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Was I blind or something? Kellaway hardly saw the ball at any stage of the game. White kept kicking away hard worn possession which the English Rugby Team used to counter-attack. it was a stodgy game with more spills than thrills. The question is will Rennie bring back Quade Cooper? Or does he seriously have to look to the future? The Welsh -Springboks game was far and away better match than this one.
Enjoyed seeing all those Paddington Bear helmets. Did the fishheads, nobs and toffs also get a jar of Vegemite as well with the headgear?
ANALYSIS: Kellaway, Kerevi, Koroibete and Cadeyrn - four big ticks in Wallabies' triumph
Go tell them that the two thousand year old scriptures are wrong.
Israel Folau returns to Test rugby
Do you truly think those servicemen and women would have stood for the new age values that the bull-dozing chattering classes espouse of today? They must be moaning in their graves. That is the real Australian. Not the “CMF chocolate soldiers” who were forced to go up into the New Guinea highlands or else.
Israel Folau returns to Test rugby
Rennie! you’re a good coach. But selector! I have my doubts. Approve of Cooper and Leaving Tate out is a big mistake. And if you fritter away possession as I’ve seen the Brumbies half does then I can only see the inevitable. As a consequence there will result in further panic selections all stemming from initial blunders.
England to win this Cook Cup with Eddie Jones receiving the Ella-Mobbs Cup for player of the series.
Aussies 'have to throw punches', Poms to target rookies at lineout - everything Hooper and Lawes said at captains' call
Rugby League whirled cup. The engraver has already started chiselling the letters A U S T R on the working class piece of silver coated enamel.
The UK's Sports Minister doesn't know difference between league and union. Good
On behalf of the million and a half Australian servicemen and women who swore allegiance to King and Country in two World Wars with those final words “so help me God” I think he has been treated as a blot in this nation’s history by the left -wing self-righteous self-entitled scunge.
Try telling face to face to the Tongan team you’re a bunch of “homophobes.”
Israel Folau returns to Test rugby
Appreciate your sentiments drawn from I would suggest from the upper echelons of the egalitarian educated wider world of the “born again descendants of recidivists.”
I just wish you could address your letter to the lower strata of free to air television and radio media whose publicity of the forth-coming rugby tests are to the very best non-existent. and as usual we the Joe Public seem to put up with this crap. Meantime a blizzard of drivel is blurted out across the spectrum on absolute utter rubbish.
A letter to our English rugby friends ahead of the Test series
Not a show whatsoever. The English forwards will be too strong and they know how to kick goals with the utmost accuracy.
REACTION: 'Too many mistakes'- Brumbies rue near miss as Blues squeak through in the wet
Ben O’Keefe let the game go on instead of whistling to the tunes of glory. The Blues had what 13 players in the last five minutes? A brave effort Brumbies but they frittered away possession and kicked the ball away far too much in the fervent hope a miracle would eventuate.
REACTION: 'Too many mistakes'- Brumbies rue near miss as Blues squeak through in the wet
He is dead right. I played for a coach who always said. “Three points is three points.”
REACTION: 'Too many mistakes'- Brumbies rue near miss as Blues squeak through in the wet
Nothing wrong with the ref. See Wallaby selections.
REACTION: 'Too many mistakes'- Brumbies rue near miss as Blues squeak through in the wet
A PPS. Has anyone at Rugby Australia had the gumption to psyche out the English and outfit the Australian crowds with gold Paddington Bear headgear and a jar of marmalade under their seats?
WALLABIES SQUAD: Rennie names six new faces for England battle but leaves out big names in shock twist
One further point. No more league selections whatsoever. Come to Adelaide and Perth and have a good look around for some real talent. Too many selections are made at the Sydney Cosmopolitan Club on a Friday evening.
WALLABIES SQUAD: Rennie names six new faces for England battle but leaves out big names in shock twist
If the Brumbies are a representation of how to play rugby the Australian way we can’t see them winning against the English let alone the All Blacks or Springboks this year.
