Wellington Bled
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Alan Cameron (40)
Dire game thus far, such a poor demonstration of skills on show.
Wallabies completely flat and lethargic. I don't think I've seen us even attempt to counter ruck once. Nobody other than AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) can get over the gain line. And our backs continue to baffle being so lateral. They do love long cut out passes don't they ? What are they trying to achieve ?
Wallabies completely flat and lethargic. I don't think I've seen us even attempt to counter ruck once. Nobody other than AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) can get over the gain line. And our backs continue to baffle being so lateral. They do love long cut out passes don't they ? What are they trying to achieve ?
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rugbywhisperer
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If this doesn't end the endless discussion re JOC (James O'Connor), Mitchell and Turner then nothing will.
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Spook
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Smith has been good, Genia good, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) awesome.
Robinson - Sorry when did he pressure on Tialata? We did nothing on their feed tonight- Tialata had no problem with him. Alexander poor in scrummage but I thought quite good around the park- some great hits. Much more work than Baxter in any event.
The rest shite. JOC (James O'Connor) pretty terrible but shouldn't be out there IMO. A bit young.
Robinson - Sorry when did he pressure on Tialata? We did nothing on their feed tonight- Tialata had no problem with him. Alexander poor in scrummage but I thought quite good around the park- some great hits. Much more work than Baxter in any event.
The rest shite. JOC (James O'Connor) pretty terrible but shouldn't be out there IMO. A bit young.
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Spook
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Oh and NZ have been quite outstanding.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
The Kiwis didn't do anything flash bar muscling up at the breakdown the odd counterattack, and they still blitzed us. The confidence was utter poo from our blokes. Genia had a poor game considering some of his recent work, but then he musn't have been getting much help from the outside with all those static rucks and him waiting for instructions...
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
I'd much rather lose a meaningless Test like this than another RWC quarterfinal. P.S. Learn to take a joke. Should I use more smileys? 
:thumb :lmao: :nta: :angryfire: :'( :huxley :yay :fishing : O0
There you go.
Its interesting because he had the kind of game a lot of people criticise Burgess for - slow, inaccurate. No reason to throw him out just yet as I think he's a fair halfback. But when everyone's promised land turns out to be a desert, they start looking around nervously and saying "well it was better than the shithole desert we WERE living in..."
:thumb :lmao: :nta: :angryfire: :'( :huxley :yay :fishing : O0There you go.
Its interesting because he had the kind of game a lot of people criticise Burgess for - slow, inaccurate. No reason to throw him out just yet as I think he's a fair halfback. But when everyone's promised land turns out to be a desert, they start looking around nervously and saying "well it was better than the shithole desert we WERE living in..."
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Alan Cameron (40)
NTA said:
That's the scary thing, this is a fairly mediocre NZ side and yet we were manshamed. From the kickoff it was obvious our guys weren't up for it. They played with no fire, energy or intensity. They went through the motions and the result was an embarassing 27 point loss.
A lot was deservedly made of our poor breakdown work. It sure doesn't help when your backs (Giteau-Barnes again) make things so easy for the opposition defence.
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Greg Davis (50)
if we could move smith back to seven it would be great as well, pocock spent the game hiding in defence behind the ruck and most of contributions to it were getting there late and putting a hand on a player, not even making an impact.
all talk, no substance, crap performance and shows even though we apparantly "turned the corner" in brisbane, we went from crap st to more of the same ave.
all talk, no substance, crap performance and shows even though we apparantly "turned the corner" in brisbane, we went from crap st to more of the same ave.
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Alan Cameron (40)
waratahjesus said:
I certainly didn't feel we'd turned the corner in Brisbane. The Boks didn't show up, and our boys lifted, as the pressure of losing 5-6 in a row would have seen heads roll.
Pocock certainly works hard and was prominent in cover defence. He isn't a natural at reading the game like Smith & McCaw are.
So far this season the Wallabies have let themselves down in just one, sometimes two facets of the game. Tonight, they fucked every single one. The scrum, lineout, breakdown, kicking, discipline, running, passing; all sucked. It was only an average defensive performance that kept them anywhere near the match.
