Wallabies at the Rugby World Cup 2011

[Bullrush]

Its nerves every time its a big game kiwi's including there cricketer come down with upset tummies. Looks like its catching.

Cmon now....Saffa's really shouldn't comment on cricketers getting nervous before big games should they?

 

[whatty]

Fair enough

 

[EVERYFWDTHINKTHEYREA6OR7]

No, no, no, no, no........you can't laugh at the Kiwis and call 'Choke' and then imply Suzie's relocated to NZ to do the Wallaby catering.

Ha ha, yeah i can. It would be a great story and how we won't bitch and complain about it for years on end.

Taking the piss mate anyways.

I wonder if Danny Weidler has any mail, because i need a reason for that lacklustre performance on Satdee night. Suzie or no Suzie.

 

[Blue]

I think that playing SA in the Q final is not necessarily more difficult than Wales, who is a team very much on the up.

The Wallabies beat the Boks 7 pout of 11 times under PdV. They know how to beat the Boks.

Having said that, the Boks were hugely underdone in the 14-10 Durban win and will be a LOT better so the Wallabies would have to life their game a notch. Same basic approach though.

The Wobs will be the bookies favorites and rightly so but it is going to be one almighty shitfest (unless of course Samoa beats us or Italy beat Ireland).

 

[jay-c]

As I wrote on the match thread: having a fetcher, including Pocock, last night wouldn't have helped much against swarm after swarm of passionate Ireland forwards who got to the breakdown earlier and pushed Aussies off the ball many times.

Ireland didn't have a fetcher, haven't had one for years; ask them if an Oz fetcher would have made a difference.

The forwards we had would have been good enough to win the game if they played as they did in Durban and Brisbane.

They didn't.

i agree tha pocock probably wouldnt have won the game> the point i was trying to make was that not having a specialest in the position hurt us badly in the game
we are a team that who's counter attacks are amongst the most lethal in the game, we didnt get one turnover as i remember and quick turnover ball is when an opposition is at its most vulnerable
not only could a chance like that have boosted our confidence but also deflated the irish> without having a specialist openside we rob ourselves of even having the chance

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

Noting that the last time Italy and Ireland played, it took a last minute drop goal for Ireland to win, their match on the 2nd could be a lot closer than people think.

I certainly wouldn't say an Italian win is impossible.

 

[Victorian Reds Fan]

I think that playing SA in the Q final is not necessarily more difficult than Wales, who is a team very much on the up.

The Wallabies beat the Boks 7 pout of 11 times under PdV. They know how to beat the Boks.

Having said that, the Boks were hugely underdone in the 14-10 Durban win and will be a LOT better so the Wallabies would have to life their game a notch. Same basic approach though.

The Wobs will be the bookies favorites and rightly so but it is going to be one almighty shitfest (unless of course Samoa beats us or Italy beat Ireland).

They looked ominous against Fiji.

 

[Blue]

They looked ominous against Fiji.

Like I said before the Fiji game I think this is a very poorly prepared Fiji side.

Sure we have made strides but jeez Fiji were nowhere.

 

[Braveheart81]

I'm waiting for PDiv to drop Lambie and say that it's not the backline that he's looking for.

 

[Bowside]

I'm waiting for PDiv to drop Lambie and say that it's not the backline that he's looking for.

I'm just waiting for ricky januarie to get the call up.....

 

[Inside Shoulder]

I think one of the problems with Australian rugby is staring this forum in the face: compare the number of threads and posts in the schoolboy threads with the numbers in club, super 15 and international. Rugby supporters are obsessed with schoolboy rugby.
We need to wake up to the fact that we are no chance of competing in the long term if we have a few schools in Sydney and Brisbane supplying the bulk of professional rugby talent: the pool is just too shallow to reliably produce the necessary depth and competition.

 

[Bowside]

I think one of the problems with Australian rugby is staring this forum in the face: compare the number of threads and posts in the schoolboy threads with the numbers in club, super 15 and international. Rugby supporters are obsessed with schoolboy rugby.
We need to wake up to the fact that we are no chance of competing in the long term if we have a few schools in Sydney and Brisbane supplying the bulk of professional rugby talent: the pool is just too shallow to reliably produce the necessary depth and competition.

