They controlled the territory by dominating our lineout and kicking game. They slowed our ball down pretty well (mostly by lying all over the rucks) but I didn't think they won the collisions particularly or disrupted our ball that well. I think they stood off the rucks a fair bit.
Agree to disagree, I thought they completely controlled the rucks completely. The collision was irrelevant because they slowed down every ruck by either sealing off or having the tackler roll directly into Jake Gordon every time. They also took wallabies out past the ruck to speed up theri own ball. On re-watch especially I noticed this constantly
That's what I just said lol.
They disrupted the ball more than anyone we have played this year, so my disagreement was with the comment that "they didn't disrupt our ball that well"
Absofuckinglutely Right! Their control of the breakdown was total, either in very fast ball for them whilst slowing ours down, Then picking the right ones to attack and occasionally leave. The reports say that Townsend ID'd that we were poor in the breakdown and defence and they were good in those areas, they always knew they could beat us and they did.
