Simmons too. Our locks just aren't physical enough. Always seem to get out muscled in contact.
Link should be sacked. we lost last year to NZ 47-29 and now 51-20. I see no improvement. None. Playing Beale at 10 was as bad as anything deans ever did. Most players in that backline where played out of position.
Every mistake that was made tonight was down to an awful game plan and bad coaching. You can't have a super team win the comp and then have your national team be that bad. shocking. Sack him.
Will Skelton on and there is an immediate impact.
r u referring to his dropped ball?Rinse cycle finished. Hooper gets meat. 5 tries needed in 14 minutes. Easy.
slomo shows Whitelock firmly holding Foley's legs: is releasing the tackled player a thing of the past?
so what do we do? Horwill back?
Let's get realistic. How are we going to win the Bledisloe back when rugby is the number 4 or 5 sport in Oz?
The AB's are simply amazing - and I don't think rugby is their 4th or 5th sport.
But they still put in more work than any of the other forwards. The Simmons YC was pretty dubious.Simmons, Carter and Fardy showed very frickin little tonight. Simmons is a walking bloody brain fart! I would love to see some stats on how many points he directly give away every match.
Betham was patchy in NRC Thursday night. Sure, McCabe was not the best, but we got bitch-slapped up front and on the D-line. As ever, the real cancer in Oz rugby when the acid is applied is up front and in the hard stuff.That's the problem isn't it. We have no other options. Horwill might be more physical but he hasn't shown much to back that up in the last few seasons.
We got the same problem on the wings. McCabe didn't do much at all but we got no other options do we? Is Betham available?
Apart from score a try, Hooper did sweet FA.maybe we should do a reverse 3-2-1..biggest liabilites!
Hooper actually gets 3 on the plus side, he was a standout..
-3 Simmons
-2 McCabe
-1 White
We needed Kane Douglass, Genia/Quade and dare I say JOC (James O'Connor)
That's the problem isn't it. We have no other options. Horwill might be more physical but he hasn't shown much to back that up in the last few seasons.
We got the same problem on the wings. McCabe didn't do much at all but we got no other options do we? Is Betham available?
But they still put in more work than any of the other forwards. The Simmons YC was pretty dubious.
There were at least 2-3 penalties in that maul that could have been called. His was the softest, but maybe the dumbest too.But they still put in more work than any of the other forwards. The Simmons YC was pretty dubious.