Wales team vs Barbarians

First topic message reminder :

15. Liam Williams
14. Harry Robinson
13. Andrew Bishop
12. James Hook
11. Aled Brew
10. Dan Biggar
9. Lloyd Williams
8. Ryan Jones
7. Justin Tipuric
6. Josh Turnbull
5. Ian Evans
4. Alun Wyn Jones
3. Rhodri Jones
2. Matthew Rees (c)
1. Rhys Gill.

Reps: R Hibbard, P James , A Shingler, M Williams, Webb, A Warren, W Harries

With the following 16 going to Australia tomorrow:
Leigh Halfpenny, George North, Jonathan Davies, Scott Williams, Ashley Beck, Alex Cuthbert, Rhys Priestland, Mike Phillips, Gethin Jenkins, Ken Owens, Adam Jones, Bradley Davies, Luke Charteris, Dan Lydiate, Sam Warburton, Toby Faletau

Lloyd got his leg in the way, da iawn.

Stupid box kick he tried in the first place though!

asoreleftshoulder wrote:Can I get a link too please?

You have mail.

Baabas might've scored, but they can't see the grounding. Held up. TMO doesn't give it. Pheew!

Yo! PJ is on for Gill and Robinson's off.

Gorgonza scores!

Or ooo, does he??

Awww, poor Harry Robinson has to pay for Gill's yellow.

Paul James on.

oooo my god, another great tackle by Lloyd, I think gorgonza has lost it!

ohh gawwwd lols- he dropped it

Ha! Gorgonzola (or whatever his name is) thinks he's scored, but he lost it before grounding. TMO again...No try. brilliant tackle by Lloyd Williams.

Lloyd Williams!!! Unbelievable on that beast of a 7.

Lloyd Williams arm saves 2 tries in 2 minutes.

Richie Rees goes over for a BaaBaa's try. It was coming.

ah no, Richie Rees scores. Ironic that the Welshman has to score

13 - 12 before conversion. Game on!!!

Ryan Jones is playing like a one man pack. Unfortunately, he's outnumbered.

Richie Rees scores for the Baabaas.

Scrum has gone downhill, very scrappy.

Donald converts 13 - 14.

Wales are the ones playing like the barbarians today! Playing some really nice rugby. I like the look of Robinson. The barbarians are looking really slow, and Wales are punishing them at the breakdown. Tipuric is so good. I seriously think he and Warburton should form a flanking partnership, similar to the old Smith and Waugh partnership.

The 7 is Gorgodze. Seems he and Louw are playing a left-right partnership. Working pretty well together, pity about the rest of the pack.

Baabaas hand pushed the ball out of the ruck!

Should have been a penalty Wales.

I guess that what the new TMO's new powers are going to be for.

Excellent rugby by Biggar.

Take that Tindall!!!!

Uh - oh...Shane williams chasing...well done Brew to get away, great break from Williams, but lost it.

HT 13 - 14.

Lloyd Williams matched for pace by Mick O'Driscoll. Shame.

Great first half though.

Wow, if that had been a try it would have been like the baabaas great try...only for Wales.

Enjoyed that half, Wales are looking to throw it around. Rhodri going okay in the scrums despite a couple of wobbles.

Good defence at times, Lloyd needs to cut out his box kicks or greatly improve them.

We needs to go through some phases some more though. We've got a much better lineout and breakdown play then the Baabaas in this and really need to utilise them.

Casartelli wrote:Lloyd Williams matched for pace by Mick O'Driscoll. Shame.

Great first half though.

Not really, he was accelerating away, O'Driscoll just got across to scrag him.

Turnbull can consider himself missing out on squad selection for Australia for dropping that ball! What a donut.

wales606 wrote:Baabaas hand pushed the ball out of the ruck!

Should have been a penalty Wales.

I guess that what the new TMO's new powers are going to be for.

Just because jiffy says thats what it is, it isn't true!

Think it was just poor control even the slowmo replays zoomed in couldn't prove anything

nice positive contribution there Morg

If we were leaving players out for handling errors, Ianto and Ryan wouldn't be making the flight either!

Knackeredknees wrote:

wales606 wrote:Baabaas hand pushed the ball out of the ruck!

Should have been a penalty Wales.

I guess that what the new TMO's new powers are going to be for.

Just because jiffy says thats what it is, it isn't true!

Think it was just poor control even the slowmo replays zoomed in couldn't prove anything

There was a clear baabaas hand on that replay.

Yeah exactly. I am enjoying this game, but Davies commentary is making it difficult. The most biased pundit in rugby.

Morgannwg wrote:Turnbull can consider himself missing out on squad selection for Australia for dropping that ball! What a donut.

Bit harsh. There's been a few Welsh handling errors today.

It was obviously from a Barbarians player, I could see that. It was accidental though. There's only two incorrect decisions seperating the teams, that and ball that was apparently knocked on before Liam Williams picked up with nobody in front of him.

wales606 wrote:

Casartelli wrote:Lloyd Williams matched for pace by Mick O'Driscoll. Shame.

