wales v Fiji

Rowlands was immense too, 27 tackles & none missed.

Spot on Jeremy! 

I want know WHY Domachowski and Lewis were playing  at all.

Both are suspect scrummagers, and so it proved.

Surely Smith and Henry Thomas to start v Portugal,  and maybe then on bench v the Aussies. 

Also, having watched the game back with a 'cool head', I am shocked at the crazy way we let the Fijiand back in to the game, when we were in control, on 65 mins.

Gats will want a word about those decisions. 

It's the same, after the first 10 mins , we become loose, kick infield , giving the dangerous  Fiji backs a chance to counter from open play. 

Aussies will be more clinical and cane us.

The studio panel, of Jamie Roberts,  Sam Warburton,  an Gareth  (bungalow) Thomas, agreed that Wales did well when sticking to the game plan, but when they diverted from that and got loose, things began to unravel

This of coursexwas rich from bungalow Thomas , whose own side diverted from the game plan, were sacked into a loose game with Fiji in 2007, and we know the result. 

This meant of course that Gareth Jenkins was sacked in the car Par by  slimy Roger Lewis, and humiliated. 

Thanks Gareth, but we do'nt need your advice.

Why is he used as a pundit..God knows!

Anyway, in the end, a great win for Wales, who showed tremendous guts and resilience,  and they will improve. 

Onwards  and upwards! 

I though Sanjay had a decent game overall - true, that missed touch was a bad one, and he was a bit silly at times.

Both sets of centres were much better in attack than in defence!

I didn't think Biggar had a good game, for him - and his goal kicking was worse than usual. He seemed to spend more effort shouting than taking good decisions.

Cawdor was his usual combative self - positive performance overall, especially when compared to Tomos W and his awful skied box kick.

Front row did well - all of them - and Rowlands. Beard caught a couple of high balls (I say no more about his contribution except his bulk may have been a plus in the scrums...). Back row struggled a bit...maybe Wainwright was the best of them except for missing that tackle. Morgan has a future at 10!

Subs no time to do much - Domachowski really stupid error. Dee took the try well. Reffell put in a couple of good hits.

The comments in other forums were pathetic - hardly anyone praised a superb game of rugby - the best of the tournament so far. Around 90% (or so it seemed) were only interested in having a pop at the ref for not waving more YCs earlier - at Wales (of course). Even if they had half a point - and they may have had - it was impossible not to sense that basically it was sour grapes from England 'supporters' who lost recently to Fiji, and sheer unpleasant hostility to the Wales team from most of the rest. Sickening. Do they watch rugby at all, outside the RWC? They sounded more like football 'fans'...

Quite. After Beard's awful performance in the last 'friendly' game, I would not even have had him in the squad. He is nowhere near what a test second row should be.