Wales team v Italy

I think this is spot on.

It's not pretty or clever but a ball carrier at 12 is pivotal to the attacking game again today. Ireland (Aki) and France (Danty) a case in point. England planned to do the same with Tuilagi, Wales exclusively used Roberts for this for a decade.

It keeps the opposition back row occupied as well as their 10/12...whether you use the 12 to carry or dummy, as long as you recycle quickly and have slick passing it gets the defence scrambling.

The Italian back line, which is decent defensively, had a fairly easy time of it.


   


Edited by Wil Chips - 22 March 2022 at 6:17am

Another issue is we don’t counter attack from kicks to us either.if we don’t have a ball carrying 12 at least play a ball playing 12 like lloyd or scott.  We haven’t managed to pick neither 

GPR - Rochester wrote: Sensible thing would be to contract someone from 2023 & appoint a caretaker for now. Bring Howley back from Canada - he is not my favourite coach but he is better than we have at the moment.

What about the young guy at the O's, Kieron Williams ?

dyniol53 wrote: No offence but about 6 months ago a decent chunk of posters on here didn’t think Scott Williams was good enough to come off the scarlets bench. Suddenly after a few nice games early on in the season, he’s being pinned up as Wales’ saving grace. Likewise with Ioan Lloyd, the guy can hardly get a game for Bristol in his preferred position of 10 or fullback. As an international 12 I’d be amazed if he wasn’t steamrollered by the likes of Tuilagi, Dante & Aki. People had high hopes for Halaholo, like some did for Jonny Williams. But I think Pivac now knows they’re both good quality club players and not quite gonna crack it at International. His only hope is Tompkins continuing to improve at international level and then North being fit.  The other position that needs depth imo is 15. Sanjay one of my favourite players but not in good form, likewise Jonny can be really good but also very average at international level. That’s where I see some potential space for Lloyd but he is very much unproven tbh.

Until they start selecting on current form it will always be compromised. I have a feeling that AWJ will forever regret rushing back to get his 150th cap. What current form did Halaholo have? 

Pivac has been deseprate to get Halaholo in the starting XV even if he isn't match fit. The inclusion of AWJ was a pointless decision, made even worse by dropping arguably our player of the tournament Rowlands. Hardy has been on the bench ahead of Cawdor, then suddenly Cawdor is ahead of him.

ap sior wrote: What about the young guy at the O's, Kieron Williams ?

Stack of time for him. Strong direct runner, always working on his game.

Probably a little undersized for absolute top level at 80kgs, but heart of a lion just the same.