Great first half though.

Not really, he was accelerating away, O'Driscoll just got across to scrag him.

Accelerating away???

Brilliant.

Well Tipuric has had his hands all over the place at the breakdown, but I call that clever when he gets away with it.

And you could tell it was a baabaa's hand because?

Sometimes a player will make a mistake and loose control of the ball

rugbydreamer wrote:nice positive contribution there Morg

If we were leaving players out for handling errors, Ianto and Ryan wouldn't be making the flight either!

Seems a bit of an ill comparison. Ryan and Ianto have nothing to prove. They're pencilled in already. My point was Turnbull knocked on at a critical point in the half, he wasn't likely to be going to Aus anyway.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Well Tipuric has had his hands all over the place at the breakdown, but I call that clever when he gets away with it.

Sounds like Richie McCaw... Tippy's having a great game. Potential MOTM so far??

Jebus. Gussett really doesn't like speaking positively about Wales does he?

The Ospreys contingent are completely diffrerent players from 3 month ago. Bigg,Bish especially.

In Tandy we trust...

it was hardly a critical point, when it was 5secs before half time and we were still a half of the pitch away from the try line pretty much.

Would have been nice if the movement could have continued but not exactly horrific that he dropped it on.

More critical was Lloyd Williams' knock on that if he caught and passed could have seen Sanjay through for a try.

Knackeredknees wrote:And you could tell it was a baabaa's hand because?

Sometimes a player will make a mistake and loose control of the ball

First of all, it's lose. Sorry to be pedantic but this common error is getting on my nerves .

Because in slow-mo I seen a Barbarians player dive head first into the ruck with a swinging arm which knocked the ball forward. I can't tell who, all I could see is that he black hair.

Was Guscott actually watching that try? Muliaina backed off in the last 10 metres to let the young lad in. If he had been wearing all black he would have launched himself and Robinson into touch.

Breadvan wrote:The Ospreys contingent are completely diffrerent players from 3 month ago. Bigg,Bish especially.

In Tandy we trust...

It's great to see isn't it? We knew they had it in them! I can't help thinking what O's could've achieved had Tandy come in sooner. Anyway....this domestic season's over...move along.

Is AWJ playing? I havent seen him

Alan Phillips on the half-time interview! Thanks for those astute comments Al.

Marvellous.

rugbydreamer wrote:

More critical was Lloyd Williams' knock on that if he caught and passed could have seen Sanjay through for a try.

I gave reference to this in my 2nd comment. The ball didn't go forward from Lloyd. Wrong call in my opinion.

Cari wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Well Tipuric has had his hands all over the place at the breakdown, but I call that clever when he gets away with it.

Sounds like Richie McCaw... Tippy's having a great game. Potential MOTM so far??

Jebus. Gussett really doesn't like speaking positively about Wales does he?

Yeah, seriously Wales better play him or I will get mad. Ireland could do with a Tipuric/Warburton. I am pretty jealous.

6) Warburton
7) Tipuric

Play that and I don't think there will be many flanking partnerships as effective.

Cari wrote:

Breadvan wrote:The Ospreys contingent are completely diffrerent players from 3 month ago. Bigg,Bish especially.

In Tandy we trust...

It's great to see isn't it? We knew they had it in them! I can't help thinking what O's could've achieved had Tandy come in sooner. Anyway....this domestic season's over...move along.

Don't remind me Cari ...I'm bored already!

Morgannwg wrote:

Knackeredknees wrote:And you could tell it was a baabaa's hand because?

Sometimes a player will make a mistake and loose control of the ball

First of all, it's lose. Sorry to be pedantic but this common error is getting on my nerves .

Because in slow-mo I seen a Barbarians player dive head first into the ruck with a swinging arm which knocked the ball forward. I can't tell who, all I could see is that he black hair.

Sorry to be pedantic, but that makes no sense whatsoever.

Cari wrote:

Breadvan wrote:The Ospreys contingent are completely diffrerent players from 3 month ago. Bigg,Bish especially.

In Tandy we trust...

It's great to see isn't it? We knew they had it in them! I can't help thinking what O's could've achieved had Tandy come in sooner. Anyway....this domestic season's over...move along.

Biggar isn't getting much of a chance to impress, there is little structure for Wales and so Biggar hasn't had a chance to organise a backline I hope he gets 80 minutes and Hook doesn't get moved in.

No decent likes for streaming I have a jerky French link, very difficult to follow (in Greece and nice and warm).

Morg, it did go forward, they showed it on the replay


And I don't think you can have Warbs and Tip both playing. You need a good tackling 6 like Lydiate or what Turnbull is doing today to allow the likes of Warbs and Tip to rule the breakdown. Play both and one of them is going to have to sacrifice their ability in this way, to put the tackles in instead.

Just because they are 2 of the best, doesn't mean they should both start. It's all about balance.

Also I think with a Warbs/Tips partnership, Faletau would get a lot more chances to play like he does for the Dragons..