England v Australia
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@bones said in England v Australia:
What's with this constant deep dive for controversy?
Making your own news by whipping up some perceived issue or injustice seems to be the order of the day - gets you an "exclusive", I guess.
The English press must have been creaming themselves when Underhill's try was disallowed 2 weeks ago. The outrage was synthetic with journos being caught quoting out-of-date laws to show the try should have been allowed.
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@bones said in England v Australia:
@tordah I fucken just came on to say just that! What a fluffybunny. Hooper steaming when he was walking away and rightly so. What's with this constant deep dive for controversy?
I think she's got a really snarky style
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I respect, and grudgingly admire, Farrell's athleticism, skill, passion, bottle & doggedness.
But due to his 'win at all costs' mentality which often includes blatant cheating & calculated foul play combined with football feigning I can't bring myself to like him. Not that that's going to keep him at night.
Eddie and his press cronies harp on about how integral the Vunipola brothers and Manu 'The Messiah' are to England's chances at the WC.
Rubbish.
Without Farrell England have no fucking chance.
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@mikethesnow said in England v Australia:
Without Farrell England have no fucking chance.
True. But as you say, he's still a cock.
No problems with in-yer-face players (Greg Laidlaw is one of favourites) but Farrell's cynical, fuck-the-opponent, self-congratulatory shit shows a lack of respect and is a real turn-off.
Akira Ioane shows this a bit at times. Wonder if that's what worries Hansen.
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Great win for England. Australia all over the shop. It should be taxi time for Krusty but it won't be.
It is a bit like Russian roulette with Owen Farrell. His passion, athleticism, determination and testing the boundaries are winning games for England. The problem is I suspect there will be a game where one of those no-arms tackles get him an early Red in a big game and they're playing with 14 for 60+ minutes.
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@sparky please let be in a final against us in 2019 😎
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@paekakboyz said in England v Australia:
@sparky please let be in a final against us in 2019 😎
Please let it be at the group stage and see them going out early two WCs in a row
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@mikethesnow oh yeah, keep talking dirty to me!! 😂
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It's been good to see the Southern hemisphere cooperating so well in Operation "Keep Eddie"....
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Just saw that Farrell charge. it's at the start of teh Stuff article below (probably region locked).
I have no idea how that was not a penalty try. He is a very very lucky boy -- the downside is that the controversy could rear it's head at the RWC next year, and he may find some time on the sidelines. Seriously, shaking my head yet again at the lack of consistency in refereeing. No idea how the players cope with random calls from week to week... how the hell do you play to the edge if the edge changes all the time.
Frustrating times as a neutral who thinks Farrell is a pit of a dick.
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@mikethesnow said in England v Australia:
England should be out of sight.
And Barnes should be put out to pasture.
He's like this character
I loved the fast show.
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Well that’s it for the season, on the paddock – now for the recriminations phase.
I see the call is out to sack Michael Cheika, who must now defend himself over the mediocre, often abysmal, performance by a group of donkeys (who draw a handsome fee for their ugly efforts). Cheika is as highly credentialed as they get in Australia – what more can someone else realistically promise? The elephant in the room is that Cheika is well protected by the most powerful faction at Club level from assassination by any one of several factions in the ARU, interstate, pop-gun pretend interstate, country rugby and the players union. He needs to be because the greatest threat to Australian rugby is from the power brokers and egos within, many otherwise unemployable - there are very few Jones, Macqueens and Cheikas who have demonstrated their capability to carve a fortune elsewhere, and who rugby needs more than they need rugby.
The players are not coached to drop the ball, to pass it to no-one, to not form a cohesive defence, to miss tackles, to get pushed around the paddock for sometimes 20 metres at a time, to lose their own throw, to not take kicks when they are on offer and to reef it downfield a whole one metre into the outstretched arms of the bloke thundering in from your right who knows that you have no idea what is around you. These are matters of individual fundamental skill and player failure to improve the limited range they offer when they first attend Wallaby training.
What have those who sit in judgement of the coach done to improve the quality of players available for selection? During the past year and during the past five years? Not much.
What are they likely to do in the next little while, other than strut their politically correct social justice stuff and modern corporate management model, including a Goth as CEO? Not much. Will they continue to turn up at the pay office to collect their directors fees? Too right they will.
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