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Concerns as Welsh lock Beard leaves field on stretcher

Adam Beard

Welsh secondrow Adam Beard is a Six Nations doubt after leaving today’s Ospreys Cardiff Blues derby on a stretcher.

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The 6’8 Osprey was involved in a collision just two mintues into the game, and was placed in a beck brace after receiving medical treatment on the pitch.

He was then taken to hospital.

The 22-year-old has become a regular starter for Warren Gatland’s Wales, and the injury throws into doubt his participation in the Six Nations.

Beard is the latest injury doubt for Wales, who are unlikely to have the services of Scarlets’ Leigh Halfpenny for the tournament.

Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac confirmed the fullback would visit a specialist due to his concussion issues.

The full-back has not featured since November 10 when he took a blow to the head from Samu Kerevi in Wales’ victory over Australia in Cardiff.

“He was training at the start of the week and still picking up the odd issue there in terms of headaches.”

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Gatland is also unlikely to have the services of Aaron Shingler, Rhys Patchell, James Davies and Jake Ball for some or all of the tournament.

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JW 1 hour ago
Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

This piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.


I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.


Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.


The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.

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