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Trevor Allan (34)
If that was a tackle, it'd be jumping into a tackle and a penalty against the sharks player.
Waratahs vs Sharks - RD5 2012
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If that was a tackle, it'd be jumping into a tackle and a penalty against the sharks player.
Jnor
Peter Fenwicke (45)
After yesterday my opinion of McKibbin has really improved. I never really rated him, not to the point where I would feel the need to harp on about how shit I thought he was, but enough that I ever thought he was worth much of a mention.
Yesterday was different, he had a blinder. Most of my thoughts are in the review, but I thought he was as good as Pretorious has been, maybe with slightly less damaging running.
Did anyone else think the cameras at the SFS weren't up to the daylight? Whenever the game moved into shadow, it seemed way too dark on screen and much worse than the Rebs game last week
Yesterday was different, he had a blinder. Most of my thoughts are in the review, but I thought he was as good as Pretorious has been, maybe with slightly less damaging running.
Did anyone else think the cameras at the SFS weren't up to the daylight? Whenever the game moved into shadow, it seemed way too dark on screen and much worse than the Rebs game last week
Bruce Ross
Ken Catchpole (46)
LG is now a card-wearing member of the Fourth Estate and gets to sit in the press box with ... umm, aah; well, anyway he gets to sit in the press box. But he still has a lot to learn from the old pros. Spiro would have had two ex-All Black captains standing at the pisser.
While I was typing that I had a vivid mental image of Spiro sidling up alongside Sir Brian Lochore at the trough and asking for his thoughts on the game; and Sir Brian swinging around while in full flow ...
We all have our dreams.
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DPK
Peter Sullivan (51)
On Saturday, I had the pleasure and privilege of introducing His Ancientness Lee Grant to The Right Seniorable Bruce Ross, the first time these two old codgers had met. It was all in a panic at the Members' gate after Lee rushed out from the press box for me (yes, he's now mixing with those reptiles) and Bruce was waiting for his host to find him, but they did have time to argue the toss over who was the oldest. Birth years of 1839 and 1837 were mentioned, the older referred to the younger as "just a mere boy", insults were traded, fists were flung, a riot ensued, police were called..... Well not really, it all ended rather calmly as Bruce's host claimed him and gently led the senior citizen away.
Nice to be a bit of social glue in the G&GR panorama.
Whoops, that should've been 1939 and 1937.
Nice to be a bit of social glue in the G&GR panorama.
Whoops, that should've been 1939 and 1937.
JimboJoe1006
Chris McKivat (8)
Excellent second half from NSW. LG and others have already done great summaries so I will leave it at that. However, I will add that for roughly the first 20 minutes of the game the Tahs look extremely poor in defence. Kingston's wing seemed to be carved open way too easily. I watched the game at a pub so didn't have the best view however it seemed Lambie's excellent front foot service had the whole Tahs backline sliding backwards and there seemed to be a few defensive misreads by Horne and Kingston. Hopefully this can be fixed up and NSW can get their unlucky (both injury and results wise) season back on track.
Bruce Ross
Ken Catchpole (46)
About time you went back to OPSM, LG.
It's interesting though that us old blokes seem to regain our visual acuity when looking at women.
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Ruggo
Mark Ella (57)
Keep him where he is. He is a better player the Pretorius anyway.
Ruggo
Mark Ella (57)
Suprised he didn't stay down and bung on a bad acting performance like he did with Digby.The Spear-Fend!
(thanks Akkerman on PR)
vidiot
John Solomon (38)
That was a tip-fend, surely a citing will follow.
I only caught glimpses of the 1st half before work, but Kane Douglas had some good moments while I was watching. How did he go overall?
Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
spectator
It was the kind of game that you wanted them to win, of course, but would not have criticised them too much had they not. Their endeavour against the Sharks validated some of the criticism made in recent times that they weren't trying to play positive rugby when they were able to (let's not talk about their cynical goal line defence yesterday, which was not positive).
I have been taken to task for voicing such opinions in the past, and the age-old question of "Would you rather have them win ugly, or lose?" rebuttal has been made, almost by rote. My response was always to say that it was the wrong question. The correct one was: "If they won playing shit rugby like that, could they not have won also by having a crack?"
Having a crack when cracking was "on" was what the Reds did last year and it got a positive response from all rugby followers in Oz, and quite a few from offshore too. The results spoke for themselves.
Sure, you have to have the players to execute the cracking and you can't ignore the realities of what real estate you are in at any given time, but you have to show some endeavour otherwise the essence of your team shrivels up.
But I digress
It was the kind of game that you wanted them to win, of course, but would not have criticised them too much had they not. Their endeavour against the Sharks validated some of the criticism made in recent times that they weren't trying to play positive rugby when they were able to (let's not talk about their cynical goal line defence yesterday, which was not positive).
I have been taken to task for voicing such opinions in the past, and the age-old question of "Would you rather have them win ugly, or lose?" rebuttal has been made, almost by rote. My response was always to say that it was the wrong question. The correct one was: "If they won playing shit rugby like that, could they not have won also by having a crack?"
Having a crack when cracking was "on" was what the Reds did last year and it got a positive response from all rugby followers in Oz, and quite a few from offshore too. The results spoke for themselves.
Sure, you have to have the players to execute the cracking and you can't ignore the realities of what real estate you are in at any given time, but you have to show some endeavour otherwise the essence of your team shrivels up.
But I digress
RedsHappy
Tony Shaw (54)
As, when to a high % success rate, it wins many, many, many games despite all the fascination with all the other bits.
suckerforred
Chilla Wilson (44)
With you there Jnor. Arvo footy might be great for the live spectators, but on what we saw last night, crap for the broadcast audience. Ahhh well, can't have everything I s'pose.
matty_k
Peter Johnson (47)
I enjoyed that game a much as I am not enjoying the hangover.
It is great to see the Tahs hanging around after the game now like the Reds do. They even stayed around last week.
Excluding when the game was won some of the biggest cheers were for the replays of AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)'s vault and Mumm's fend.
Whoever decided to change those Flash For Cash signs to flags deserves a bonus. They look great.
If they can't improve the service they should at least install some TVs so you don't miss the action.
It is great to see the Tahs hanging around after the game now like the Reds do. They even stayed around last week.
Excluding when the game was won some of the biggest cheers were for the replays of AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)'s vault and Mumm's fend.
Whoever decided to change those Flash For Cash signs to flags deserves a bonus. They look great.
If they can't improve the service they should at least install some TVs so you don't miss the action.
qwerty51
Stirling Mortlock (74)
When the ball went into the shadowed part of the ground they need to immediately switch to a closer view than the up top one. Just need to tweak the coverage a bit.
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