U20 Championship - NZ v Wales
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@Stargazer Now we just need height and weight figures for the players in each squad. It used to fairly reliably released on the World Rugby website 1 week before the tournament, but no cigar this year.
Edit: This has height and weight, though I dunno how accurate the figures are
Championnat du Monde U20 - Match report Wales U20 vs New Zealand U20, le 24/06/2023
Match report Wales U20 - New Zealand U20 : lineups, points, stats...
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@bobily2 Since World Rugby moved their website from a .org to a .rugby domain, all their older match stats and documents got lost. The search function on their website doesn't work, and important document are difficult to find. It's gone backwards with time, instead of better with improved technology.
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@MiketheSnow said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
@Bovidae said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
A must-win game for NZ with France also in the pool. Wales (6) are seeded ahead of NZ (7).
That's nonsense
We'll get massacred
By a whole point.
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@antipodean said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
@MiketheSnow said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
@Bovidae said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
A must-win game for NZ with France also in the pool. Wales (6) are seeded ahead of NZ (7).
That's nonsense
We'll get massacred
By a whole point.
Could have (should have) gone a number of ways
First 10 mins and I was ready to circle the waggons
Then we should have put the game away in the first half
First 20 of the second half, and we were trading treacle watching the scoreboard roll away from us
Then you took your foot off the gas / we had second wind and with a more accurate kicker could have stolen the match in the dying seconds
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@Bovidae said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
@frugby said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
@Bovidae Or, do you go down the route that we can't beat them at their game, so we go with mobility?
That's not going to help when you are defending lineout drives or in the scrum. Unless mobility also means going backwards - fast.
I guess you could argue that will happen anyway though? The tight five is mud, so we are guaranteed to get stuffed there. Reckon going for mobility in the loose could at least give a portion of upside. That said, I don't know the players well enough to truly comment.
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@Bovidae said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
Viljoen was definitely representing Palmy with the mullet AND rats tail.
Automatic fine
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Do they have to give MOTM to a player from the winning side? Because the Welsh number 8 Morse, was head and shoulders the best player on the field IMO. Not that Che wasn’t good, thought he did some very good things, but the workrate on Morse was great to watch.
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@ACT-Crusader said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
Do they have to give MOTM to a player from the winning side? Because the Welsh number 8 Morse, was head and shoulders the best player on the field IMO. Not that Che wasn’t good, thought he did some very good things, but the workrate on Morse was great to watch.
Agreed
They’ve got him pinned as a future 7
Looked very comfortable at 8
Big engine on both attack and defence
Wants the ball
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Yeah, watched him after you pointed him out. He looked impressive - 23 carries with the next best being 12 is pretty outstanding.
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@Stargazer said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
The search function on their website doesn't work, and important document are difficult to find. It's gone backwards with time, instead of better with improved technology.
Whoever did it needs to be shot - that website is an absolute fucking mess
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New Zealand haka faced by Wales slammed for being 'too aggressive' | Wales Online
The New Zealand side have been accused of "dragging out" their pre-match ritual at their opponent's expense
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@Daffy-Jaffy LOL. Too long, I could understand, but too aggressive?
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@Stargazer said in U20 Championship - NZ v Wales:
@Daffy-Jaffy LOL. Too long, I could understand, but too aggressive?
It's the usual suspects having a cry because New Zealand's cultural challenge imbues them with supernatural powers, but other nation's cultural challenges don't.
FWIW I think it goes for 90 secs too long too.
