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While contemplating the Wallabies' spring tour it occurred to me how poor the Wallabies have become. The question is does three Test victories from…
Last night while I sat down in my armchair with a bottle of my finest 'Glen', I thought to myself, my word those Wallabies…
So the Wallabies won yet another Test on tour making it three from three in Europe thus far. Hurrah! Problem is that this is…
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have the wallabies been struggling to score tries?
if you think Folau should be dropped because he is creating tries, rather than just scoring them, then good luck with that.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
his role has changed, he is now a 2nd receiever.
just give up
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
most of his kick returns include him taking high balls where he is tackled as hits the gound and when he takes them from long kicks he’s been passing in field.
what is your issue?
you don’t rate one of our only world class players?
if these stats come down just to returning kicks, then the defender beaten, off loads and clean breaks should be enough for wake up to yourself.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
the 1st two tries
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
the referee had more influence on the breakdown than anyone else last week.
he allowed the Irish to get away with murder while pinning the wallabies for everything.
Timani is not as physically dominant as is dimensions suggest is what I’m saying.
when did I say Mumm is as physical as Timani? he isn’t. but that doesn’t change the fact that Timani’s perfomances have been over-rated in that dept.
Mumm was selected for the lineout. and because Timani had not been dominating as we had hoped. Its pretty obvious.
Timani gets another chance and I wish him luck!
But I sadly predict he will come off by the 60min mark and we will be disappointed in his performance. I can see him continuing to offer little at lineout and little real difference in general play, for a player that his his role that is.
I hope I’m wrong.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
you’ve just described Rob Simmons.
to be fair I am not advocating for carter, I’m just saying he is an alternative to Simmons/Mumm, after Coleman of course, as main lineout callers.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
Yes I would say it is Speight’s defensive deficiencies that have seen the seemingly much better defender Naivalu, get his spot.
both of them have attacking abilities, and I think naivalu might potentially be the better attacker as well
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
petrk not for the style we play
we play 2 pods of 3 players, call them the ‘front row pod’, and the ‘lock pod’, and in addition we have two flankers that usually play either side of the field.
The Hooper – Pocock in tandem allows this, and the additional backrower, Timani (v Ireland it was Mumm) is in with the lock pod.
In general play attack you will see this happen through out the game: we hit it up with either or both pods for 1or 2 phases (on these occasions the pods work together to try and get over the ad line and secure ball for another phase), before going wide where Hooper or Pocock have the job of securing the ruck, usually when one of the backs goes to ground.
Of course its not an excat science but that’s the general pattern.
In defence the 2 pods work together and generally align next to each other, often working with each other at the breakdown as well, with Hooper and Pocock once again usually on opposite sides of the fringes of the field, doing all the extras and trying to strike at a vulnerable time and effect a turnover.
In terms of the effect this has on the correct lineout, well we have to strike a balance between set piece and general play. This is why I believe Jed Holloaway will be a good contender to come into the test side when fit as a genuine no 8 and lineout option.
But the Pooper is here to stay, because it suits the current style of play, and when Pocock is on sabbatical, insert McMahon.
btw the French have played this style for yonks with the dual flankers that is, with Dusatoir and Bonnaire being the perfect example of two genuine flankers complimented by Harindourqauy the genuine no 8 superb line out man. When they were on song even the all blacks struggled against this set up.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
anyone that would drop Hooper needs their head read.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
yes kane drop him… he has had a hand in more tries I can remember, but he actually hasn’t planted one down since he topped super rugby for tries this year, so he’s rubbish.
is that about the extent of your logic?
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
what kind of coach is going to say anything else?
and I never said he matched him entirely. Timani is worth atleast 2 more metres per game on average… the coaching staff would know that… theyre picking him in the hope he lives up to his potential… I do too!
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
you clearly don’t watch the games because often he takes the ball under pressure and makes no metres, and in fact most of the time he plays wing on defence and DHP plays fullback so…
he is playing 12 in attack as well so…
besides other team have fullbacks, wingers and inside centres, I believe, why aren’t they dominating stats as much?
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
Sorry but timani not playing did not cost us anything at the breakdown.
We lost that game because of some poor last pass options (had just one more stuck we’d have won) and due to some blatant one sided refereeing of the breakdown.
didn’t help that Mumm got binned, yes, maybe that’s why he’s been dropped, because he was good other than that, but its more likely that Cheika is conceding the lineout and hoping Timani can bring his a game midfield.
this change in tactic also has merit and I can see the logic of either or.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
I did not say Mumm is a better ball carrier. Others tried to say that was what I was saying.
for the last time
Timani has made 49m to Mumm’s 43 metres from 195/196 minutes) this spring and I stated quite clearly both of these stats are not great. This clealy shows from the same minutes played Timai is exactly 6m better per 3 matches. My point is summed up with one word: whoopdidoo.
I stated that for a 125kg man Timani does not dominate his collisions as one would expect, In fact he’s been smashed on several occasions not just the 2 bell ringers he was served by wales.
For him to hold his place in the side, he needs to be bringing more to the table, because he unlike mumm is not a good lineout option.
that is a perfectly logical opinion and oen that takes outthe wishful thinking based on the aesthetics of a man like timani that looks like one amazing human specimen. rather I’m waiting to see him play one game as well as a player like Wycliffe’s palu, and then i’ll be sold.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
Sam carter would be the next best and a good alternative
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
Too much is being made of what in the grand scheme of things is a mini try drought.
Considering he topped super rugby for tries in 2016, and considering he scored 2 tries v England, it really is a very insignificant try drought.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
yes and when that happens, and we lose event hough we played the better rugby, we can start about blaming the no 10, no 9, and no 7.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
I never said Mumm was better at those things than Timani.
What I said was Timani had not been doing a good enough job at them as he should considering that is meant to be his trump card, not much better than Mumm, but considering Mumm is a genuine line out merchant, it made sense to select Mumm over Timani.
looks like Cheika did agree with me a week ago.
However for all we know Timani may have been killing people at training and deserves another crack. or maybe we are conceding the lineout and obviously we are changing tactics.
Best of luck to him and the team.
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
yes the step pass.. he definitely over does it.. glad someone else noticed!
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
Mum is an obvious selection yes, after all there is such a thing in rugby called a line out…
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
he goes missing in defence? does Folau play openside now?
Wallabies team to play England: Timani, Naivalu to start, Mumm benched
I didn’t realise they did that..I always assumed they had their bats shipped over there.
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