Rugby Championship 2025: Wallabies v Argentina

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Angus bell is from NSW?

It made no sense, let it be. Fired up comment.

 

[KOB1987]

Don't agree. I think he put up two kicks that gave our chasers a chance to retain possession but they were lost in the many that were a few metres too far.

After White, Lonergan is the best box kicker in Australia. Maybe even better than Nic.

After them is the uni owls halfback

 

[TSR]

So - again - we have a great outcome where we win it at the death well into injury time and the first reaction of some on here is to bag individual players???

On the flip side - what an incredible turnaround in the perception of Harry Wilson.

For my part - Joe deserves credit for his selections. It is sliding doors whether a few things would have worked out differently with some individual selections and we are still very much a work in progress but, overall, this is the best a Wallabies team has looked for a long time and the fact guys can come in on the back of injuries and fit in seamlessly is a credit to Joe and the coaching staff.

 

[Brumby Runner]

Ffs @Brumby Runner Tate was good today, give him credit

Tate was good as he has been all year. I was responding to a comment about a specific part of his game which continues to be less than effective.

 

[Major Tom]

He was good but his box kicks were too deep. He changed up the speed of the game and the Argies could not keep up. Fair play.

Some were clearing kicks. You want to kick them deep. He didn’t nail them all but he’s massively improved.

 

[Major Tom]

Tate was good as he has been all year. I was responding to a comment about a specific part of his game which continues to be less than effective.

I didn’t say it was perfect mate. It’s massively improved.

 

[Brumby Runner]

Sorry to inject facts, but he barely played this year.

For the Force. He played enough to be called into the Wallabies. Admittedly there were injuries and a retirement but I have not been impressed with him this year.

 

[stillmissit]

So, let's get the good bit out of the way, excellent win against all thrown dice.
Breakdown remains weak, with little support for McRight and no attempts at counter ruck. Harry stayed out of most of them ?????
Defence was poor to lousy in the first half, if we let them run again in Sydney, all bets are off.
Some heroic efforts in our 10m area but could easily have gone the other way.
Generally our structure, focus and dealing with loose ball poor, I don't think we won one ball that was contestable on the ground. To finish we were beaten in the air on most occasions.
As they say, plenty to work on, but can we take our easy penalties and stop rolling this dice, AB's will punish us for this hairy fairy BS.

 

[Linerunner2023]

Great to see another impressive 2nd half
We do need to make a better start though soon can’t keep coming back
Positive as the wallabies struggled throughout the game but found a way
Big decision from Wilson to go for the try instead of take the draw

lynagh was certainly off his game and tupou did some dumb things
Need to bring back slipper and AAA next week
Valetini was a lot quiter then he had been perhaps the day time and warmer conditions
Onto next week

 

[Major Tom]

I’m not a fan of Paul Williams - but hats off to him for being prepared to change his decision on the Tate quick tap. I reckon there are a few refs who wouldn’t.

I reckon every ref would have gone back immediately. He literally blew his whistle twice. He only went back because he was advised to by his assistant ref. Anyways there was just general chaos from him all game.

 

[A mutterer]

How good is Harry as skipper

dare i say that was ealesesque - 'dont worry boys weve got these bastards'

 

[Major Tom]

Defensively we are so weird. We leak points in first halves like it’s going out of fashion and then keep them tryless in the 2nd. Almost like it takes us 30 minutes to get our bearings. If only we could put it together for the whole game.

 

[TSR]

Just on selections I thought Hooper repaid the faith of putting him in at lock. I know he plays plenty of lock for the Brumbies and it’s not like he doesn’t have the size for it - hardly the biggest leap of faith ever by Schmidt - but still a bit against the broader consensus and he turned in another good display.

I’m a Salakai-Loto fan but I think he’s going to have to bide his time.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

dare i say that was ealesesque - 'dont worry boys weve got these bastards'

I think he’s the personality type a group coming from and still with no trophies needs.

Belief.

 

[WorkingClassRugger]

Defensively we are so weird. We leak points in first halves like it’s going out of fashion and then keep them tryless in the 2nd. Almost like it takes us 30 minutes to get our bearings. If only we could put it together for the whole game.

Wouldn't it be a change to lead start to finish. While I love the grit to run down the result we also need to learn how to lead and dictate play from the front.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Can try and spin that as a positive at least. They are yet to put 80 together and getting some clutch wins.

With that in mind, you can’t carry that to a WC. You’ll come unstuck when all the sides are peaking for it.

These games though are huge when we have a heap of young blokes under 25.

 

[Brumby Runner]

Another very strong second half effort which got the win. Seems we're never out of the game these days.. Hopefully another win next week to consolidate the world ranking.

I sincerely hope Joe reinstates JOC (James O'Connor) to the starting side. We look a whole lot better with him directing play. And either Donaldson or Edmed off the bench.

Fullback is another dicey spot for us. AK (Andrew Kellaway) is still not cutting it with the many errors he made at the back. Just think Jorgo would be better and bring Potter or Daugunu in on the wing.

JAS had a better game but I'm surprised how easy it appears to be to throw him off balance. Maybe to do with a high centre of gravity?

 

[TSR]

I think he’s the personality type a group coming from and still with no trophies needs.

Belief.

So more AB than Eales.

That actually seems pretty accurate.

Even giving Tupou a bit of a tune up like AB giving McDermott a spray (without telling him he’d be on the next plane home).

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

So more AB than Eales.

That actually seems pretty accurate.

Even giving Tupou a bit of a tune up like AB giving McDermott a spray (without telling him he’d be on the next plane home).

Think he’s probably friendlier but yes. Eales had to pull together high achievers into a goal. Not saying Wilson can’t do that but this is a side in its development era and needs a bit of follow me or fuck off.

This also relies on Coaches to have this and back it.

 

[Crashy]

the sound of the crowd through my TV sounded pretty raucus. Well done Townsville. Still that 2pm timeslot was fucked. clearly there so it didnt get in the way of jail/dv/shit rugby.