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Campo’s right about the refs getting a medal at least.
Rugby News: 'Men don't cry' - Wallabies legend's saddest outburst yet, plans revealed for Club World Cup
Isn’t the reward for scrum dominance having a dominant scrum?
Exactly! And 9 times out of 10 the dominant scrum is the dominant pack in general play. It is draining and demoralising to be getting pumped in the scrums and the opposite if you are the one doing the pumping.
Half the penalties these days aren’t even signalled by the ref and often seem to be arbitrary.
And make penalties worth 2 not 3.
The scrum saga: It does not feel right that teams are exploiting the penalty 'treasure hunt'
Hear hear. Rugby is disappearing up its own ar*e, as you point out, in the futile pursuit of perfection. Obsessive over-officiation to the letter of an over-complicated rule book. Constant boring interventions from people that nobody has paid to see or hear from.
The end product for the spectator is tedium. League now has it in spades over union as a spectacle. A game that hardly stops, where fatigue is a factor, and the fast men have opportunities as the game progresses.
Painful to write as someone who grew up on, played and remained rusted on to rugby for years.
The Wrap: Wallabies are on their way home - can they please take the TMOs with them?
Exactly. This BS from Eddie that it is a learning experience really riles me. For Donaldson to be fed to the lions like that is a career killer. Just madness that we have a utility player play only his 2nd game starting at 10 in such a crucial match.
'Complete dismantling': Eddie apologises for World Cup debacle, Hoops calls out moment that summed it up
And just look at what he is achieving at the Bulldogs.
'Complete dismantling': Eddie apologises for World Cup debacle, Hoops calls out moment that summed it up
All completely true. It is a sad reality that has occured over the past 20 years.
In the short term though, it has been a 9-month shambles. The comments made this week by McClennan about building for future world cups, as opposed to winning this one and Jones saying, it is all my fault; both just prior to this game are an absolute disgrace.
No wonder the second half went the way it did.
It cost the ARU a million to have Dave Rennie not there, and clown shoes Eddie running a sh*tshow instead.
But back to your longer term point, we have sacked coach after coach with ever decreasing results. Hard to see any way forward but this needs to be the catalyst for a massive cleanout.
'Complete dismantling': Eddie apologises for World Cup debacle, Hoops calls out moment that summed it up
Awful for him but it was a 10 minute horror show for the Storm. Xavier Coates looked to have done his Achilles heel and the poor bugger was just left on the sidelines with the trainer. Then 2 of them knocked each other out with friendly fire. All before the busted leg. There were 2 other HIA’s during the game: Would have been a very sombre changeroom.
'We go again': Papenhuyzen responds after horrific injury as star goes under knife on fractured ankle
He doesn’t look fit enough and as others have said, lack of motivation may well be the reason.
He needs match fitness though. That doesn’t happen in the gym. He needs time on the paddock.
Wallabies fans appear comfortable with 0 and 4 – but some obvious questions remain
TT is going to need fitness (quite badly) if he is going to be our mainstay at 3. Without injury, he wouldn’t be there I don’t reckon. Pone likewise.
Both of them are way behind the curve on that front.
Edit, I belatedly see your point re, Pone on Saturday. It was hard to tell what the injury was. It looked bad and cost us a penalty for not rolling away. Looked bad enough to really prevent him coming back but he did. We then got crushed in the scrum with the bench front row coming on.
Wallabies fans appear comfortable with 0 and 4 – but some obvious questions remain
There were encouraging signs for us long suffering fans. Others are saying that’s not enough but we have to start somewhere.
It largely our A’s vs their B’s for 60 minutes. Then their A’s came on and finished off our B’s.
Our bench is thin because of lack of depth and inevitable injuries.
The bigger, but more easily solved problem is that we’ve forgotten how to win. Hopefully some solid pool performances can remedy that.
CG is the future at 5/8. Give him the time with the right half back and let a long term partnership build.
Let’s hope our bench front row, whoever they may be can hold up so we can actually put together an 80 minute performance for the RWC.
The Wrap: Wallabies and All Blacks emerge from ‘dead rubber’ with plenty to take to the World Cup
F*ck the British press. They won 4 tosses out of 5, had the better of the batting conditions repeatedly, we lost a key player to injury and they still couldn’t win a home series. Poms are welcome to what ever moral victory they want. We’ll take the Ashes. Again.
UK View: 'The moral victory is real' - Poms revel in Pat's 'failure', downfall of 'dastardly' and 'scared' Aussies
Nailed it.
You can admit it now - if Stuart Broad was an Aussie, he'd be your favourite player
I’d like to have more hope but having only managed to catch the 2nd half, there wasn’t much to be hopeful about. There were a few good things happening. We were bending the line and asking questions with Valentini and Bell’s carries. Koirembete and Marky Mark hold their own. Skelton is a big force with his carries and offloads (going by the first half highlights) but we need more than 50 minutes from him.
For the best part of 20 minutes, we had possession on their line and couldn’t score points. We just don’t seem capable of scoring from a 5m line out, the way that any top teir nation can, 50% of the time. The Kiwi defence was outstanding but we let them in, the minute they got down their. Kiwi ball skills are so much better than ours and we were blown away at the collision, time and time again. Being competitive for one half of footy just isn’t close to be competitive enough.
The worst case scenario is we have lost our top 2 tight heads for the WC.
The Wrap: Don’t buy Eddie Jones taking the blame for another Bledisloe loss, buy the hope instead
Yep, reeks of clutching at straws. We have just not had any clear direction or consistency at 10 for 5 years. We given numerous guys a go, gone back to some of them for a while and now we chuck a young fella in on a hiding to nothing, a few weeks before the WC. Maybe Eddie is treating the game as a selection trial.
