RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D)
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Genia's interview very impressive. He's a really good bloke
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That second half way great, way to force your way back into the game. Muzza's psychic energy was frothing tonight!
Oz looked so much better with the halves replacements. Although Genia did some great work around the ruck.
Reffing, seemed pretty fickle at times. Not keen on how often the TMO is trying to get into the game. Set a pretty low (high) bar after that first call.
Thought Wales were lucky to not get a yellow for penalties on their line. When two-dads got his try there was a welshman clearly playing the ball on the ground. And the first 2nd half try for Oz weren't Wales on their 3rd penalty? If Oz don't score is a man off for 10 a better deal? Bird in the hand I guess 😁
Great watch!!
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World Rugby have announced that Australian coach Michael Cheika is coach of the year.
“We know they lost against Wales but Aussie did better than expected, so we feel it deserves a reward.”
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There's a bee's dick in that intercept try. And we never looked at it.
I'm with the Aussies, the TMO protocol is completely broken. Fuck them off, they are good for fuck all. Skeen is the villain today.
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And I hate myself for talking about refs after a game of that quality.
How many kms did AWJ run today?
Wales could do with a carrier in their back row.
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On the flipside: Toomua got greedy with the last kick for touch. Another 5 metres back and we were still just as threatening.
Had our chances despite a reportedly shit first half, and didn't take them.
England will give us a QF exit, and I can get on with enjoying the other games.
🤔
OR we beat England and I laugh.
Either way: expectations met or exceeded
(The part of my brain that runs a suburban club secretly hoped we would win the whole thing - makes recruiting the kiddies much easier)
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If I'm cheika I drop Pocock, genia to the bench, and Foley. Otherwise that team went pretty well, and they ran a good Welsh team very close.
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@sparky said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
F**king great test.
Add this to Booboo's collection of Rugby World Cup Classics.
On the list...
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@mariner4life said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
And I hate myself for talking about refs after a game of that quality.
How many kms did AWJ run today?
Wales could do with a carrier in their back row.
They are missing Faletau
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Ref was good.
TMO was bad.
But, 2 tmo interventions and no one got a card, I'll take that.
Rest of it all washes up pretty much even. No howlers. Biggest decision - Wales could have got binned for repeated fouls on their line, but Aus scored anyway, but another 7 or 8 mins could have been left on a hypothetical yellow.
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@Rembrandt said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Just a small shout-out to technology. I'm in an airplane somewhere over the Ta$man sea and I'm able to watch this live via kayo and a vpn. Bloody outstanding times that we live in right now.
Just a follow-up to this. Although ok for the majority of the game (standard def, small buffering every 3 or so mins). Come the last 30 mins it slowed considerably, ended up pausing it and finishing it while waiting for my bags. So a nice-to-have but don't rely on it for the big matches.
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@NTA said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Had our chances despite a reportedly shit first half,
Reportedly?
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I don't blame Poite - he had one of his less crap games today - but the TMO.
Big problem for me is the inconsistency between games. The penalty against Adams would have been a card in another game while it would have been play-on in another game
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@Rembrandt said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@Rembrandt said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Just a small shout-out to technology. I'm in an airplane somewhere over the Ta$man sea and I'm able to watch this live via kayo and a vpn. Bloody outstanding times that we live in right now.
Just a follow-up to this. Although ok for the majority of the game (standard def, small buffering every 3 or so mins). Come the last 30 mins it slowed considerably, ended up pausing it and finishing it while waiting for my bags. So a nice-to-have but don't rely on it for the big matches.
F@*ken spark!
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It's not out of the realms that we could meet again in the final.
Stranger things have happened.
NZ the best team on matches played and look odds on to retain the trophy, but a shit TMO led red card and even the ABs won't be able to beat England, Aus, SA or Wales with 14 men.
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@MiketheSnow I'd back us to beat Aus or Wales still. Be pretty dicey against SA or England though...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Big problem for me is the inconsistency between games. The penalty against Adams would have been a card in another game while it would have been play-on in another game
Has it ever been any different? Reffing back in the glory days was a lottery at the best of times.
I’m a little more pragmatic in my older age and the way I look at it is that no two rugby games or situations on the field are the same, so comparing incidents between games is rarely a useful experience in my view.
I know it’s frustrating and fans have a platform to air those frustrations these days other than to those in their living room or pub.
