Drua v Waratahs Rd 10 Sat 19 April, 12.05PM, Lautoka

[wamberal99]

He's a Woodies junior. End of discussion.

 

[Derpus]

Obvious solution is to move the Brumbies to Sydney and erase the Waratahs from recorded history.

 

[Yoda]

Feel for DC, he would've done better

Ah…. No.

 

[PhilClinton]

Shouldn't have sent JAS to the Waratahs. Did he receive a pass in space once all game?

Could've gone Brumbies and built a partnership with Ikitau leading into the Lions.

I don’t think the private pot of gold that secured JAS was going to land him anywhere except the Tahs.

As in the money was coming from backers within NSW so it was essentially a deal for him to play for the Tahs and the Wallabies would benefit.

 

[KOB1987]

A take from someone who knew the result and watched the game on delay - they were clearly very fatigued and I wonder if the Fijians watered the ground as per tradition to up the humidity. As Dan said any one of us would have done the same thing regardless of knowing the rules or not and I can't recall seeing something like that happen in my rugby viewing history, so it's not a play that would have been drummed into them. I don't think the bonus point really mattered, the Tahs either hit form and put up a good show in the finals, or if they scrape in they then get embarrassed by whoever they play in NZ. If the missing competition point results in the latter not happening I'm cool with that.

Overall I though there was some pretty good footy played by both sides.

 

[KOB1987]

Certainly looked to be a Drua knock-on before it fell to him.

There's that too. He probably just thought he was ending the game.

 

[Armchair Selector]

Drua favour playing at Lautoka for home games. Why? Because it’s 34 degrees and 100% humidity! Suva is much cooler. Ground wasn’t watered it had bucketed with rain the day before. Credit to ground staff for getting the oval in the condition it was.
Waratahs had their opportunities but Drua were better team in attack and mistakes were costly for the Waratahs. Defence was the difference. Same conditions last year Tahs pushed it to golden point. That was a gutsy effort. Too many missed tackles overall and little possession in First half.

don’t forget Drua have won last 8 matches in a row at Churchill.

 

[Braveheart81]

I watched the game on delay on my phone because I was away so haven't really had a good viewing of it but I'm still annoyed we gave away the losing bonus point at the end. That was just brainless play. There was clearly nothing on and it was just a reckless option. Hopefully that bonus point doesn't mean come back to bite us but it was just the stupidity of it that got me. Multiple players had an opportunity to pull the pin on what was a bad idea and they all just kept trying to shovel on the increasing pressure.

Overall the issue was our set piece. For a game where both the scrum and lineout were a disaster, we were remarkably not that far off the pace. Parity in those would have probably put us in a strong position to win the game.

Porecki and Vailanu can't come back soon enough. The lineout throwing was awful.

 

[Love2Scrum]

Drua favour playing at Lautoka for home games. Why? Because it’s 34 degrees and 100% humidity! Suva is much cooler. Ground wasn’t watered it had bucketed with rain the day before. Credit to ground staff for getting the oval in the condition it was.
Waratahs had their opportunities but Drua were better team in attack and mistakes were costly for the Waratahs. Defence was the difference. Same conditions last year Tahs pushed it to golden point. That was a gutsy effort. Too many missed tackles overall and little possession in First half.

don’t forget Drua have won last 8 matches in a row at Churchill.

I was at the game thanks to the hotel staff managing to score me a ticket.

The heat and humidity was unbearable and I now know why the Drua love playing in Lautoka.

Tahs set piece both scrums and line outs were pathetic. Surely missed Bell and Tupou. Also Losing Gamble, Grant, and Kailea in the first 30 minutes didn’t help.

It was a painful journey back to the Coral Coast.

 

[parkfootyenthusiast2]

Glad to see Adamson get another crack this week... thought he was everywhere last week and punches well above his weight in and around the ruck. Any chance hes got an Australian grandparent...?

I need to stop doing this...

 

[Steve_Grey]

I need to stop doing this...

I think Adamson still made the most tackles in that game - missed 5 though, and a couple of crucial ones led to tries.