WR U20 Championship 2025
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@brodean said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
So Italy beat Ireland. Maybe the Italy result wasn't so bad after all?
Ireland are a rubbish team this year.
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@brodean said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
So Italy beat Ireland. Maybe the Italy result wasn't so bad after all?
Ireland are a rubbish team this year.
@akan004 said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
@brodean said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
So Italy beat Ireland. Maybe the Italy result wasn't so bad after all?
Ireland are a rubbish team this year.
Italy were decent in the Six Nations U20s and are at home in this comp so not an awful first up result by NZ
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Is this the same South African team that played against us a month ago? They have gone up a few levels and look to be the team to beat.
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@brodean said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
So Italy beat Ireland. Maybe the Italy result wasn't so bad after all?
Ireland are a rubbish team this year.
@akan004 Ireland are terrible. Funding was cut to the U20s and 7s cut completely. They were missing the four best players of this age group but 3 won't play in this tournament. Italy have beaten them twice in a row for the first time ever.
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Flogged by the Junior Boks.
Scraped past a fairly middling Scotland.
About to get smashed to pieces by England.Rugby's future in Australia is looking peachy.
@NTA said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
Flogged by the Junior Boks.
Scraped past a fairly middling Scotland.
About to get smashed to pieces by England.Rugby's future in Australia is looking peachy.
Just buy some more NRL players. You'll be fine.
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I don't know why Vakasiuola wasn't used more as a ball-carrier. That's more his strength. The lineout also went to pieces once Treacy was subbed. We should have expected that the Letiu-McLeod connection would work but Georgia won ball at the front.
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An article on the physically biggest players at the U20 World Championship and you'll never guess who makes an appearance. It's our openside giant, Caleb Woodley:
Caleb Woodley – New Zealand
While one of the lighter players on this list, Caleb Woodley is anything but small for a flanker. At 197cm and 122kg, the Auckland-born Blues back-rower is a towering presence with the frame of a second-row and the engine of a loose forward. A serious prospect in New Zealand’s 2025 U20 squad.https://www.rugbypass.com/news/there-be-monsters-the-biggest-world-rugby-u20-champions-players/
A serious prospect indeed, even if you take into account his actual measurements. Well, I think we can conclude two things from this: the journalists at RugbyPass don't watch any of the actual rugby and, more worryingly, they don't read the Fern!
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@akan004 said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
Is this the same South African team that played against us a month ago? They have gone up a few levels and look to be the the team to beat.
New roids?
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@Bovidae said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
Poor Logan Wallace, injured again. I assume Riley Tofilau will be on a plane ASAP.
I believe Sione Mafi from Ta$man/Crusaders has been called in to replace Logan Wallace.
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@NTA Australia are the experts, Saffers dont make the top 13.
see below
https://www.rugbypass.com/news/there-be-monsters-the-biggest-world-rugby-u20-champions-players/ -
@OomPB said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
@NTA Australia are the experts, Saffers dont make the top 13.
Not sure if you're trying to connect roids to a lack of diet management?
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@Bovidae said in WR U20 Championship 2025:
Poor Logan Wallace, injured again. I assume Riley Tofilau will be on a plane ASAP.
I believe Sione Mafi from Ta$man/Crusaders has been called in to replace Logan Wallace.
@Fredsaua12 Riley Tofilau must be injured as he was in the RC squad and Mafi now picked over him
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A big game for both teams, especially England.
https://www.rugby.com.au/news/ekanayake-to-start-for-australia-u20s-in-mustwin-england-match-202577
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This is good news as the current locks in the squad are not very tall but I must admit that the lineout functioned rather well. The main problems are a very weak scrum, lack of comitment in the rucks which leads to numerous turnovers and losses of continuity in attack.
