Comments on: RWC Warm-ups: Wales Player Ratings vs Ireland

By: Taliesin

Taliesin — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 20:37:08 +0000

Change the record PE – we all know you’re English.

By: prophet Enoch

prophet Enoch — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:05:13 +0000

‘Another 20 tackles, countless turnovers, another try and and some gorgeous linking passes all add up to a faultless performance from the openside’.

And no place in the starting 15 for you Tips!!!

Are you watching????

Are you watching????? .

Are you watching Warren Gatland?????

No he ain’t and its….

Half-a-fullback, C++tbutt, Lydiate, Warburton glued on to their starting numbers 15, 14, 6 +7 as per the 2011 RWC side and set in stone selection for all matches to RWC 2015.

I am amazed Stephen Jones isn’t at outside half!

The opposition all know the back row/back three b 4 the team is even announced.

By: Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 18:25:57 +0000

With a few exceptions I reckon mostly accurate. I looked over the Irish ratings and I can’t help but think the ratings board think the game was a little off-par. From what I saw it was two solid teams going at each other, yeah some errors but as the commentators were saying neither team wants to show there full hand before the wc.

I would prolly put both sides +1 for the 5/6’s as they were “average” in that sort of game, it just makes it look that way when sides cancel each other out. Similar to last week Scotland looked “better” in defence in there first warm up but to be fair, any decent squad would of converted multiple times. This game we saw a lot of chances broke up by the opposition but against an average or rather weaker side they would of converted a lot of them.

A bullet may fly through paper, but it’s gonna scratch the steel!

By: brighty

brighty — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:14:07 +0000

A game won by the back 5 of the pack and the scores rightly show this. I’d have Scott W and Biggar higher – the former was excellent in his line speed, choking off the Irish attack, leaving Sexton with little more than dinks and cross kicks to try. He also put in a few decent turnovers. Biggar controlled the game excellently and continued his unerring ability to turn up and unders into almost foolproof forward passes to himself. That little pass inside as well during that line break, magic.

Cuthbert isn’t offering much right now and was up too high in defence a few times. Needs a word about his positioning. Although he’s average at best right now I honestly don’t see any massively exceptional candidates to unseat him – hopefully Liam will be fit and Cuthbert will be a squad player and/or he might get some chances to gain some confidence against Uruguay.

Gethin is an 8.5 – turnovers, scrums, tackles – the best all round loosehead around when he is on top of his game like that. Brilliant.