There is no reason for us not to win if we played our best team! Ryan Jones has shown his class at 8! without sounding like a broken record I would include Hibbard too. Yes! osprey heavy but they are on form

There is no reason for us not to win if we played our best team! Ryan Jones has shown his class at 8! without sounding like a broken record I would include Hibbard too. Yes! osprey heavy but they are on form

Cementheads in oz

Does anyone really care about that?

Welsh team. He was right last time so....

Gethin Jenkins, Matthew Rees, Adam Jones. Alun Wyn Jones, Ian Evans, Dan Lydiate, Sam Warburton, Ryan Jones, Mike Phillips, Rhys Priestland, George North, Scott Williams, Jonathan Davies, Alex Cuthbert, Leigh Halfpenny.

Reps: P James, K Owens, J Hook, B Davies, J Tipuric, A Beck, L Williams

Looks about right. Beck should start, but I'm not surprised that he won't if that is the team. Interesting with going with the two Ospreys lock, but not unsurprising though.

No idea why lloyd Williams is even near the squad. He has shown sweet fuck all at the blues

For any Aussies interested, here's highlights of the Wales v Brumbies game

http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/news/22624.php

The team that should finish the game should be:

Halfpenny, Cuthbert, Foxy, Beck, North, Hook, L Williams; Gethin, Owens, Adam, Ryan, AWJ, Lydiate, Warburton, Tipuric

I think we've dropped a bollock by not having Rhys Webb on the bench. He always had a good connection with Hook and is made for impact on dry tracks and lots of scrappy rucks.

Have you amended the ratings thread

For any Aussies interested, here's highlights of the Wales v Brumbies game

http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/news/22624.php

Wales has made four changes to their starting team for the second Test against Australia as they seeks to level the three-match series in Melbourne on Saturday.
Ashley Beck will start in the centres with Scott Williams dropped to the bench, Matthew Rees replaces Ken Owens at hooker, Alun Wyn Jones relegates lock Luke Charteris to the bench and Ryan Jones takes over at No. 8 from the injured Toby Faletau.
The Wallabies won the first Test 27-19 and are looking to clinch the series at Etihad Stadium.


Wales: Leigh Halfpenny, Alex Cuthbert, Jonathan Davies, Ashley Beck, George North, Rhys Priestland, Mike Phillips, Ryan Jones, Sam Warburton (c), Dan Lydiate, Alun Wyn Jones, Bradley Davies, Adam Jones, Matthew Rees, Gethin Jenkins. Res: Richard Hibbard, Paul James, Luke Charteris, Justin Tipuric, Rhys Webb, James Hook, Scott Williams.

Are there any good craft beer bars near the stadium at all?

James Squire brewhouse at Docklands is pretty good.

Actually yes I have. It's pretty good! Lots of nice beers on tap and in bottles. Pricey if I remember but I was drunk so it was all good.

Good selection. We need to give the Shackledraggers a thumping this weekend. No excuses.

WOOHOO! That's the team pretty much everyone would have picked. We all knew that Warburton wasn't going to be dropped...but Beck in the midfield, AWJ in for Charteris, Ryan Jones to 8, and just as important in my eyes, Hibbard, Tipuric and Webb on the bench, players who can genuinely bring impact to the field.

Looks good. Beck deserves his chance. Will we see him defending @ 13?

Despite Hibbard's form, I didn't think Owens deserved to be dropped from the squad. Injury perhaps.

I also thought Ian Evans would have sneaked onto the bench instead of Girafe boy.

Owens has the better darts

Wales should win this but that of course means the sum total of fuck all.
Could'ha Should'ha Didn't.
C.S.D is far more apt badge for us than "WRU".
Aussies will believe they can win, expect to - to us winning in the Southern Hemisphere is built up so much in our feeble little minds..it feels like fantasy. Where as the Aussie expect to win in practical clinical and scientific terms ..we fantasise and dream..a mindset as fragile in it's nature as it is damaging.
They got this - we will have lots of advantages which we won't be able to use, frustration and Rhys Priestland and await some inevitable mental flapping rob howler - Gareth cooper in the last six minutes type decision.

Could'ha Should'ha Didn't.