The best part is the hashtag.
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The best part is the hashtag.
KOB1987
John Eales (66)
That's the only good part, but it is a good one!
Highlander35
Andrew Slack (58)
Toby Smith and Pat Leafa. 
With all due respect to Sio, just as long as Charles & Hanson don't come off the field in the same manner...
BOOM!
qwerty51
Stirling Mortlock (74)
That's a joke imo.
He's not a very good Super Rugby player and now he's in the Test squad? He's throwing wasn't good and he got exploited at scrum time. Puzzling and ammunition for anti-Tahs.
Maybe he's just there as a training body I hope and not a 'squad member'.
He's not a very good Super Rugby player and now he's in the Test squad? He's throwing wasn't good and he got exploited at scrum time. Puzzling and ammunition for anti-Tahs.
Maybe he's just there as a training body I hope and not a 'squad member'.
TPN is confirmed as only having a low grade medial strain. Only definitely out for Bledisloe 1.
Sio to have scans on his ankle.
Sio to have scans on his ankle.
If they're thinking TPN is back for Bled 2, maybe Link thought it was a good opportunity to bring in a young guy who has also been training and playing at full intensity. How hard do you think Fainga'a and Tessman would have been going lately?
KOB1987
John Eales (66)
I was going to say that I thought Latu filled TPN's shoes more than adequately on Sat nite but I figured I would get shot down pretty harshly to suggest he be brought in to the squad!
He's still only 3rd in line though and if TPN is only out for one game then one would assume it's more for the experience, he certainly does have future Wallaby appeal..
He's still only 3rd in line though and if TPN is only out for one game then one would assume it's more for the experience, he certainly does have future Wallaby appeal..
Brumbieman
Dick Tooth (41)
If you're going like for like, Saia would be the best option.
His defence is the best of the remaining hookers, and it would suit the style of rugby Link will have us playing. Chopping out someone's ankles and dropping them makes it much easier to either pilfer, or drive straight on through the ruck and take the space behind it to prevent the cleanout, and then you're good to go in counter attack.
Just like what Taf brings. Hanson/Charles/Latu etc don't offer that low tackle. Interesting that Link has gone with Latu.
His defence is the best of the remaining hookers, and it would suit the style of rugby Link will have us playing. Chopping out someone's ankles and dropping them makes it much easier to either pilfer, or drive straight on through the ruck and take the space behind it to prevent the cleanout, and then you're good to go in counter attack.
Just like what Taf brings. Hanson/Charles/Latu etc don't offer that low tackle. Interesting that Link has gone with Latu.
Brumbieman
Dick Tooth (41)
That's been the case since we lost the Bledisloe, poor kicking gifting the kiwi's plenty of counter attacking opportunity, and the other thing it gave them was field position. 2005-....um......last year? THis year maybe? of kicking that went up and down with no real purpose, landed in *insert deadly kiwi outside back*'s breadbasket and a shit chase.
Not being able to get out of our own half when we did have the ball was the other problem a lack of a decent tactical kicking handed us.
It is what it is
John Solomon (38)
These were the games where we became panicked and exhausted when in possession for too long. The good news is that our forwards have improved their ball carries so we can get out of trouble without resorting to aimless kicking. Palu's power and Hooper's footwork will get us over the advantage line that our old pick n drive tactics, and single isolated ball runners couldn't.
Biffo
Ken Catchpole (46)
i am on the Latu bandwagon. the bloke has enormous upside. i am delighted that he's on the track up.
perhaps The Coach remembers how he and his two mates ascended to be the Wallaby front row in the coaching time of The Great Man?
Wow... I take it that McKenzie is selecting on form (played up to Super rugby final). It's not a bad decision (3rd string hooker) given he was the back up to TPN. He does have the potential and given he came on 42nd min on the 'big stage' and got through without to much disaster, I say credit given where credit due...
T
Train Without a Station
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Whilst I don't really mind the selection of Latu over Fainga'a, that's a misleading and inaccurate statement.
In their time there was 2 provincial teams and less media coverage. Now there is 5 teams, 2 of which used their 4th choice hooker. I believe the brumbies used 5 in total: Moore, Siliva, converted Murphy, Holmes and Mann-Rea.
It's an unfair comparison as players have an under 20 World Cup every year to show their worth prior to coming to professional level.
Biffo
Ken Catchpole (46)
sorry, but i can't see what is misleading. i can't see how a question in my second para can be inaccurate or misleading. re your last point, i made no comparison of anything to anything.
Biffo
Ken Catchpole (46)
me, too. he may get a minute in the RC if circumstances suit.
i am very pleased that a hooker beyond the tried list is being given a small entry and access to high class competition and coaching. i don't think many people are excited by Hanson, Charles and Little Finger, admirable triers that they may be. thus, looking further afield, as The Coach did last year, seems to me a good idea.
Gnostic
Mark Ella (57)
The first try wasn't so much a function of the kick but a poorly realigned and slow defensive line. As soon the ball was kicked I thought shit this is on since the line was so staggered. There was a definite lack of urgency to realign and maybe just a bit of complacency as they had been smashing the Saders up to that point.
I agree with the premise of your post but the telling factor which stood out from their previous 8 games was that staggered defensive line.
He should get some great kit out of it!
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