Scrum - Wallabies Vs Wales

[Richard D. James]

I think we need to be careful not to focus too much on the scrum and assume England will play the same game plan Wales did. The English pack know they will just have to scrummage as they normally do to be dominant, while we will have focused on it all week. If England come out and play wider like they did in the second half against the ABs we could find ourselves in trouble. Especially if they get their big centres to run at our little ones all day and use their strike runners in the back three.

I don't think this will be the same one-dimensional England we are used to and all the scrum talk this week might be a bit of a ruse to cover a more expansive game plan. They talked up scrum domination thing in 2008 and it didn't work. I'm not sure they will try it again.

edit: also the breakdown will, as always, be the most important area and we will need to be strong there.

There was what, six scrums in that game?

Who couldn't see it coming?

 

[Gnostic]

They were still dominant in the scrum RDJ, the few there were. Notice however that the backrow bound and satyed that way and the locks bound together.

Fatcat and now Slipper starting to look very over weight. Where is the conditioning? At least there is only two weeks to go so Alexander shouldn't pack on too much.

 

[Richard D. James]

They were still dominant in the scrum RDJ, the few there were. Notice however that the backrow bound and satyed that way and the locks bound together.

Fatcat and now Slipper starting to look very over weight. Where is the conditioning? At least there is only two weeks to go so Alexander shouldn't pack on too much.

They were always going to be dominant in the scrum, which is why they didn't have to worry about it.

But it was obvious all week that England were going to run the ball from everywhere and we let them do it. It's not as if they did it with the same speed that the Boks and Abs do it, in fact it looked fucking slow, but we still couldn't stop it.

Agree about Fatcat, he is also giving a lot of penalties away when trying to turn the ball over. He used to be good at it but I think the new ruck interpretations and his aforementioned lack of fitness mean he should stay the fuck away from turnovers and do a props real job at the breakdown.

 

[Scotty]

It was unfair on Fatcat. Joubert rightly pinged him the first time, fatcat learnt his lesson and quite obvioulsy release the player the second time before going back for the ball. Joubert got it wrong, fatcat got it right. It was ironic considering how much England were allowed to hold onto the tackled player or the ball on the ground.

 

[Richard D. James]

That's true, he did release for the second one, but Joubert's view was blocked and the release was very quick so when Joubert saw fatcat's hands on the ball it appeared that he didn't listen to the call for "hands off"

 

[Done that]

They were still dominant in the scrum RDJ, the few there were. Notice however that the backrow bound and satyed that way and the locks bound together.

Fatcat and now Slipper starting to look very over weight. Where is the conditioning? At least there is only two weeks to go so Alexander shouldn't pack on too much.

Alexander is quoted as saying he is trying to regain the weight he lost during his injury , about 7 kgs he said.