Round 9: Waratahs v Kings

[formerflanker]

Where are the forwards who run onto a 9's pass? The pods station themselves for the pass, wait until it is in their hands, and then run into a tackler.
We need forwards who can time their run, take the pass at speed, and crash over the defender.
Keeps us going forward.

 

[todd4]

Shit. TN played 80 Min and git a double. But he actualy played 80 haha

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I would rather have seen you have a go at spelling his name in full, at least that would have been some entertainment.

 

[biggsy]

How's the NRL going?

Meah, its a shit unorganised game, SANZAAR must be running this as well. But did take one thing out of it, A drop goal is only worth 1 point. So there not as dumb as I think they are. But there still pretty fucken useless..... Did Pick the game up pretty quick,pass backwards 4 times and kick the ball away and repeat. More kicking in NRL then Union. And there is this 40 20 rule, if you kick from inside your 40m line and if the ball lands inside your opposition 20 on the full and goes out. The attacking team regains the ball from the 20m Line, But there is no line out in NRL. Tap and go rule, like touch footy.
As I said, shit game
Go Tahs
Can't wait for the Reds v Tahs next week, going to Be good Rugby watching.

 

[Gnostic]

Tahs game tonight = same reason Wallabies fail against All Blacks. Until we understand that it's absolutely life and death and play over the edge (and push the rules at every opportunity) we will continue to be left behind. Who was the absolute mongrel take no prisoners leader in the Tahs pack tonight? Didn't sight him myself. The Kiwis will generally have minimum 3-5 of these in their 1-8 enabling their backs to feed off this. Cheika gets this and showed it when coaching the Tahs to win the title in 2014 and has got a the Wobblies close with the same approach but we still lack real c#*~s in the team!

Sorry no. The Kings were not that good, they knocked on, failed to use multiple player overlaps and squandered many chances.

The Tahs didn't need anything more than base accuracy. They didn't fail because they lacked Mongrel, they failed through lack of professional application in the game, a desire to actually work for a living (because it appears to me that achieving a professional rugby contract has proved that these blokes are professional and they do not need to do anything else in terms of attitude and application) and a total lack of basic skills. What the kiwis have is accuracy in execution and speed of it, coupled with players making effort to continually back up and get into position to defend or support. The Brumbies showed 10 minutes of the same skill and application tonight. The Tahs haven't shown a minute of it since 2014 and the Wallabies nothing since 2015. Mongrel has nothing to do with it except as a mental ability to push through the pain/fight hard to go forward or make the tackle etc etc.

 

[todd4]

RIP Daryl Gibson's coaching career at the Tahs. I'm not normally in favour of knee jerk reactions against the coach, but I don't see how he can recover from this.

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Dont worry the Force will snaffle him.

 

[todd4]

The Hoff was his usual rubbish self too.

The Hoff has been bending the Force over the kitchen table for a while now but no one knows because we never whinge about the ref.

 

[Quick Hands]

The Hoff has been bending the Force over the kitchen table for a while now but no one knows because we never whinge about the ref.

Are you familiar with the work of Shiggins?

 

[USARugger]

Meah, its a shit unorganised game, SANZAAR must be running this as well. But did take one thing out of it, A drop goal is only worth 1 point. So there not as dumb as I think they are. But there still pretty fucken useless... Did Pick the game up pretty quick,pass backwards 4 times and kick the ball away and repeat. More kicking in NRL then Union. And there is this 40 20 rule, if you kick from inside your 40m line and if the ball lands inside your opposition 20 on the full and goes out. The attacking team regains the ball from the 20m Line, But there is no line out in NRL. Tap and go rule, like touch footy.
As I said, shit game
Go Tahs
Can't wait for the Reds v Tahs next week, going to Be good Rugby watching.

Reds v Tahs Preview:

 

[todd4]

Are you familiar with the work of Shiggins?

That's why I had the big grin

 

[Marcelo]

You can lose against a NZ franchise, you can lose against a top South African franchise like Stormers or Sharks, you can lose against a Tier 1 Nation like the Pumas/Jaguares but you can't lose against the worst Saffa side with no Springboks in their current squad, this is embarrassing. Gibson should resign right now

 

[Twoilms]

Where are the forwards who run onto a 9's pass? The pods station themselves for the pass, wait until it is in their hands, and then run into a tackler.
We need forwards who can time their run, take the pass at speed, and crash over the defender.
Keeps us going forward.

This is a subbies level skill...

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[Brumby Runner]

Some posters are complaining that the Tahs' problems tonight are related to the school boy players who were contracted out of school. Apart from possibly Horwitz, who else fits that description from tonight's game? I would have thought the bulk of the team all came up through the SS or equivalent.

 

[Pfitzy]

Some posters are complaining that the Tahs' problems tonight are related to the school boy players who were contracted out of school. Apart from possibly Horwitz, who else fits that description from tonight's game? I would have thought the bulk of the team all came up through the SS or equivalent.

Standard fallback for those setting up a pissing contest.

Face it, lads: the school and club systems just aren't good enough. And they've never had the impetus to become good enough because there is no strategic plan at either level, or the one above it i.e. the ARU.

This is where nepotism gets you.

 

[PaarlBok]

You can lose against a NZ franchise, you can lose against a top South African franchise like Stormers or Sharks, you can lose against a Tier 1 Nation like the Pumas/Jaguares but you can't lose against the worst Saffa side with no Springboks in their current squad, this is embarrassing. Gibson should resign right now

The Kings deserve much more credit then this. Most teams struggled against them this year.

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[Teh Other Dave]

PB, I can't speak for others here, but I'm not so much concerned about the opposition that NSW lost to, as the manner of the capitulation.

 

[PaarlBok]

PB, I can't speak for others here, but I'm not so much concerned about the opposition that NSW lost to, as the manner of the capitulation.

ARU should learn from this. Our teams play for survival, ARU has already decided between the two who will be cut. Imagen if the Tahs had to play to survive?

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[Ulrich]

Well I for one am not that surprised. The Waratahs have been mostly awful all season.

Perhaps this result and Australia's Super Rugby season in general is a blessing in disguise for the longer term in that Australia drastically improve particularly from next year on.

 

[Moono75]

Watching the replay. Good to see the Kings get rewards for toughing it out on tour. They pushed the Force when we played them and we had to guts it out to get the win in the end. Is Cloete trying to outdo Pocock for biggest arms in rugby?

Tahs have got into the habit of losing. They need to dig deep to stop the rot or they could tank this season. Don't know if Kiwi coaches know exactly how to coach Oz teams.

 

[RugbyReg]

Lots of overreactions here. That rope definitely needs to come back again as a Symbol of being attached to each other and leaving the past behind.

I'd like to see Hooper come out in the press again talking about 4 try bonus points.

Team balance looks fine. Mumm could perhaps add something.

Gibson deserves a chance to redeem himself. It's the least you could do.

Just give it one more week guys. One more week.


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[kiap]

Just give it one more week guys. One more week.

Give Gibson another 8 weeks.

The Tahs are goooooorrn anyway, and who else is there?

Besides, we need Cron to go to the Under 20s.

Then Roger Davis (or whoever is still left wearing a suit in Tahland) can go to the carpark to find the next coach.