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Scarlets coach Pivac reveals Wales talks

Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac

Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac has revealed he held informal talks with Wales as they look to replace Warren Gatland next year.

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Gatland’s contract expires in 2019, leaving Wales with time to find a new boss and Pivac, the former Fiji coach, is seemingly among those under consideration.

The Welsh Rugby Union previously stated its intention to announce an appointment later this year and Pivac – who signed a Scarlets contract until at least 2020 last October – speculated that a number of other coaches could also be in conversation with the national team.

“There has been nothing formal, just discussions around my contract here, which I recently signed,” he told a news conference.

“As you would expect, I am pretty sure most coaches in Wales at the highest levels would have those conversations.”

Weekend reports claimed the Scarlets allowed Wales to speak to Pivac, despite the defence of their Pro14 title and their challenge to win the European Champions Cup heating up.

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JW 1 hour ago
How 'misunderstood' Rassie Erasmus is rolling back the clock

If he plays both, he can be both. He can’t obviously be both selected as 20 and 22 though, but if you want to select him as a 22 I see no reason why he can’t play at 7.


Want you wont be able to do is select Jegou as a 22(read 21 on a team sheet), when you only have intention to use him as a 20, unless he actually plays in the backline often enough(like Botia).


Yes well I was only postulating on RWs point. They don’t have to go back to vote necessarily if they all just think this is awesome perhaps, my point is the people that voted such stipulation not necessary in the first place. maybe have changed their mind and call for some amendment?


The sort of balance you’d prefer to see isn’t something you’d generally dedicate an article to? I mentioned in another post that SR players aren’t tiring out as much as weve got through the season, have they been able to transition through the weeks to the new required fitness that easily? Have they adapted to the refereeing and found new ways to slow the opposition (therefor everyone is doing it to each other) down?


We don’t need any knee jerk reactions/big changes. They’re treating injured players with a bit of respect again, that takes time. I’d like some sort of fast/smooth interchange option, but I’d also like to keep it as close to current affect on the game as possible, and those two ideas don’t align. I’d start with bedding new speed of play priorities in, while moving to one less total substitutions allowed. 7, and go from there. That doesn’t quite allow being able to go off and on as we’d like, as that would burn through that number, in a tougher 15 man game. quite quickly. Anything reversed inside 5 minutes (10 for stitches/HIA) doesn’t count to the limit perhaps, or we have to bare with medics on the field?


See how it goes with 7 subs a game instead of 8 and then reduce as needed. They actually allow injured fr to return for certain things right? Just cards and HIAs?

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