Bledisloe 2
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As an aside:
@Bovidae said in Bledisloe 2:
@NTA By coincidence I've just watched both press conferences. Certainly Cheika is playing the victim at the start but the rest of his comments are fine. He even cracked some jokes.
I mentioned above that the AB presser is 4 minutes shorter (7 minutes v about 11 for Cheika).
I noted below that the Lions Third Test the visitors PC was about 18 minutes while home side about 12 - so shorter as well. Wonder if there is a pattern there for home v away teams.
End Random Thought.
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As for the conduct in the coaches box: I believe I've said before that if Shag & Co want to sit there like they've been forced to attend their least favourite cousin's wedding, they're more than welcome.
Cheika may go OTT but that's his business. You may think he looks like a dick doing it, and that's your business.
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I often wondered if the ineptitude that is the ARU appreciates at this stage that any publicity (short of a win) keeps their code in the papers, ergo it's not a bad thing.
I was convinced last year's whinge fest by every Aus rugby pundit was purely a publicity stunt in a landscape losing out to AFL and NRL finals publicity.But mostly it's what Nick suggests. It's just Cheika's way - take it or leave it, he's got more important things to worry about.
At least he got his team to bite this week
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@NTA said in Bledisloe 2:
As for the conduct in the coaches box: I believe I've said before that if Shag & Co want to sit there like they've been forced to attend their least favourite cousin's wedding, they're more than welcome.
Cheika may go OTT but that's his business. You may think he looks like a dick doing it, and that's your business.
At the same time though, his business is Australia's business, isn't it? I've seen plenty of comments from Aussie fans who sick of his victim complex and siege mentality bullshit.
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@Siam said in Bledisloe 2:
@NTA Shag said similar, in that the real difference between the teams was the first 40 when the Wallabies all hadn't played in 4 weeks
As clever as technology and training methods develop there is no substitiute for age-old match conditioning
If only there was a way to organise an in house warmup game in a five week period! Obviously umpossible.
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@Kirwan said in Bledisloe 2:
@Siam said in Bledisloe 2:
@NTA Shag said similar, in that the real difference between the teams was the first 40 when the Wallabies all hadn't played in 4 weeks
As clever as technology and training methods develop there is no substitiute for age-old match conditioning
If only there was a way to organise an in house warmup game in a five week period! Obviously umpossible.
Or a game with our Island neighbours. Or Japan.....
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@NTA said in Bledisloe 2:
As for the conduct in the coaches box: I believe I've said before that if Shag & Co want to sit there like they've been forced to attend their least favourite cousin's wedding, they're more than welcome.
Cheika may go OTT but that's his business. You may think he looks like a dick doing it, and that's your business.
I just wonder how effective he can be as a coach when he comes across as the worst sort of rabid one-eyed fan.
I mean I have mates (I know, I know) who act like Chieka does - histrionically questioning every decision as if it was the fifth trumpet of the apocalypse that sounded rather than a refs whistle.
Admire their passion but don't listen to a word they say and occasionally have to simply tell them to shut the fuck up!
That's fine with your drinking buddy - but your coach?
You don't have to sit there sphinx like as Shag does - but I know who comes across more like someone who has an opinion I might actually care to hear
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@Kirwan said in Bledisloe 2:
If only there was a way to organise an in house warmup game in a five week period! Obviously umpossible.
Also a good point - one of the issues being we didn't have available top-flight players, as our Premier club seasons were still running up until the weekend.
EDIT: Naturally, organising games with those clubs who were NOT involved in Premier Club finals could also have been done. And I don't know why we didn't. We showed the last 120 minutes of our Test rugby was superior to the first 40.
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@KiwiMurph I think the game of 3 halves is a good example of making a game for the sake of needing a game, especially for those teams not involved in the finals, and for the Wallabies, surely a probable vs possible type match up would have been the go.
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@dogmeat said in Bledisloe 2:
...Admire their passion but don't listen to a word they say and occasionally have to simply tell them to shut the fuck up!
That's fine with your drinking buddy - but your coach?
You don't have to sit there sphinx like as Shag does - but I know who comes across more like someone who has an opinion I might actually care to hear
I quite liked Heyneke Meyer - was passionate about his side, showed it in the coaches box, but was a good bloke and not a whiny little bitch like Cheika
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@Stockcar86 said in Bledisloe 2:
@dogmeat said in Bledisloe 2:
...Admire their passion but don't listen to a word they say and occasionally have to simply tell them to shut the fuck up!
That's fine with your drinking buddy - but your coach?
You don't have to sit there sphinx like as Shag does - but I know who comes across more like someone who has an opinion I might actually care to hear
I quite liked Heyneke Meyer - was passionate about his side, showed it in the coaches box, but was a good bloke and not a whiny little bitch like Cheika
Shag loved his beers too!!
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What annoys me about Cheika is he whines about Rettalick but is strangely quiet about the multiple infringements at scrumtime and around the park that should have lead to several yellow cards for his guys. Being destroyed like that at scrumtime can you really claim you should have won?
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@DMX said in Bledisloe 2:
What annoys me about Cheika is he whines about Rettalick but is strangely quiet about the multiple infringements at scrumtime and around the park that should have lead to several yellow cards for his guys. Being destroyed like that at scrumtime can you really claim you should have won?
Do you expect an opposition coach to point those things out? That would be a first for any coach.
It's the unhinged reactions in the box that annoys me because it gets far more attention than it deserves during the telecast. IMO it's not a great look, and seems a tad unstable for the head coach.
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@DMX said in Bledisloe 2:
Being destroyed like that at scrumtime can you really claim you should have won?
When the ultimate difference between winning and losing is securing a kick off (which it was), then fuck yes, you have every right to claim that you should have won.
That's different from blaming refs and in the presser Cheika went to great lengths to clarify where his disappointment lay - at his team.
That's not to conflate the issues with his Retallick incident whining.
Similarly if the Aussies played poorly (as some here have stated) and still were one kick off reception from winning, I'd fucken hate to see them improve and play well.
We won, and did it fucking cleverly but that don't mean the Aussies weren't in it or played poorly.
#entitlement
