Whoever they bring in must be allowed to pick the best Welsh players regardless who they play for. Until then, nothing changes. Welsh rugby is a mess & needs fresh ideas from the bottom up.
that happens now, it's England that restricts selection to home based players
Not quite, you have to have 25 Wales caps to be available for selection playing abroad I think
Despite the close win, England's ridiculous red line needs tipex.
Lucky win for England, outscored by 3 tries to 1 by an all round superior Scotland whose terrible goalkicking cost them the game. Fin Smith's near 50 yard penalty won the game for England. What CAN Borthwick do over the summer months to recruit, enthuse and retain a new attacking backline to generate proper momentum that the work of the England pack deserve ?. AND time for Marcus Smith to be put on the bench, nowhere near as effective as Fin at stand off (too intent on playing his own game) and too slight and light for full back. Wales under new management were reborn v an admittedly understrength Ireland. England playing in Cardiff in 2 weeks will find this more difficult than was likely 2 weeks ago. As a proud Englishman, it's good to see Wales somewhat back in contention and (hopefully) providing realistic opposition
Ireland failed to score when on top, France played well, and scored when they needed to. Thought the ref was poor in allowing a French try when POM gets taken out and the French played ran through the gap where would have been.
Can’t help but think it’s the end of an era for us now. France played a great game, even though the ref wanted it to be all about him, we didn’t do anywhere near enough to win. Our decision making was way off today.
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Had 17-16 written all over it so very glad to be wrong.
Phew.
I think the ref consulted but they didn't show anything back to the officials.
The on field decision was try so if the TV angles were bad then, according to my understanding, they go with the ref's decision.
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What CAN Borthwick do over the summer months to recruit, enthuse and retain a new attacking backline to generate proper momentum that the work of the England pack deserve ?.
AND time for Marcus Smith to be put on the bench, nowhere near as effective as Fin at stand off (too intent on playing his own game) and too slight and light for full back.
Wales under new management were reborn v an admittedly understrength Ireland. England playing in Cardiff in 2 weeks will find this more difficult than was likely 2 weeks ago. As a proud Englishman, it's good to see Wales somewhat back in contention and (hopefully) providing realistic opposition
Union knock ons are ridiculous.
Spill the ball it’s a knock on end of.
C’mon Italy!
Penalty. Not releasing.
They've got to be huge favourites now - BP win v Scotland and that's that.
France played a great game, even though the ref wanted it to be all about him, we didn’t do anywhere near enough to win. Our decision making was way off today.