Wallaby scrum not fixed, but improving
Roar Guru By stillmissit, 4 Nov 2008 The Crowd is a Roar Guru
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We should all take our caps off to Jim Williams and say that he has made solid improvements in our ability at scrum and tight play. Baxter’s improvement is almost unbelievable. We had all written him off as a guy who looked the goods, but didn’t have the goods.
Under Deans and Williams, he has put in consistently stronger performances almost every time he is on the park. On Saturday, I was tempted to give him the Wallabies Man of the Match, which surprised me.
Moore is also getting stronger.
All we need now is a strong loosehead prop and we have the makings of a good front row.
The second-row is still an issue. I don’t believe that Dan Vickerman will be back anytime soon. Sharpe has not improved that much under Deans, and his time is subject to a replacement showing itself.
The back row is looking good, but we need some of them to be able to stay on the park. Apart from Smith and Waugh, we don’t have a backrower who can stay injury free. Brown might be one, but it’s too early to say.
If we had Palu, Elsom blindside and Smith openside, we have a quality backrow, with back-up on the bench in Pocock, Waugh, Brown and McMenniman.
All things considered, we are looking much better but there is still lots to do.
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November 7th 2008 @ 2:23pm
Mark said | November 7th 2008 @ 2:23pm | Report comment
Homer I think we will have to disagree. From watching the first half again last night your loosie got done, .actually one of the “Several times they withdrew from the engagement making it look like the Walla’s were charging in” that the commentators called the AB’s didn’t move an inch as teh ref hadn’t called ‘Engage’.
Maybe I’ll have to re-watch it again (actually it wasn’t that good a game so i doubt I’ll bother), but he did ping the Ab’s early on. Then they stopped handling once he called ‘hands off’ & seemed to stay on their feet better. You have to ask if the count is 11-2 against you, is it teh ref or is it your guys just not listening to him. BTW, he didn’t seem to notice your backline creeping offside a fair bit but was conctrating on the breakdown.
Of the 11-2 count in the first 1/2 you have 1 high tackle, the rest were scrum & breakdown with some of the breakdown penalties so flipping obvious it wasn’t funny.