The Waratahs are driving me to Queensland!

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By stillmissit, 22 Mar 2009 stillmissit is a Roar Rookie

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Having been a Waratahs supporter for over 20 years I am almost over it. I now truly believe that this is a group of young men who don’t play like a team and appear to not even like one another.

There appears to be little or no talk on the field and I am really over the tactics of aimless kicking and hoping the opposition make a mistake.

The Waratahs never make any positive plays and the kick chase is a bunch of guys trotting after the ball and the only chaser, if there is one, is the kicker.

The game is played by the Waratahs at a pedestrian pace and they seem ‘all weight work and no speed mate’ to quote ‘Once were Warriors’. There is no intensity in their game and it all seems to be about patience and the opposition will stuff it up, which must be the most negative way to win a game anyone could dream up.

With 2 mins to go and the Crusaders in possession they still would not throw players at the ruck and only one forward tried a counter ruck on his own and was thrown back like an old blue lunch bag from a trawler.

I am also sick of seeing 3 or 4 players (always Phil Waugh) doing all the work whilst the rest of them bludge through the game, or worse still they wake up for a while and then go back to sleep.

Phil Kearns said about a Crusaders player (Waldron) that he only makes about 1 mistake a game and zero is unheard of, I disagree, we have 10 Waratahs who wont put their hand on a ball or try to catch a kick for fear of stuffing their zero mistakes game. The fact that they do nothing seems to have been ignored.

This game was appalling and a comparison to the game prior of the Chiefs v Blues was like day and the darkest night. The Crusaders if they have any sense will take nothing out of this game as it was played barely out of second gear.

These guys are in deep crap but they don’t know it, I haven’t enjoyed watching any game this year and it seems to me to be Ewan’s tactics by a bunch of incompetents.

Where is Chris Hickey? Why isn’t he being more proactive in building a team that can get passionate about their game?

I was lead to believe by a couple of guys who know, that Chris was a great coach, if that’s so it’s time to start coaching or we are back on the hunt again for next season.

At one low point after another pointless unchased kick that the Crusaders ran back at us 40m and then knocked on the Waratahs looked a beaten team given a small torch of hope by the fact that they knocked on.

The long suffering fans of the Waratahs deserve so much more and I don’t think they will get it this year.

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The Crowd Says (56) | Page 1 of Comments

Jay Mac said | March 22nd 2009 @ 8:55am | Report comment

I started out with the best intentions to watch it but the Waratahs’ typical boring drivel of a game plan nearly put me to sleep, so I switched over to the league

Jay Mac

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tarpo said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:07am | Report comment

Stillmissit, as usual you are on the money, the Tahs are imposters, welcome to the Reds!!!!

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equalizer said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:18am | Report comment

Stillmissit, there are far too many players in the waratahs who have been picked for reasons other than ability. Sydney club rugby is more enjoyable to watch because the talented players overlooked by NSW rugby selectors are playing. A less biased system of selection needs to be introduced-perhaps a series of trials? Club rugby should be your main supplier of rep players, not the academy.

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Mel Brubeck said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:23am | Report comment

Stillmissit,

Thought Kurtley, particularly in the first half using his god-given speed showed more initiative than usual (he’s really quite quick) running the ball at their line; probably saw Gits’s attacking style of five-eighth play for the Force last week and took a leaf, but to the Crusaders’s credit, they’re an amazing squad superbly coached, always ready to play and give 150%. Last night the CC’s defence was just fantastic, closing down our ‘slick backs’ without not too much trouble. Let’s be honest, they stopped us dead in our tracks every time we put on a good attacking move.

Where to from here? To next week’s game against whomever… bring ‘em on.

Freier’s loss is a big blow. It’s the forward pack we really need to look at; create the platform and our backs will have a far easier time. Correct me if i’m wrong but Caldwell and Mumm looked well and truly out of puff in the second forty, as they usually do against the Crusaders. That Thorn is wicked. And rest assured when he retires they’ll find someone just as lethal to fill his boots, such is their incredible depth. Anyway, there was only four miserable points in it, so there’s still hope

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Darryl said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:26am | Report comment

See ya later stillmissit – the sooner the tahs get rid of spineless turn-coat fans like you the better. The tah’s will come good and the true fans minus the gutless whingers on this site will enjoy it when it happens.

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Rickety Knees said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:30am | Report comment

Mate – I could not agree more. I am completely over the East Sydney Tahs!

Go the Reds!

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Nashi said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:33am | Report comment

I had the great displeasure of watching this game in the company of a Kiwi. Not that he supports the Crusaders, but he just loved watching the Waratahs lose. I have been doing my best to keep positive about Beale but I’m afraid reality has set in and the guy is just plain clueless. Maybe the Tahs could get away with it if we had a class ball playing 12 outside him, but I haven’t seen one in sky blue since forever. I have consigned the rest of the Super 14 to the dustbin until I see glaring headlines telling me that the Tahs can actually pass the ball and support each other in broken play.

God help us if the Wallabies play like this! My Kiwi mate will mock me all the way to the looney bin!

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Mel Brubeck said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:34am | Report comment

Equalizer, “Sydney club rugby is more enjoyable to watch because the talented players overlooked by NSW rugby selectors are playing. A less biased system of selection needs to be introduced…”

Very valid point. This endless twaddle that some players are picked ‘too young’ or sre still ‘too young’ and we have to be patient till they ‘mature’. Yeah right. That’s certainly the way to pick a S14 team and win tournaments.

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gekko said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:56am | Report comment

Couldn’t agree more.
Supported the Waratahs for 30 years, but little joy lately. It would be an easy option for me as I lived in Brisbane for the past 10. If I were at ANZ stadium last night, I certainly would ask for a refund from the Tahs. They were like a council gang, one doing the work and 4-5 watching it.

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stillmissit said | March 22nd 2009 @ 9:57am | Report comment

Darryl – There’s a chance that I was supporting the Waratahs/NSW when you were still wetting your pants in 1975. I would hardly consider myself a turncoat and have watched with horror the slowly disappearing guts and determination to play for the Waratahs over the last 10 years. The history of the Waratahs should be taught to all of these guys so they understand what they should stand for and how the rugby in this state was built on great men with an ethos few of these guys today could understand.

Good luck to you and yours!

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