Last weeks heroics were catalysed by some towering leadership performances, where men went out to make the difference – like Polota-Nau with his tackling. This week they sat back and seemed to hope “the pattern” would do it all for them. It’s a simple lesson, when will they learn it?
Most disappointing was the lack of will to compete. No challenging at the line-out. No challenging at the ruck. The scrum was soft and the only guy who can run straight in the entire team is Adam Ashley-Cooper. Everyone sitting back waiting for someone else to “do something”.
It’s a disturbing mental fragility that was epitomised by James O’Connor. There’s a very strange thing going on in his gelled teenage head when he plays the All Blacks and tonight it translated into a simply shocking performance You can only think for the sake of the kids confidence Dingo didn’t end it early. However, if true, what does this say to the team (and supporters)? O’Connor’s ego is more important than winning?
Again Joubert was happy for the All Blacks to pretty much do anything at the breakdown. But you have to say that at least they were there and putting in an effort, rather than fanned out as decoy runners in front of backs who continue to throw bullet passes above and behind players at head height. One thing tonight proved was that the backline’s problems have nothing to do with Burgess’ or Ginea’s service from 9. They go way deeper than that.
A lot has been written this week about the great position the Wallabies are for the 2011 world cup, with a great average age, yadda yadda. At this point in time, all we have is a team of young chokers. Best demonstrated, when at somehow still only 19-6 down in the 70th minute, camped on the NZ line with an opportunity to pull a rabbit out of the hat, they came away with nothing.
Deans rightly pointed out that in Wellington it was down to the Wallabies to prove whether they have developed and grown, or whether last week was purely a blip. Tonight we got the answer.
Last weeks heroics were catalysed by some towering leadership performances, where men went out to make the difference – like Polota-Nau with his tackling. This week they sat back and seemed to hope “the pattern” would do it all for them. It’s a simple lesson, when will they learn it?
Most disappointing was the lack of will to compete. No challenging at the line-out. No challenging at the ruck. The scrum was soft and the only guy who can run straight in the entire team is Adam Ashley-Cooper. Everyone sitting back waiting for someone else to “do something”.
It’s a disturbing mental fragility that was epitomised by James O’Connor. There’s a very strange thing going on in his gelled teenage head when he plays the All Blacks and tonight it translated into a simply shocking performance You can only think for the sake of the kids confidence Dingo didn’t end it early. However, if true, what does this say to the team (and supporters)? O’Connor’s ego is more important than winning?
Again Joubert was happy for the All Blacks to pretty much do anything at the breakdown. But you have to say that at least they were there and putting in an effort, rather than fanned out as decoy runners in front of backs who continue to throw bullet passes above and behind players at head height. One thing tonight proved was that the backline’s problems have nothing to do with Burgess’ or Ginea’s service from 9. They go way deeper than that.
A lot has been written this week about the great position the Wallabies are for the 2011 world cup, with a great average age, yadda yadda. At this point in time, all we have is a team of young chokers. Best demonstrated, when at somehow still only 19-6 down in the 70th minute, camped on the NZ line with an opportunity to pull a rabbit out of the hat, they came away with nothing.
Deans rightly pointed out that in Wellington it was down to the Wallabies to prove whether they have developed and grown, or whether last week was purely a blip. Tonight we got the answer.
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Spook
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We just couldn't build any pressure on the Blacks. At the 38th minute it showed Australia as having made 15 errors to the ABs 4. Absolutely no pressure build up on the Blacks due to stupid fucking mistakes and then we had to tackle all night.
Only AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) shows any ability in terms of breaking tackles. Turner continues to be the bluntest of knives. Mind you our forwards were pretty much smashed but that was due to the backs constantly giving the ball to the opposition in our own territory.
TPN was obviously still carring a rib injury but was his throwing was very good.
Only AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) shows any ability in terms of breaking tackles. Turner continues to be the bluntest of knives. Mind you our forwards were pretty much smashed but that was due to the backs constantly giving the ball to the opposition in our own territory.
TPN was obviously still carring a rib injury but was his throwing was very good.
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