Australia v Italy, Suncorp Stadium, 24th June 2017 @ 3:00pm

[Micheal]

Take the fucking points.

What the fuck. If we don't score here I'll murder whoevers captain (Hooper?).

 

[Micheal]

Foley you beautiful son of a gun.

Thank you.

5/5 kicks with a try to boot.

Thank you thank you thank you.

 

[TOCC]

foley has a fear of kikcing into the 22, or no skill

Cheika told him not to kick in the attacking 22, Foley is taking that direction literally

 

[Shiggins]

I'm Lost for words. Australia are playing like they are ranked 8th. This is really bad. Maybe with our full strength team. Out there we would play like 4th but our depth is terrible

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[Shiggins]

Ok wow. Hodge dug deep for that pace. That was good to see.

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[Micheal]

Gorgeous try by Hodge who showed some beautiful pace after a bit of smart running from Foley.

We needed that. Lord knows I needed that as well.

Edit: got rid of me swears. Been a bit over eager tonight.

 

[mark_s]

Out of jail. Should never have been this close

 

[No4918]

Italy's highest score verse Aus. Not too many positives. And nice try to make scoreline look comfortable.

 

[Upthenuts]

lucky boys that scoreline flatters the wallabies, two gasy winger trys, thats the game

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

I've just looked at this thread and the score. Ke-rist, what happened out there team?

 

[Shiggins]

We needed to Win by 50 for a pass mark imo. Massive fail

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[Twoilms]

Ive always defended Chek but this hail mary basketball in our own half is fucking disgraceful. Who else but Cheika tells them to do that

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[TOCC]

Some will assume that was an improved performance because the Wallabies won..

But, it wasn't that was a worse performance against a lesser opposition, Horne, Hanigan, Smith, Foley and Moore were dissapointing. Game management was again poor, last week they kicked too much, this week they tried to run it from everywhere. Wallabies don't have the execution and accuracy to run it from everywhere.

Naiavalu looked good, DHP much improved, Hunts growing into a good 12, Timani brought more impact but had a few errors and was largely absent in the last 30mins.

Set piece is a big concern, that was close to our best front row against Italy's second choice props.

 

[TSR]

What's Italian for 'you guys got fucking lucky there'?

 

[Up the Guts]

Using the translator to whinge about the disallowed try. That's a new one (maybe fair enough though).

 

[Micheal]

Alright questions answered Cheik (reserves in brackets):

Front Row: Kepu, TPN, Sio (Ala'alatoa, Latu, Smith)
Second Row: Coleman, Arnold (Carter)
Backrow: Higginbotham, Hooper, Timani (Hardwick / Dempsey / Hanigan)
Halves: Genia, Foley (Powell, Cooper)
Wings: Naivalu, DHP
Centres: Hunt, Kerevi / Kuridrani / Horne
FB: Folau

Other back reserve being Hodge or Speight or someone.

 

[cyclopath]

And Horne. Just saw him for first time in 40 minutes.

Very unfair. Horne drew 2 to put Naivalu away for his first try - watch it again. He was solid in defence too. Unspectacular but did his job.

 

[Micheal]

Very unfair. Horne drew 2 to put Naivalu away for his first try - watch it again. He was solid in defence too. Unspectacular but did his job.

I'll also have to watch the highlights but I remember another smooth offload to set up another try.

 

[duckbill]

Score flatters the wobblies... AIGs will destroy them... No light at the end of the tunnel, just more darkness. Well done Azzurri

 

[Slim 293]

Joe Powell received 6 minutes of game time in the entire series.......... utter bollocks.