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Mark Loane (55)
Not going to beat these sides without a point of difference player.
McReight provided that for us, his absence is an issue.
McReight provided that for us, his absence is an issue.
Wallabies v Springboks, Sat 10th August 2.30pm AEST @ Suncorp,
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Trevor Allan (34)
It's the Wallaby way. Lackadaisical play, Lackadaisical support. If you have the world champs in town playing in your home stadium lift your game. The team were on a pants job in the last couple of minutes. Does any Wallaby player have an ego or outright confidence or arrogance to be worlds best and dominate their position.
Perth could be a blood bath again because there are.plenty of South Africans over here, and RA will need more than John Williamson singing to get things going.
stillmissit
Peter Johnson (47)
emuarse
Chilla Wilson (44)
why does the game stop for a player changing his boots?
When a player suffers a minor injury, the game goes on around him. Why can't the unshod player temporarily retire from the field.
Sounds like another Rassie ploy to rest his big forwards.
Shiggins
Simon Poidevin (60)
Genia was a class above all of our options though. Phipps was hit and miss
Derpus
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Phipps was good. Certainly better than our current options.
Mick The Munch
Bill McLean (32)
We really did look like a 9th ranked team - one out crash ball, poor box kicking execution, I would playing Wilson, Tate, Lynagh, Paisami - at least they will know each other game
The memories of the good old days are clouding your judgement.
TSR
Andrew Slack (58)
Nah - he really wasn’t. Physically he was extremely fit and he was excellent in a lot of ways but his pass was terrible.
John S
Peter Fenwicke (45)
I know he went off early, but I missed when he got injured. I'm going to have to try and find it again. I thought it was weird him going off so early.
TSR
Andrew Slack (58)
Disagree.
But he’s not really relevant to the current halves anyway other than a demonstration our issues in the halves (both 9 & 10) have been long standing. Even Genia was not nearly as good in the second part of his career as the first.
Sword of Justice
Arch Winning (36)
Tate is an enigmatic player. He has the worst pass, kick, and physicality of the current lot but he does generally increase the overall pace and find space for teammates. In a strange way I’d say he’s a better rugby footballer than the other two in the squad.
However, I’d keep him for the last 20 minutes because I don’t believe he can execute Schmidt’s game plan with his skills.
Making a bunch of changes after that game would be an Eddie thing to do. We selected about the best xv that we had available. They were just better at this point in time.
However, I’d keep him for the last 20 minutes because I don’t believe he can execute Schmidt’s game plan with his skills.
Making a bunch of changes after that game would be an Eddie thing to do. We selected about the best xv that we had available. They were just better at this point in time.
Strewthcobber
Simon Poidevin (60)
I said it in another thread, but on the rewatch this morning, Tate did not pass it to Lynagh once in South Africa's half over the last 20 mins
dru
David Wilson (68)
Has not stopped Daugunu already being included in 3-2-1.
| 26' | Player substituted - Filipo Daugunu , Australia |
upthereds#!
Peter Johnson (47)
KOB1987
John Eales (66)
I have just watched the replay. I was a victim of the ignorance of RA not bowing to the demands of GPS schoolboy parents and instead opting to avoid a broadcast clash with that other insignificant global sporting event that was going on at the same time (for an example of the alternative check out the grandstands in Wellington).
Anyways, I did find some advantages of a delayed complete viewing. Instead of screaming at the screen whenever the saffers were standing in our backline I actually took notice of some other things. I don’t think it’s as disastrous as it seemed in real time. It probably depends how you looked at it - if you were in the camp looking at it as 1st on the planet v 9th it wasn’t too bad. If your expectations were that we were suddenly going to return to the 90s/00s then you would have been disappointed.
In summary, I reckon half of the 26 points difference came down to experience, the other half came down to the set piece, which largely revolved around missing all of Tupou, Bell, McReight, Wright, and not having a settled locking pair.
It will be a slow grind, but I just want to see improvement and some combinations evolve. I don’t see any unforced changes for next week, except for maybe at 10. In Daugunu’s place I’d start Pietsch and bring Koroibete off the bench, I thought Pietsch was pretty good except for the knock on. He wasn’t the only bloke to make a mistake. For the concussed locks, whatever the coaches see as the best solution, I have no idea.
Anyways, I did find some advantages of a delayed complete viewing. Instead of screaming at the screen whenever the saffers were standing in our backline I actually took notice of some other things. I don’t think it’s as disastrous as it seemed in real time. It probably depends how you looked at it - if you were in the camp looking at it as 1st on the planet v 9th it wasn’t too bad. If your expectations were that we were suddenly going to return to the 90s/00s then you would have been disappointed.
In summary, I reckon half of the 26 points difference came down to experience, the other half came down to the set piece, which largely revolved around missing all of Tupou, Bell, McReight, Wright, and not having a settled locking pair.
It will be a slow grind, but I just want to see improvement and some combinations evolve. I don’t see any unforced changes for next week, except for maybe at 10. In Daugunu’s place I’d start Pietsch and bring Koroibete off the bench, I thought Pietsch was pretty good except for the knock on. He wasn’t the only bloke to make a mistake. For the concussed locks, whatever the coaches see as the best solution, I have no idea.
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Herbert Moran (7)
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Not a question necessarily directed to you KOB but you mentioned the concussions. I counted four of our guys with head cuts/concussions - Frost, Williams, AAA and Gordon, there could've been more, is that a normal amount or am I reading too much into it?
I might as well ask while I'm here, twice I saw Marx's head pop out of the scrum first, one time at least a scrum penalty went against us afterwards, am I missing something there too?
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