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Come on cheika where's the poker face?
Brumbies v Waratahs Rnd 5 2014
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Dick Tooth (41)
Fantastic game of rugby. Australian conference is best conference. Rebels excepted of course.
His is just drawn on.
Alex
Jimmy Flynn (14)
Ponies did what they do well, very well and got a good win.
NSW need to learn from this - they need to be able to rely on their set piece; they need to take points when on offer; they need more defensive urgency and (above all) they need to trust their game. They had more impact on the bench but started panicking with 25 to go when a cool head would have got them home - and the brumbies knew it
NSW need to learn from this - they need to be able to rely on their set piece; they need to take points when on offer; they need more defensive urgency and (above all) they need to trust their game. They had more impact on the bench but started panicking with 25 to go when a cool head would have got them home - and the brumbies knew it
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Simon Poidevin (60)
Skelton is a massive lad and bends the line, his going to be a good player.. I thought Robbie Coleman had another good game, gee he has some pace.
Also think I say Mogg out sprint izzy and at one stage out jump him, but he seems like the under 9's would get passed some of his poor attempts at tackling.
Also think I say Mogg out sprint izzy and at one stage out jump him, but he seems like the under 9's would get passed some of his poor attempts at tackling.
louie
Desmond Connor (43)
I think we get it. A glass door was apparently smashed. Do you have an interview with the door, or just more paparazzi shots of it?
unfortunately the door has a self imposed press ban while it recovers. I'm currently in a bidding war with Ch9 for the rights to it's story for GAGR.
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I hope sleight is OK. Our injury toll is out of hand
Found it on the replay. A cheeky inside number to Beetham, 32:33 game time on Foxtel TV clock.
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Ted Thorn (20)
I'm in.
In return, you get an avatar of the best photo I can find from the game, perhaps the scoreboard
Barbarian, I hope Brumbieman shows you some compassion-looking forward to your new look
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Waratahs comprehensively outplayed by their opposite number bar 7.
Hooper was excellent.
I don't understand how a pack with 7 wallabies in it can get so comprehensively outplayed at scrum & lineout time.
Old mate stated what we were all thinking on thursday with his Kepu piece. The Waratahs scrum stabalized as soon as he came on in the second half. Ryan got bitched, and Benn Robinson was also bettered by Benn Alexander (how!?)
Very entertaining game. McCabe or To'omua was my MOTM, Fardy was good, but To'omua laid the platform and McCabe showed Beale what the word direct means
Hooper was excellent.
I don't understand how a pack with 7 wallabies in it can get so comprehensively outplayed at scrum & lineout time.
Old mate stated what we were all thinking on thursday with his Kepu piece. The Waratahs scrum stabalized as soon as he came on in the second half. Ryan got bitched, and Benn Robinson was also bettered by Benn Alexander (how!?)
Very entertaining game. McCabe or To'omua was my MOTM, Fardy was good, but To'omua laid the platform and McCabe showed Beale what the word direct means
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Ted Thorn (20)
Great victory from the Brumbies, no major drama for the Tahs.
Season is long, plenty of points for the take, but the Tahs looked stumped for answers when their plan did not succeed in the fist half.
When something doesn't work, you need leadership in the coach box & on the field to retake the game back asap.
The Brums also starved Izzy of the ball, and the Tahs suffered his absence (although he scored a try late in the game). Becoming Izzy-dependent will be a weakness.
On the door smashed - again, no major drama, it is only glass. But it does not reflect well on the man nor his office. Certainly, one is entitled to discuss what he thinks was not OK, but it is a great attitude to accept the verdict of the field regardless of the circumstances, rather than lose control. Tahs will bounce back in the next match.
Season is long, plenty of points for the take, but the Tahs looked stumped for answers when their plan did not succeed in the fist half.
When something doesn't work, you need leadership in the coach box & on the field to retake the game back asap.
The Brums also starved Izzy of the ball, and the Tahs suffered his absence (although he scored a try late in the game). Becoming Izzy-dependent will be a weakness.
On the door smashed - again, no major drama, it is only glass. But it does not reflect well on the man nor his office. Certainly, one is entitled to discuss what he thinks was not OK, but it is a great attitude to accept the verdict of the field regardless of the circumstances, rather than lose control. Tahs will bounce back in the next match.
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David Wilson (68)
It wasn't called back. Hooper knocked on so another scrum with the Brumbies feed was the correct call. There wasn't advantage being played from the first scrum.
Alex
Jimmy Flynn (14)
Correct - but if you look at the sequence of three scrums - with three second row feeds, two clean tight heads and one scrum destroyed - then to call a penalty for a collapse against the dominant team on the third when he had reset previously - doesn't sit right
Brumbies were the better side on the night only because it took the Waratahs too long to adjust and change their play. They gave the Brumbies too much of a head start and looked the better side in the last 20 minutes, admittedly against 14 for the majority of that period.
Some good tries from the Brumbies but probably needed to score a 4th to stamp their authority and to be up 16 and nearly lose is a bit of a worry. If that game goes another 5 minutes then the result is maybe different.
It was a good fight back from the Waratahs but they needed to capitalise on the possession and field position they had in the opening minutes and it only took a 4 minute period for the Brumbies to get on top and the first of those tries came from the first time the Brumbies got inside the Tahs 22 and off the back of lost lineout.
Cheika was obviously frustrated and said it was more due to the amount of time wasted in that last period and thought they deserved more reward for the scrums towards the end which I tend to agree with.
Michael Hooper was immense for the Waratahs tonight and the best by far in a losing side and the loss of Pocock isn't going to be so bad with him in this form.
Some good tries from the Brumbies but probably needed to score a 4th to stamp their authority and to be up 16 and nearly lose is a bit of a worry. If that game goes another 5 minutes then the result is maybe different.
It was a good fight back from the Waratahs but they needed to capitalise on the possession and field position they had in the opening minutes and it only took a 4 minute period for the Brumbies to get on top and the first of those tries came from the first time the Brumbies got inside the Tahs 22 and off the back of lost lineout.
Cheika was obviously frustrated and said it was more due to the amount of time wasted in that last period and thought they deserved more reward for the scrums towards the end which I tend to agree with.
Michael Hooper was immense for the Waratahs tonight and the best by far in a losing side and the loss of Pocock isn't going to be so bad with him in this form.
Alex
Jimmy Flynn (14)
Apologies Brumby Runner - that was the emotion talking. This started out with a comment about how much we love games being decided on scrum penalties. Should have agreed and left it there
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