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Kick off time 5:35pm (AEST)
Live on Seven from 5pm
Live on Seven from 5pm
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Jim Lenehan (48)
And just in case our friends at News Corp browse the forum, Live on Fox Sports at 4:30pm
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Trevor Allan (34)
And in case your in Melbourne without Fox, you can watch from 5pm: Delish (apparently starring a Master Chef finalist from last year), Coxy's Big Break, Channel 7 News, Grease, The Living Daylights followed by Shanghai nights, and finally get the replay at 2.05am. Can't say we aren't spoiled with our Rugby viewing down here. Thank god for Foxtel.
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Andrew Slack (58)
Is someone charging this dude an advertising fee?
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No mate, I just thought I'd post the kickoff time and tv coverage times for our viewers.
In all probability I would imagine not many of us will be making the trip across the ditch for the game so I though I'd post the TV times and kickoff time.
In all probability I would imagine not many of us will be making the trip across the ditch for the game so I though I'd post the TV times and kickoff time.
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I think this article has some good points here.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...a-legacy-he-helped-create-20100802-113eu.html
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...a-legacy-he-helped-create-20100802-113eu.html
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2.05am might just be the right time to view it, I wouldn't be able to sit through the massacre sober.
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John Hipwell (52)
You really think we can turn it around that much in a week?
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AB team named, Weepu to start and Mathewson on the bench, and Benson Stanley in for Dagg.
All Blacks: 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Joe Rokocoko, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Piri Weepu; 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Tom Donnelly, 4 Brad Thorn, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock. Reserves: 16 Corey Flynn, 17 Ben Franks, 18 Sam Whitelock, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Alby Mathewson, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 Benson Stanley.
Personally would much rather face Stanley than Dagg, don't quite know what has prompted that change.
All Blacks: 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Joe Rokocoko, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Piri Weepu; 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Tom Donnelly, 4 Brad Thorn, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock. Reserves: 16 Corey Flynn, 17 Ben Franks, 18 Sam Whitelock, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Alby Mathewson, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 Benson Stanley.
Personally would much rather face Stanley than Dagg, don't quite know what has prompted that change.
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John Eales (66)
Agreed. That doesn't strike fear into my heart. Then again, our starting XV wouldn't have the AB's quaking in their boots.
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http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...scars-for-an-inept-outfit-20100731-110v4.html
More mental scars for an inept outfit
GREG GROWDEN
August 1, 2010
Give the All Blacks the Tri Nations trophy, right now. It is all over. The next month or so is just sheer theatrics.
And while we're at it, why not call off the Christchurch and Sydney Bledisloe Cup Test matches!
It's high time the Australian Rugby Union did long-suffering Wallabies fans a favour, because they have been subjected too long to unnecessary agony, dejection and disbelief as one Australian line-up after another has been put through the sausage machine, and turned into little boys by the All Black master butchers.
It's eight Tri Nations defeats in a row - and drawing close to the worst sequence ever when Australia lost nine in a row to New Zealand between 1936-47.
This is a debacle, even prompting All Blacks coach Graham Henry to say if he was in a situation of eight straight losses he would feel ''sad''.
Despite the Wallabies showing good resolve after Drew Mitchell became the latest Australian player to completely lose his mind, it doesn't hide the fact that the home side are vastly inferior to the clinical brand from over the ditch. The All Blacks are just toying with them, and the next two Bledisloe Cup matches are unlikely to change that. It will just add more scars to an already battered Wallaby carcass.
Sure, those Wallaby sympathisers will go on about this team being in a rebuilding phase, and deserve sympathy. But there is only so much slack you can give them, because these highly paid footballers don't know how to put on an 80-minute performance.
Too often, someone, somewhere will let the rest down. Mitchell wasn't the only one in that category last night, with several players guilty of dreadful tackles at crucial times.
And you must wonder about the team's actual structure and belief, because the squad seems to be learning little about how to actually threaten for the Bledisloe Cup. They continue to falter under pressure, waste opportunities, have absolutely no idea how to play well two weeks in a row, and believe the task has been done well before it has been completed - as shown by the silly antics when Mitchell scored the first try only to look damned stupid when he was red-carded 40-odd minutes later.
They don't even know how to win a kick-off. Elementary stuff.
The Wallabies keep saying that the All Blacks do not have a psychological edge over them. Rubbish. As far as the Wallabies are concerned, the All Blacks are now the big, black bogey men.
