RWC: FIJ v WAL (Millenium): POOL A

[waiopehu oldboy]

Ref: Lacey
AR's: Garces & Raynal
TMO: Ayoub

 

[Marcelo]

I think Fiji has a big opportunity here against a beaten Welsh side by injuries

 

[qwerty51]

Nadolo is banned for 1 week.

 

[TheNude]

Fiji have played well so far and I think this could be there chance
with the injuries and emotion from Saturday's game there is a risk Wales may have 'played their final'.

My bold/stupid call/one-eyed prediction - close game to the the 60 minute mark with Wales coming home in the end. Wales by 10; no bonus point

 

[qwerty51]

Fiji win this one, and it won't be close.

 

[mxyzptlk]

Some clever Wales fans should get together in their supporters' jerseys and do a zombie walk around the outside of the Millennium Stadium.

 

[Bairdy]

Geez, Fiji getting the rough end of the stick with the judiciary.

First it is their lock that gets ruled out for an innocuous tackle, then Nadolo gets picked up for the same infraction a week later; yet Wood can kick "Sanjay" in the head about a foot away from the ball and get of scot-free with a "warning" rather than a citing.

 

[Bairdy]

Wales replacing a centre and an outside back with two flyhalfs.......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...-James-Hook-Gareth-Anscombe-replacements.html

 

[mxyzptlk]

Geez, Fiji getting the rough end of the stick with the judiciary.

First it is their lock that gets ruled out for an innocuous tackle, then Nadolo gets picked up for the same infraction a week later; yet Wood can kick "Sanjay" in the head about a foot away from the ball and get of scot-free with a "warning" rather than a citing.

Interesting piece here comparing what Wood got away with to four recent similar infractions:

• Toulon's Tomain Taofifenua kicking Ulster's Stuart Olding in the head while going for the ball in a 2014 Champions Cup game (3 week ban);
• Ulster's Luke Marshall kicking Scarlets' Michael Tagicakibau while running by a ruck in a 2015 Pro 12 fixture (5 week ban)
• Wasps' Nathan Hughes (famously) knocking out Northampton's George North with a kick in a 2105 Premiership game (initial 3 week ban)
• Scarlets' Samson Lee collecting Harlequins' Danny Care's head with his boot in a 2013 game (2 week ban)

If this World Cup wasn't in England, I wonder if we'd have seen the last of Tom Wood for a while.

 

[Bairdy]

Not to mention it makes a mockery of the dialogue around concussions and player welfare.

 

[the plastic paddy]

Interesting piece here comparing what Wood got away with to four recent similar infractions:

• Toulon's Tomain Taofifenua kicking Ulster's Stuart Olding in the head while going for the ball in a 2014 Champions Cup game (3 week ban);
• Ulster's Luke Marshall kicking Scarlets' Michael Tagicakibau while running by a ruck in a 2015 Pro 12 fixture (5 week ban)
• Wasps' Nathan Hughes (famously) knocking out Northampton's George North with a kick in a 2105 Premiership game (initial 3 week ban)
• Scarlets' Samson Lee collecting Harlequins' Danny Care's head with his boot in a 2013 game (2 week ban)

If this World Cup wasn't in England, I wonder if we'd have seen the last of Tom Wood for a while.

Well, my oh my, suddenly Green and Gold has developed an interest in reckless kicks to the head!?!? And all the incidents in the article occurred in the NH. But, sure, iron fists Carter concussed a man with his hand and no foot was involved. Foreshortening????

 

[the plastic paddy]

Not to mention it makes a mockery of the dialogue around concussions and player welfare.

Which was something I suggested after the NZ V Argentina game. I am probably risking a ban from the site at this stage.

 

[Bairdy]

Running in to make a try-saving tackle and inadvertently hitting Senatore mid-stride is different from kicking out like Wood did

Anyway, I'll refrain from posting on this issue further after derailing the thread.

 

[the plastic paddy]

Running in to make a try-saving tackle and inadvertently hitting Senatore mid-stride is different from kicking out like Wood did

Anyway, I'll refrain from posting on this issue further after derailing the thread.

"Try saving tackle"? Reckless is reckless even when it is two foot behind the try line. But I don't really care, Carter should only have received a warning/ yellow card anyway, not a ban; at least people are now acknowledging that something can be reckless, even if it isn't deliberate, and warrant investigation by the citing officer. Funny old world.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

So if Fiji win, does that give the Soap Dodgers a lifeline, regardless of the score against us?

G'wan Wales!!!!

 

[dru]

Fiji should be backing themselves here.

 

[Slim 293]

No Nadolo, and Lacey as ref.........

Not going to be easy...........

 

[mxyzptlk]

Well, my oh my, suddenly Green and Gold has developed an interest in reckless kicks to the head!?!? And all the incidents in the article occurred in the NH. But, sure, iron fists Carter concussed a man with his hand and no foot was involved. Foreshortening????

Not engaging. We've been through this already, and you were told enough already by the mods. Just let us know if we should ask the mods if this topic is worth regurgitating through a few more digital pages.

 

[Cardiffblue]

Wales replacing a centre and an outside back with two flyhalfs...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...-James-Hook-Gareth-Anscombe-replacements.html

OMG I was half joking when I suggested making up the entire backline with half backs

 

[Cardiffblue]

In truth Ook is right choice and gives CH some flexibility in terms of more possible injuries. He'll play immediately. So we're looking at

Davies, Biggar, Jaw, Ook, North, cuthbert, Priestland

Then Anscombe on the bench with Brynmor's boy and Walker(?)

Not bad. Not bad at all considering