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I.e. Don't blame us when eye gouging goes unsanctioned

Maybe Douglas is worried he will be cited for attacking franks fingers with his eyelids. Being serious, I think this is worth an explanation from Sanzar. Is the ruling that there was some eye work but it wasn't a red card offence? Or they just don't think that franks fingers were near the eyes...

3 Genia 2 Hooper 1 ummmm, Izzzy

That was it, not much in it. I was trying to work out how he ended up at the back of our ruck looking lost

If someone has a recording, I'd like to know what happened to pocock later in the first half. He was running to a ruck, then ended up on the ground looking a bit dazed. He rejoined play a few rucks later. As for the game, same shit different day. Line out, ruck, tackling, kicking all sub...

Happened about 6 mins in. I couldn't believe neither ref or AR saw it.

So we need to improve our lineout, our kicking / our exit strategies and our tight 5 involvement. We also need to pick players in position as our defence will be tested. For me, Moore drops right out with Hanson coming in and TPN staying on the bench. Slipper to start over Sio. Maybe stay...

Bloody great stuff from the women's 7s. My rugby highlight of the year (so far)

I am sick of reading about the latest trial and tribulations of Jarryd Hayne (and Roxy Jacenko). I hate how the media feeds on it and pushes it out to us, making us think its news when it’s just their PR campaigns in full swing feeding the media machine. Hayne, go back to Parra and be gone...

Skelton was one of our best last Saturday (and was Waratah MoM in the stadium, although not sure who picks that). But our lineout was weak and was easily pressured by the Canes. That's not Skelton's fault but we need to find a way of having a strong line out with him on the field. Our other...

Imbalance maybe? My point is that they both are very strong at part of their roles, but very weak at others and the team has to adjust around them

He is lazy when chasing kicks, one of the slowest on the field then. On the flip side, it takes 2-3 people to pull him down each time and he can carry a defender in the meantime. I reckon his handling has improved since he come back. The problem for us is we have naiyaravoro who brings...

Might be related to the fact that the SFS blasts music at every break in play to drown out conversations

We had our chances but Too many mistakes from the tahs. What would we give for a good line out? How long has it been since we didn't have to hold our breath on our own throws? How many phases did we have with the the ball in the first 20 mins. I think it was less than 10, and maybe less than...

The 3rd test loss (like the series) really came down to 3 things: 1. Goal kicking. Farrell missed one attempt on the weekend out of 10 attempts (and 3 all series). Foley missed 3 (out of 9) on the weekend (and 6 all series). Foley kicked at 63% over the 3 tests (Farrell 88%). If Foley could...

At the start of this series, I was very confident it would be 2-1 but I wasn't sure who would win. But after the first two tests I fancy England's chances of sweeping. We were a one trick pony in the first two tests. England worked that out after 20 mins of the first test but it took us...

Our game management was sooo shit. No focus on accumulating points. Just keep thinking that ball in hand = tries. Haven't been this angry after a wallabies test (at our play) for a while.

Congrats England. Their defence strong. Our attack has been terrible. We have played dumb.

Goal kicking is hrting us

At the other end of the spectrum, I ventured down to watch Mac Uni v harlequins in 4th division on the weekend as it was our old boys day. Was a great day of rugby, 2nds and 3rds were split and first was close until the Quinn's scored 3 late tries to run away with it. Was a good effort all...