You can watch wales lose to georgia on s4c

That’s a bit unfair AA, give the other side some credit.  Amazon are showing it too.

You can watch the replays if you like. I mean; only if you have no lint left in your belly button, toenails are on point and nostril hair is taken care of. All of those activities are better than any of the games. However all is not lost; YouTube has the whole of the NZ v Argentina game and it was a cracker.

Got a link Duckman?  I can only find highlights?

NZ drop to third in the rankings!

Kryton; see above…what.a.game.

Botham called up to Wales squad along with McNicol

Haha, I thought that was his Dad for a second.

Bbc are reporting that Botham will start on Saturday. I did not expect that a week ago. I’m surprised that he is ahead of Taine Basham in the pecking order, I have to say.

Great to see Sheedy and LRZ start.

Bbc are reporting that Botham will start on Saturday.

I guess Navidi and Moriarty are still borked then.

So the thinking is

L Williams; McNicholl, Tompkins, J Williams, Rees-Zammit; Sheedy, Hardy; Jones, Dee, Lee, Ball, Davies, Tipuric (capt), Botham, Wainwright.

Hopefully Zammit can come in to the wing and Williams go to 15 for England. Although having McNicholl take the inevitable spanking v england might be better.

Wales: Liam Williams; Johnny McNicholl, Nick Tompkins, Johnny Williams, Louis Rees-Zammit; Callum Sheedy, Kieran Hardy; Wyn Jones, Elliot Dee, Samson Lee, Jake Ball, Seb Davies, James Botham, Justin Tipuric (capt), Aaron Wainwright.

Replacements: Sam Parry, Nicky Smith, Leon Brown, Cory Hill, James Davies, Rhys Webb, Ioan Lloyd, Jonah Holmes

Nice to see Lloyd on bench, backs look handy assuming any of them other than Liam can tackle

England:

15. Elliot Daly (Saracens, 44 caps)
14. Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby, 52 caps)
13. Ollie Lawrence (Worcester Warriors, 2 caps)
12. Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 31 caps)
11. Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby, 58 caps)
10. Owen Farrell (c) (Saracens, 85 caps)
9. Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers, 101 caps)
1. Mako Vunipola (Saracens, 61 caps)
2. Jamie George (Saracens, 51 caps)
3. Kyle Sinckler (Bristol Bears, 37 caps)
4. Maro Itoje (Saracens, 40 caps)
5. Joe Launchbury (Wasps, 66 caps)
6. Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, 25 caps)
7. Sam Underhill (Bath Rugby, 19 caps)
8. Billy Vunipola (Saracens, 53 caps)
<h3>Finishers</h3>
16. Tom Dunn (Bath Rugby, 2 caps)
17. Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers, 20 caps)
18. Will Stuart (Bath Rugby, 5 caps)
19. Jonny Hill (Exeter Chiefs, 1 cap)
20. Ben Earl (Bristol Bears, 5 caps)
21. Dan Robson (Wasps, 4 caps)
22. George Ford (Leicester Tigers, 69 caps)
23. Max Malins (Bristol Bears, 1 cap)

Strong team and shaping to be a good match with Ireland.  As it’s at home I’m going England by 10pts with some scares.

Is Lawes injured?

Looks like basically a full strength starting XV…..are we really that short of fit wingers that we’re sticking Joseph out there though? He’s not great under the high ball. Nowell is injured, is Watson? Cockanasiga? Solomona?

I have started a new thread for the 2021 season