Georgia on my mind!

[pompey-zebra]

Well, if the intention was to be build momentum ahead of the quater finals, then can we start doing it?

[UKHamlet]

FFS. Georgia have taken control of this match.

[Ross. S]

FFS

[UKHamlet]

I have a bad feeling about this

[pompey-zebra]

We are really fucking this up.

[Ross. S]

Magic from Zamit

[UKHamlet]

That puts us top of the group

[normanski]

Basham stupidity.

[Ross. S]

So Zamitt is our new Shane? Rather than "Throw it to Shane" the new tactic is "Kick if vaguely in Zamitt's direction and watch him unfuck everything"

[UKHamlet]

I'm not sure how we got to 43 points and annoyed that we shipped 3 tries. The 6 we scored didn't seem to matter somehow.

[Buggaluggs]

Zammit has a big pretty accurate boot. And if nobody's home he'll make you pay. Score flattered us a bit, but then again I've lived through the years of 40-point drubbings where the score flattered our opponents. So I'll take it.

[pompey-zebra]

I'm not sure how we got to 43 points and annoyed that we shipped 3 tries. The 6 we scored didn't seem to matter somehow.

I suppose winning by 20 odd points and still being dissatisfied isnt a bad position to be in.

[Buggaluggs]

Grady is a liability. 2 on 1 with Zammit and Dyer outside and he show and doesn't go.

[pompey-zebra]

Grady is a liability. 2 on 1 with Zammit and Dyer outside and he show and doesn't go.

Yeah, that was disappointing.

[Sourdust]

There's so much to admire about Gatland's Wales.

But only Gatland's Wales can win by 24 points, score 6 tries, and still completely piss you off.

But then there's this...

Score flattered us a bit, but then again I've lived through the years of 40-point drubbings where the score flattered our opponents. So I'll take it.

Amen.

[normanski]

It’s a good wake up call if we meet Argentina because they have a similar game to Georgia.

I just wonder if the 240+ tackles made against Fiji is starting to take the edge off our fitness. We looked half a yard off the pace at the collisions, line speed was borderline slow and we have just a week to get back to a more disciplined style to stick to the game plan.

[Sourdust]

We still have a great strike rate, as in scores-per-visit. How many times were we in Georgia's 22? Feels like it was less than 6...

But if we can't boss the middle of the park against that pack, how can we hope to get a sniff against Ireland or SA? Or even Argentina?

[Buggaluggs]

Any word on Faletau yet?

[UKHamlet]

I can't help thinking we're turning into a one man show and that man is Jac Rees Zammit Anscombe Faletau. Without him on the park we change from Brains Dark to Valpolicella.

[UKHamlet]

Make that a two man show. My boy Gareth Davies put some control back on the match.

[Son of Mathonwy]

We still have a great strike rate, as in scores-per-visit. How many times were we in Georgia's 22? Feels like it was less than 6...

But if we can't boss the middle of the park against that pack, how can we hope to get a sniff against Ireland or SA? Or even Argentina?

LRZ is so fast he only needs 2 visits to score 3 tries.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Some stats:

WALES Tackles, Missed Tackles, Passes, Runs, Metres Run
L WilliamsFB 2 0 6 14 151
L Rees-ZammitW 2 2 1 7 98
G NorthC 2 1 6 7 58
N TompkinsC 12 0 13 7 2
R DyerW 8 1 5 5 32
S CostelowFH 13 2 18 9 71
T WilliamsSH 8 4 46 4 10
G ThomasP 4 1 3 2 2
D LakeH 12 0 1 10 6
T FrancisP 9 1 0 1 1
W RowlandsL 15 1 7 7 2
D JenkinsL 18 2 6 6 19
A WainwrightFL 13 0 2 2 2
T ReffellFL 19 1 8 8 3
T FaletauN8 12 0 5 11 36
E DeeR 6 0 0 3 14
N SmithR 3 3 0 1 0
H ThomasR 4 1 0 0 0
C TshiunzaR 1 0 0 1 1
T BashamR 1 0 0 1 4
G DaviesR 0 1 13 2 1
D BiggarR 0 0 0 0 0
M GradyR 1 0 0 1 29

https://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/playerstat ... gue=164205

Reffell had a great game on the defence, 19 tackles, 1 missed, Jenkins 18 and 2, Tompkins, Lake and Faletau all with 12 and 0. Gats won't be happy with Tomos missing 4 and Smith missing 3. LRZ outscores Costelow - ridiculous! Sanjay had quite a game - 151m run! Grady did not grab his chance.

Our set piece killed them - we won all of ours, they only won about 2/3 of theirs.

I thought it looked bad for Lake to get taken off so soon but it was probably to get a good comparison with Dee. Tough call for Gatland (probably for the bench spot), they both went pretty well.

Reffell vs Basham for the bench is now a difficult call.

[normanski]

While we were expecting a more assured performance think of poor England going at HT 14-8 down. Samoa are running through at will at time.

[normanski]

While we were expecting a more assured performance from Wales think of poor England going in at HT 14-8 down. Samoa are running through at will at times.

[Sourdust]

Make that a two man show. My boy Gareth Davies put some control back on the match.

He did.

I want him starting ahead of Tomos now, and a year or two ago I wouldn't have believed I could type that.