Are the Wallabies facing another defeat?
Roar Guru By Sherry, 8 Sep 2012 The Crowd is a Roar Guru
According to Jake White, the Wallabies are unlikely to overcome the Springboks in Perth tonight.
Jake has a lot invested in Australian rugby. It is possible that he is next in line to be tapped for the slot that Robbie Deans will be vacating perhaps sooner rather than later.
In a recent article, White said that if the Wallabies want to get into the win column, the forwards will have to be far more imposing against the Boks than they were against the All Blacks.
Reading into that opinion, it would appear that White feels that the Wallabies forwards will be up against a superior pack. And he’s dead right.
He must also know that Springboks coach Heyneke Meyer was just playing the old underdog game when he described the Wallaby backs as brilliant.
Anybody who watched the last two Bledisloe games knows that brilliant they ain’t.
They’re not even competent.
We have a halfback who in the red zone chooses to bash it up through the forwards until one of them loses possession, a 5/8 who looks vaguely confused these days, a yawn of a midfield, an excellent winger who only gets the ball close to the scrum, and a fullback who is in the mother of all slumps.
In the forwards, Tatafu Polota-Nau comes on for 50 minutes when he’ll be replaced by the poor-scrummaging Saia Fainga’a. Radike Samo is another 50-minute man.
Dave Dennis is not yet of international standard, and the props have to contend with Jannie and The Beast.
The Boks also have Duane Vermuelen, Willem Alberts, Marcell Coetzee and Eben Etzebeth, and just to rub in it, can call on Flip Van der Merwe and the tank-like Patric Cilliers if they want.
Jake White has new ties to Australia, but we’ll forgive him if his money is wisely on his compatriots.
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September 8th 2012 @ 9:42am
ilikedahoodoogurusingha said | September 8th 2012 @ 9:42am | Report comment
I hope I’m wrong, but unfortunately I think Jake is on the money here.
September 8th 2012 @ 11:22am
Bakkies said | September 8th 2012 @ 11:22am | Report comment
The Boks don’t have the cattle in their pack. Take out their best forwards and their pack goes to muck (particularly when Bakkies was out injured or suspended). There is no real talisman in there either.
September 8th 2012 @ 12:21pm
Ziggy said | September 8th 2012 @ 12:21pm | Report comment
I’m afraid all the Wallabies have to do to win is turn up and don’t drop any passes – a bad habit of theirs. That is what will happen if Meyer continues his current muddled coaching tactics. This Bok side is clueless – and unbelivably slow in executing any moves. On the other hand just let them play what is in front of them and play to their natural instincts and they will deliver a thumping to us. But I doubt that will happen.
September 8th 2012 @ 11:40pm
Sluggy said | September 8th 2012 @ 11:40pm | Report comment
Watching Meyer go postal when the Beast was binned was perhaps the most exciting part of the game.
September 10th 2012 @ 12:22am
borris said | September 10th 2012 @ 12:22am | Report comment
jeez that must be embarrassing writing this article and being so wrong:)