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Couldn’t agree more: when you’re struggling to decide between three halves of close-to-equal pegging then let the one who stuffs up make the decision for you: Gordon should be headed home.
Ex-Wallaby reveals northern hemisphere tactic Aussies can't handle, Rennie says loss 'hurts everyone'
Couldn’t agree more. Have long thought many current players need to go to the Bill Young School of National Anthem Singing. Belt it out, have some pride. As the camera panned along the team last might, it looked like most didn’t know the words or simply didn’t give a fuck. That’s a problem.
REACTION: Boks turn salty tears into raging torrent of revenge, Marika smashed and humbled in TRC 'mugging'
Guys, you need some more ad panels and pop ups on your site — I can almost read the article.
Wallabies squad shock: JOC left OUT as Foley returns, Tah young gun's first call up, key men return to face Boks
Not all intercepts land plum in the chest. Sometimes the intent is to alter the ball’s trajectory to a more advantageous position. I’d argue that most intercepts are a product of this two-step process. Totally legitimate play. When a ref cannot distinguish between a legitimate — albeit failed — attempt and a deliberate knockdown, then they really shouldn’t be reffing rugby.
The Wrap: Yes, rugby needs fixing, but not for the reasons most people think
Totally agree, graymatter. Numerous times White seemed to go missing from the back of the ruck and I was yelling at the TV. Yes, he had a good game, but his speed or positioning around the field seemed, ummm, at least questionable.
And despite Genia’s uncalled for box kick, his kicking game last week was brilliant.
And, not denying him his tries, but Reece Hodge must have the ugliest running style I’ve ever seen — he barely seems in control of his legs. Is he moving faster than it looks on telly? Great boot, but do we not have a better, genuine winger? On a side note, Koroibete looks and moves more like Digby Ioane every match ????
Nine talking points from Wallabies vs All Blacks
Keep doing what we’ve been doing?
What? Losing?
Deep sign x2
Roar Forum: What changes should the Wallabies make for Bledisloe 2?
Analysis of Cheika’s and Hooper’s after-game comments:
Cheika: With adherence to the way we want to defend, plus also the tackling in itself, it’s got to be better.
Means: There’s nothing wrong with Nathan Grey’s defence strategy; the players just aren’t following that strategy. So that’s okay then.
Cheika: It’s not attitude, it’s just maybe that little bit of doubt creeps in.
Means: It’s not attitude, it’s, ummm, something very like attitude. But it’s not attitude goddamnit, because Cheika was hired as a motivational coach, which is all about, ummm attitude.
Cheika: There’s no one-two step process for that type of stuff, that comes down to a deep belief between players. You have to acknowledge what you did wrong first of all and then say, ‘OK, we’ve got to fix those things and go and do it’. This group of players here, they’ve got a very strong connection.
Means: Who the f*ck knows? The players need belief in each other, they don’t have it, they need to fix it, but they already have a strong connection, so it’s already fixed, no problem, so move along, nothing to see here.
Cheika: We had the right preparation no doubt and obviously not playing a lot of footy that leaves you out a little bit missing the [Super Rugby] games. That’s as good as we could have had it.
Means: Again, who knows. We had good preparation, except we didn’t play enough Super Rugby, which is bad, but that’s actually good, and we need to bring [somtething, heaven knows what] into the game. Read it backwards, break it down into constituent clauses, parse every comma and construct … he’s just bumbling and babbling.
Hooper: Our defence just wasn’t up to scratch and there was a bit of an unravelling there for a bit. We were able to get back in it with some really good fight.
Means: Defence was bad, but it wasn’t that bad, because it was really just a bit of unravelling, and we got back into the game and only lost by 20 so thats alright then. Right?
He’s not unaccountable — he’s delusional.
Time's up for the Cheika dictatorship
Good to see the Wallabies get up for sure, but it was far from convincing for mine.
First 60 minutes the passing was D-grade, behind the man, too high, too low, to no one in particular. Not enough forwards in motion around the ruck, just hanging out wide with a short pass game that got hammered.
Foley and Phipps are one dimensional. Phipps is a clear-the-ball at all costs player with very little variation (not just last night — that’s his one and only game plan); Foley is predictable and dull. I can’t see Larkham preferring Foley, if Larkham has a say in these things.
Giteau in not a halfback. He did a reasonable job filling in, and that may well have been the difference between the Smith and Phipps yellow cards, but there’s no way he should be considered as a permanent halfback supersub, which some here seem to be advocating.
Folau’s got a lot of great aspects to his game, but jeez I wish he could kick — not that he had a bad kicking game last night, but I just wish he had it as an option to keep defences guessing.
Kurtley Beale provided some entertainment against the Pumas, but for the last few years, it’s a 50-50 call that he’ll drop the ball in contact.
[Highlights] Wallabies defeat All Blacks 27-19 in Bledisloe 1
Rennie is clearly struggling to make the hard calls on positions — this is killing the development of combinations and a unified on-field approach. Let the players, then, make the decisions for you: stupid yellow card: home. Can’t throw straight: home. Seems the positions Australian have the most options are causing the most headaches.
It's pasta joke! Rennie defends mass changes as discipline a killer again in first-ever loss to Italy