Rd 12 2018 NSFW Waratahs vs Auckland Blues. 36 and 1.

[Boof1050]

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Get on board Phitzy while you can! So what's the odds that the Force break the hoo Doo of beating a kiwi super rugby side?

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Motion to rename NSW Waratahs to The Sydney Jeffreys.

All in favour?

It's posh but not nearly posh enough for those posh-schooled pasty lily-livered fops.

The Sydney Rupert Montgomery Forsyth-Barred Jeffreys XV. ​

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"Yes, but mummy we're coming 3rd and Uncle Tarquin says that means we're going to the playoffs! Teddy will be ever so excited!"​

 

[Rugbynutter39]

Agreed Gnostic.



My phrase I’ve started to use is kiwi teams play within a framework, we play within a structure.



Frameworks are flexible and allow for decisions to be made within certain perimeters, structures are rigid and choreographed.

I keep it simple - we just play shit....

 

[Rugbynutter39]

I'll give one positive from the game - the crowd looks much better on TV when playing at a smaller ground. Much better than at an enormous stadium where it looks like there's barely anyone there.

Hey what a great idea - as we shrink our way to greatness lets just every year as fans desert Super Rugby we just find smaller ovals to play at - so RA can keep playing the smoke and mirrors game that nothing is wrong as we are filing our stadiums. Now where can I find good venues in Sydney that seat 5,000 spectators for next season...hmmm

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Hey what a great idea - as we shrink our way to greatness lets just every year as fans desert Super Rugby we just find smaller ovals to play at - so RA can keep playing the smoke and mirrors game that nothing is wrong as we are filing our stadiums. Now where can I find good venues in Sydney that seat 5,000 spectators for next season.hmmm

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[Brumby Runner]

Ned is actually good

Good grief, as Charlie Brown would say.

 

[Brumby Runner]

No chance

As far as I’m aware if a defender does something illegal in the act of scoring you act as if he was never there, he has forgone his place on the field for that play by doing foul play. I don’t know where Jacos interpretation came from and what would actually qualify as a penalty try using his logic

The logic is that had the tackle occurred say a metre further infield, then it would be unlikely that a legitimate tackle would have put him into touch and then a penalty try would have ensued. Not sure if that logic is consistent with the laws, but it is logic nevertheless.

 

[Brumby Runner]

Unpopular opinion time - Folau the ultimate one trick pony. People will remember his aerial skills from this game, which are world's best. But for a bloke who has played pro rugby for 6+ years he cannot pass a ball for shit. He is not even at amateur level with passing and the first Blues try is directly attributable to this absolute failure to develop a fundamental skill. I tewll you what Israel, you what a bit fat contract learn to pass or F&^%$ off.

Taquele - we all know you can run with the ball, but there is another phase of play called defence - learn to do it.
Forwards all - if the Blues do not let go off the tackled player Hooper needs to bring this up with Peyper. If he doesn't address the situation use the slipper. If he penalises a Waratah for that tell him outright it will continue unless he gets them off the tackled player, and say it loud enough to be heard on the mic for the referee review.

The skill levels of the Australian sides are just F^%$%ing abysmal. Just woeful. Don't forget this is the worst NZ side by a very long way.

Releasing the tackled player has been confined to history by the referees this year.

 

[charlesalan]

Hey what a great idea - as we shrink our way to greatness lets just every year as fans desert Super Rugby we just find smaller ovals to play at - so RA can keep playing the smoke and mirrors game that nothing is wrong as we are filing our stadiums. Now where can I find good venues in Sydney that seat 5,000 spectators for next season.hmmm

I have been wondering why they are playing there. Is that really the reason, to make it a full house?

 

[Up the Guts]

Good grief, as Charlie Brown would say.

To be fair he had had one good carry at that point

 

[chibimatty]

I have been wondering why they are playing there. Is that really the reason, to make it a full house?

