More to follow tomorrow but in the meantime, the above and we're the dumbest rugby team bar none.
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@mooshld said in Wales v Georgia:
Wales could be in the shit here. Word I am hearing is they had props to come on but they became injured at short notice.
I was livid live, and haven't cooled down since.
Shocked that it hasn't been brought up yet.
Cheating. Pure and simple.
We rightly chastised France in last season's 6N for similar. And then we go and do it ourselves. But that may be because World Rugby sat on their hands. No censure. No detterent.
If the shoe had been on the other foot and Wales had a last minute attacking scrum to tie the match then Brown would have been champing not cramping.
So disappointed. So let down by the Welsh management.
And the match was shocking.
Clearly have players who are not up to the task.
What is galling is we have better players outside of the squad / not selected for the match.e.g. Thomas Young
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Unlikely world rugby will do jack shit if Georgia complain either. They need to do what the top 14 did, if you have a player on the field designated as front row and he's not fit to scrum and there is no replacement, then he must leave the field and you go down to 14 players.
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@mooshld said in Wales v Georgia:
Unlikely world rugby will do jack shit if Georgia complain either. They need to do what the top 14 did, if you have a player on the field designated as front row and he's not fit to scrum and there is no replacement, then he must leave the field and you go down to 14 players.
Simple solutions are very often the best
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@mooshld said in Wales v Georgia:
Unlikely world rugby will do jack shit if Georgia complain either. They need to do what the top 14 did, if you have a player on the field designated as front row and he's not fit to scrum and there is no replacement, then he must leave the field and you go down to 14 players.
It looks like the ref wanted to do exactly that. From the article posted by @Crucial
Wales’ replacement hooker Dacey seems ready to come on and there is again chat in the Welsh coaching box, but this seems linked to the issue about the referee wanting Wales to go down to 13 players, rather than the replacement of Francis.
I remember a similar situation in a Hurricanes v Chiefs game (April 2016), where replacement prop Siegfried Fisi'ihoi had to leave the field again because the Chiefs' coaching staff had told ref Joubert that he could not scrum at TH and asked for an unconstested scrum. He had come on after Siate Tokolahi had limped off with a real or imaginary injury, right at the moment when the Canes got a scrum (which they had been dominating throughout that game) inside the Chiefs' half, five minutes before full time when the Chiefs were leading by just one point. Earlier in the game, TH prop Atu Moli had already left the field injured.
Whether Tokolahi was really injured and whether Fisi'ihoi really couldn't scrum at TH was the subject of quite some controversy at the time (the Ferald was all over it), but the application of the rules by Joubert wasn't. The Chiefs were a bit surprised when Joubert ordered Fisi'ihoi off again, but that was more due to unfamiliarity with the rule than anything else.