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Welsh rugby player reveals day-by-day progress in COVID-19 battle
By Ian Cameron
Director of Rugby at Championship side London Welsh and current player Cai Griffiths has been detailing his battle with COVID-19 after contracting the virus.
The former Ospreys prop took to Twitter to keep his followers updated on the progress of the disease after he believed he was infected by the unwitting visit of a friend who has since tested positive for the potentially deadly virus.
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Here is the timeline of his illness:
Wed 18th - Got infectedSat 21st - Started to show symptoms (Headache, Fever, Aches)
Sun 22nd - Symptoms increased intensity
Mon 23rd - Headache still pretty intense, cough, fever
Tues 24th - Felt better but still bad
Thurs 26th - Felt good
Sat 28th - 100%
The 36-year-old took just 10 days to go from being infected to a full recovery.
The tighthead combines playing for the London Welsh and acting as their DoR. He has made 14 appearances for the club.
Wales' Principality Stadium is to be converted into a temporary hospital providing around 2,000 additional beds to support the NHS.
The Welsh Rugby Union, which owns and operates the venue, has been working with the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board as part of contingency planning around the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
COVID-19 has effected other notable personalities within the rugby community. An executive director at Newcastle Falcons is currently receiving oxygen in hospital after falling ill with what RugbyPass understands is a presumed case of COVID-19.
Mick Hogan was Manager Director of the club between 2014 and 2018, and continues to work at the club as an Executive Director.
Hogan fell ill in recent days and was admitted to Cramlington Hospital in Northumbria after he had issues with his breathing.
“Thanks for all the good wishes everyone,” he Tweeted. “I’m currently on oxygen at Cramlington Hospital after struggling with my breathing yesterday.
“NHS staff have been incredible and the care I’ve received has been out of this world.”
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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