Everyone agrees mate. But where we differ is that I think with the right coaching and team culture we can be (and in the past have been), the best. Its just as possible now as it was in 91 or 99, the cattle are there, the framework for success is not.

 

[Inside Shoulder]

Everyone agrees mate. But where we differ is that I think with the right coaching and team culture we can be (and in the past have been), the best. Its just as possible now as it was in 91 or 99, the cattle are there, the framework for success is not.

91 was still amateur so we could compete.

99 we were ahead in thinking but now there is so much rugby played all the time that its pretty hard to get that edge. The issue of giving players all the skills has to start young - Beale's chip kick should have been from his left foot but he isnt confident off both feet: just an example

 

[Jnor]

I think that playing SA in the Q final is not necessarily more difficult than Wales, who is a team very much on the up.

The Wallabies beat the Boks 7 pout of 11 times under PdV. They know how to beat the Boks.

Having said that, the Boks were hugely underdone in the 14-10 Durban win and will be a LOT better so the Wallabies would have to life their game a notch. Same basic approach though.

The Wobs will be the bookies favorites and rightly so but it is going to be one almighty shitfest (unless of course Samoa beats us or Italy beat Ireland).

I assume you mean the good kind?

 

[Army_Gav]

i have a suggestion for next year when the wallabies play a game >
in advance someone organise a greenandgold crew to get their tickets together with anyone else people know in the same spot> if we can get a crowd sitting together in the same section then they can start singing and then it will snowball around the ground> maybe get the aru to advertise tickets for passionate fans> where they will be expected to make themselves loud> ohh and a good cheer leader wont hurt

Already on the cards, too late now. Welsh test in Melbourne will be the big test, followed by the Bledisloe in Sydney/Brisbane.

See my last post in this thread for events on Saturday: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/fo...Wallabies-vs-Ireland-(Supporter-meetup)/page3

 

[Inside Shoulder]

Already on the cards, too late now. Welsh test in Melbourne will be the big test, followed by the Bledisloe in Sydney/Brisbane.

See my last post in this thread for events on Saturday: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/fo...Wallabies-vs-Ireland-(Supporter-meetup)/page3

We should also pick the team and coach it

 

[Jnor]

And I think we'd do a damn good job...

 

[Braveheart81]

If we have a poor first half, Barbarian would definitely be the guy to get stuck into the team at half time.

 

[Bowside]

Someone close to the wallabies should read them that letter pre quarter final. All the motivation you need.

 

[Lee Grant]

I think one of the problems with Australian rugby is staring this forum in the face: compare the number of threads and posts in the schoolboy threads with the numbers in club, super 15 and international. Rugby supporters are obsessed with schoolboy rugby.

We need to wake up to the fact that we are no chance of competing in the long term if we have a few schools in Sydney and Brisbane supplying the bulk of professional rugby talent: the pool is just too shallow to reliably produce the necessary depth and competition.

There is nothing wrong in following schoolboy rugby. Without it Oz rugby would be a basket case; in fact were it not for schoolboy rugby this forum wouldn't exist because rugby union as we know it would have died after WWI. Without the schools you wouldn't have so many juniors trotting out every Saturday. Some schools have 40 or 50 teams running out every week.

The problem Oz rugby has is not with the sport at private schools. The problem it has is that it does a poor job in recruiting enough youngsters to join up with their village clubs, and after they do, keeping them in the sport. Not all families can afford to send their kids to private schools and many drop out compared to the lads at rugby schools who are locked in.

Everybody is aware that many of the cream of the crop are recruited by big schools but Oz rugby could do a better job with the ones that aren't. There are more lads like Horne and TPN, who never went to private schools, than have been discovered. They don't get recognised properly, or they weren't signed up in the first place, and/or the other codes got them first.

Also, rugby missionary work at public schools is poor.

I realise this is a very simplistic view and that others know more about the problems than I do including the conflict of interest between the Junior Unions and the ARU, but his fault, the other guy's fault, my fault, nobody's fault, we have to recruit more to the game and keep them there AND also benefit from private school rugby, which itself is under siege.
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