Wales tries ‘outstanding’ in NZ defeat as Tandy waits on Wainwright

Cardiff Principality Stadium Date: Saturday, November Kick-off: 15:10 GMT

Wales’ No. 8 hopes Aaron Wainwright will be able to compete against South Africa, the country’s top-ranked player, on Saturday.

Due to a hip injury, the 61-cap back rower withdrew from the Dragons’ 52-26 victory over New Zealand at the Principality Stadium.

Taine Plumtree, the eighth-ranked Scarlets player, started and was shown a second-half yellow card for the All Blacks’ seven-try defeat.

Steve Tandy, head coach, anticipates that Wainwright will face the Springboks, who defeated Ireland on Saturday with a score of 24-13.

We’re optimistic because Aaron moved yesterday and was operational, Tandy said.

Wales will be without 13 of its English and French rugby league counterparts.

Non-Welsh based players are not available for the match because the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has organized the game outside of World Rugby’s international window.

The four professional sides, each playing league games, also play United Rugby Championship (URC) games over the weekend.

Twenty-eight players are still in Wales’ squad as they prepare for their South African trip, with Tandy considering introducing some new names.

“I think we’ll call up a few, and we’ll need to look into the injuries,” Tandy said.

They are world champions, so we might need to add some more players.

We’ll talk with the medical staff as a coaching group. Everyone has succeeded, thanks to the touch wood.

In addition to making his Test debut against New Zealand, fellow Ospreys back-rower Morgan Morse and Dragons hooker Brodie Coghlan made their Test debuts.

Tandy cited the disparate experience of the two parties.

Tandy remarked, “The All Blacks had around 800 caps there, we had 300, and we had three new caps.

We must endure that time. 11th in the world gives those boys the necessary experience.

“Next week will be a second opportunity for other people to do that.”

Tandy was eager to emphasize the positive aspects of Wales’ ability to score four tries against the All Blacks for the first time in this match in Cardiff.

Wales lost 34th time in a row to the All Blacks, winning last time against New Zealand in 1953.

Tandy said, “There’s a lot to be proud of and a lot to see in our playing style.”

The tries were outstanding. There are still some things we need to work on. You want to be a coach because of the hard work and dedication they put in throughout, fair to the group.

“I don’t want to see where we want to go, but I think the group we have worked with was fantastic,” he said.

They are incredibly proud, but they also understand our collective goals.

Gareth Thomas and Plumtree, the replacement prop, received yellow cards, Tandy admitted, and the issue of discipline is still present.

Tandy remarked, “A few yellow cards don’t help the build-up of pressure.”

We “felt a few moments could have gone our way,” and some 50s/50s sank the other way.

“We need to examine the penalty count,” he said. There were some early shortcomings that needed improvement.

In these Test matches, it’s smaller things. When you score, you want to leave rather than fumble the ball right away.