RWC squads 2023
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@Bones said in RWC squads 2023:
He's going to struggle to get out of the pool with these selections, reckon he had a chance if he'd have gone with a few more familiar faces.
Given what Wales just dished up Aus will get out of their pool just fine.
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@Bones said in RWC squads 2023:
"There's no way we would fake an injury to swap out players..."
"... just to slow down a game and get mid-game coaching... completely different thing."
"There's definitely going to be some injuries from the warm-up games"
"This isn't even our official squad yet anyway..."
"We've got until the 21st, so there!"
"You can't prove I ever said this was our squad... I didn't even." -
The warm up games jinx strikes! Van Poortvliet out of the RWC for England and N’tamack for France. Easy to see which is the bigger loss.
JVP is replaced by Alex Mitchell who was the form 9 last season but apparently his game management was not up to scratch. I guess that means his inability to kick aimlessly in the opposition 22 when we have an overlap. He will bring some zip, a quicker, better pass, a real running threat and an oddly shaped head.
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Ntamak gone. Is this true?
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@Catogrande said in RWC squads 2023:
He will bring some zip, a quicker, better pass, a real running threat and an oddly shaped head.
Just as N seem to have a conveyer belt when it comes to quality wingers, the same can be said for England when it comes to half-backs.
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@Canes4life said in RWC squads 2023:
Huge blow for France - https://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/12508/12939843/rugby-world-cup-france-fly-half-romain-ntamack-to-miss-tournament-with-acl-injury
Fuck, love watching him play. You have to feel sorry for the bloke as this could have been his best and possibly only chance of winning a medal.
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Cyril Baille injured too. Out for 5 or 6 weeks, so back for the quarter finals but should be out of form as he won't be able to run during this period. I wonder if Galthié will select him. Baille is arguably the best LHP in the world. His potential replacements (Wardi, Gros) are far from world class, meh I would say. So this is another big blow for France.
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@cgrant said in RWC squads 2023:
Cyril Baille injured too. Out for 5 or 6 weeks, so back for the quarter finals but should be out of form as he won't be able to run during this period. I wonder if Galthié will select him. Baille is arguably the best LHP in the world. His potential replacements (Wardi, Gros) are far from world class, meh I would say. So this is another big blow for France.
For the French you could say between Baille and the next LHP there is a yawning gap. But then you’d be dabbling in Anglo-French wordplays.
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@Catogrande said in RWC squads 2023:
He will bring some zip, a quicker, better pass, a real running threat and an oddly shaped head.
I’ve just googled his head expecting to see some elephant man monstrosity. Instead I was presented with something within the perfectly normal range.
That’s 1 minute I’m not going to get back.
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@scribe said in RWC squads 2023:
I’ve just googled his head expecting to see some elephant man monstrosity. Instead I was presented with something within the perfectly normal range.
I haven't looked but I'll go with @Catogrande's opinion as he seems to know him intimately...
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If you think that is “within the normal range”, I’m guessing that you come from your local equivalent of Tiverton and will take that into account going forward.
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I’d want the phone call from Tuculet. He was great in 2015
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@Billy-Tell said in RWC squads 2023:
I’d want the phone call from Tuculet. He was great in 2015
Vamos Billy. Good luck mate.
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@Catogrande I’m from The Bay; no weirdos there. Well, not if you don’t count some guys at same school who were sent down for doing nasty things with a broomstick.
