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Er, so I must be the only one here, or in the world, because I thought that Cooper wasn't bad last night. He had a nervous start - kick out off kick off and dropping a high ball, but apart from that he had a solid game. Organised the backline much better, took better decisions. To me, Cooper...

Yeah, after that performance I reckon the ABs deserve to be worthy winners. Congratulations to the ABs, definitely. One more game fullas, and best of luck. Will be a tragedy if the ABs lose from here. I am not too shattered myself - the better team won, and the Wallabies still gutsed it out...

Not to mention that our chase was really woeful all game. Even the good kicks had poor chases, meaning that the Boks had plenty of time to give the ball back, with interest.

What constitutes a lineout loss for rugbystats? A steal, or a knock on from the top as well? Could be right, though, would need to rewatch the game. Although, the possession stats from rugbystats at 52% to 48% look very, very wrong to me. edit: the thing that got me as well was that we took...

Could've been 5 lineouts lost - someone was giving a running tally at the end of the game in the live chat that had it at 8. I am not sure if the 5 include the Samo penalty (which we lost beforehand) and a few where we knocked on / screwed up in clearing the ball, which I reckon the person...

That's basically what I agree with re Barnes - Barnes needs a second option around him so he doesn't fall back into his old habit of setting too deep. I doubt that McCabe and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) wouldn't provide the type of midfield that Barnes would need on attack. Cooper was awful, but playing 10 on attack...

Cooper was terrible. I'll accept the flat pass that was incorrectly called forward, the dropped inside ball off Genia as the pass was poor, or even the forced inside pass to a forward runner in the first half where there was a miscommunication. That is what you get with Cooper. What got me...

Have to say commiserations to the Bok fans. If the Wallabies lost in similar circumstances I would be filthy. Was a huge effort by the Boks, and you can't fault the Bok players for the effort they put into that match.

And agree with Gnostic - Lawrence always refs the breakdowns like that - complete lotteries, often letting everything go on. This one went in the Wallabies favour, luckily for us Wallaby fans and desperately unlucky for the Boks.

If you lose 8 of your own lineouts, and give away a scrum penalty - that's nine set piece turnovers right there. If you combine that with not wanting to play with the ball in your half against an opposition with better kicking than you, well, no wonder the Wallabies had no possession. Even on...

It may be a Sydney problem, but it's not through the fault of the clubs. Just about all would rather play on wet weekends - mainly because getting a catchup game in is quite often nigh on impossible. There are few wet weather catch up weekends (ie byes), and they are normally at inconvenient...

NSW Subbies is a different beast entirely from pro-rugby. The grounds are managed by ground keepers separate from the rugby teams - generally they are council-run, but others are university (eg UNSW). It's the ground keeper who control whether the games are played by deciding how much damage...

Try sending a PM to Moses.

I think so. My biggest beefs with Bryce are as follows: - Fails to ref the breakdown (this is my biggest gripe, if I was a coach I'd tell my team to get out there, smash the ruck and then lay all over the ball until Bryce says something, which may be never). - Make incomprehensible decisions...

Agree with Lee. The key to that first half of the Brisbane Bledisloe was the forwards getting out there and dominating. They got off the line fast, and they hit hard in defence and drove the All Blacks backwards. Screw the backs, the Wallabies won it in the forwards for the 40, and such was...

If he goes on the EOYT this year, he'll get it.

I think McCutcheon played a bit of a loan hand at competing for the ball for Uni, in fact McCutcheon was the only player from either side that looked like continually getting turnovers. I was very disappointed with the locks and flankers for Uni, as I thought (outside of McCutcheon) they were...

Regarding the "distance" bit, anyone else see some games where the scrum packs with the heads of the front rows greatly overlapping, and other games with them not overlapping at all? Almost without fail, the former games have less scrum collapses and resets. It's also team dependent, quite...

Not only that (Waugh would be in retirement mode), but Phil Waugh wasn't even exactly in good form in club rugby either, nor was he in the 40-man squad. Whilst Waugh would get called up ahead of Smith (who is an impossibility and merely a sentimental call at best), there's no way Waugh would or...

And Phipps will play, it was stated that all 30 members would get game time.