2025 Bledisloe Cup Series

[Tomthumb]

shame joe has developed a good thing given the cattle

The cattle is good enough to beat NZ once. Argentina managed it. Elite coaches win, I’m sick of this loveable losers nonsense

 

[Pfitzy]

I know I biased as AB man, but genuinely don't think wallabies were bad.

Vehemently disagree.

And what makes it worse? This AB team isn't that good, either.

 

[Tomthumb]

That was a bloody good test in my opinion. I know I biased as AB man, but genuinely don't think wallabies were bad. Abs answered a few questions. but by christ the Wallabies have put up hands and said we not easy beats for any bugger!

Stop the patronising man, the Wallabies were bad

 

[Strewthcobber]

4 Missed lineouts , 29 missed tackles, kickoff out on the full, dropped the kick off, kick dead, multiple unnecessary foul play penalties.

The best coach in the world cant overcome the players doing this

 

[griffins]

4 missed lineouts following penalties a killer

 

[Pfitzy]

I should add: I thought we showed some good stuff with our handling early.

And then we reverted to type.

Ruck work was the most disappointing part if I'm honest. Weak over the ball on several occasions

 

[Quicktapsonly]

Can’t we play Samoa or someone to pick up an easy win.

 

[Upthenuts]

The cattle is good enough to beat NZ once. Argentina managed it. Elite coaches win, I’m sick of this loveable losers nonsense

its only a good game if you win?

 

[Equalizer]

Just.get harder and play with.more mongrel. Dont be the opposition's friend be their fkn nightmare. Need.more of a killer instinct.

 

[Tomthumb]

its only a good game if you win?

Well, yeah. Winning is the object of the game

 

[rugbyAU]

All right, I’m sick of hearing the Wallabies are on the up or how good Schmidt’s been

We’ve had three shit tests in a row, five consecutive Bledisloe series clean sweeps, a record losing streak against NZ and sit with a 40% win rate this year which is the average since 2016

we only managed a last play win v Arg this TRC like last year but also pulled one out of our arse v SA and have only won 1/5 since Joburg

Can’t complain about injuries this game - NZ had 5 ruled out since last week

Schmidt has a 44% win rate with only 5 wins v Tier 1 - so below Chieka, Jones, McKenzie and Deans

The ten situation is a mess too

Most disappointing is dropping the ball in front of two home sell outs we make it hard to win over casual fans in a crowded sport market

 

[rugbyAU]

4 Missed lineouts , 29 missed tackles, kickoff out on the full, dropped the kick off, kick dead, multiple unnecessary foul play penalties.

The best coach in the world cant overcome the players doing this

Best coach in the world?

 

[rugbyAU]

Can’t we play Samoa or someone to pick up an easy win.

Thankfully we have Japan and Italy as two of our next three tests

 

[Shiggins]

At the game. First half ref fired us. Made some silly decisions in the second half.

Oh I forgot. Dmac knocked it on 3 times and it was called back. Tane did it once and he called it correct.

 

[Tomthumb]

Eddie Jones tipping us up in a few weeks would be the icing on the cake of a real kick in the nuts sort of year

 

[Th0mo]

At the game. First half ref fired us. Made some silly decisions in the second half.

Reffing was refreshingly consistent. This is the team we needed (Karl for Bled 1 over Andreas and Plonker kept as fpro if he can't be made to retire).

 

[Shiggins]

That's bad by Hooper. YC justified. Lucky that Barrett's knee has stayed intact

I'll have to watch it when I get home because at the game there was no neck roll. Nothing. It's just a clean out gone wrong for the bloke over the balll

 

[rugbyAU]

Eddie Jones tipping us up in a few weeks would be the icing on the cake of a real kick in the nuts sort of year

We’re pretty good at losing but I think we win that, Italy is a danger game, the others are unwinnable

 

[Yoda]

We’re pretty good at losing but I think we win that, Italy is a danger game, the others are unwinnable

Disagree. We can win all the matches.

 

[KOB1987]

That was a pretty poor performance but the guys looked fatigued, and they probably are. We aren’t getting flogged, have beaten everyone we’ve played except the all blacks, and are literally a try a game away from being a top 3 team. I know the strike rate isn’t great but other teams haven’t played lions x 3, boks x 2, and all blacks x 2 this year. I’m staying on the bandwagon, our real measuring stick is the northern tour and the only kpi that mattters this year is finishing in the top 6 for the World Cup seedings.

On the 10 issues, the simple fact is we don’t have a world class 10, in fact we probably don’t have an international standard 10. We have super rugby quality 10s being asked to play test rugby and I actually think all of them have held their own reasonably well. I saw today that Ben Volavola has signed with the Reds and is open to switching allegiances from Fiji to Australia..,..so let’s get behind a couple of these young guys