WALES HAVE called up Scarlets scrum-half Kieran Hardy as a replacement for injured No 8 Taulupe Faletau, the Welsh rugby unon announced Sunday.
Faletau broke his arm in Wales’ 43-19 victory over Georgia on Saturday and coach Warren Gatland had warned it might not be a like-for-like replacement.
“We feel we have a number of options in the back row at the moment, so we’ve decided to call up Kieran to give us extra cover at scrum-half and to take some pressure off from a training perspective,” Gatland said.
Gatland’s initial 33-man squad only featured two scrum-halves, Gareth Davies and Tomos Williams.
Gatland hinted that Williams would be the fly-half back-up to Dan Biggar and Sam Costelow after Gareth Anscombe sustained a groin injury in the win over the Georgians.
Wales play Argentina, 39-27 winners over Japan on Sunday in the first quarter-final, in Marseille, on Saturday.
Lovely stuff
Good man Sham, real intelligent argument there, please enlighten us with more pearls of wisdom
I bet most Leinster “fans” couldn’t tell you the name of the previous coach without googling it, worse than Man City for fair weather support. Once they lose their edge (happens to every great team eventually) these “fans” will vanish into thin air and its back to 6,000 at a home Heineken Cup game
Jesus… those Munster lads have a fair old chip in the shoulder! ;-)
“Ah here.. leave it out!”
Speaking from raw experience Sham?
Woop! Good man joe!