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Super Rugby Au Round 9 - Rebels vs Waratahs, 7:15pm Sat 29th August

KOB1987

Rod McCall (65)
I can’t see any way that he wouldn’t be Wallabies eligible, it doesn’t appear that he has lived anywhere other than Australia for at least the last 10 years. His home nation of choice at the last powerhouse Rugby League World Cup was Cook Islands.
 

Purce

Jim Clark (26)
I thought one of he or Kata weren't oz eligible. Must be Kata then. Or I am completely wrong.
 

Wilson

David Codey (61)
I thought one of he or Kata weren't oz eligible. Must be Kata then. Or I am completely wrong.

Yeah you were probably thinking of Kata, born in Tonga, schooled in New Zealand and played for the Warriors before joining the Brumbies.
 

Purce

Jim Clark (26)
The "in touch" call looked just plain wrong, the "obstruction" maybe should have been looked at but I was unsure about that one at the time.

I looked back at it today and it was a bad call(or more accurately no call). Clear obstruction by Meakes on Walton. Walton appears to be looking at To'omua who runs a line behind Meakes, Walton is then taken out by the line Meakes runs. I cannot believe the tmo, ref or ARs didn't call for it to be looked at. I thought it was blatant when I saw it on first watch. I am all for speeding up the TMOs input on games but that was the same phase as the try. Some truly bizarre reffing and tmo work in that game.
 

Adam84

Nick Farr-Jones (63)
A couple of big questions/observations I have out of the game -

- why had it taken so long to give Moeroa a start? He was pretty impressive.
- having said that To'omua beats him out of the TOTW to me. He is carrying the Rebels backline. Koroibete is trying hard. The rest of them are not earning their keep. How much of that is Wessels fault I don’t know but I reckon the players need to take some responsibility
- Walton is making an excellent start to his rugby career. Seems to have a very good defender, good speed, great involvement.
- Dempsey looks back closer to his best.
- Fa’amausili is a young prop starting out. Any talk of Wallaby squad involvement seems premature to me. But I do really like what he brings to the table. Will be very keen to see how he develops over the next 3 yrs
- HJH (Harry Johnson-Holmes) is coming along nicely.
- Gordon is making a strong late charge to lock in one of the 3 Wallaby half squad spots.
- Hooper is the heart of the Waratahs pack. He carried them when they are crap and he drives them when they are good. Absolutely deserves to be allowed his sabatical next year but will leave an enormous hole. No disrespect to Simmons but there is not doubt who the leader of the Tahs is regardless of who has the C next to their name

Yeah good points, agree on all of them.
Hooper leads by example every single minute, his workload is immense..
 

TSR

Mark Ella (57)
It’s a strange one FP. I wonder if there was something else behind it. Maybe his initial training effort wasn’t up to standard or there were other issues. I remember reading of here Moeroa had been given permission to negotiate elsewhere but I wonder if that’s true or if they’ll retain him. Keeping at least one of him and/Hunt will be pretty important based on the current squad.

Other than that Penney seems to have done pretty well with the cards he has been dealt. His problem going forward as I see it is it’s going to be hard to address key issue of getting a couple of big boys for the second row. I can’t see they’ll have the cheque book to lure back one of the big names OS, and I’m not sure there is a young up and comer near ready to fill the void.
 

Blackadder

Desmond Connor (43)
IMHO not playing Moeroa earlier was Penny's biggest failure this season

The ability to have unit who will get you over the gain line regularly can not be down played

It gives Harrison that bail out option that lets a team reset off front foot ball

I have really wanted him to get a run earlier too but apparently he was overweight and lacked lateral movement which he has been working on. Great to see him have a great game.
 

TheNorth

Allen Oxlade (6)
Quick thoughts from the game:

  • I feel like swinton has been doing a lot of shoulder charges and getting away with it. This was just the first time he hit someone one dangerously. Isi is a tough fella but he went limp on impact from that one for a second or two. Swinton needs to wrap the arms before i will consider him a shot doctor
  • Moeroa could be very handy. I don't expect him to be an SBW or Teo but i feel as if he sheds a couple Kegs and adds some footwork he could do some real damage off or set piece restarts.
 

TSR

Mark Ella (57)
Agree on Swinton. He’s been lucky to get away with what he has, but in these days with so much review he won’t continue to be lucky.

Can clearly play and loves the contact but needs to improve his technique.
 

fatprop

George Gregan (70)
Staff member
Agree on Swinton. He’s been lucky to get away with what he has, but in these days with so much review he won’t continue to be lucky.

Can clearly play and loves the contact but needs to improve his technique.


He is being rewarded for big hits and aggression, he needs work in the sand pit to work on channelling that aggression
 
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