Wales Under 20s at the JRWC

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Wales U20 Junior World Championship squad
Forwards:
Rhys Davies (Ospreys), Tom Devine (Dragons)
Dewi Lake (Ospreys – Capt), Will Griffiths (Dragons), Garin Lloyd (Ospreys)
Ben Warren (Cardiff Blues), Kemsley Mathias (Scarlets), Nick English (Bristol Bears)
Jac Price (Scarlets), Morgan Jones (Scarlets), Teddy Williams (Cardiff Blues), Ed Scragg (Dragons)
Lennon Greggains (Dragons), Jac Morgan (Scarlets/Aberavon), Tommy Reffell (Leicester Tigers), Iestyn Rees (Scarlets)

Backs
Harri Morgan (Ospreys), Dafydd Buckland (Dragons)
Cai Evans (Ospreys), Sam Costelow (Leicester Tigers)
Aneurin Owen (Dragons), Tiaan Thomas-Wheeler (Ospreys), Max Llewellyn (Cardiff Blues)
Ryan Conbeer (Scarlets), Rio Dyer (Dragons), Deon Smith (Dragons), Ioan Davies (Cardiff Blues), Tomi Lewis (Scarlets)

Wales U20 fixtures
June 4: Wales U20s v Argentina U20s (KO 5pm BST)
June 8: Wales U20s v France U20s (KO 5pm BST)
June 12: Wales U20s v Fiji U20s (5pm BST)
Knockout stages on Monday, 17 June and finals day on Saturday, 22 June, live on ITV.

The others too? Appreciate I’m being lazy and could just google

The Oracle wrote:The others too? Appreciate I’m being lazy and could just google

De Glanville is the son of the former Bath and England Captain, there is also Brian Redpath’s boy who is a pretty handy centre, surprised he’s not there as he’s one of their best players must be an injury.

Redpath got a three month ban for biting

Collapse2005 wrote:Redpath got a three month ban for biting

Oh it was him. Right...!

Is the u20s game on TV? None of the ITV channels seem to be showing it

BamBam wrote:Is the u20s game on TV? None of the ITV channels seem to be showing it

Available on WR website

28-0 at HT

Thanks LT

BamBam wrote:Is the u20s game on TV? None of the ITV channels seem to be showing it

S4C Welsh language channel 134 on sky

45-21 5 to go

45-26.

A game that felt full of errors.

We looked strong in the front 5 this year, good news as we need some depth there. The back-row were decent but would need to be exceptional to break in and compete with what we have. Reffell will probably kick on at Tigers; he’s a fetcher so would be a great addition to their strong pack.

Congrats England

Well done England, haven’t seen the game yet but that’s some score line.

Didn’t see a lot of the game, but it’s weird to see our youngsters have three (I think) tries through forward dominance in the highlights. The English pack (at that level) tends to bully us.

Game too far for Wales really.

RiscaGame wrote:Didn’t see a lot of the game, but it’s weird to see our youngsters have three (I think) tries through forward dominance in the highlights. The English pack (at that level) tends to bully us.

Game too far for Wales really.

Wales rolling maul went well in second half. This was not the biggest of U20 packs for England (Joe Heyes apart) but certainly in the first half we dominated the scrum.

This was a weird tournament overall.

I believe next years groups are

1: France, Wales, NZ and trophy winner
2: Australia, England, Ireland, Fiji
3: Argentina, South Africa, Italy, Georgia

Doesn’t get any easier does it

profitius wrote:I believe next years groups are

1: France, Wales, NZ and trophy winner
2: Australia, England, Ireland, Fiji
3: Argentina, South Africa, Italy, Georgia

That pool order looks wrong, as SA beat Argentina for third place, so would be top seeds for one of the pools, along with France and Australia. If the names are nevertheless right, then the best second-placed team looks like it might come from pool 3, as there's a greater chance of getting bonus points against Italy and Georgia. Everyone else will likely have to win the pool to qualify for the semi-finals.

Oh jeez grouping us with France and NZ. The WRU had better do something drastic right now to improve us at U20 level.

mikey_dragon wrote:Oh jeez grouping us with France and NZ. The WRU had better do something drastic right now to improve us at U20 level.

Maybe sneaking in a few u30s players???