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Nathan Sharpe (72)
Except they aren't. It's fucking super hard to beat a team that does literally nothing. Bit of a problem hey.Geez DP, any team that plays rugby like that should be pretty easy to beat shouldn't they?
Except they aren't. It's fucking super hard to beat a team that does literally nothing. Bit of a problem hey.Geez DP, any team that plays rugby like that should be pretty easy to beat shouldn't they?
Or what it has become anyway.God that's stupid.
You say 'just defend' as if defence isn't half of what rugby (and frankly more than half of what test rugby) is all about. Maybe you should watch the NBA or something instead.
You say never try anything when their first try followed a very well executed kick that put our guys under great pressure.
It sounds like your problem is with our sport.
Some other things they do well:
Ball carrier support. I think their pre-binding tactic winds up amounting to side-entry but the refs allow it so they'd be mad not to continue doing it. When did Australia last come up with a slightly controversial tactic that gained us an advantage? I guess Cheika makes everyone stand 10m behind the line at restarts.
Contestable kicks. When they kick short, the kicks are contestable. How many restarts of ours have you seen that go just far enough that we can't contest? Perhaps we should go long on every kick so they at least have to run the ball back upfield a bit.
The Irish played rugby well. They can scrum, tackle, ruck, pass, catch, lineout and kick well. They also adapt to the variable referring well.
Maybe Australia should start doing the same.
God that's stupid.
Contestable kicks. When they kick short, the kicks are contestable. How many restarts of ours have you seen that go just far enough that we can't contest? Perhaps we should go long on every kick so they at least have to run the ball back upfield a bit.
The Irish played rugby well. They can scrum, tackle, ruck, pass, catch, lineout and kick well. They also adapt to the variable referring well.
Maybe Australia should start doing the same.
This view would suggest that the TMO & Ref got the call correct - despite the protestations of the FoxSports commentators.
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What intrigues me is that some of the depth problems we seem to have are inverse to the depth problems we have had historically. We've got good depth in the front row and a good stock of locks, but we are really thin on the ground as far as the backline is concerned.
We won the majority of our restarts when kicking short bar the one where Folau got carded. Our scrum was more dominant than, we conceded less tries over the whole series, and we didn't lose a lineout. I'd say we are doing the same as them, our skill execution just let us down in some crucial moments and we gave away too many penalties.
So we are doing everything well until we don't?
I dont know what this photo was from, probably a line-out, but it isnt the action that lead to Folau getting binned
Sadly I don’t know who it is but I do know it isn’t him
Hodge is being massively under utilised, Stewart has some of the tools but is 2 years away. If Foley got busted tomorrow it would be Beale. Worried about the vacuum that creates elsewhere
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God that's stupid.
So we are doing everything well until we don't?
Worrying about how many tries each team scored returns us to the root of the problem: focusing on anything other than what is required to win a rugby match.
IT'S A JOKE.
ffs the level of seriousness around here is getting VERY FUCKING TEDIOUS
Mate seriously there would be Shute Shield clubs where Powell doesn’t get the start. Warringah and Uni for sure, Randwick as well if Short is available. Massive myth. At Uni he likely plays 4thgrade if Strang, Gordon and Phipps all available.
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I think it was as much that Ireland got tired as anything. We started getting some front foot ball for once. Some of our "finishers" in the forwards were making metres we hadn't gained all game really. Unfortunately we didn't use it better. Powell can snipe well, but I thought he was going to get murdered one time he did when he ran smack into 2 massive Irish forwards. To his credit, he didn't! Powell was OK in his 19 minute cameo.
I don't think that game would have suffered if there was no TMO tonight. The elbow on Phipps wasn't great but it's a contact sport. Folau's card wasn't there and Coleman's penalty for a shoulder after Ireland already had a penalty was a waste of time.
Watch this space...Yeah I was really worried on his challenge at the kickoff - I thought if they looked at it again he was going off. ..