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Australian Rugby has become obsessed with the so called 'Australian Way' which is supposed to be about running rugby. It is foolhardy, especially in…
After the Australian Under 20s side 46-13 defeat at the hands of the South African juniors it is clear that something has to change…
While schoolboy rugby has been covered at length of late, we really need to be looking at the age groups of under 6s to…
With the European season due to start soon, fans are waiting on the mystery that is the European Champions and Challenge Cup. Their website…
Pretty sure they have to put in the required community Cricket hours stated in their disciplinary outcome which includes playing grade Cricket before they are considered for Shield Cricket. As far as I know Bancroft didn’t play T20 outside of the country so was on the ground to get his hours up.
To me that sounds more than reasonable.
Time for Cricket Australia to end the Smith, Warner and Bancroft bans
Brett do they really need that? Go down to a lot of underage fixtures and you see kids offloading from under 8s. We need to know who is coaching it out of them when they get older so it can be addressed.
The NRC has shown us how to improve the Wallabies. Will we listen?
Exactly or you could clean out the ruck if there was no space.
The NRC has shown us how to improve the Wallabies. Will we listen?
That’s why the Lions play with four forwards in the middle running behind the ten and the direct runners have already taken out defenders.
The NRC has shown us how to improve the Wallabies. Will we listen?
Jacko depends on the forward if it is a tight head you are screwed particularly if it is early in the match. The sub comes on earlier than planned so gets fatigued and scrummaging with 7 leads to penalties and another potential card. They then put a back in to the scrum which creates a hole that you mentioned.
The Wrap: Red cards ruining rugby? Think again
Racing managed to do it for over fifty minutes after Machenaud was sent off in a Final against Toulon in front of close to 100,000 people at the Nou Camp. Imhoff went in to 9 full time which gave them quick ball. When the 9 goes off most teams use the closest player to clear the ball from the base.
Ireland’s win against the Boks with 14 and down to 13 when Henshaw was binned featured a lot of tight play not to tire out the pack and look for three points in the Boks’ 22 to keep up scoreboard pressure.
The Wrap: Red cards ruining rugby? Think again
Well they aren’t doing that so you might as well shoulder charge, clothes line and spear tackle to your heart’s content. Just look at the NRL where spear tackles don’t get penalised and reported.
The Wrap: Red cards ruining rugby? Think again
Sorry Cane’s shoulder charge to Henshaw’s head is not a good, solid and fair hit. Always leading high with a shoulder comes with a significant risk. This should have been rubbed out of the game over a decade ago when Butch James made it a bad habit. He was often carded for shoulder charges.
Kiwis are still tackling too high you only have to watch the NPC this is the level that it needs to be addressed if Hansen is serious. As we find with the Wallabies it is a lot more difficult to address deficiencies at higher levels when the pace and intensity goes up several notches.
The Wrap: Red cards ruining rugby? Think again
In these periods it is the Wallabies’ poor defensive line and tackling technique gets really exposed.
Wallabies' All Black coach killers revealed
The idea is to have support players left, right and behind the ball player so the defender will have three options to cover in the second wave of attack. If the defender goes to ground it is highly likely that quick ball is guaranteed as teams like the Lions do this as they use forwards in support to run straight and open up space.
Australian teams are very poor at this hence forwards running around like headless chooks and backs running laterally.
The NRC has shown us how to improve the Wallabies. Will we listen?
Since when did the Tahs pull in a large home crowd against the Rabble?
The Brumbies apart from the last few years where the comp has gone to pot pull across the board they drew in the largest home crowds for the Tahs mainly due to away support. I can’t remember the last time the Reds attracted 30,000 plus in Sydney. When the Reds were strong between 2011-13 the Tahs were struggling.
Waratahs announce Newcastle Super Rugby game
The judiciaries aren’t banning players particularly in Sanzaar comps.
The Wrap: Red cards ruining rugby? Think again
Given that red cards are still rife in French club Rugby and they play to the same laws that would be less of an incentive to improve their discipline.
The Cameron Munster fiasco is further proof that league hasn’t got the disciplinary process right. The bloke kicked a player in the head and wasn’t sent off (had already received ten minutes earlier in the match). Judiciary only gave him a fine. A few days prior Billy Slater and his high powered lawyer team ran rings around committee men to get him a not guilty verdict at the judiciary.
The Wrap: Red cards ruining rugby? Think again
Lampard had a knack of getting clutch goals to bail out the under performing team and paper over the cracks. Funny about that. As for Gerrard he was often accused of being selfish by running down blind alleys trying to do it all by himself.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
Djuro Sen’s comments on a Ruggermatrix podcast highlight the malaise there. He basically said what we all thought that the players at the Waratahs and Wallabies were above doing the basics. The Brumbies also had a period under Tony Rea and Andy Friend where that occurred.
From what I have been told the All Blacks spend 25% of their sessions on doing the basics. They can’t move on to the stuff that is their level until they have nailed the basics first.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
Three year contract is fine. That’s what the IRFU signed up CJ Stander, Peter O’Mahony and very recently Conor Murray on.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
Stillmissit agreed and it occurs at under age levels even as low as under 8s.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
‘rightly or wrongly that is his logic, get our best players on the field and if playing someone in a different position then so be it..’
How’s the results working out for Cheika? He is losing his argument on the scoreboard. I often bringing up the Gerrard/Lampard example from the England Football team. Successive England managers put them both in the starting lineup to just get them in the team which left one out of position and the side unbalanced as like many English footballers of that era neither had the skill set or the physique (particularly Lampard) to play another position effectively to get the side results.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
George Smith and Joe Roff weren’t great trainers either.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
‘luke jones is not going to be the saviour that you are hoping for i thhink.
he is a good player but definitely not outstanding in the top 14..’
Bordeaux also aren’t picking him due to approaching and signing for the RA after penning an extension with them last year. I also agree that he is not the saviour that is required.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
‘we all know we are playing with 2 sevens.. rightly or wrongly.. what we need is a line bending, line out claiming 8 for the pooper to work at it’s optimum.. and we just don’t that. was hoping timu could develop into it.. but he needs some time i think..’
Timu won’t be the Heaslip, Hairydonkey, Read that Aus Rugby need to make Cheika’s delusion work. Hooper’s poor defensive reads has not been addressed by Grey and Cheika you can’t have your 7 shooting out of the line in the channel either side of the ruck than miss the tackle at any level yet captain fantastic does it time and time again.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
Even more incredible is that someone on the G&G forum mentioned that Alaalatoa has been given a new five year deal. He is young and not good enough yet to warrant such a deal. You would that the Clown College had a Carl Hayman on their hands that they couldn’t afford to lose. The Clown College simply have to go.
Read the tea leaves, Michael Cheika
David they were banned according to the ACB’s Code of Conduct as employees of the governing body which is completely irrelevant to the ICC’s rulings. The ICC can only judge on match situations and punish within their guidelines. Warner didn’t even front the match referee and he already had demerit points from the Quinton de Kock stairwell incident which according to the South Africans he was sledging de Kock’s mother and sister for at least an hour on the field of play. That is below the belt and de Kock’s sister sent in a reaction to Warner on Twitter.
Warner was also not present at the press conference that Bancroft and Smith faced after the day’s play.
Time for Cricket Australia to end the Smith, Warner and Bancroft bans