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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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