'Butch defence, Larkham glide': What Eddie sees in Test rookie as Wallabies make SEVEN changes
Pretty shit but it also happens here. Johnny Bairstow copped some vile abuse from a member at the SCG. Friend of mine sat near and said it was pretty gross.
Years ago, I know a bloke who felt the need to tell Peter Such he “bowled like such a cnut” in the members bar after play.
More sour grapes from England as Ponting pelted by loutish fans during on-field interview
If not the scouting, then the promoting. The AFL have been killing it in this department for 15 years now. They get into schools, run some clinics, set up an inter-school comp, supply the umpires and equipment, a bit of merch, tickets for the Swans, etc. etc.
What code do you think they want to play after that?
That has been my experience in NSW primary schools. Such a smart investment. Union squandered their war chest after the 2003 WC. They spent up big for league players to switch codes and (according to what I read) maintained a massive payroll of unnecessary staff at the ARU HQ.
Neglect the grassroots for 20 years and you get to where we are now.
Golden Generations: How Australian rugby rose from obscurity to greatness, then killed green and golden goose
There are just too many penalties, every game. And way too many that are arbitrary and not understood by the spectators and often the players. Who wants a game that depends on the players’ ability to predict / interpret an individual referee’s tendencies? Scrum penalties have become ridiculous. They don’t even get explained anymore, either verbally or with a signal. Then throw in a TMO who often wants to intervene, unnecessarily.
People want a game they understand, makes sense and isn’t constantly interrupted. Nearly every union test these days involves post-game discussions, debates and complaints about the refs. Especially the close ones, where inevitably, one side will feel hard done by with least a few 50/50 or pedantic calls.
Wallabies player ratings: Wright's rocks and diamonds nature leave 15 jersey open for RWC, winger's perfect night
Yep. That too.
The other thing that shts me is players getting penalised for not rolling away when they are burried under bodies. It’s obvious they can’t but the imperative seems to be give the attacking team a penalty, whatever the reason. I am not talking about Arnold’s carding. That was pretty blatant. There was 1 in the second half that had no effect on the play and the player (can’t remember who) was powerless to prevent. Ref got to have his say though and that seems to be what matters.
Not saying we was robbed. Just saying the game is going to sht because of the obsessive desire to rule strictly to the over-complicated rule book.
Wallabies player ratings: Wright's rocks and diamonds nature leave 15 jersey open for RWC, winger's perfect night
It’s infuriating. The Valentini reversal was ridiculous. A bit of push and shove and suddenly the pressure seems to be on the officials to be making rulings. The TMO starts out with “gold was involved but blue started it”. Ref repeats his words and seems to seek a bit more clarification. The next thing we hear is Mr. Earnest TMO say ” blue started it but gold was more physical”. That was the version that they end up going with.
No need for a penalty either way but all the officials have a tedious pow-wow and an arbitary decision is made at the end of it all.
Then the penalty against Quade. Again, nothing in it but again, unecessxary involvement from the TMO. Ref wants to collaborate and make a decision to justify him interupting the game.
I grew up on and was rusted to union. Can barely stomach it anymore and would much rather watch league these days where the ball is in play and the action flows.
Wallabies player ratings: Wright's rocks and diamonds nature leave 15 jersey open for RWC, winger's perfect night
Might have been but the ref was nowhere near the spot. All the other camera angles were inconclusive. It just has to be sent upstairs.
'Gutted': Cheika's Pumas steal dramatic win to confirm Eddie's worst Wallabies fears
Wallabies did their best to make life hard for themselves. Pushing the marginal offloads at the end of breaks and turning it over, again and again. Then the dumb penalties. Same old problem of lack of discipline.
How on earth do they not review the last try though. TMO intervened constantly throughout the game on the lookout for any petty bit of foul play. We sat and listened to him make it up as he went along, when he reversed the penalty for Valentini’s push. Then a game-deciding play that wasn’t clear, and he won’t even have a look. WTF??
Then Sony Bill talks about the weather with the Argentinian skipper in the post match interview. 😂
'Gutted': Cheika's Pumas steal dramatic win to confirm Eddie's worst Wallabies fears
Totally agreed. I suspect Smith is close to burn out. It was a huge over reaction. Smith has an obsessive dedication to his practice, in between the games in a tightly packed schedule. It can’t be easy. His 1st innings review was weird and he seems to be finding it hard to accept LBW decisions (in recent county games).
UK View: 'Pieces of meat'- the 'farcical' side of classic series, 'Bazball's Little Bighorn' and Steve Smith snaps
Might have cost the draw instead of a loss. You could argue without the declaration, he couldn’t have set Australia the difficult target that he did, and damn nearly fell short of. Had he batted England into day 2, Aussies would be batting out a draw and probably not risking wickets. With rain on the cards at any stage of an English test, I can see the wisdom of pushing the game along to give your a chance to win it.
Did Stokes' declaration cost England the First Test? Embrace the chaos and admit you don't know
Totally agree on this but there was one thing lacking: the (straight) runners to link with. The backs took it at 45% to the tryline again and again, jinking back inside, beating the first tackle and going nowhere afterwards.
There was also nobody there for any offloads. You can’t fault Haas’ effort and he is our main weapon in the pack. But nobody ran off him on the chance of an offload. Surely it would have been our best chance of breaking the line.
Freddie’s Cooked: How tactical blunders, selection mistakes and a failure to learn doomed the Blues boss
The $64 question. ARU will need someone the states will get behind to make it happen.
'No longer have any trust or faith': Rugby Australia chairman told to resign by SIX states, EGM looms with 'gloves off'