Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November
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It’s unfortunate that Akira had to go off. He was looking strong. He’ll get another chance.
But anyone thinking he should’ve stayed on ahead of Ardie in a RC scenario when he is seen as a leader in the side is a little naive.
Well done to Akira. Make sure you give your Blues team mate heaps for that RC!
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@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November:
It’s unfortunate that Akira had to go off. He was looking strong. He’ll get another chance.
But anyone thinking he should’ve stayed on ahead of Ardie in a RC scenario when he is seen as a leader in the side is a little naive.
Well done to Akira. Make sure you give your Blues team mate heaps for that RC!
In hindsight should have yanked Reece and kept all the forwards out there
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Not happy at all. We saw last week what a poor side Australia are and tonight we lowered to their level. So much dumb thinking and poor defence.
Think we would have been done by South Africa, England and France tonight. Probably Ireland too.
ABs no consistent enough, still not the sum of their parts.
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I expected Australia to be much better from last week and us to be worse.
Hopefully the coaches admit to themselves that the bad performance was of our making and future selections reflect that.
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Poor selection unless you think Foster’s intention was to trial some of his dirt trackers in a dead rubber. But the game lost all its shape after the red card and the forward leaders in the pack - Cane and Whitelock - look like they had been played out. TJP was appalling. Slow and cumbersome. Beauden Barrett looked like his head was somewhere else. And the Laumape experiment failed - he was lost out there. As for Reece -surely that was his last game in black?
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It’s already been mentioned, but our leaders need a kick up the arse for allowing and heavily contributing to such helter skelter, brain dead play.
And the coaches can cop some blame for leaving TJP & Reece on the field for so long when they were completely shitting the bed.
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Ah nice - they just showed some footage of Cane presenting Slipper with a bottle of plonk for his 100th.
Shame Slipper got injured early. However, it gave Angus Bell a shot and he looked pretty good.
What is often missing in the discussion about scrums is the second row, and it must be said for his many, Many, MANY faults, Simmons knows how to run the power plant in the dark places.
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@sparky said in Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November:
Not happy at all. We saw last week what a poor side Australia are and tonight we lowered to their level. So much dumb thinking and poor defence.
Think we would have been done by South Africa, England and France tonight. Probably Ireland too.
ABs no consistent enough, still not the sum of their parts.
They tried a few new players (compared to last week) and mostly it didn't come off. But Aust were also much better this week.
But hooker, lock 6 HB 1st 5 2nd 5 definitely one wing were a step down from last week. In some cases the diff was huge
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@Kirwan said in Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November:
So Rennie has a win and a draw against us now, not the worst start from an Aussie coach.
And the largest defeat by the ABs in Wallaby history.
Quite the roller coaster start for Dave.