Unfortunately most of these kids have been initially brought up on playing league. They’re used to dying with the ball and hope to replay it. Kicking away far too much hard won possession. The wingers are freezing to death and may as well be in the forwards. How many times have we seen Australian teams kick away possession in the dying minutes of a game only to see the their opposition use it to win the match? Grubber kicks? Have you people heard of those? You can use those along with a good centre kick, Banksy. And as for penalty options? Three points is three points. Auckland Blues got two penalties and didn’t go for the corner lineout but took the kicks. 7-6. With five minutes to go you take the penalty kicks. Then if you are marginally behind you apply acts of desperation retaining at all costs the ball. Approximately 43% of Australian penalty lineouts ended up this season with five pointers. Which brings me to the final point. When you score a try don’t just dive over the line with glee and do the high fives or whatever the Australian teams celebrate. A try doesn’t mean a season. You attempt to get as close to those damn posts as much as possible.
A nit-picking observation. Pull up those damn socks up and look like a TEAM.
WALLABIES SQUAD: Rennie names six new faces for England battle but leaves out big names in shock twist
I agree about lies and profit. It was all too evident when we see from my observation of their records, 26 pre-War Kangaroos were playing league while their mates were at the War. Money before mateship.
And if you look at the newspaper archives in June 1915, two months after ANZAC Day the NSWRL finally decided to call off the invitation to the NZRFL to tour Australia.
ANZAC Day: How sport shaped the lives of our war heroes
Are you able to tell us exactly how many German military advisors were assisting the Turks when these warships were being double-crossed?
Kokoda is famous for the input of the “Chocolate soldiers” when MacArthur insisted that Australia should pull its weight.
ANZAC Day: How sport shaped the lives of our war heroes
What Indians are you folk talking about? The red ones who were decimated by their Colonists or the black ones whose population under British rule quadrupled?
ANZAC Day: How sport shaped the lives of our war heroes
Could you folk please explain if you would as to what happened to all the German colonies from the Pacific through to Africa that disappeared when Germany lost the War?
had the shoe been on the other foot do you think we would be talking about footy today?
ANZAC Day: How sport shaped the lives of our war heroes
No. Wrong! It was during the War that league went ahead. 26 Kangaroo league players kept playing the professional game during the War while the public schoolboy toffee-nosed rugby crowd went off to do the right thing. In a game played on Mudros Island just off Gallipoli between NZ and Australia half the Australians never went home while two former All Blacks from the NZ team suffered the same fate.
Up to a thousand league players went off to war including Australian internationals Bob Tidyman KIA in France, Bill Kelly, the native born NZer who played a test for Australia in 1914 and previously played 11 games for NZ and Charles Savory an Australian international who also played for NZ and was KIA on Gallipoli serving with the NZEF.
It was in June 1915 that the NSWRL called off the invitation for NZ to tour Australia.
The field of dreams: Rugby league and the United States of America
So why bother mentioning it?
The field of dreams: Rugby league and the United States of America
Incidentally President Eisenhower witnessed a game at Twickenham during the war where my uncle was playing for the Royal Navy v RAF.
And I might add the only time league was ever played in the services was in Australia where a couple of Battalion Teams of chocolate soldiers played the game.
The field of dreams: Rugby league and the United States of America
Mate- sadly you represent the world -wide view of all those living in the lower regions of Sydney suburbia who are world famous for zilch. President Biden played rugby and has a distant cousin who played for Ireland. President George Bush played rugby and was coached by a South African University lecturer at Yale. President Clinton used to go and watch his mate former All Black Chris Laidlaw captain Oxford University. What university trained Rhodes scholar from the great game of thugby league is now pressing buttons for DNA?
The field of dreams: Rugby league and the United States of America
Well reported. Good to see the crowds turned out for the final of a one-horse race. The time has long since come for just the Territories and the States to enter a team in this one -sided World Cup. Australia is economically, physically, intellectually, monetarily, socially, culturally and systematically in a league of their own when it comes to playing women’s cricket. The states and territories should play in one tournament while the Rest of the World plays in another.
Australia are the World Cup champions: CWC final talking points
Iambic pentameter. Pass-pass-pass-pass-pass-kick. Pass-pass-pass-pass-pass-kick!
'It trumps league': Why don’t the media give rugby union a fair go?
Disagree. I would far sooner have Tate at half-back than White. More enterprising and energetic with the breaks. And quick passing using our backs. We’re missing a Gregan, or a Catchpole or a Hipwell or a Farr-Jones. Someone who can inspire through their deeds. Does anyone know if Des Connor would be available? Wheel-chair provided.
ANALYSIS: Kellaway, Kerevi, Koroibete and Cadeyrn - four big ticks in Wallabies' triumph