Wales…..a>b and b>c….but too often a=c

In contrast to our WC arm wrestle which could have gone either way, NZ put Wales away effortlessly. Sure Wales had  a few injuries, but nobody who would have made a difference. This win was by a team we beat a month or so ago.

Why? Well the ABs simply don’t give these lesser teams breathing room, they go at them. Although  they struggle against our physicality. But when we only use that one dimension against the likes of Wales it becomes an arm wrestle.

Apparently the ABs will become number one again after this win, but the truth is they have always been number 1 in the eyes of fans because we are so one dimensional. And for no reason other than unimaginative coaching.

The challenge for next week is not only to beat the Wallies but to do so playing complete rugby.

The idiot is supreme as per normal - the test was played outside of the test window and the Clubs refused to release their test players with the result the Welsh  team playing the AB's were far removed from their normal Welsh test team.    Fact is only 3 of the Welsh players who played in the WC Semi played yesterday against the AB's  - in other words not the full normal Welsh team was playing.

That was enough to send this numbskull going after the Springboks again.    But what else can one expect from the sport idiot.     

Lies again,  6 of the Welsh WC starters were starters against the ABs. And 9 of the AB WC starters against England were starters yesterday.

But Wales are so depleted we should beat them by thirty plus points then huh?

So more than half the normal test team of Wales were missing from the game.    I do not know what has gone into the dud Mozart by starting his thread other than his normal deadhead conduct on site.   .  

Robert Kitson writing in Guardian wrote: “The last time Wales beat New Zealandwas the same year Everest was first conquered. At no stage did it remotely look as if the hosts were about to scale that still-elusive peak under the bright Cardiff lights… Would it have made much difference had Wales’s English-based contingent been available? Probably not.”

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Gregor Paul, writing in the New Zealand Herald’, noted: “Wales could have had every player in the land available, even played with a few extra and they most likely still would have withered and then sunk without a trace against an All Blacks team that produced a patient, disciplined and impressively controlled effort.

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These writers put their finger on the issue….the ABs, except perhaps in WCs ….simply attack these NH teams . They often do the same to us when we don’t play our physicality card.

We by contrast play Wales like we play the ABs and it becomes an arm wrestle. We need a second gear to put away these minnows.

Mozart

Thanks for the story you quoted - but everyone on earth knew that Wales did not have players available to play the All Blacks and the team selected was nowhere near competitive.    So your deductions on the issue was spurious and did not ahve in any way reflect the true situation you tried to convey.    

Well as a great admirer of rugby journalists when they talk about Dud Toit, perhaps you should believe them when they talk about Wales.

These are liars and double minded people. When we scraped past Wales in the WC it was against a loaded Welsh team, now it was a decimated team against New Zealand. These dishonest clowns shift the goal posts to create whatever narrative suits the agenda. Sometimes journalists opinions matter, sometimes it doesn't; sometimes stats matter, sometimes they don't; sometimes videos matter, sometimes they don't. Regarding videos, that's funny, as my videos showing every contributing by a player is a lie and a dishonest representation of a player but a tribute video which doesn't even show context or even full phases are definitive. It's all about creating a general impression. They talk about prejudice in us, yet we lay it all out on the table and have an honest look at what's there. Isn't it funny how coaches and (ex)players opinions are greater than our "opinions", but when the greatest minds and most successful coaches and ex-players call Josè's model a mess it doesn't count? You can't have a reasonable discussion with these people. Worse then that, you can't have an adult discussion. It's also always at an unsatisfyingly low level. You have to continually correct the lie to properly frame the discussion. 

"Dan Biggar, Taulupe Faletau, Nick Tompkins, Louis Rees-Zammit, Callum Sheedy, Thomas Young and Christ Tshiunza are due to join the squad."

The Allblacks match was outside the test window, so their depth was depleted and a few of their star players couldn't play.

Hahahahaha!

They were better off without Biggar….Faletau isn’t the player he was in the AB Lions series….Zammit couldn’t crack the Lions test team.

None of these guys would have made a difference, the reporters were right.

I think we are  going to have our hands full. Wales  always seem to  lift their game against us.  Although we have lost a few too many to them in  the last decade.  

Hopefully the marketing drive,  break from the bubble etc well allow the boys to come back together and pick up where they finished in the championship. 

Lets hope and see what happens. But think Reese Zammit is  a class player, very unlucky not to get a starting spot for the lions

Lets hope the Boks can put their first good performance of the season together. 

The Boks have a poor gameplan and major selection issues. If you give the Boks free space, they can score, otherwise no. The rest is kicking for penalties and mauls. That's it. It's not about having to run lots, it's about being functional . Right now, we depend on teams playing badly or very errantly. We need that opening to be in the game. This is not a model for sustained success. If we had to have IRB ranking for this year alone, where do you think the Boks would be ranked? Not very good is it.

Pivac has now added Dan Biggar, Taulupe Faletau, Nick Tompkins, Louis Rees-Zammit, Callum Sheedy, Thomas Young and Christ Tshiunza – who all ply their trade in the Gallagher Premiership – to the squad. 

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If Wales had added that group vs the ABs it would have made little difference.

8 vs 6 and coach. Interesting.