Week 2 - Wallabies 22

[Gnostic]

Players can only be selected in the positions that played

1. Kepu
2. TPN
3. Palmer
4. Mumm (Simmons was close by was in a horribly beaten pack)
5. Douglas
6. Dennis
7. Waugh
8. Mowen
9. Burgess
10. Barnes
12. Huxley
13. Horne
11. Mitchell
14. Turner
15. Gerrard

16. G. Robinson
17. Baxter
18. Simmons
19. Fainga'a (Jnr Jnr)
20. Genia
21. Cooper
22. Beale

Tom Carter unlucky not to get the 12 spot, but Huxley along with Gerrard were backline keys to the Rebels beating the Ponies. No surprise that only three Brumbies players make the team along with three Reds and only Palmer in the run on.

 

[Bruce Ross]

I'm a great fan of Hux though not as a 12. However I have been told that on one set of stats he missed 8 tackles last night.

 

[Gnostic]

That would probably be close Bruce. The Rebels missed 36 or 38 all told. I am not a fan of Huxley the player, and never really have been, but he played very well on Friday. As I said it was a hard choice between him and Carter, who as I sai on the match thread as earned a great deal of respect from me for his performance in the last two games and in how he has worked on his passing game.

 

[Bowside]

I'm a great fan of Hux though not as a 12. However I have been told that on one set of stats he missed 8 tackles last night.

You have to put that in perspective, the rebels did make a hell of a lot of tackles last night. I'd be looking more at percentages rather that straight missed tackles.

 

[qwerty51]

Rather than selecting a week-by-week Wallabies team would it not be better to select an on-going performance so we have an idea of who played the best during the Super rugby season?

 

[Bruce Ross]

You have to put that in perspective, the rebels did make a hell of a lot of tackles last night. I'd be looking more at percentages rather that straight missed tackles.

Hux would have to have attempted a shit load of tackles to make 8 misses look respectable.

 

[Gnostic]

Rather than selecting a week-by-week Wallabies team would it not be better to select an on-going performance so we have an idea of who played the best during the Super rugby season?

You can if you want on your thread.

 

[waratahjesus]

how did cooper make the match day 22? surely he has offered nothing thus far at all.

 

[RugbyReg]

Rather than selecting a week-by-week Wallabies team would it not be better to select an on-going performance so we have an idea of who played the best during the Super rugby season?

just pick the Tahs:

15 Beale
14 Davies
13 Horne
12 Coleman
11 Mitchell
10 JOC (James O'Connor)
9 Burgess
8 Mowen
7 Waugh
6 Horwill
5 Douglas
4 Sharpe
3 Baxter
2 TPN
1 Kepu

 

[Gnostic]

just pick the Tahs:

15 Beale
14 Davies
13 Horne
12 Coleman
11 Mitchell
10 JOC (James O'Connor)
9 Burgess
8 Mowen
7 Waugh
6 Horwill
5 Douglas
4 Sharpe
3 Baxter
2 TPN
1 Kepu

Reg Sharpe didn't play this week. I'll admit he was good last week though.

 

[Lindommer]

just pick the Tahs

You feeling OK, Nodster?

 

[Sully]

Hux would have to have attempted a shit load of tackles to make 8 misses look respectable.

Brumbies only made 80 tackles Bruce.

 

[Gagger]

You feeling OK, Nodster?

That's a broken man right there

 

[Newb]

maybe link could actually use reg in the 22. don't ever be too far from a phone!

 

[Train Without a Station]

Did Dean Mumm even play. Other than giving away a penalty I'd consider it another typical anonymous performance from Dean. Also Beau Robinson was awesome off the bench in a struggling team.

 

[RugbyReg]

Reg Sharpe didn't play this week. I'll admit he was good last week though.

I was doing the progressive team.

 

[Richo]

If it weren't for his goal-kicking, I would put Barnes in at 10. He's done a masterful job running the Tahs backline, was everywhere in both games, and his tactical kicking has been top-notch.

 

[Hawko]

Did Dean Mumm even play. Other than giving away a penalty I'd consider it another typical anonymous performance from Dean. Also Beau Robinson was awesome off the bench in a struggling team.

His role in the team is LHL, the guy who runs a lot, has a big engine and gets to wide rucks early. I'm about to re-watch the game (one of life's great pleasures) but my first look last night was that he did exactly that. That's the beauty of the Tahs pack. Everyone has a job to do and does it. The sum total is greater than the sum of the parts.

 

[Gnostic]

Did Dean Mumm even play. Other than giving away a penalty I'd consider it another typical anonymous performance from Dean. Also Beau Robinson was awesome off the bench in a struggling team.

WHat I like about the Tahs 2011 model is that the forwards are hunting as a pack. None of them are running in the mid field or standing on the wing. Even when Kepu made the little break down the right wing it was one off the ruck where he had been pillar. Glad to see that forwards aren't individually noticeable.

Also I wouldn't be tampering with the second row combo. They have pilfered plenty of lineout ball from their opponents (something the Ponies didn't do with the Rebels really) and pressured what they didn't get while remaining totally secure on their own. Mumm is very good at Super level organising and calling the Lineout. In Oz I would suggest that only Sharpe is better at this level. (test level is a different story but this is a team based upon form in each round only.

 

[Slim 293]

The Brumbies picked off quite a few lineouts later in the game... Not as many as last week though...