2015 IRB Junior Rugby World Cup - Italy

[Lee Grant]

This is obviously not the strongest Baas side (looking at the reserves list).

The Squirrel says:

Toeta was injured trying to stop Fiji winger from scoring.

Fiji kicked two penalty goals after Baas indiscretions…
and then scored a try.

Fiji lead 23-12 at half time.
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[Red Heavy]

From the Q 20's list I can only see 3 names from last years Colts GF (Bros 2 and S' Bank 1) I know Bros beat Uni 3 from 3 for the year and S'Bank beat Uni twice (I think ?). How much Colts rugby did Coach Gilmour see last year ? Is he now the sole selector ?

Only uni player that played colts last year in this squad is Pleash I think. Dalgleish and korczyk where in prems, jurd was injured all year and the rest are straight out of school I am pretty sure.

Gilly is definitely not solo. I know Carrozza is heavily involved as no doubt are a lot of other people in the selection process including his assistant coaches

 

[Bobby Sands]

Why has QLD not been more dominant?

I can see from a list posted a few pages back that we seem to have quite a few important players injured or unavailable. (Wilkin, Mafi, Magnay, Tuttle etc).

Is that enough? Or is the side too young.... or even poorly coached?

I've been coached by Jason Gilmore and he is a good bloke and good coach.

 

[Lee Grant]

A pity about Toeta - he was a 10/15 utility for Aus U20s in my eyes because Thompson said he was one of the best in the Adelaide tournament.

Hopefully the Squirrel is wrong - he is no doctor.

The Squirrel is getting some nuts at half-time.


Secret Squirrel is back:

Good sustained forward pressure and Bass in for try. Converted

They lead 24-23 after 15 mins. second half

[Who is Bass?? The Squirrel must mean Baas. OK - hard to work the phone with paws like that.]
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[Sideline Eye]

BB just scored. 29-23 Fiji.

 

[Sideline Eye]

Sustained pressure on the Fiji line. Try time. BB 34 v Fiji 23.

 

[Sideline Eye]

Try to Fiji off the back of three penalties in a row against BB for infringements at the ruck. 34-28. 6 mins to go.

 

[Lee Grant]

Good work SE - the Squirrel must have got hungry again.

 

[Sideline Eye]

Fiji went close to scoring, but a penalty got Baa Baas clear of their line. Full time hooter just went. BB 34 def Fiji 28. Won by the skin of their teeth.

 

[Lee Grant]

N. Kellaway rotated with Croke again.
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[Sideline Eye]

Great spirit shown here this week. 2 team huddle and cheer at full time. Fiji did this on Monday with QLD.

 

[panda]

Qld coach is not great. he has pited boys against each other and now cant fihure out why there is not cohesion. Worst coach i have ever seen

 

[Lee Grant]

 

[Lee Grant]

Qld coach is not great. he has pited boys against each other and now cant fihure out why there is not cohesion. Worst coach i have ever seen

Rubbish - Jason Gilmore is one of the best coaches of young players in the country.
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[Lee Grant]

Squirrel

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Final score 34-28 to the Baas.​

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Got a bit sidetracked !​

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Great last 10 mins with some end to end running rugby​

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Baas scrum really dominated second half completely dismantling the Fiji scrum.​

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Baas lifted in defence to deny a couple of Fijian raids to end up deserving winners.​

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Hope team sheets came through OK.​

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Yeah we got them - thank you Squirrel.
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[Braveheart81]

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Hope team sheets came through OK.​

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Yeah we got them - thank you Squirrel.

The NSW team sheet picture is broken.

 

[Sideline Eye]

Can't quite open Lee's NSW team list, so here's a re-post.

 

[girtbysea]

Is Perese injured ? He has been their best back in all the trials.

 

[kiap]

N. Kellaway rotated with Croke again.
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Lee, this image (hosted on gmail) doesn't seem to be showing - at least for me - but the one you posted below (hosted on GAGR) does show.

Any chance you could save the former to GAGR and attach?

 

[Braveheart81]

Harry Jones injured or did they decide he's scored enough tries?

Edit: going to assume that he's on the wing and they just put the wrong name down seeing as Harrison Williams is listed twice.