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Let's agree to disagree.
Mowen, Fardy & Hooper were all guilty of "chilling out" at scrum time. I'm not the only Aus fan who cracks the shits at the TV everytime our one (if not all) of our back row decide to poke their heads out of the Turtle shell that is the Australian scrum. It's lazy and selfish.
Hooper doesn't need to poke his head out. His heads already out... keep pushing and keep your head up. Ditto Fardy @ 6.
Mowen doesn't EVER need to take his head out of the scrum until Genia calls break!
The 8 is the glue keeping the 2nd rowers together, and the 2nd rowers are the glue that keeps the front row together. When the 8's head pops up like a meercat the machine falls apart!
Against Argentina, during their Scrummaging assault on our line in the first half, Mowen's head stays in the scrum for the duration for 1... and that is the last scrum which the ball is kicked out and Hooper swoops on.
It's just so frustrating that it had to be a 7 man forward pack for Mowen to realise that the Wobblies need every Kilo of his already light frame applied ruthlessly.
Simmons body positioning was terrible in this game as well, and there was a noticable improvement when Fardy shifted to the 2nd row.