00:00Obviously some of the English-based players come in a little bit later and with the nature of having the
00:06Barbarians game only really had like a week, three or four sessions to show what they had.
00:12So what we've tried to do is look more big picture, so it's not just about the now, it's not
00:17about just the next three weeks coming, it's about the autumn, the six nations and then ultimately 2027.
00:24So that was made pretty clear to the players in terms of, you know, don't get absolutely fixated on the
00:31next three weeks.
00:32We want to see you if we haven't seen you before, get you involved in the squad and it just
00:38makes the next time they come in a lot smoother.
00:40So, yeah, some tough decisions, but a little bit tough of the English-based players because obviously we hadn't seen
00:47enough of them really.
00:48Kick strategy, we do really as a coaching group, Steve has a look at that obviously and myself, Danny and
00:55Murch will have input on that.
00:57Pens at the moment is more, he will give obviously, say our full backs, he's got a lot of experience
01:02being in the backfield and covering space.
01:05So he'll add value to that, but mainly the technical side of kicking and especially the goal kickers.
01:11The Barbarians game was good practice in terms of there's an air of unpredictability around how the Barbar's played and
01:17obviously Fiji are a team that their transitional stuff is a massive weapon.
01:22I think statistically best in the world transition-wise in terms of when they receive a kick or turnover attack,
01:31they've got so many good athletes.
01:32So it's about trying to control that. The game will break into that occasionally because that's how the game is
01:38at the moment.
01:39So we're going to have to be pretty structured with how we kick and try and really put a game
01:47that Wales need on the field rather than something that's too loose.
01:51I think there's going to be a lot more rotation. As an example, I think we get to Argentina on
01:58Monday.
01:59So we travel Sunday, get there Monday is obviously a little bit of a time difference in a 13-hour
02:04travel.
02:05So it's probably a little bit more difficult to recover for some players.
02:08But I think obviously we do want to have a look at the wider squad as well.
02:13There might be a few players who roll through, but there will be more rotation than usual, I'd predict.
02:21We did a lot of work over the Six Nations on our discipline.
02:25And listen, when you look at the games, it's always obviously you look at set-piece, attack, defence.
02:31But our discipline improving during the Six Nations was it had a huge effect on the upturn in our performances.
02:38So it enables you to put pressure on the opposition in terms of we had a lot more 22 entries
02:44because I think in the last three games,
02:47our penalty count was lower than the oppositions.
02:50And you could probably see that steady improvement.
02:53And that's where most yellow cards come from is infringements in your 22.
02:57So discipline's like a constant for us.
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