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Here are my player ratings from Round 10 of Super Rugby.
Submit your own, keeping the figures for mediocre scores aside for reasons of brevity and so that the focus is on the best and worst performers.
Scores should be included for anyone over seven and anyone below four – so for very good and poor performances. Half scores are allowed i.e. 7.5, 3.5 and so on.
Please submit your own scores for a whole team. The minimum is one team, there is no obligation to score all the games. I average the scores per team by the number submitted.
I will compile everyone’s submitted team scores and produce Wallaby form teams later in the week. There will be one team of the round and three accumulative teams.
Hurricanes-Waratahs
A very enjoyable game that flowed end-to-end due to both sides playing running rugby instead of kicking rugby. The scrums had very few resets once again thanks to the positiveness of the teams. The referee allowed the game to flow in the main, however allowed offside too much by both sides, and allowed players to slow the ball in the ruck too much.
The Waratahs won due to their forwards, in particular Wycliff Palu (my man of the match) and Will Skelton, winning the collision, making it over the advantage line and smashing the rucks. The Waratahs had the edge in the scrum. It is very noticeable that Michael Hooper is not having anywhere close to the impact of last season.
Waratahs
B. Robinson 7.5/10
S. Kepu 7.5/10
W. Skelton 9/10
W. Palu 9/10
B. Foley 7.5/10
N. Phipps 7.5/10
B. Foley 8/10
P. Betham 7.5/10
I. Folau 8.5/10
R. Horne 3.5/10
K. Beale 3.5/10
Brumbies-Rebels
An intense hand wrestle of a game, or I should say half a game, the other half being Aussie rules. The Brumbies did have a lot of injuries but this is no excuse because they lost the game at the coalface, in the forwards.
The only injury of note there was Scott Sio, which heavily affected their scrum. The Brumbies were beaten at the ruck in the collisions, and the Rebels won the battle of the advantage line.
The Brumbies did have an excellent maul, though, and if only David Pocock had more patience then he would have scored. He should have waited until he was closer to the line. Nic Stirzaker was excellent for the Rebels and my man of the match.
Brumbies
J. Smith 3/10
B. Alexander 3/10
S. Fardy 8/10
D. Pocock 7.5/10
M. Dowesett 3.5/10
H. Speight 7.5/10
Rebels
P. Alo-Emile 8/10
T. Smith 8/10
P. Leafa 3.5/10
L. Jones 8/10
L. Timani 7.5/10
C. Fainga’a 7.5/10
N. Stirzaker 8.5/10
J. Debrezceni 3.5/10
S. Naivalu 7.5/10
M. Harris 3.5/10
Force-Stormers
The Stormers struggled to get out of second gear to put away the Force, who tried hard but just lack the quality players needed, especially out wide. It was a grinding match interspersed with random kicking. The Force scrum struggled once again.
Force
P. Cowan 3/10
T. Faulkner 3/10
A. Coleman 7.5/10
B. McCalman 8.5/10
D. Haylett-Petty 8/10
Cheetahs-Reds
The Reds did their best to lose this game by kicking away the ball and exhibiting poor discipline and poor defence. The Reds were better all round in the forwards and backs. However, they did not use the ball enough in the opposition half. Their scrum as outstanding and if it was an Australian team constantly buckling like that it would have caused a yellow card.
Reds
J. Slipper 8/10
G. Holmes 8/10
J. Hanson 8/10
L. Gill 8/10
W. Genia 7.5/10
J. O’Connor 8/10
S. Kerevi 7.5/10
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