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Bledisloe 1 - Saturday 18 August 2018 - ANZ Stadium, Sydney

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Tim Horan (67)
Adam Coleman "yeah we'll need to look at it to work out what needs improvement".

Try the locks dude. Especially in the set piece but also hitting it up.
 
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Mark Ella (57)
Bobby Sands said:
Has anyone else noticed that Bernard Foley isn't very good?
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Have you noticed that they do not make a team? None of them have very good skills. Picking on one bloke is a bit redundant when 23 of them were poor. Tell me again which 10 in Oz has better skills, I'm sure you will say To'omua or Beale, and both have shown exactly the same in tests at 10 if not worse.​

How about you have a look at the attacking structure that sees all players passing laterally to static players, touchline to touchline and nobody working off the ball for a second touch or anything even resembling it. No easier just to bag a single player who has pretty average skills, but then nobody else has anything else.
 
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George Gregan (70)
Istanbul said:
You're not allowed to say bad things about Foley. He's much loved on here. We overlook his 30 meter clearing kick and it doesn't matter he sparks nothing in attack because. well I don't know why, all I know is that foley is never the problem
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Fuck sake our entire fucking pathetic forward pack was a 1000x worse than Foley.

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Vay Wilson (31)
People say there is no alternative to Foley. Does anyone truly think Aus win a Bledisloe series or RWC with Foley at 10?? So every game you pick him there is one more game you don't unearth the 10 we need. It might not be the next bloke or the one after but I know for sure it isn't Foley so let's move on from him!
 
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Mark Ella (57)
Chieka "got to stay in the contest" - you sir are an idiot. The only time this team was in the contest was when they walked onto the field. Apart from that they were not prepared, they have very poor skills, and do not play as a team. For 3 years you have masqueraded as a Rugby coach. Its time to pack your bags.
 
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Tim Horan (67)
I was disappointed with Robertson. Tonight I really wanted to give him my love and support.

He scrummed at an angle which bothers me. HE's meant to have an impact around the field, and our locks needed some help. But I just dont remember him in the tight at all.

Thought he had gotten harder. Not sure now.
 
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Michael Lynagh (62)
dru said:
He was strong. If there was a reasonable alternative I'd listen. Let's see how Matt goes.
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So our set piece was woeful and we have a new forwards coach Simon Raiwalui.

How much do we miss Mario


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Vay Wilson (31)
Gnostic said:
Chieka "got to stay in the contest" - you sir are an idiot. The only time this team was in the contest was when they walked onto the field. Apart from that they were not prepared, they have very poor skills, and do not play as a team. For 3 years you have masqueraded as a Rugby coach. Its time to pack your bags.
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And have a shave as well - either grow a beard or don't but the stubble looks terrible. And do the tie up or take it off...
 
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Steve Williams (59)
dru said:
I was disappointed with Robertson. Tonight I really wanted to give him my love and support.

He scrummed at an angle which bothers me. HE's meant to have an impact around the field, and our locks needed some help. But I just dont remember him in the tight at all.

Thought he had gotten harder. Not sure now.
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Scott Sio was a real loss as was the calm head of TK in the centres. Pocock and Beale were only players I would say played well (for the whole 80 at least).
 
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Tim Horan (67)
Gnostic said:
Chieka "got to stay in the contest" - you sir are an idiot. The only time this team was in the contest was when they walked onto the field. Apart from that they were not prepared, they have very poor skills, and do not play as a team. For 3 years you have masqueraded as a Rugby coach. Its time to pack your bags.
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I kind of agree. His early excesses had me enraged. But he's tempering. I'm more worried that he has stuffed Bernie.

In the mean time who would you put forward. I hear TT is available.
 
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George Gregan (70)
dru said:
I was disappointed with Robertson. Tonight I really wanted to give him my love and support.

He scrummed at an angle which bothers me. HE's meant to have an impact around the field, and our locks needed some help. But I just dont remember him in the tight at all.

Thought he had gotten harder. Not sure now.
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Wouldnt judge the bloke on one game against the Darkness. To be fair, i wouldnt judge any of them on this result.

It's utterly pointless. NZ are the Wermacht of the rugby world. You might beat them with a world 15 but the rest is pointless.

Making our lads play them 3 times a year is cruelty.

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Mark Ella (57)
People say there is no alternative to Foley. Does anyone truly think Aus win a Bledisloe series or RWC with Foley at 10?? So every game you pick him there is one more game you don't unearth the 10 we need. It might not be the next bloke or the one after but I know for sure it isn't Foley so let's move on from him! ​
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I don't think the Wallabies would win any tournament with the skills they have if they had Barrett, Mackenzie, Mo'aga or Dan Carter at 10. Fundamentally across the board the skills are poor, the team play is non existent and they are very poorly coached. I don't think the Wallabies can win with Hooper as Captain either, or playing Hooper and Pocock in the same team, or by selecting technically weak props like Robertson and Ainslie in test matches. But lets not mention that, just keeping harping on about a 10 where there isn't really any other option, To'omua and Beale are not 10s, Cooper hasn't played in 12 months. Who else is there? AND is that the biggest problem this side faces?
 
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Tim Horan (67)
Derpus said:
Wouldnt judge the bloke on one game against the Darkness. To be fair, i wouldnt judge any of them on this result.

It's utterly pointless. NZ are the Wermacht of the rugby world. You might beat them with a world 15 but the rest is pointless.

Making our lads play them 3 times a year is cruelty.

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haha

I've been judging him for a couple of years and didn't like what I saw. This time though I thought, hell this bloke looks like stepping up.

Wrong.
 
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Tim Horan (67)
Gnostic said:
I don't think the Wallabies would win any tournament with the skills they have if they had Barrett, Mackenzie, Mo'aga or Dan Carter at 10. Fundamentally across the board the skills are poor, the team play is non existent and they are very poorly coached. I don't think the Wallabies can win with Hooper as Captain either, or playing Hooper and Pocock in the same team, or by selecting technically weak props like Robertson and Ainslie in test matches. But lets not mention that, just keeping harping on about a 10 where there isn't really any other option, To'omua and Beale are not 10s, Cooper hasn't played in 12 months. Who else is there? AND is that the biggest problem this side faces?[/quote]

no
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George Gregan (70)
dru said:
haha

I've been judging him for a couple of years and didn't like what I saw. This time though I thought, hell this bloke looks like stepping up.

Wrong.
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Right so you think the double world champions are actually beatable?

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