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So were they expecting to be so bad at the breakdown and thus the game plan to apparently kick for the corner after a small number of ball carries?

But it was to kick the ball instead of holding on to it…

Interesting thoughts on EJ (Eddie Jones)

The old "they got every single 50/50 call." Wallabies first try should have been a penalty to Fiji and Petaia should have been carded for foul play. Perhaps not EVERY 50/50 call....

I'm not 100% sure but my understanding is the tackled player has to take the action 'immediately'. Similar to reaching out and scoring a try if tackled short, the ball carrier is supposed to make the decision quickly. So he can't place the ball back and then decide to pop it up or reach out for...

Yeah - I'm just not sure that it's in the 10's job description to kick goals. Kuruvoli was great for Fiji today. Jordie Barret often kicks for the ABs. If there were one or two 10's lining up to slot in, I guess that would be different but it seems EJ (Eddie Jones) has pretty staunchly tied the Wallabies to...

What if he is a great 10 and a poor goal-kicker? Surely someone else can kick goals....

Yeah - I think NZ needs it LOL. We don't have the 8-10 years Matt Williams thinks it will take to fully address Australia's problems.

I said this during the RC. And when I say ‘I said this’, I mean that I heard Will Genia say it and I repeated it LOL

Yep….I’m worried about that. I have long advocated for NZ to start working to strengthen Australian rugby - or at least not working to weaken it. In saying that, I feel like Australia doesn’t help themselves sometimes.

I don't know how Kelleway isn't getting game time. As an AB fan, he's a guy who worries you a bit because he seems to have a way of just scoring tries. Is he still injured?

Took over 20 years for us to win the RWC a second time. That quarter-final loss to France in 2007 was a really hard one to take. 1999 was probably the worst reaction to the ABs losing that I've seen. People were SO ANGRY. I think a number of ABs just stayed in Europe for a while to let things...

I actually thought Fiji bottled it a bit in the second half. Kuruvoli going off was a big handbrake for them I felt. They really didn't capitalise on a couple of good moments they had. I think the scoreline could have been worse for the Wallabies.

I thought Australia might have been lucky on those. It looked like Fiji wanted to get a shove on and perhaps Slipper pulled the prop down and was hinging. ('Hinging' used to be a call refs used a lot but I haven't heard it for a long time...is it still a thing??) But honestly, you could write...

I watched a coaching video with Jase Ryan and he talked about focussing on the wrists. If a player beats you to the breakdown and has his hands on the ball, grab his wrists to move him off.

For guys who think Donaldson should replace Gordon and given that the Wallabies now need to be thinking of attacking and going for BPs and perhaps points differential....is Donaldson a better attacking player than Gordon? To me, White is more of a problem than Gordon. I was cringing as White...

Oh sorry - I thought you understood the difference between 'all the time' and 'every time'. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

David Pocock is probably one of the reasons coaches moved away from that technique.

So when I say that I think that Fiji should have got a card, is it OK to disagree with the ref then? When I say that de Groot's card was warranted is OK to agree with the ref then? I agree with the refs based on the call - not on who is playing as implied by the comment I replied to.