[Edit] I see he'd already done them on some alt-right website; come on Jeff, come over to a proper Rugby board ...
Jeff the Bear wrote: Jeff's All New and Orgasmic Wales Ratings v England
15. Liam Williams – Terrible effort in trying to take down Youngs for his try, and also got charged down, but was solid enough otherwise. 6/10
14. Lous Rees-Zammit – Great tracking stopped an almost certain try in one instance, and was good, if not spectacular, across the rest of his game. 7/10
13. George North – Showed why he’ll never be an elite outside centre. Got caught jamming in constantly, and in one instance, left everyone else high and dry when he rushed out of the line. Did make some good carries and hits though. 5/10
12. Jon Davies – Totally anonymous. Even in his pomp, his worth was always as a defender tracking and shutting down the outside channels. If he’s deemed too slow to do that role, then he brings absolutely nothing at IC. 4/10
11. Josh Adams – Good defence, good kicking and decent on the ball when it finally made it to him. Continues to be Wales' most rounded back. 7/10
10. Dan Biggar – Solid kicking, but that’s about it. Sheedy was a step up in all playing departments (and nailed his kicks). The writing could be on the wall for Biggar’s starting position. 5/10
9. Kieran Hardy – Bit of a mixed bag, but a lot more good than bad. Took his try very well, but he ended up slowing the game to an almost standstill at the rucks due to the relentless English pressure. 7/10
8. Taulupe Faletau – Back to near peak form. It was essentially a competition with Billy V to see who starts at 8 or the Lions, and Faletau took it (although I thought Billy V played his best game for England for some time). Big carries, almost top Welsh tackler, and high work-rate across the pitch. 8/10
7. Justin Tipuric – Usual industrious performance from a man who simply doesn’t do poor performances. 7/10
6. Josh Navidi – It was a good, combative display. However, I feel there’s still another gear (or two) in his game. We still shipped yards on the gainline. When Navidi is on the very top of his game, he’s able to stop those types of charges. 7/10
5. Alun Wyn Jones – At the beginning of the championship, few people would have had him as a Lions starter, but he continues to impress. Outworked the much vaunted Itoje across pretty much every metric. 7/10
4. Adam Beard – Borderline underwhelming game from Beard. Didn’t really do much of anything. 5/10
3. Tom Francis – Struggled in the scrum, but put in a decent amount of tackles. 5/10
2. Ken Owens – Lineout was once again just about all right. Didn’t get up to much otherwise. 5/10
1. Wyn Jones – Solid on his side of the scrum, and made at least one decent carry. 5/10
Team Average: 6/10
Tactics Talk
The narrative of being lucky will persist, and there may be more than a grain of truth to it, but in all our wins this tournament, we’ve always worked hard to be in the fight…and that has nothing to do with the opposition or refs. Whether that is because of Pivac, or because if residual steel from the Gatland era is a more difficult question to answer, but we’ve definitely got that knack that solid teams have to know how to win games. That is ultimately what has won us games, the ability to do the right things in the right areas at the right times.
On the flipside, our defence was brutally exposed on a number of occasions. It’s still a dam sight better than the Byron era, but whenever England actually managed to generate some speed in the rucks, they were able to outflank us with ease. Both North, and Halaholo got caught jamming in, and we were left to scramble several times.
Onto Italy next. They’ve looked poor against pretty much everyone, which probably means it’s time for their one good game of the season against us. Having said that, we should have too much for them. The most improbable Slam ever is still on!
) after they were doing everything so near perfectly in 2019?
