Bledisloe 1 - Saturday 18 August 2018 - ANZ Stadium, Sydney

[dru]

Good scrum Ainsley.

But not the next one.

 

[Up the Guts]

Spoke too soon.

 

[Istanbul]

Didn't take line this time - we got this!

 

[dru]

How important is Coleman, genuinely looks like his passion is just to smack people.


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He was not hitting it up hard enough in attack. Nor Rodda. D is good. They need to step up though.

 

[Derpus]

Ainsley just cant scrummage well enough. Shouldnt be on the pitch.

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[dru]

Bogan misses?

 

[dru]

And the Abs always find a way. Nice try.

 

[Istanbul]

I'd like to see the sideline again

 

[Dctarget]

Terrible missed tackle by Tui.


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[zer0]

AB's poor decision making. You make ground to the 5m line then throw some garbage netball pass tona guy on the sideline. Awful.

Read is a great player, but his tactical captaincy has always been a bit wonky. Penalty five metres out with a scrum that has been earning penalties (rightly or wrongly, IDK), and lineout that has been hit or miss? Yeah, we'll take the lineout thanks. FFS. Blues 101 rugby right there.

Richie McCaw or Sean Fitzpatrick he is not.

 

[Istanbul]

I'm happy with a half time lead

 

[Strewthcobber]

Tui has had a tough first half

Ainsley going to have a tough 2nd

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[Strewthcobber]

Read is a great player, but his tactical captaincy has always been a bit wonky. Penalty five metres out with a scrum that has been earning penalties (rightly or wrongly, IDK), and lineout that has been hit or miss? Yeah, we'll take the lineout thanks. FFS. Blues 101 rugby right there.

Richie McCaw or Sean Fitzpatrick he is not.

They were looking for a repeat of the maul collapse penalty and a yellow card there

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[Istanbul]

Why did Hodge take the first kick and Foley the second? They seemed a similar distance?

 

[Derpus]

So someone needs to explain to me why there was no yellow for the tip tackle? Koro copped one for the exact same thing against Ireland.

Edit: scrums in their current state are literal possesion lotteries. No one knows how or why a penalty goes one way or another. Not even the persom calling it.

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[William88]

Yes but why? I think the scrum calls have been OK

It’s Franks collapsing the scrum.

On every wallaby feed- his side collapses with his head hitting the ground first.

On their ball- scrum is held up each time- because they want clean back ball.

It’s so obvious to anyone that knows what’s going on, but as always- stupid scrum penalties earn international teams field position.

 

[ACR]

Read is a great player, but his tactical captaincy has always been a bit wonky. Penalty five metres out with a scrum that has been earning penalties (rightly or wrongly, IDK), and lineout that has been hit or miss? Yeah, we'll take the lineout thanks. FFS. Blues 101 rugby right there.

Richie McCaw or Sean Fitzpatrick he is not.

Spot on! Not only that but missing Dan Carter's decision making too. There are times when they completely lack composure and are making mistake after mistake, goat AB's would just slighty adjust and cut that out within 10mins. Think of all those 80-120 test leaders we used to have.

 

[Istanbul]

So someone needs to explain to me why there was no yellow for the tip tackle? Koro copped one for the exact same thing against Ireland.

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I'd rather neither were a card but agree it should have been if consistency extends across games? Bad call but I'm not outraged about it.

 

[dru]

Tui has had a tough first half

Ainsley going to have a tough 2nd

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Yeah we were talking the backrow "balance". It needs Tui to step up, lineouts are shocking, and there is not enough busting take it up in the locks. Tui needs to help that.

Ainsley is definitely going to find the scrum tough. We dont need much more from him, hold up the scrum, bloke.

 

[Brumby Runner]

lineout is rubbish.

What should we expect when the hooker is just days back from playing overseas. TPN should nevefr have been in the starting lineup, and perhaps not even on the bench. Where's the combinations we strive to get when a player gets a start who hasn't even been here?