Wales side v boks announced

Without stating the obvious, when I saw these fixtures, to have SA as your last warm up game seemed bizarre. They are already in gear having just finished the SH comp, and, as per previous Wales RWC build ups, we have a basket of injury fall outs, compounded by international ‘ retirements’.

If SA are so inclined and hit their straps then this could easily become a tuning.

With AWJ, Tipuric, Carre, Davies-King, Webb, Ken O, Macleod, Cory Hill missing, and notable injuries hanging over Lake, Daf Jenkins, Anscombe, Jonny W, Faletau, Cuthbert, Biggar and Sanjay…the final 33 is going to be as much about fitness as anything else.

I hope the boys selected put up a good account of themselves.



Edited by Wil Chips - 19 August 2023 at 8:28am

That  Welsh pack will get torn a new one. Not Keen on Dyer or Evans at FB and Rogers is a FB, not a winger. I can see a cricket score here

scarletpimp wrote: GPR - Rochester wrote: Wil Chips wrote: Without stating the obvious, when I saw these fixtures, to have SA as your last warm up game seemed bizarre. They are already in gear having just finished the SH comp, and, as per previous Wales RWC build ups, we have a basket of injury fall outs, compounded by international ‘ retirements’. If SA are so inclined and hit their straps then this could easily become a tuning. With AWJ, Tipuric, Carre, Davies-King, Webb, Ken O, Macleod, Cory Hill missing, and notable injuries hanging over Lake, Daf Jenkins, Anscombe, Jonny W, Faletau, Cuthbert, Biggar and Sanjay…the final 33 is going to be as much about fitness as anything else. I hope the boys selected put up a good account of themselves. Pretty fair summation there Wil. I am looking forward to the 9/10/12/13 combination despite their inexperience at this level. All hinges, of course, on us giving a good account of ourselves in the front 5. Come through this with a good set piece result will ink in all individuals involved. An inexperienced back 3 could struggle today. Time for our Tom to show everyone that we have a successor to Liam ready to go.  That's a fair assessment from Will and GPR. A patched-up up Wales team, up against  a well oiled one, just come through a competitive tournament . More about performance, and hopefully  avoiding  more injuries I reckon for us. On the face of it, do we need this extra game ? Gatland  surely knows all he needs to know ATM.

3-5

Try Boks. 6-12. Poor defence by wales

Cardiff props really struggling. Prepared to eat humble pie, Cai Evans our best back so far

Grady what a plonker, another try

Milli wrote: Dyer YC pen try Boks. Very harsh call