The Wallabies won it! Amazingly, incredibly, Australia have capped off an otherwise indifferent year with a win over their Antipodean rivals.
There’s plenty to draw out of this match. What does it mean for this team in the future? Can they hope to be readily competitive with the All Blacks, or even regularly beat them? Or did we just get a bit lucky in a dead rubber?
All good questions, but the time to ask them is a bit later on – for now, it’s time to celebrate and live in the joy of a good win.
Is there a better way to do that than taking a look at the individual performances that lifted Australia up to a memorable victory?
And for that reason we’re opening up our DIY Player Ratings to you, Roarers. Have a vote and let us know what you thought of each player’s performance.
If you’ve not done our DIY player ratings before, it’s a simple enough process. Hit up the form below and rate each player from 1 to 10 based on their performance. We’ll keep track of the results and publish our findings tomorrow.
You’re free to rate players as you like with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest – or toss an NA on any player not worth rating – but if you’re looking for a bit more detail than that, our handy little guide might help you make your judgments…
1. Had he not played, the team would have been better off. Negatively affected the performance of the side. May God have mercy on his soul.
2. Anonymous. Was he even there?
3. Did some things that you expect a player to be able to do, but did a whole bunch of other things that sucked.
4. Was passable in patches, but not up to standard in a squad of such depth.
5. Performed his role without anything really noticeable happening.
6. Good.
7. Pretty good, actually.
8. Very good.
9. Excellent.
10. Might as well have been John Eales.
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