Wales and a historic fall in the World Rugby ranking, behind a georgia that puts pressure
At the beginning of the second day of the Six nations, Wales suffered another setback in his visit to Italy. The red dragons they fell to the selection commanded by Gonzalo Quesada by 22-15 and continue to lower positions in the World Rugby Ranking. All rugby, in Disney+.
The particularity is that the British remained in 12th place, with 73.75 points of coefficient, and for the first time they will be surpassed in the classification by Georgia, which holds 73.85.
It should be noted that the head coach of LELOS, Richard Cockerillrecently declared on the possibility that his selection is part of the Six nationsa frequent order in recent years due to the domain among the emerging nations of the continent: “Why does nobody give us a chance? We do not want charity, we want an opportunity. We believe that we have earned that right”.
Georgia, that this Saturday with his triumph over Netherlands classified the 2027 World Cuphas dominated the Rugby Europe Championshipalso known as Six nations bconquering title 15 times since 2008 and being undefeated since 2017. In addition, Wales defeated Cardiff and Japan Last year, but still were the new Nations League that will begin in 2026.
“Japan seems to go worse and we better, and yet they have been invited to the new championship and we don’t”protested the English coach, who marked that the lack of a clear path to ascend to six nations is also a concern: “No one tells us ‘this is what they have to do and if they reach this point they can have the opportunity.’ My impression is that there is no interest in change”.
