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It is funny, he went out of his way to say it wasn't the refs fault, he question some decisions only when pressed, but said it was our fault that we couldn't hold the ball off the kick off and manage the last few minutes

it provide good balance and real threat

I think the real positive thing is the try scoring that they have shown in the last two weeks 9 tries vs the ABs in two games? Who would have thought that was possible at the start of the season?

My comment was more about the usual way he plays and when he usually misses, without going through the minutiae of this game I thought he was Koda Nasser He will be an upgrade on Mumm at best I still remember sitting in the back of a taxi in Brisbane as the driver explained colourfully...

Yeah I think there are a million variations of it, Folau ends up open the open side wing a lot for the Tahs as well in defense. I have never bothered to look where the openside winger, I probably should

Are you counting Smith try? that would be a tad harsh When the scrum is being analed, a 7 can either mercat and we have a push over or do the pushing work and be beaten. It is a lose/lose situation

The usual reason is this

They also have sped up the lineout process, last year we gave teams an age to work out where it was going. This year, they walk in and throw imediately

It is one of Hoiles' regular whinges, earlier in the year he was talking about squaddies not being allowed to do club training and having their game time limited. Whereas I am old enough to remember players at my club playing a test on Saturday and turning out on Sunday for club

Agreed, the challenge was if he was shanking someone else would have been handed the kicking tee, but he wasn't so they had to commit to him that bit longer

He only gets those kind of figures usually when he is used as the shooter, where his role is as much to harass and slow as it is to make the tackle

I wish QC (Quade Cooper) was there and playing as he did in 2013; and was kicking @ 90%, but he isn't. Hopefully a couple of NRC games will see him committing to contact, bending his back in tackles and playing flat on the advantage line; and requiring his reinstatement to the squad

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Hoiles made an interesting point about the attitude of our fringe players compared to their Kiwi compatriots. Our's play crap in super rugby, finish and have a holiday. Most of the saders winning side, who didn't make the ABs, were playing for Canterbury the following weekend. It is like...

3 hit the post, it wasn't like he was shanking to the corner post It isn't like we have other options that are better anyway

RHP has had a shoulder done I think

We don't have any product suitable for FTA apart from test rugby, which is special occasion broadcasting like the SOO. The NRL and AFL can provide consistent content for specific time slots for specific blocks, they even put tests and city vs country in those slots to keep\leverage the habit...

I can't imagine any self respecting assistant coach actually working like that, I understand the final say goes to Cheika, but these guys have all worked essentially part time for him before going full time. They went in "aware"

The same narrative has most players outside the current squad as known test gods