This is the latest rugby news on Saturday 19th November after Wales suffered a shock defeat to Georgia and England were held to a draw by New Zealand.

Faletau reveals wardrobe details

Wales number 8 Taulupe Faletau said the home dressing room was a tough place to be in the aftermath of the shock defeat to Georgia and insists the group must stay together.

With less than 10 months to go until the World Cup, Wales suffered one of their most embarrassing defeats on Saturday, losing 13-12 at the Principality Stadium. They will conclude their autumn campaign against Australia next weekend.

“I personally and as a team are very disappointed with today’s work,” said Faletau, who joined the bench. “This is not an easy place. [in the dressing room after a defeat like that]🇧🇷 All with their heads down, very still, trying to understand what went wrong.

“There you do the best you can, try to show everything you can, and things don’t go very well. It’s hard to point fingers. Perhaps due to mistakes, including myself, I hit the ball. It just takes the pressure off that we’re trying to create. The bugs kept them in the game and we couldn’t keep pushing them. So, due to errors, they were not noticed.”

When asked about fans who might be angry about the result, the Cardiff rower said: “Of course the fans are entitled to their opinion. If we don’t get results and they come after us, that’s part of the game. We have to stick together as a group, management and players.”

But the 32-year-old striker paid tribute to Georgia’s strength as they secured their first victory over Wales. “To Georgia’s credit, they stayed in the game and won in the end. Fair game to them, they were tough. They are big physically and it showed. They put a lot of pressure on us during the scrum and we didn’t get a clean ball. Set pieces are an important part of the game and in the end they put pressure on us”.

As for what the next few days will bring, Faletau said there will be individual and group reviews of what went wrong.

“Individually I will see what I could have done better and I think everyone else will do the same. We’ll see how we can help each other while we’re there. You just have to stick together as a team.” We showed that we can recover from such a poor performance, so next week we will try to do the same.”

England had a thrilling comeback to draw with the All Blacks

England managed a thrilling draw on a dramatic night at Twickenham after Will Stewart crossed in the dying seconds to hold New Zealand to a 25-25 deadlock. Trailing 25-6 with nine minutes left and a distant second in all departments, Eddie Jones’ men were brought to life by two tries from substitute Stewart and fullback Freddie Steward.

With less than a minute to go, Stewart hit the post and Marcus Smith converted a desperate situation.

The All Blacks must now live with the grief inflicted by England, defeat in the 2019 World Cup semi-finals in the rivals’ last meeting, followed by this extraordinary capitulation. Seemingly fueled by the frustration of a 19-7 defeat in Yokohama three years ago, New Zealand invaded Jones’ side from the first whistle.

They led 17–3 at half time through Dalton Papalia and Cody Taylor but were helped by hapless English newcomer Jack van Poortvleet with a string of errors.

Rieko Ioane’s electric strike half an hour from time created what appeared to be a clean sheet, but England had other ideas in a game marred by Mathieu Reynal’s meticulous refereeing.

Van Poortvliet was nearly unfailing in his six appearances, but the 21-year-old scrum-half gave New Zealand their first try when his pass, following a well-worked line, was easily caught by the scrum-half Papalia, who scrum-half ran. field to mark.

The All Blacks started like a freight train and England were stunned to run in a second try in the ninth minute, their defensive attack collapsed and Taylor got through. Van Poortvliet’s nightmare continued as he was hounded for taking too long, but Ioane’s shot was deflected off the New Zealand defender’s neck for Owen Farrell to earn his 100th cap.

Once in possession, England attacked with urgency, pushing the ball forward, with Sam Simmonds, Maro Itohe and Billy Vunipola making big dents that left the tourists baffled.

An action-packed first quarter ended in a flurry of scrums, penalties and free-kicks as the game raged between the two 22s, but when the fireworks resumed the All Blacks were on fire and only a committed home defense held them back to a Geordie Barrett. traffic ticket.

Farrell was battling an ankle injury and while the center played, Smith took over shooting duties for the three points. It was an intercepted pass from the Harlequins that created half a chance for Manu Tuilagi, but Sale’s cross was deflected and, after a flurry of pick-and-gos, England were penalized on the line for being knocked to the ground.

The chance was squandered and they were forced to call as the All Blacks sprang into action, latching onto Simmonds, who fumbled down the wing to make a brilliant try from his own line of 22. Beauden Barrett crossed for Caleb Clarke, who he passed Yoane in the loop and off center had the gas to trample. Beauden Barrett scored a goal on the way down before being penalized for holding Smith and England finally won in the 72nd minute thanks to Stewart.

They were back on the field less than two minutes later with a stunning counter-attack that was capped by Steward bursting through the New Zealand defense before another fine move finished off super substitute Stewart and Smith to seal the tie.

Wayne Pivak leaves the conversation about his future to others

Wales coach Wayne Pivac answered questions about his future after a humiliating Autumn Nations Series home defeat to Georgia.

Georgia followed Italy to a famous victory in Cardiff this year, while Wales’ terror list also includes defeats at home to Romania (1988), Canada (1993) and Samoa (2012). Wales have won just three of their 11 games this year and Pivac, who replaced fellow New Zealander Warren Gatland after the 2019 World Cup, will now inevitably feel the mood ahead of next weekend’s clash with Australia.

“So far, you’ve seen a lot of results that go against form, and ours is one of those results,” Pivac said. “Starting tomorrow morning, I’ll be here rolling up my sleeves and we’ll draw up a plan for the week. We are here to do the job, we are fully focused on getting to the World Cup. It’s clearly a setback.” and we’re not proud of the outcome.”

Asked if he felt his position was now in jeopardy, Pivac added: “Again, I think this is a question for other people. We’ve done this (changed things) before. Unfortunately, we’ve had to do this many times, from my point of view. view. It’s a nasty place.

“Seven days is a long time in rugby and we will look at all of that, including stretching the game down to the smallest detail. We have to make sure that in seven days we get results that we are all happy and proud of.”

Wales complete their autumn schedule against Australia next weekend.

Tipuric: “Today we are the party of quality”

Wales captain Justin Tipuric said: “It was a stop and go feeling. We had some momentum and then lost it.

“You can talk all you want, but if there’s no reaction, which there wasn’t today, you’ll be left behind. Rugby has its ups and downs. It’s definitely a fall. We have to stick together. We’re a quality crew these days, so we should start shooting next week.

“It’s tough being the first Welsh team to lose to Georgia. Unfortunately, you have those tough days in your career, and now it all depends on how we react. Obviously, we were planning to end this slump strong and build momentum after the win against Argentina. Unfortunately, we didn’t do that today. We were disappointed and it is a disillusioned resort”.

Source: Wales Online