Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
Ordinarily, I'd say "I can't believe you and Ash are still on the Foley hate train", but I totally fucking can because you're bucking for your own blokes to fill the back line, despite a complete lack of justification for why. Well, except to scream:
"FOLEY MISSED A TOUCH FINDER!"
"FOLEY IS BEING HIDDEN ON THE WING!"
Foley is the fucking reason our attack looks anything like awesome.
Foley is the guy kicking goals that Lilo can't make.
Foley is the guy willing to take it into contact and set up the next play instead of transferring pressure.
Foley is the guy who took a decision to knock over a drop goal under pressure to get us back into the lead.
He's not running a one man show, but respected ex-Test players from anther fucking country picked him as MOTM.
But fuck, keep arguing with reality why don't you.
Yes we all know that allowing Foley to kick the drop goal is part of the secret Waratah plot to take over the test team.
In the eyes of some, one Waratah in the test team is one too many. (And then any loss is blamed on the Waratahs not pulling their weight in Australian rugby - just like lack of coverage for the NRC final was the Waratahs fault because none of our teams made the final)
I thought Phipps and Foley were both great and they are both maturing and getting better every week. Phipps seems to be the only half who can pass flat without taking a skip step or two. Kurindrani continues to excel. Folau and Hooper at their usual high standard.
The scrum started well and while they were under pressure leading up to the penalty try, the scrum feed was at 45% and should have been a Wallaby FK - or are we back to not enforcing scrum feeds?
A solid performance all round from the team - particularly impressed that they came back and won after losing the lead in the second half.