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Wales 6 Nations squad 2024
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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 1174082" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>I hope not. </p><p></p><p>I'm not completely against Costellow, I think he's shown plenty of promise in the past, but he's stalled badly at a region that's stalled in a similar fashion.</p><p></p><p>I don't think it would be fair to start him against England either. He's obviously in a bit of a slump after picking up a couple of nasty injuries vs BaBas, and then he also took a heavy knock v Scotland. Sending him out v England would feel like sending a lamb to slaughter, he's likely to fail again and that would do no one any good, including him.</p><p></p><p>I bloody hope Gatland has learn't a lesson from Priestland circa 2012, where he kept playing him despite no form, and you could see the confidence drain more and more, and then fans and pundits got on his back. Literally took him years to fully recover from that, and had to leave Wales in order to do so!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 1174082, member: 13739"] I hope not. I'm not completely against Costellow, I think he's shown plenty of promise in the past, but he's stalled badly at a region that's stalled in a similar fashion. I don't think it would be fair to start him against England either. He's obviously in a bit of a slump after picking up a couple of nasty injuries vs BaBas, and then he also took a heavy knock v Scotland. Sending him out v England would feel like sending a lamb to slaughter, he's likely to fail again and that would do no one any good, including him. I bloody hope Gatland has learn't a lesson from Priestland circa 2012, where he kept playing him despite no form, and you could see the confidence drain more and more, and then fans and pundits got on his back. Literally took him years to fully recover from that, and had to leave Wales in order to do so! [/QUOTE]
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