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[RWC2023 QF1] Wales vs Argentina (14/10/2023)
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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 1157872" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>I thought I'd be more upset today, but I can accept the loss yesterday to the better team.</p><p></p><p>After watching the NZ v Ire game, I'm even more certain that had we won, it would have been a big loss in the SF. I think Arg will put up a much better fight.</p><p></p><p>I'm proud of the progress made by the boys after a tough few years. We lost a ton of experience before the tournament when AWJ and Tips retured and Ken go lt injured. Gatland drafted in a lot of young, inexperienced players who would have learnt a huge amount.</p><p></p><p>The important thing for Welsh rugby is to sort out our domestic game and build a squad for the next 4, 8, 12 years. Build it around the likes of Domachowski, Lake, Tshiunza, Jenkins, Morgan, Reffell, Basham, Wainwright, Costellow, Grady, LRZ, Dyer + plenty of others who didn't make the WC squad like Asseratti, Mathias, Botham, Llewellyn, Kieran Williams, Joe Roberts, Lloyd and plenty of others.</p><p></p><p>Untimately, this WC was too soon in that cycle for this group. We should only be losing a relatively small number of older players from this group (Biggar, Cawdor, Sanjay, Francis, Faletau, North, Anscombe, Halfpenny, Lydiate); some important players in there of course, but many have either had a lot of recent injury woe or dips in form anyway so we've already started replacing them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 1157872, member: 13739"] I thought I'd be more upset today, but I can accept the loss yesterday to the better team. After watching the NZ v Ire game, I'm even more certain that had we won, it would have been a big loss in the SF. I think Arg will put up a much better fight. I'm proud of the progress made by the boys after a tough few years. We lost a ton of experience before the tournament when AWJ and Tips retured and Ken go lt injured. Gatland drafted in a lot of young, inexperienced players who would have learnt a huge amount. The important thing for Welsh rugby is to sort out our domestic game and build a squad for the next 4, 8, 12 years. Build it around the likes of Domachowski, Lake, Tshiunza, Jenkins, Morgan, Reffell, Basham, Wainwright, Costellow, Grady, LRZ, Dyer + plenty of others who didn't make the WC squad like Asseratti, Mathias, Botham, Llewellyn, Kieran Williams, Joe Roberts, Lloyd and plenty of others. Untimately, this WC was too soon in that cycle for this group. We should only be losing a relatively small number of older players from this group (Biggar, Cawdor, Sanjay, Francis, Faletau, North, Anscombe, Halfpenny, Lydiate); some important players in there of course, but many have either had a lot of recent injury woe or dips in form anyway so we've already started replacing them. [/QUOTE]
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