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TRC2021 - Wallabies v Boks @ Suncorp 18/09

Joe Blow

Peter Sullivan (51)
I can only agree. Eye gouge or not, it is an off the ball incident involving striking the head, face actually - a gouge was always a risk
Do you think Quade was faking it? If so it was convincing. I’m waiting for the citing.
 

Adam84

Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Don't know if he was faking it, people can freak out a bit when things go near their eyes though, so maybe the reaction was worse then the incident but not intentionally
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
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Do you think Quade was faking it? If so it was convincing. I’m waiting for the citing.
I don't think so at all, but that footage is not really conclusive that the contact was a deliberate gouge. Not really sure what he was doing, tbh.
 

Blue

Andrew Slack (58)
The cards to Swinton and the SA reserve back rower are a little open to interpretation but this incident is straight up thuggery and de Koch needs to face serious consequences. No place for it in the game.

Complete nonsense.

Aussie are pissed about the Swinton card and now you want to see retaliation.
 

Blue

Andrew Slack (58)
I can only agree. Eye gouge or not, it is an off the ball incident involving striking the head, face actually - a gouge was always a risk
Goodness me. People can make accidental contact with each other's heads in rugby. Now there's a thing.

Again. If there is head contact it has to be dealt with consistently. If it looks intentional it is a red or a post-match sanction.

If there is video evidence of intentional eye contact it has to be a suspension.

Consistency has to be the goal.
 

Derpus

George Gregan (70)

Now that the forum is upgraded and we can post tweets again, let's put this here in all it's glory.

What a moment!
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Dctarget

John Eales (66)
I like seeing the tight forward efforts

In the last try we had both locks punching out quality, clean passes before Philip works hard to be in support of Samu and then provides the quality cleanout so Koro can receive the ball and score
Philip is becoming increasingly reliable to put in a top shelf effort.

shame that he’s the designated maul defender meaning he gives away a lot of penalties. Though he was pretty immense shutting down the maul on Saturday.
 

Derpus

George Gregan (70)
Philip is becoming increasingly reliable to put in a top shelf effort.

shame that he’s the designated maul defender meaning he gives away a lot of penalties. Though he was pretty immense shutting down the maul on Saturday.
The penalty against him for collapsing a maul the week before really highlights how fucked mauls are for me. He came through the middle, wrapped up the ball carrier and got penalised for collapsing the maul.

Mauls are dumb yo.
 

Tex

John Thornett (49)
Re. the eye-gouge.

I'm not convinced he was intentionally trying to stick his fingers into Cooper's eyes, but those things tend to happen when you swipe at a prone players face with fingers outstretched, behind play.
 
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Drew

Bob Davidson (42)
It would have been nice (though less spectacular) if TT had looked where he was passing. But I liked it, the defender had to tackle him as he passed it
 

Dctarget

John Eales (66)
Jeez Tupou is strong. If you don't follow the Wallabies on instagram, somehow get on their stories and watch Tupou do some crazy gym moves.

He's doing like chin ups with straight leg raises except not stopping at just horizontal, bringing his legs all the way up over his head. I can't quite describe it but at his size it looks so odd and impressive. Fcking mental, the bloke is like 130 kilos and doing Simone Biles manoeuvres.
 
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