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Poor clearing kick from A. Smith. Cooper held on after first being bumped off from Nonu, too high initially from Cooper on a bigger guy but he held on. Horwill has been poor tonight, replaced by Timani.

That said, body height a little too high in that maul. Faumuina got low and disrupted the maul at the start.

Interesting call from Joubert, that looked harsh.

12 man lineout and maul.

Some normally maligned players have been good. Penalty milked from that maul, bit lucky as I think we held it too long.

Our option taking off a break is not good, and the All Blacks cover is too good. That said, nice work Kuridrani making up for his drop.

Kuridrani, should have held that. Our handling is really costing us.

We've been outclassed at the breakdown, our technique is shocking. Joubert definitely giving the rub of the green to the Kiwis, but they've been better than us which would explain it.

Was a clear penalty though, that ball was stolen after Slipper was on the ground. Not releasing / off his feet. That said, weak ball security Slipper.

He was off his feet I thought, was marginal. Cruden misses!

Well, yes it's an assumption. I don't believe what JOC (James O'Connor) says. JOC (James O'Connor) has a great habit of saying the right thing, but doing the exact opposite. I believe the reports that say he is a cunning guy that knows exactly what to say publicly and often what he can get away with. Look at what he said...

Maybe, if he played every test. I reckon he could get a $300k+ base offer in league, maybe more, and he won't be under a continual risk of the ARU tearing up his contract again. With the way league salary caps are flying up, $300k actually isn't a significant amount of the cap anymore and not...

I believe that he's had shoulder surgery. The only real options left were Morahan or Betham, and Morahan appears to be out of favour with Link. Neither option of Morahan or Betham are ideal, although Morahan is maybe the slightly safer one. That being said, my problem with Morahan is that...

JOC (James O'Connor) will most likely take the money in Europe or Japan, or even league if he prefers to stay in Aus now. Force would be at very long odds now as they would likely be the lowest paying option for JOC (James O'Connor).

Some surprising tackling stats, from FoxSports. Below are some Wallabies and All Blacks, ranked on top tackle completion rate during the RC. Some interesting Wallabies in the top 5. Simmons is fairly impressive, but the real surprise is Quade Cooper. Wallabies 1. Rob Simmons: 45 tackles...

Wallabies could definitely do with a GOAT or two - maybe they should try this:

Sadly, I think Slipper will still be at LHP. Kepu, Ryan and Alexander will all be THPs, Slipper will be LHP with Robinson. If Slipper was to be at THP, then Sio would've been included and one of the THPs left out (Ryan, at a guess).

Yup, and who goes to the bench? Gill or Dennis?

I think you'll find that people are acutely aware of how well Tomane has played in every other game for the Wallabies to date, outside of the last Argies Test. Not to mention Tomane's form for the Brumbies at the end of the season that saw White choose Rathbone to start, leaving Tomane on the...

Actually, I tend to agree with Sully on the scrum point. We were still being driven back, but the scrum wheeled slightly as we went backwards and the Argie 8 failed to control. Hooper was the fastest to the ball. A lot of luck as much as anything else. I think that Slipper has mainly been...