Thomas, 23, says Wales desperately needed that win against Japan in Kobe in July to ease the mounting pressure.<\/p>\n
“It was massive, we were in a dark spot, especially going to Japan knowing we had to go there and get a win,” said Thomas.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t shy away from that. Our whole ambition of that tour was to get a win and put an end to that for a period of time.<\/p>\n
“Everyone was just relieved. The weight of the pressure was building, so it was nice to clean that slate and put that behind us.”<\/p>\n
Thomas is primarily a lock, but is also an option at blind-side flanker if Tandy is looking at selecting a bulkier forward pack.<\/p>\n
“I generally don’t really care, I just want to play,” said Thomas.<\/p>\n
“Obviously I play a bit of both at Gloucester. Around the park my game doesn’t change, I try and play the same way. <\/p>\n
“It’s probably just around the set-piece where it is different.<\/p>\n
“I’d like to see myself as more of a lock that can play six, rather than a six that can play lock, but whatever or wherever gets me in the squad, I’ll happily play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas, 23, says Wales desperately needed that win against Japan in Kobe in July to ease the mounting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-250794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}