SR Australia Round 3: Waratahs v Western Force

[Stargazer]

Waratahs
1 Te Tera Faulkner, 2. David Porecki, 3. Harry Johnson-Holmes, 4. Sam Caird, 5. Hugh Sinclair, 6. Lachlan Swinton, 7. Carlo Tizzano, 8. Jack Dempsey, 9. Jack Grant, 10. Will Harrison, 11. James Ramm, 12. Tepai Moeroa, 13. Alex Newsome (c), 14. Jack Maddocks, 15. Mark Nawaqanitawase

Reserves:
16 Tom Horton, 17 Sio Tatola, 18 Chris Talakai, 19 Jack Whetton, 20 Jeremy Williams, 21 Henry Robertson, 22 Tane Edmed, 23 Triston Reilly

NSW Rugby  /  Mar 2, 2021

Waratahs name team for Western Force clash

The NSW Waratahs host their first home match of the season, taking on the Western Force at one of the country’s premier venues, Bankwest Stadium.

Western Force
1 Tom Robertson, 2. Feleti Kaitu'u, 3. Santiago Medrano, 4. Jeremy Thrush, 5. Fergus Lee-Warner, 6. Tim Anstee, 7. Kane Koteka, 8. Brynard Stander (c), 9. Tomas Cubelli, 10. Jake McIntyre, 11. Toni Pulu, 12. Richard Kahui, 13. Tevita Kuridrani, 14. Byron Ralston, 15. Rob Kearney

Reserves:
16 Andrew Ready, 17. Angus Wagner, 18. Greg Holmes, 19. Ryan McCauley, 20. Tomas Lezana, 21. Ian Prior, 22. Domingo Miotti, 23. Marcel Brache

https://www.westernforce.com.au/stander-to-lead-the-force-against-waratahs/

[NTA]

Angus Bell injured I assume.
Horton and Porecki swap.
Sinclair to lock in place of Whetton - our scrum will get munted.
Nawaqanitawase to fullback is interesting - given how shit he was on the wing.
Think that's all the changes...

Force are a good chance to win here.

[Stargazer]

@nta According to that Waratahs media release, Angus Bell has an ankle injury.

[Bovidae]

What has happened to Tiaan Tauakipulu? Is he injured or not in the mix at the moment?

[NTA]

@stargazer I seem to remember him hobbling off at some stage during The Carnage

[Stargazer]

@bovidae I can't answer that, other than that he's in the Waratahs' squad and he has been named in the group of players for the first Junior Wallabies (U20) camp that will start on 14 March.

[KiwiMurph]

The other problem the Tahs have here is the Force have started their stronger halves pairing of Cubelli and McIntyre. Prior and Lance were holding them back.

Nawaqanitawase went very well last preseason (2020) at fullback - so it's worth a shot even if it does have a changing deck chairs on the Titanic feel about it.

[KiwiMurph]

[Duluth]

Tahs maul over from a penalty

They’ve looked good in the first 5mins of all their games

[NTA]

@duluth said in SR Australia Round 3: Waratahs v Western Force:

Tahs maul over from a penalty

They’ve looked good in the first 5mins of all their games

Just gotta nail the last 75

[KiwiMurph]

Force seriously lack game breakers.

Which you could copy and paste for almost all of their seasons.

[NTA]

Love spidercam

[NTA]

Both sides not the best on attack but lot of continuity regardless

[Duluth]

Tahs should tire. Force at 66% possession. Tizzano already has 19 tackles

[NTA]

And Nawaqanitawase gets a crank after failing to secure the ball.

Ramm could have given that

[NTA]

Hold the fucking ball.

[Tim]

Clear red. Idiot.

[Duluth]

Well that was dumb. A punch will always be a red

Tahs favourites now. They’ll probably fuck it up

[Duluth]

Well done Kahui

[Tim]

@duluth No release from Force 10 though. Can't roll to protect ball.