Here are the latest rugby headlines on Sunday, October 15.
Dickson determination backed
Some of rugby’s largest pundits have come out and backed referee Karl Dickson’s determination to not penalise Argentina for the pinnacle shot on Wales centre Nick Tompkins within the Welsh aspect’s World Cup-ending 29-17 defeat.
With Warren Gatland’s males having fun with a 17-12 lead on 64 minutes, Los Pumas star Guido Petti crashed into Tompkins at a ruck 5 metres from Wales’ strive line however substitute referee Dickson determined no foul play had occurred after liaising along with his TMO Marius Jonker, saying: “The crimson participant falls considerably. No foul play for me. As he goes down, the blue participant is available in to make a authorized clear.”
While many questioned the decision, former Wales gamers Gareth Thomas and Jamie Roberts, who had been working as pundits for ITV, felt the officers bought it proper.
“It was very clear that the referee called ‘tackle’, so the player is going to go down and he is going to hit the ruck,” Thomas mentioned. “I thought the referee did a very clear, good job in explaining why he made the decision he made.” Roberts added: “I would agree with the lads, he managed that moment really well because that could have changed the game.”
Australian legend George Gregan was additionally on the panel and he feels making an attempt to carry gamers up in an try to achieve a turnover can really end in higher-than-usual cleanouts. “It was about proper,” he mentioned. “If you’re tactically attempting to maintain individuals up, you’re really forcing the person to wash out just a little bit greater, so if there’s a slight little bit of motion, which is the mitigating circumstance, then that is going to occur. I assumed it was managed fairly nicely from the referee.”
Former England fly-half Andy Goode mentioned on X: “Correct name from Karl Dickson honest play to him that’s only a rugby incident the place Tompkins will get hit”.
Dan Biggar gutted by abrupt finish
Retiring Wales fly-half Dan Biggar says he’s gutted by his aspect’s Rugby World Cup exit however he’ll come to replicate on his 15-year worldwide profession with pleasure. Biggar, who turns 34 on Monday, is stepping down from Wales responsibility and can concentrate on his membership rugby in Toulon. Wales’ 29-17 defeat to Argentina in Marseille marked Biggar’s last Test match.
“I assumed it might be a type of moments the place you simply pack up your bag and go away, however I feel the sudden abruptness of it, realising that [Sunday] goes to be the final day with the group… the one optimistic is I’ve bought an affordable Uber again to the home in Toulon,” he instructed BBC Sport Wales. “It’s been 15, 16, years of my life… each autumn, Six Nations and summer time, it has been an enormous a part of my life and I could not have requested for a lot of higher individuals to have carried out it with.
“I’m completely gutted, annoyed, disappointment, which I feel will likely be uncooked for a few days, however maybe once I see the larger image and look again and assume possibly I have never carried out too unhealthy over the 15 years or so. I’ve bought tonnes and tonnes of fond reminiscences of the individuals, stadiums, achievements, however it should be very, very tough to switch, nevertheless it permits me to now consider week in, week out rugby, being at home extra. It’ll positively be unusual watching the Six Nations subsequent yr and never being part of it. I’m very upset with the way it’s completed tonight however I’ll recover from it.”
‘Biggar has set the usual’
During the dwell TV broadcast on ITV, Jamie Roberts praised talisman Biggar for his service to Welsh rugby, saying: “Look, it should take a little bit of time to recover from. But he is a beautiful man, and a beautiful participant who’s contributed immensely to Welsh rugby.
“This man has set the usual, alongside your Alun Wyn Joneses, for a major time frame as a backline basic. His best energy is assessing threat on the pitch.
“He’s a type of gamers. I feel the Welsh groups of old all the time wished to play, did not they? The romantic group of the ’70s. But Dan Biggar and the groups he is performed with for Wales, he is introduced a calmness, he is introduced a reassurance, he is introduced a optimistic vitality into the aspect.”
Former Wales captain Gareth Thomas additionally praised the outside-half, saying: “I feel when everybody calms down a bit and we recover from the loss, we’ll not simply recognize what Dan Biggar has carried out for the Welsh jersey in No. 10, but in addition as Jamie mentioned earlier what this group have carried out. This group has are available right here off the again of horrible ends in the warm-up video games shedding by 50 factors to South Africa, everyone had written them off and so they had been unbeaten all through the pool. They’ve restored a happiness in Welsh rugby that wasn’t there earlier to the World Cup.”
Navidi: Time to show Wales’ youth
Former Wales flanker Josh Navidi needs Warren Gatland to provide gamers who have not had a lot sport time on the Rugby World Cup an opportunity to indicate what they’ll do when Wales host the Barbarians in Cardiff on November 4. As for the 2024 Six Nations, Navidi believes that’s the start line for the following World Cup in 2027.
“There’s going to be boys leaving now so there will likely be lots of kids coming by way of, it is all about getting the boys some publicity to these video games now as a result of it is a totally different kettle of fish once you come to a World Cup,” he instructed BBC Radio Wales.
“I feel beginning with the Barbarians, give the boys who have not had sport time a run-out. Then on the Six Nations we have to slowly build the squad for the following World Cup as a result of on the finish of the day it is not going to come back in a single day. There are going to be instances the place we do have darkish moments nevertheless it’s that publicity to the young gamers which is what I’ve all the time been an enormous fan of, simply them having that little publicity.”
Former Wales hooker and coach Robin McBryde instructed S4C: “Wales’ young gamers will study from this expertise, the one approach to study is on the market on the pitch. Warren Gatland have to be pondering how good this Wales aspect will be, the defence, the pack they had been heroic, the mix within the again row labored. From listening to Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake they’re in good fingers.”
