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Barbarians name their team to face Wales

Dillyn Leyds looks on during Barbarians training at the University of South Wales (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images for Barbarians)

Rory Best will captain the Barbarians on Saturday against Wales in what is set to be his last match before retirement. 

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The former Ireland skipper called time on his stellar career when his country was knocked out of the recent World Cup in Japan by New Zealand.

He has since turned out with the Barbarians, featuring in their games against Fiji at Twickenham and Brazil in Sao Paulo. 

Saturday’s showdown with Wales in Cardiff is now the last stop on the Barbarians tour and it will spell the end for Best unless rumours of a dramatic final year swansong at Pat Lam’s Bristol proved to be true. 

Best is leading out a star-studded Barbarians XV – coached by former Wales boss Warren Gatland – that includes Mathieu Bastareaud, Campese Ma’afu and Pete Samu. 

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The game, which is Wayne Pivac’s first in charge of Wales, is part of a Barbarians double-header against the Wales men’s and women’s national sides.

Barbarians (v Wales, Saturday)

Shaun Stevenson; Dillyn Leyds, Mathieu Bastareaud, Andre Esterhuizen, Cornal Hendricks; Curwin Bosch, Bryn Hall; Campese Ma’afu, Rory Best (capt), Wiehahn Herbst, Luke Jones, Tyler Ardron, Pete Samu, Marco van Staden, Josh Strauss.  

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That's Cron's job though. Australia has had one of the most penalised scrums in international rugby for a long time. Just look at the scrum win loss percentage and scrum penalties. That is your evidence. AA has been the starter during that period. Pretty simple analysis. That Australia has had a poor scrum for a long time is hardly news. If bell and thor are not on the field they are woeful. So you are just plain wrong. They have very little time for the lions so doing the same old things that dont work is not going to get them there.


Ainsley is better than our next best tighthead options and has been playing well at scrum time for Lyon in the most competitive comp in the world. Superstar player? No. But better than the next best options. So that is a good enough guide. The scrummaging in the Prem is pretty good too so there is Sio's proof. Same analysis for him. Certainly better in both cases than Super, where the brumbies had the worst win loss and scrum pen in Super. Who plays there? Ohh yes... And the level of scrummaging in Super is well below the URC, prem and France with the SA teams out.


Nongorr is truly woeful. He's 130kg and gets shoved about. That just should not be happening at that weight for a specialist prop who has always played rugby cf pone with leauge. He has had enough time to develop at 23. You'd be better off with Pone who is at least good around the field for the moment and sending Nongorr on exchange to France or England to see if they can improve him with better coaching as happened with Skelton and Meafou. He isn't going to develop in time in super if he has it at all.


Latu is a better scrummaging hooker than BPA and Nasser. and he's the best aussie player over the ball at ruck time. McReight's super jackling percentage hasnt converted to international level but latu consistently does it at heniken level, which is similar to test level in the big games. With good coaching at La Rochelle he's much improved though still has the odd shocker. He should start the November games.

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