Unfortunately Georgia has to play without two last minute forfeit : their captain #6 Beka Gorgadze and their most capped player, the winger Sandro Todua, the two oldest players of the squad
Cockerill decided to make a lot of changes with picking a very young squad since he was appointed Georgia's headcoach as I wrote before.
Today from the starting XV 11 players are from 20 to 25 years old, 4 in a 26-28 age range and not a single one older than 28.
The Georgia's junior program is very well builded with the U20 always finishing in the JWC top10
The team moved from a full forwards oriented gameplan to a very balanced gameplan with every a year a couple of U20 backs included in the senior squad.
Maybe the forwards are a bit less dominant than the Mamuka Gorgodze Era, but the team is overall better and more enjoyable to watch.
Now they have to work hard on defending mauls, lineouts, and to be overall faster. They showed for a while that they are fit to play 80 min at international level while most of Tier2 team are struggling a lot from min 60