RWC Pool D: Wallabies v Fiji, Sat 21st September, 2.45pm AEST, Sapporo Dome

[Derpus]

Fiji have been good but we are fucking helping them along. Nick White having a shocker. Pocock absent.

 

[Blackadder]

I hope that teaches us we need to "earn the right to go wide".

And earn the right to wear the Wallabies Jersey

 

[BDA]

What a bone head game plan. Lets spend the first 30 minutes going wide and getting into 1 on 1 matchup. What a surprise it took them 30 minutes to work out they shoudl be going straight up the middle. Cheika shpuld be embarrassed

 

[ACR]

Well done white, another mistake

Also BOK definitely missed that and only called it cause the touchie saw, how the hell do you miss that??

Outrageously bad eh? He was literally about to let that go, you know.. where the guy 2 metres in front of him, dropped it onto the guy on the ground, who caught it, offside, on the ground and passed it back to him.

The touchie is just as bad, he let a 1 metre forward pass RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM go earlier in the half.

 

[Show-n-go]

Really what are you suppose to do when the locks holding it up you go to grab it and he tosses at you.. White's had some issues this game but that wasn't his fault.

Just looked at the replay, didn’t leave roddas hands till white touched it, white dropped it cold

 

[Up the Guts]

Outrageously bad eh? He was literally about to let that go, you know.. where the guy 2 metres in front of him, dropped it onto the guy on the ground, who caught it, offside, on the ground and passed it back to him.

The touchie is just as bad, he let a 1 metre forward pass RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM go earlier in the half.

Yeah, that was a clear penalty to Fiji.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

Some really brainless footy in that first 25 and a lack of composure under excellent Fijian physical pressure. Surely the way to win, which they actually did in the last 5 minutes of the half, is to go the short ball, pick and drive and get their defence going backwards. Then and only then, spin it wide.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Fiji slowly it down to keep scoreboard ticking over in increments of 3? Who are these people?​

Great to see natural passers in the backline.

Lilo to Beale to JOC (James O'Connor) to Hodge.

Simple catch and pass, but simple rugby is often good rugby.

Exactly. Straya making what should be an easy canter against a discombobulated d-line look very difficult. Just go through the hands, commit the man and the gaps are everywhere.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

Fiji slowly it down to keep scoreboard ticking over in increments of 3? Who are these people?

Exactly. Straya making what should be an easy canter against a discombobulated d-line look very difficult. Just go through the hands, commit the man and the gaps are everywhere.

Yeah it's not complicated is it.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Pocock absent.

His penalised hands in the ruck with the ref standing RIGHT next to him was alltime dumb.

 

[Derpus]

Guess there is a reason he's packing it in shortly

 

[ACR]

His penalised hands in the ruck with the ref standing RIGHT next to him was alltime dumb.

Throwing that ball in on his touch line was interesting..

Fitness is going to tell very shortly. Wallabies will get in comfortably.

 

[Strewthcobber]

His penalised hands in the ruck with the ref standing RIGHT next to him was alltime dumb.

That one was on Isi not rolling away wasn't it? If it wasn't it should have been

Looking at the replay of the Fiji try, he did shoot up and stranded Lilo and Hodge a bit.

Looks short of a gallop which isn't surprising I guess

 

[Adam84]

Really what are you suppose to do when the locks holding it up you go to grab it and he tosses at you.. White's had some issues this game but that wasn't his fault.

Ball was popped to him, like half a dozen before that were. White is having a shocking game and is now watching for the opposition tackle and not focussing on what he should be.

 

[dru]

A lot of commentary about sticking up the middle. Which is good. But we need to be slightly wide if the ruck to counter the ruck octopuses.

Line out a problem though not the jumping. Scrum OK.

I would give White another 10 but no more if things don’t change. He’s not being helped much by the pack though.

 

[Dctarget]

Jesus, give me a neutral game to watch please. This is killing me. Not much rugby smarts going around the Wallabies at the moment.

 

[Up the Guts]

A lot of commentary about sticking up the middle. Which is good. But we need to be slightly wide if the ruck to counter the ruck octopuses.

Line out a problem though not the jumping. Scrum OK.

I would give White another 10 but no more if things don’t change. He’s not being helped much by the pack though.

Also, none of these 3 minute rests every break in play. The Fijians have been allowed to dictate the speed of the game ever since they decided to delay the kickoff by three minutes. Hooper needs to get in BOK's ear and tell him to speed it up.

 

[Viking]

Hodge starting to redeem himself.

Everyone else absent. Apart from Hooper.

Fiji bossing us in contact at the moment.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Must be infuriating to be an Aus fan. Hammer the All Blacks then rock up to the RWC and, for the first 25 mins, get completely out-enthused and out-muscled and basically look like they were going through the motions against what they clearly thought of as a "minnow".

Fiji's staggered D-line is only surviving due to them being light on their feet scrambling and as Brown Hornet alluded to is there for the pickins out wide after a few phases of grunt

 

[Up the Guts]

Hodge starting to redeem himself.

Everyone else absent. Apart from Hooper.

Fiji bossing us in contact at the moment.

Front row has been alright