TRC Round 2: Australia vs Argentina @ Brisbane - Saturday 27 July 2019

[John S]

No. When Genia went off.

I think it was a combo of the two.

 

[Adam84]

This game turned when Cheika brought To'omua on. How he hasnt seen enough from last year is beyond me.

Agreed, the ball has barely made it pass To'omua since he has been on, the best attacking player in the backline(SK) has barely touched the ball in the 2nd half.

 

[KOB1987]

Shit the dew has caused sone grief tonight

 

[Up the Guts]

That was regulation

 

[Derpus]

Joises if we lose this.

 

[John S]

How can you miss that?

 

[Up the Guts]

Yeah Koroibete is a beast

 

[KOB1987]

God how does Grey still have a job.

Jumped the gun there a bit. I’m no fan of grey but the defence has been fantastic tonight

 

[Derpus]

No. When Genia went off.

Maybe.

 

[Derpus]

Jumped the gun there a bit. I’m no fan of grey but the defence has been fantastic tonight

Sure did.

 

[Up the Guts]

Oh geez the Wallabies can age you

 

[John S]

How many resets are we going to have here?

 

[KOB1987]

We’ll take that. Any win.

 

[chasmac]

Fark. There is some great stuff like Hodges try and some headless chicken stuff. I still don't have that comfortable feeling you get from a consumate performance.

 

[The Honey Badger]

Good first half, not so good in the second. They lost some shape.

So much for the game being played at a frenetic pace and it opening up in the second half with tired forwards. 1 try a piece.

 

[Up the Guts]

We’ll take that. Any win.

Few opportunities blown but many players standing up. Very pleased with how things went under Genia and Lilo, looked a little frantic when they went off

 

[Dctarget]

Genia rose to the challenge and then some from White. One of the first names down on the sheet. Where the fuck were those box kicks for the Rebels.

 

[dru]

Jones showed me naught.
Another change agent was Arnold off.

 

[nathan]

1. To'omua had a shocker. Huge step down once Lilo was off. A lot of it seemed to be communication issues. Makes me wonder how much bench variation gets a run at training because it looked like they’d never played together.
2. Defense was better but geez dunno how that’ll fare against other top tier nations.
3. Get Laurie in there to clean up the defensive and attacking ruck work. Sloppy and we’re missing opportunities. Will get smashed against better teams particularly NH and ABs.

Lineout and scrum were awesome. Genia, Rodda, Arnold, White, Nisirani and Koro locked themselves in for starting team if continuing to play like they did tonight. Hoping Samu gets back in as a bench back row cover because his form at end of super rugby was huge and provides coverage across 6, 7 and 8.

 

[Dctarget]

A lot of points left out there by the Pumas. Very fortunate they forgot to catch tonight. Loved Hooper's work and no yellow card!