At 1hr 24min 45 seconds or so is the yellow card scrum.If anyone wants to watch the scrums on the replay (I dunno how to upload videos) the times they are is 34:20, 35:07, 39:10, 50, 50:49, 52:40, 53:25. Not sure why you'd want to but if you do.
A quick glance at youtube shows a full match replay here:
Loving the latest front page Blog article on the Soap Dodgers scrum tactics, and the return of service from our new English readership.
Obviously touched a raw nerve with the English trolls coming out in force with the same fervor as a pack of Kiwis justifying any slight against Sir Richie GOAT.
We were simply outfoxed at scrum time by the Soap Dodgers who played M. Polite like a bad busker's ukulele.
Great to have some technical and tactical debate about the Cauliflower Club.
There appears to be an orchestrated campaign from the English Roses to counter our orchestrated campaign to see the game played within the Laws of the game.
#ScrumStraightYouBastards.
Exactly, and their main point (perhaps the only point) is that Sio sets up in an overextended fashion and gets monstered by Cole as a result. They point to the fact that when Scott was carded, Cole scrummed straight and in their eyes got over the top of Sio.
Now, if there was more than a grain of truth in their view of the matter, why would Cole not scrum straight on every occasion so that he could exert that dominance that they believe he has? Because, as pointed out above, he didn't get dominance in that scrum at all. The appearance was there because the scrum was pivoting around Sio. Cole knows he cannot get over Sio so he turns in before the ball is even fed to the scrum every time Poite is on the opposite side.
Regardless of whether Sio is overextended on engage or not, that is not an illegality as far as I know. The first illegality comes from Cole as he bores in and forces the scrum down.
I do think however, that there needs to be more thought given to how the various front row protagonists initially bind also. If they are all bound correctly before the scrum proceeds then there might not be so many transgressions when the scrum gets underway.
Loving the latest front page Blog article on the Soap Dodgers scrum tactics, and the return of service from our new English readership.
Obviously touched a raw nerve with the English trolls coming out in force with the same fervor as a pack of Kiwis justifying any slight against Sir Richie GOAT.
We were simply outfoxed at scrum time by the Soap Dodgers who played M. Polite like a bad busker's ukulele.
Great to have some technical and tactical debate about the Cauliflower Club.
There appears to be an orchestrated campaign from the English Roses to counter our orchestrated campaign to see the game played within the Laws of the game.
#ScrumStraightYouBastards.
Jeez BR one of your blokes (and mine) got well and truly dicked.
Get over it !
We'll get 'em next time
I liked to it too.
I claim no expertise in scrummaging but (a) what there author says makes sense (b) its obvious that Cole was not taking the hit - the comments section argues otherwise but all you have to do is watch the relativities: Sio comes to Cole rather than the two meeting in the middle. used to called not taking the hit - then they took the hit out of the game..
Joubert has, IIRC, been reasonably keen on the not taking the hit penalties but he'll want to avoid any controversy with the Olympics on the horizon and him doing 7s so my guess is he'll follow the historically accepted view: "australia's scroom is shite"
Now it's just Australia vs England. We'll get no sympathy from the rest of the world in this one.
If we can't tell for sure after the event then Poite has no chance.