And full credit to the All Blacks as well. They play as a team. They attack as a group. They are there in numbers. And they don't make mistakes. Unlike the Wallabies, who only know how to scramble, Richie McCaw, Daniel Carter, Mils Muliaina, Ma'a Nonu, Kieran Read and Brad Thorn know how to control the moment.
As for the Wallabies …
''We gave them [the All Blacks] a lot of assistance,'' Australia coach Robbie Deans said last night.
What's new?
More mental scars for an inept outfit
GREG GROWDEN
August 1, 2010
Give the All Blacks the Tri Nations trophy, right now. It is all over. The next month or so is just sheer theatrics.
And while we're at it, why not call off the Christchurch and Sydney Bledisloe Cup Test matches!
It's high time the Australian Rugby Union did long-suffering Wallabies fans a favour, because they have been subjected too long to unnecessary agony, dejection and disbelief as one Australian line-up after another has been put through the sausage machine, and turned into little boys by the All Black master butchers.
It's eight Tri Nations defeats in a row - and drawing close to the worst sequence ever when Australia lost nine in a row to New Zealand between 1936-47.
This is a debacle, even prompting All Blacks coach Graham Henry to say if he was in a situation of eight straight losses he would feel ''sad''.
Despite the Wallabies showing good resolve after Drew Mitchell became the latest Australian player to completely lose his mind, it doesn't hide the fact that the home side are vastly inferior to the clinical brand from over the ditch. The All Blacks are just toying with them, and the next two Bledisloe Cup matches are unlikely to change that. It will just add more scars to an already battered Wallaby carcass.
Sure, those Wallaby sympathisers will go on about this team being in a rebuilding phase, and deserve sympathy. But there is only so much slack you can give them, because these highly paid footballers don't know how to put on an 80-minute performance.
Too often, someone, somewhere will let the rest down. Mitchell wasn't the only one in that category last night, with several players guilty of dreadful tackles at crucial times.
And you must wonder about the team's actual structure and belief, because the squad seems to be learning little about how to actually threaten for the Bledisloe Cup. They continue to falter under pressure, waste opportunities, have absolutely no idea how to play well two weeks in a row, and believe the task has been done well before it has been completed - as shown by the silly antics when Mitchell scored the first try only to look damned stupid when he was red-carded 40-odd minutes later.
They don't even know how to win a kick-off. Elementary stuff.
The Wallabies keep saying that the All Blacks do not have a psychological edge over them. Rubbish. As far as the Wallabies are concerned, the All Blacks are now the big, black bogey men.
And full credit to the All Blacks as well. They play as a team. They attack as a group. They are there in numbers. And they don't make mistakes. Unlike the Wallabies, who only know how to scramble, Richie McCaw, Daniel Carter, Mils Muliaina, Ma'a Nonu, Kieran Read and Brad Thorn know how to control the moment.
As for the Wallabies …
''We gave them [the All Blacks] a lot of assistance,'' Australia coach Robbie Deans said last night.
What's new?
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Mark Ella (57)
Regardless of the lack of options, please don't put AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) into outside centre. He is truly a great player but the couple of deficiencies in his game are really counter productive to the requirement of a good outside centre. The lead up to the Mitchell try in the Boks test AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) receives the ball and proceeds to run at an angle towards the corner, doesn’t make the line and all that is achieved is that he has encroached on the space of the two men outside him that formed and overlap in this case. A simple draw the man and pass option most likely would have resulted in the try being scored in the corner. The same thing happened during the controversial try/no try incident in the Tahs v Brumbies game during the super 14. His peripheral vision is somewhat lacking. He is a bloody good fullback and serves us well there. Leave him there.
Fainga'a to come in at 13 please. Barnes to 10 and Gits back to 12. Potential exists for some occasional shuffling between Fainga'a and Gits for Faingga to straighten and Gits to probe a bit wider in search of opportunity.
Fainga'a to come in at 13 please. Barnes to 10 and Gits back to 12. Potential exists for some occasional shuffling between Fainga'a and Gits for Faingga to straighten and Gits to probe a bit wider in search of opportunity.
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Steve Williams (59)
The way we're going, their bench could beat our starting XV - 15 on 7 too.
Being built up by putting a "non-threatening" bench in.
Cruden will eventually step up - at the lower levels he has been pretty good, and TBH I have enough faith in Henry and friends to see the good things coming.
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