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Turn it off then, I guess.

Cooper hasn't broken a tackle since Moses wore short pants. If he's going to take the ball to the line he needs to get rid of it when the contact arrives.

They ARE performing better tonight. The backline passes are going to where the receiver is going to be rather than there where he is. It's a long road back but this is the best they have performed this season.

The frog from the weekend is not the only international ref that has become a bit keen to reach for the pocket. The reasonable thing to do after reviewing the Hooper tackle would have been to talk to the two players, conclude that the event was the consequence of a bunch of circumstances beyond...

An error on Cooper's part but really, the defence needs to improve across the board and right now I would call it the biggest issue. Even if our offence was cranking (it isn't at all), you can't give these teams 29 points a game and expect more than the occasional win. Consequently, this year...

It's been some time since we had a player group capable of reading the game. At the moment I agree with the plan to remove player autonomy. There are very few players in this group capable of making their own smart rugby decisions on the fly.

My guess is that the instructions are simply to bomb the shit out of it whenever we're in our 22. Don't try and string a couple of phases together, don't pass go and don't collect 200. Just kick it downfield. And frankly, with the way they played in the first 3 RC tests, it isn't hard to see...

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How do you know he didn't? You do know that Wallabies managament can't actually "cite" people, don't you? They can ask the citing official to look at certain incidents, is all.

Whatever. I'm not a fan of turning educated guesses (the game plan appeared to change) into statements of fact (Alexander was just doing what he was told) though I suppose I assumed Alexander was not acting in accordance with instructions, and I may have been wrong about that. Folau's kicking...

You've made a pretty big leap from "you will find that the Wallabies were told to up the tempo and attack in the 2nd half" to centrefield quick taps are "following instructions". I find it difficult to believe that eschewing a centrefield shot at goal for a quick tap was either impliedly or...

Scots brought in at least 3 guys whose names I remember for basketball in 98. I don't remember it being a big deal back then but that was before the information explosion. Most of us wondered why they'd bothered, given that precisely zero people give a fuck about GPS basketball. My...

Sorry, but "crossfit" does not qualify.

I don't think they're favourites to score 4 tries and win by >7, but that may not be what you meant.

They play the wallabies twice next year, they wont need to wait too long.

I'd get rid of Alexander merely on account of his 48 metres out, directly in front tap kick when we were awarded a penalty. It's just another example of shit discipline from our guys and at test level it's fucking inexcusable. It's unimpeachable evidence that he just_does_not get_it. Much...

To expand on that a bit (and forgive me for lazy statisitics work)... John Muggleton's linkedin suggests he was the defence coach from Sep 97 to April 07. From 1998 to 2007 (I excluded the end of 1997 as he was dealing with someone else's mess and gave him the credit for all of 2007 using...

I would play Cummins at 12 and shift Lilo to 10. Cummins is about the only back we have that runs straight like his life depended on it and for me it's back to basics in as many aeras as possible. Lilo beats out To'omua by virtue of his goalkicking.

Much of this stuff is shuffling deckchairs on the titanic until we fix our disgraceful defence. The fact that your pigs are getting dominated is no excuse to leak soft tries. Our goal line defence is fucking appalling (the first try was basically walked in last night) and the outside backs are...

Yes to Lilo at 10. Neither To'omua or Cooper have lit it up and Lilo is a liability at 12 as he just isn't aggressive enough when running the pill.