French Barbarians v Australia, Thursday 24 November

[topo]

Did Lolohea get on? I had to get the kids to school so missed the last couple of minutes. Thought Robertson did a good job once he figured out what the opposing THP was doing, but Lolohea deserved an opportunity.

Robertson was playing THP


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[Tomikin]

Yeah I didn't see Lolohea get on. Sef got less than 5 minutes I thought. Closer to 2 mins but could be wrong.

Someone was asking about Perese before. He didn't end up making the 23.

That was me, thats a shame for the lad.. Should have made the 23 instead of one of the french mob

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[WTF?]

SPeaking of touch finders: at one point around three-quarter time, the French cleared from a penalty, and Kellaway was a couple of metres outside touch, inside the French half of the field, where it landed.

The French AR went straight to the touchline parallel to where he caught it.

Uh, physics, mon ami?

Pfitzy, I remember another one similar that actually went into the crowd. The AR almost marked the spot where it was caught in the crowd. I thought to myself, amazing physics that the ball can go over the plane of touch and then immediately do a 90 degree bend to the right. Like WTF? There were plenty of those calls though.


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[KOB1987]

At least Stirzacker had time to pull his socks up, mid game...

Yeah I saw that too. WTF was that all about? At a ruck, on attack, about 15m out with 10 to go. I wondered if it was some kind of cunning ploy to try to get one of the Frogs to advance early and get pinged for offside. Whatever it was, it looked pretty ridiculous!

 

[Tex]

Yeah I saw that too. WTF was that all about? At a ruck, on attack, about 15m out with 10 to go. I wondered if it was some kind of cunning ploy to try to get one of the Frogs to advance early and get pinged for offside. Whatever it was, it looked pretty ridiculous!

Caught it too. It looked like he delayed the pass to pull his bloody socks up! You're not meant to take the sledging literally!

It looked like a scratch match between two teams who don't train together, in wet conditions and on a pitch designed for soccer, which is exactly what it was.

Enjoyed watching the French baa-baas backs counter attack - some great innovation and passing to advantage.

 

[Pfitzy]

Robertson was playing THP

Yep typo by me

 

[fatprop]

Those scrums were quite strange, quite a few times the french THP would move his bind onto Ryan's arm after engagement and then when Ryan lost his bind, Ryan was penalised

 

[Brumby Runner]

One scrum about midway through the second half went for about a minute without moving and then the French LHP turned inwards at about 60 degrees and caused the whole shebang to go down; penalty to France for the Wallabies collapsing.

 

[swingpass]

That was me, thats a shame for the lad.. Should have made the 23 instead of one of the french mob

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the ARU report said he was injured before the game, thats why he didnt play

 

[topo]

And another where the French was getting snow on his arse he was popped so bad and the Frogs get the penalty. Strange indeed.


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[fatprop]

Those scrums were quite strange, quite a few times the french THP would move his bind onto Ryan's arm after engagement and then when Ryan lost his bind, Ryan was penalised

 

[Brumby Runner]

Thought the biggest hair-brained moment of the game was when the Wallabies turned over ball on half way with most the French still behind the Wallabies' line, and Frisby kicked for touch at the first ruck. That was a moment meant for running the ball and most likely scoring out on the right hand side. Nick really did have a very poor game.

 

[Jaghond]

Really bad luck for Lance - looks like his arm is broken....which undoubtedly mucked pre-match plans around.
Would be interested to find out if they actually play rugby on that pitch - someone has already mentioned how poorly prepared the surface was - and perhaps even worse than AAMI...
Hard for the backs to get any real go-forward unfortunately - so not much opportunity to see how Korobete has settled in.
Will probably have to re-do an A/T course now...........obviously the law has changed as regards where a lineout should form from kicks into touch.


I think PFitzy encapsulated things well - one would like to think most posters will look at the match for what it was.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Would be interested to find out if they actually play rugby on that pitch - someone has already mentioned how poorly prepared the surface was - and perhaps even worse than AAMI.
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Bordeaux's home ground AFAIK

 

[swingpass]

Those scrums were quite strange,

but very typical of french refereeing of scrums, when you watch Top14, the referee decides quite early which is the better/more dominant scrum, and from then on, irrespective of what happens, that team get all the penalties every time there is a collapse or the weaker scrum seems to have an advantage = must have pushed early.

 

[wamberal]

Shades of Romain Poite.

 

[Pfitzy]

One scrum about midway through the second half went for about a minute without moving and then the French LHP turned inwards at about 60 degrees and caused the whole shebang to go down; penalty to France for the Wallabies collapsing.

That was also their THP pulling back at the same time. Pre-arranged tactic: if we're going nowhere on our ball, one of the locks makes a call and we drop it.

 

[Rugbynutter39]

And they flew in the guy from the Rams and left him with splinters in his butt. Its a trial barbars game give him a run



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Yes I was absolutely peeved about that - feel for the guy (David Lolohea) is - and its a baa baa game ffs. Shit game made worst that was not played in spirit of true baa baa fashion. French at least pulled lots of subs early.

 

[Lindommer]

Sad to say but I think our oie was cooked when Lance went off. We looked a touch disjointed in attack and let the Frog backs make too many easy metres in defence.

 

[I like to watch]

Yes I was absolutely peeved about that - feel for the guy (David Lolohea) is - and its a baa baa game ffs. Shit game made worst that was not played in spirit of true baa baa fashion. French at least pulled lots of subs early.

Strange, they had a test match mentality with regards to substitutions,which is contrary to the selections they made for the 23 for this game.
Something was lost in the translation before the main camp moved on to Dublin.