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Josh Adams parting message to Worcester

Josh Adams

Worcester Warriors and Wales winger Josh Adams has thanked his club ahead of his final game this weekend, before he moves to Cardiff Blues next season.

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Worcester host newly crowned European champions Saracens at Sixways this Saturday, and it will be Adams’ final game for the club he joined in 2015. Going into the match, the winger wrote on his Instagram “What an amazing 4 years it’s been, I can’t thank this club enough for the opportunity it gave me.”

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Worcester picked up Adams when he had been released by the Scarlets in Wales, and at the time he did not appear to have much of a future with Wales. However, his superb form with the Warriors over the past four years has meant that Warren Gatland simply had to pick him. Adams made his debut for Wales in the 2018 Six Nations, after being named the Premiership Player of the Month in December 2017, and has since then established himself as a starter for Wales, winning the Grand Slam this year.

However, if the 24-year-old wishes to continue playing for his country, he must move to a Welsh region, based on the new 60-cap ruling. While he was eligible to play for Wales before, as he was uncapped when he signed for Worcester, he must return to Wales now that he has represented his country.

Josh Adams has been one of Worcester’s best players over the past few seasons, and will be missed. He has helped his side stave off relegation this season, as they have battled with Leicester and Newcastle to avoid the drop. He hopes to end his Worcester career with a win, which will be a tall order against the rampant Saracens, but it would be a fitting end to his time at Sixways.

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GrahamVF 1 hour ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

"has SA actually EVER helped to develop another union to maturity like NZ has with Japan," yes - Argentina. You obviously don't know the history of Argentinian rugby. SA were touring there on long development tours in the 1950's

We continued the Junior Bok tours to the Argentine through to the early 70's

My coach at Grey High was Giepie Wentzel who toured Argentine as a fly half. He told me about how every Argentinian rugby club has pictures of Van Heerden and Danie Craven on prominent display. Yes we have developed a nation far more than NZ has done for Japan. And BTW Sa players were playing and coaching in Japan long before the Kiwis arrived. Fourie du Preez and many others were playing there 15 years ago.


"Isaac Van Heerden's reputation as an innovative coach had spread to Argentina, and he was invited to Buenos Aires to help the Pumas prepare for their first visit to South Africa in 1965.[1][2] Despite Argentina faring badly in this tour,[2] it was the start of a long and happy relationship between Van Heerden and the Pumas. Izak van Heerden took leave from his teaching post in Durban, relocated to Argentina, learnt fluent Spanish, and would revolutionise Argentine play in the late 1960s, laying the way open for great players such as Hugo Porta.[1][2] Van Heerden virtually invented the "tight loose" form of play, an area in which the Argentines would come to excel, and which would become a hallmark of their playing style. The Pumas repaid the initial debt, by beating the Junior Springboks at Ellis Park, and emerged as one of the better modern rugby nations, thanks largely to the talents of this Durban schoolmaster.[1]"


After the promise made by Junior Springbok manager JF Louw at the end of a 12-game tour to Argentina in 1959 – ‘I will do everything to ensure we invite you to tour our country’ – there were concerns about the strength of Argentinian rugby. South African Rugby Board president Danie Craven sent coach Izak van Heerden to help the Pumas prepare and they repaid the favour by beating the Junior Springboks at Ellis Park.

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