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Dick Tooth (41)
We would've won last time if the touch judge was doing his job.
RWC: AUS v ENG (Twickenham): POOL A; 6am (AEDT) Sunday 4 October
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
Pretty much this..........
The Wallabies have a week off after England, so we should be playing our 'best' available team for Wales..........
I think we've been lucky with the draw to have the Uruguay game in between Fiji and England, whereas both England and Wales have had to play their three toughest games in a row...........
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Jim Lenehan (48)
Welcome to the English poodle press. It's gonna get worse before the week is out. This is mild wait til the heavyweights swing not gear. But like last week in the light of this drivel it makes victory all the better. Especially as they will be out
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Jim Lenehan (48)
I thought that at the beginning but as its panned out having knocked off England early the pressure switches onto Australia orcland game
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John Solomon (38)
Telegraph reporting the same. JJ is a very promising youngster but can be naive in defence. He is certainly not the messiah. Can't see anything other than an Aussie win, possibly quite a comfortable one.
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David Wilson (68)
From today's Lond Telegraph; the scrummaging cat is out of the bag.
Note the picture which shows England 7 in'st packing on his prop's backside but is becoming a 4th prop.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ru...crummaging-claims-former-Wallabies-coach.html
Bob Dwyer, Australia’s 1991 World Cup winning coach, has forcefully attacked the legality of England’s scrummaging ahead of their World Cup showdown against the Wallabies on Saturday.
England achieved dominance up front in their 28-25 defeat to Wales last Saturday, forcing four scrum penalties. However, Dwyer believes that was achieved through Joe Marler, the English loosehead, boring in on Tomas Francis causing the Wales scrum to wheel.
Jonathan Kaplan, the former referee who has officiated a record number of Tests, already highlighted this practice by tweeting, “I’d like to see if the England pack is square on the loosehead side ... just the once.”
The man in the middle at Twickenham is Romain Poite, the French referee renowned as the most savvy scrum official in the game who Dwyer hopes will clamp down on Marler. “So much of the scrum is based on perception,” Dwyer said. “The English work on having a reputation for legal scrummaging while doing the opposite. If I was Michael Cheika, I would be asking the referee is that [Marler angling in] allowed.
Note the picture which shows England 7 in'st packing on his prop's backside but is becoming a 4th prop.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ru...crummaging-claims-former-Wallabies-coach.html
Bob Dwyer, Australia’s 1991 World Cup winning coach, has forcefully attacked the legality of England’s scrummaging ahead of their World Cup showdown against the Wallabies on Saturday.
England achieved dominance up front in their 28-25 defeat to Wales last Saturday, forcing four scrum penalties. However, Dwyer believes that was achieved through Joe Marler, the English loosehead, boring in on Tomas Francis causing the Wales scrum to wheel.
Jonathan Kaplan, the former referee who has officiated a record number of Tests, already highlighted this practice by tweeting, “I’d like to see if the England pack is square on the loosehead side ... just the once.”
The man in the middle at Twickenham is Romain Poite, the French referee renowned as the most savvy scrum official in the game who Dwyer hopes will clamp down on Marler. “So much of the scrum is based on perception,” Dwyer said. “The English work on having a reputation for legal scrummaging while doing the opposite. If I was Michael Cheika, I would be asking the referee is that [Marler angling in] allowed.
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
Back to this for a moment...........
You'd think Garces might've picked up that the English scrum was walking around when he had to back peddle 5 metres to get out of the way.............
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George Smith (75)
Poite "...... most savvy scrum official in the game........" ? Really?
Excellent analysis of the Pom (& Welsh) illegal scrummaging on the front page highlighting the fact it's not just Marler, it's the whole eight who are creating the illusion of a dominant scrum to con the ref.
I'm sure we all hope Poite is under orders to police the scrums properly but chances are he won't be & will therefore be at least as bad as Garces was. In descending order of legality, what can your blokes do about it?
Excellent analysis of the Pom (& Welsh) illegal scrummaging on the front page highlighting the fact it's not just Marler, it's the whole eight who are creating the illusion of a dominant scrum to con the ref.
I'm sure we all hope Poite is under orders to police the scrums properly but chances are he won't be & will therefore be at least as bad as Garces was. In descending order of legality, what can your blokes do about it?
Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
That was Garces. Poite was on the touchline.
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Colin Windon (37)
If you look at the comments of Matt's front page piece on those scrums, there's someone who apparently blames it all on the Welsh hooker. It just shows me how little I, or maybe anyone, knows about how scrums work. I'm still not sure how the Welsh hooker's hips next to the THP has anything to do with Marler and Robshaw angling from the get-go, but there you are.
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Jim Lenehan (48)
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John Hipwell (52)
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Phil Kearns (64)
Scrum tight and straight, that's what we can do.
I know I am alone in this, but I would pick Pocock at 7 and McCalman at 8. Just to strengthen the set pieces.
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Mark Ella (57)
Surprising that Joseph is back after it being suggested that he could miss a couple more weeks only a week ago.
The Wallabies will certainly be wanting to put a strong hit on him early to see whether his chest/ribs are really alright or not.
The Wallabies will certainly be wanting to put a strong hit on him early to see whether his chest/ribs are really alright or not.
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
I like this a lot. I have doubts whether JJ, Morgan and Youngs are 100%.
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