Why aren't we proactively making some calls well before we get to the lineout?
Every penalty kick for touch provides you with this opportunity, and others can be made on the run while crossing the field.
Forget the opposition set up, make the call and execute it quickly and accurately.
Running a defensive lineout against two means you just man mark the two and make them throw to a competition or to the dwarven plan c,d or e's and wait for the errors
a strong expression that many posters to GAGR have very little understanding of professional rugby, have not seen the game or are voting on geographic lines. damages the credibility of the ratings greatly.
i suppose there is also the possibility of many "rankers" having a laugh or, far worse, ranking strategically in the perceived interests of their pet players. such behaviour should not be able to be hidden by transposing "r" and "w" before "ank". "wank" covers it well.
Yes - its noticeable how long some of these "professional" lineouts fuck around and give the opposition time to set up.
Just make the call on the run and throw it as soon as pricks are there. Even better, try and get there first.
The criticism is a bit harsh. I watched the replay earlier today and it was a pretty good game of rugby.
Hats off to the French. Their line speed and commitment were top notch. Unfortunately we caught them on one of those days when they are in the mood. Some of their new players made a real difference. We had our moments too but could not seem to maintain momentum at any point although we were oh so close to snatching it at the end.
Poor ball security let us down but some of the spilt pill was due to the very aggressive defense as well.
It was a very fast game and Skelton struggled with the pace. Our bench players, forwards in particular, are a real step down from the starters. I doubt that will be the case come the RWC if we don't have too many injuries.
We really were not that bad. Not great but also not terrible.
Sorry I don't understand your comment.
Actually it would depend on where the throw was called to. But you already knew that didn't you.
I've seen minutes 15-40, and 55-80. Other than that I seem to have missed us getting penalised a lot. So my thoughts are:
Why the fuck go out to the 2nd or 3rd channel against an umbrella defence? If the Frenchies wanted to rush so hard outside, we should have bashed it up in close and got in behind them. When we did this just before halftime and near the end of the game, we were making ground like a boss. It also limited Kuridrani's effect on the game running onto the ball at at pace. Would like to have seen him, Tomane, or AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) start running some inside lines to pull the Frogs up on the line.
Compounding this was Phipps reverting to a step-pass game rather than concentrating on speed from the deck. He does this occasionally and needed to be pulled into line by the coach via message runner.
I wasn't really analysing our defence, but the desire to seek the big hit is leaving our fringes a little exposed from where I'm sitting.
Genia added something when he came on I thought, but there were a few phases where he was passing to a static forward
It was a poor performance overall, but I agree with this:
But I don't agree with all of this:
On Folau, you're right - he looked very ordinary. Some of the balls that didn't go to hand were mind boggling, particularly that one between he and Foley in the first half.
But I don't think that reverting to kicking was necessarily going to be the answer either. We showed we could make yards, but we were trying to make them in all the wrong places with a rushing French defence.
Geez there must be some ulterior agenda in that Hooper "have a rank" over there: worst player on the field - or merely worst Tah???
What negative captaincy issues did you see to justify your comment?1 Hooper had an even worse day than usual in Captaincy terms, even though his kick/tap decisions were good.
You were talking about one lineout now your talking about five. You blamed the freekick on Simmons. Without knowing what the call was. Without knowing whether Fainga'a was waiting for a front jumper or weather a jumper was waiting for Fainga'a.Yes, but you're not saying that Fainga'a (who has hardly thrown a didgy ball all year) got it so wrong he threw to the wrong end of the lineout, 5 times?