I think it was to allow for the A-League Grand Final to be played at the SFS, even though it ended up in Newcastle.

 

[southsider]

The logic is that had the tackle occurred say a metre further infield, then it would be unlikely that a legitimate tackle would have put him into touch and then a penalty try would have ensued. Not sure if that logic is consistent with the laws, but it is logic nevertheless.

Ok different scenario same logic - attacking team makes a break, no one within cooee of the attacking player, fullback sweeps across and cuts him down 1m from the line and dives straight off his feet to pilfer the ball. Penalty is blown but no penalty try is given because if the defender hadn’t gone off his feet he would’ve pilfered the ball legally.........doesn’t really seem right does it

 

[Derpus]

Hey what a great idea - as we shrink our way to greatness lets just every year as fans desert Super Rugby we just find smaller ovals to play at - so RA can keep playing the smoke and mirrors game that nothing is wrong as we are filing our stadiums. Now where can I find good venues in Sydney that seat 5,000 spectators for next season.hmmm

North Sydney Oval is fun

 

[Pfitzy]

Get on board Phitzy while you can! So what's the odds that the Force break the hoo Doo of beating a kiwi super rugby side?

Oh yeah? Who is that going to be? King Country 2nd XV?

 

[Rugbynutter39]

Oh yeah? Who is that going to be? King Country 2nd XV?

Fully support Twiggy Ball but reality will set in when they play the Crusaders B team. Lets face it competition with other countries like Japan, Fiji, HK would be more competitive and dare I say it more appealing as sides like Fiji and Japan play good attacking brand of rugby. NZ are just too far ahead at this point to be anything but frustrating to watch oz sides play against them.

 

[RedsHappy]

Fully support Twiggy Ball but reality will set in when they play the Crusaders B team. Lets face it competition with other countries like Japan, Fiji, HK would be more competitive and dare I say it more appealing as sides like Fiji and Japan play good attacking brand of rugby. NZ are just too far ahead at this point to be anything but frustrating to watch oz sides play against them.

Yes. In the last 15 years NZ rugby has invested in a total, all-in, all levels, rugby system's playing skills, S&C and coaching development program, bottom to top.

In Australian rugby over the same period we have invested in and wilfully indulged a tiny elite clique of executives and players and did nothing else of value, and I mean nothing else.

And we seem surprised at which investment strategy and MO has paid off handsomely and which has created a near-unstoppable death spiral.

The only thing that's new in 2018 is that the huge superiority of one strategy over another has become exponentially more obvious.

 

[Inside Shoulder]

THEY'RE ALL BORN IN AUCKLAND. EVERY RUGBY TEAM IN AUSTRALASIA HAS AT LEAST 5 PLAYERS BORN IN AUCKLAND. GODDAMNIT.

So does every NZ franchise: doesn't seem to affect them the way it does us

 

[Stands]

The Norths v Wests game at Nth Sydney oval was much better than this crap.

 

[Up the Guts]

THEY'RE ALL BORN IN AUCKLAND. EVERY RUGBY TEAM IN AUSTRALASIA HAS AT LEAST 5 PLAYERS BORN IN AUCKLAND. GODDAMNIT.

It's easy to see why though, if you take a ball down to the park at Mission Bay on a Sunday afternoon and start throwing it around you'll soon have a full blown 15 on 15 game better than any Australian Super Rugby Derby.

 

[Derpus]

Yes. In the last 15 years NZ rugby has invested in a total, all-in, all levels, rugby system's playing skills, S&C and coaching development program, bottom to top.

In Australian rugby over the same period we have invested in and wilfully indulged a tiny elite clique of executives and players and did nothing else of value, and I mean nothing else.

And we seem surprised at which investment strategy and MO has paid off handsomely and which has created a near-unstoppable death spiral.

The only thing that's new in 2018 is that the huge superiority of one strategy over another has become exponentially more obvious.

The Darkness are the Wehrmacht of the Rugby world.