Wayne Pivac will remind his players of the ‘values of the Welsh national team’
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Wayne Pivac will remind his players of ‘Welsh national team values’ ahead of their autumn campaign after Cardiff Rugby completes a full investigation into allegations of anti-social behavior in a pub
- Head coach Wayne Pivac will remind his player of the values of the Wales national team
- This comes after Cardiff Rugby completed a full investigation earlier this month
- A small number of players threw eggs and threatened staff at The Grange Pub
- Dan Biggar has not been selected in Wales’ 35-man squad due to a knee injury
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Wales head coach Wayne Pivac will remind his players of their responsibilities and expected standards of behavior when they meet Monday before the start of their autumn campaign.
Pivac’s enactment of the law will come after Cardiff Rugby has completed a full investigation and imposed ‘various sanctions’ on a ‘small number of individual players’ following allegations of anti-social behavior in a pub in the Welsh capital earlier this month.
Cardiff has not named the players involved. But Sportsmail understands that among the reprimanded were players named in Pivac’s Wales squad for four crucial November tests.
Wales head coach Wayne Pivac (pictured) will remind his players of their responsibilities
Pivac lays down law after Cardiff Rugby completed full investigation earlier this month
It was alleged that Cardiff players threw eggs and threatened staff at The Grange on October 1.
“Behavioral standards are addressed on day one,” Pivac says. “I will be giving a presentation on Monday that will remind them of the values of the Welsh national team – values we live by 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That’s management and players.
“I can’t think of a problem at Welsh level lately. The kind of stuff you hear from time to time in this day and age is unacceptable and nobody approves.
‘We certainly wouldn’t do that in our area. People wouldn’t last long.’
Captain Dan Biggar was the absentee captain of the 35-man Wales roster announced by Pivac on Tuesday after sustaining a knee injury while on Premiership service at Northampton.
Biggar led Wales in the Six Nations and on their summer tour of South Africa. His absence from games with New Zealand, Argentina, Georgia and Australia is a huge blow to Pivac.
Biggar hopes to return to action at the end of November after sustaining his injury against Wasps, but he would not have been available for the game in Australia anyway, so he will sit out the entire campaign.
It was alleged that Cardiff players threw eggs and threatened staff at The Grange in October
Dan Biggar not selected in Wales roster for their autumn internationals
Alun Wyn Jones or Adam Beard are the top candidates to replace Biggar as Wales captain, but Pivac will decide who takes on the role before facing the All Blacks on November 5.
“We didn’t plan to change the captaincy, but with Dan’s injury we will of course look at that,” said Pivac.
‘Dan offers a lot. Anyone who has played 100 Test matches does. He is a great loss.’
Gareth Anscombe, Rhys Priestland and rookie Sam Costelow are the three flying halves of Wales in Biggar’s absence.
Costelow is one of five limitless players alongside Rio Dyer, Joe Hawkins, Dane Blacker and Josh Macleod and has been chosen for Bristol’s Callum Sheedy. Pivac revealed that Sheedy’s status as an England player counted against him.
Biggar is one of four Welsh British & Irish Lions excluded from the fall due to injury.
Prop Wyn Jones, flanker Josh Navidi and fullback Liam Williams are all currently sidelined as well.