Wed 9th Nov: Wheelchair World Cup: Australia v Spain 11:00am (BBC Red Button/iPlayer)

[Futtocks]

Match thread for today.

[Gerrumonside ref]

The Aussies getting on top towards the end of this half.

Three tries in six minutes.

30-10 with kick to come.

[Yosser]

I enjoyed the first half despite the score line. Good physicality from the Spanish.

[tim2]

Good effort from Spain. I assume they are mainly from the South of France with Spanish birth or heritage, or Northern Spain where they are closer to the French set-up. Maybe I'm wrong. I'll check.

Really good to have another country who appears to be competitive at this level.

[Futtocks]

Just now, tim2 said:

Good effort from Spain. I assume they are mainly from the South of France with Spanish birth or heritage, or Northern Spain where they are closer to the French set-up. Maybe I'm wrong. I'll check.

Really good to have another country who appears to be competitive at this level.

I think I remember hearing that some of the Spanish side play for Les Catalans.

[tim2]

3 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

I think I remember hearing that some of the Spanish side play for Les Catalans.

I got briefly excited whn I went on the 2021 World Cup site and found the Spanish squad. Zoom in on each player and... absolutely no info on their profile page....

Seriously, the squads would have easily produced this info and it would have taken me about an hour tops to load the info for 8 teams onto a website. I'd have done it for free.

Wikipedia is better:

• David Berty (St Toulousain)
• Jorge Gelade-Panzo (Dragons Handi)
• Theo Gonzalez (Handisport Roannais)
• Joel lacombe (Dragons Handi)
• Yannick Martin (Montauban)
• Fabien Moisdon (Dragons Handi)
• Raphaël Monedero (Dragons Handi)
• David Raymond (Biganos)
• Wilfrid Seron (St Toulousain)