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Hat-trick for Carys Phillips as Wales continue revival with South Africa victory

By PA
PA

Hooker Carys Phillips marked her first Wales start for two years with a hat-trick of tries in their 29-19 win over South Africa in Saturday’s women’s international at Cardiff Arms Park.

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Ioan Cunningham’s team followed up last weekend’s 23-5 victory over Japan – which ended a two-year losing streak – with another strong performance against the Springboks, despite making seven changes to the starting XV.

Wales made the perfect start, with Phillips crashing over for her first try off the back of a strong driving line-out before scrum-half Ffion Lewis combined with number eight Siwan Lillicrap off the base of the scrum to add a second.

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A penalty from Elinor Snowsill made it 17-0 at half-time and there was no way back for the visitors when another solid line-out enabled Phillips to score her second try 11 minutes into the second half.

Wing Nomawethu Mabenge pulled a try back, but Wales took advantage of the the sin-binning of Libbie Janse Van Rensburg for a high tackle to create the position for Phillips to complete her hat-trick on 68 minutes.

Snowsill’s third conversion made it 29-7, but the tourists finished the game with a flourish, scoring late consolation tries through centre Zintle Mpupha and Van Rensburg.

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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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