Wallabies v Wales, 6 July

[Marce]

A win is a win

 

[Aussie D]

Wallabies start the Schmidt era the way they finished the shit (Eddie Jones) era with a win.

 

[KOB1987]

Joe Schmidt Mr 100%. There’s also 7 players out there who have never lost a test match.

 

[Pokinacha]

Important steal from McReight

It wasn’t a steal. He got neck rolled. Lolesio had more steals than our no7.

 

[Shiggins]

Best part was the last 10. Defence was pretty solid and legal. Big hits. Won a turnover.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Strange standard of a game but good to get a win.

I predict the Wallabies can put a score on them next week having got the cobwebs out with that and Wales now in the guts of a tour with a pretty average side.

 

[Tomikin]

Lolesio was good, not great but his kicks for touch were much better then that one. Both were good and we won.. some people can bitch about anything

 

[rugbyAU]

I’ll take it

 

[KOB1987]

Lots of rust expectedly. There are a few that will get subbed out next week to explore other options, but the core was good I thought.

 

[moa999]

A wins a win. But we need to massively improve before the Lions tour this time next year.

 

[Marce]

How good is this result for World Rugby rankings? A +7 win

 

[A mutterer]

Glad for the win. Some big hits in the last 10 showed our intent.

Thought some of the established wallabies were quiet, but plenty to work on.

 

[Marce]

Finally the WBs won in Sydney...

 

[Adam84]

He is only a bench option at super level with Ryan Smith and Uru ahead of him.

This just simply isn’t true.

He was injured a large chunk of 2024 and only games he played off bench were the first 2 games on return. In the las 5 seasons he has started on average %80 of the >50 Super Rugby games he has played

 

[KOB1987]

How good is this result for World Rugby rankings? A +7 win

Has to be 15+ to get the maximum spread but we have at least jumped Italy into 8th

 

[cyclopath]

Solid if scrappy win.
Valetini, McReight, TT, especially good up front, finishers pretty good in the forwards too. Kailua (? spelling) has some mongrel, Cale plays above his apparent weight.
Gordon pretty solid, Wright came good, Kellaway solid. McDermott looked a bit funky but short stint so hard to know. Lynagh looked OK. Not sold on Paisami.
Rushed thoughts.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

Very happy for this group of young men and their coach. It's not always pretty but winning sure as hell beats losing.

I thought the defence and breakdown work at the end were outstanding.

 

[whitefalcon]

Lolesio was good, not great but his kicks for touch were much better then that one. Both were good and we won.. some people can bitch about anything

I thought so too but it might be my brumbies bias.

He made a couple of mistakes but it felt like in the 2nd 20 the team had run out of what they had trained during the week and took a little while to adapt.

20-40min and 40-45/50 werent great but I think there is a platform there once we blow out the cobwebs

 

[whitefalcon]

Solid if scrappy win.

I tend to agree with all of this. I think (hope) we will be much better after another week in camp.

It will be interesting if many changes are made next week.

I thought L.Wright was great in the lineout too

 

[Marce]

Gordon pretty solid, Wright came good, Kellaway solid. McDermott looked a bit funky but short stint so hard to know. Lynagh looked OK. Not sold on Paisami.
Rushed thoughts.

Which one?