Wallabies v France 2
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The Wobs were seriously outmuscled in the forwards there. That Wobs 6 was great in Super rugby but looks like a schoolboy at test level. The meters gained up the middle by France was almost criminal. Powderpuff tight 5 from the Wobs. So much for the Rennie influence I was going on about in another thread. As you were, nothing to see here.
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@old-samurai-jack shit I forgot to mention the imagine if Rennie was in charge of the ABs thing.
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I was very impressed with the France forwards. Accurate tackling with power. Some big units there and this team is building very nicely.
Something very non-traditional for them was the discipline. Sure they occasionally got it wrong but you could see that painting the right picture to the ref was in their minds.
These guys are going to be very strong at home and don’t look like they are the old “never know what you will get” France
I thought that the reffing was generally very good but didn’t understand the “flexibility” offered to Oz with their continued infringement when under pressure in the red zone. Killing the ball and offside play when a metre out seriously hampers the chances of a try. -
Until last night the only rugby i had watched all year was the first 50-odd minutes of the Super Rugby TT final (and taht was on a small screen with no volume, through a boozed up haze, while simultaneously punting on harness racing and asian gallops), but that test reminded me why i love this game.
I know it's not great for the purists, or if you actually are supporting one of the teams, but errors make good rugby. Errors offer up opportunity, and when both teams are willing to have a crack at that opportunity, it makes for a spectacle.
What i saw was a young Aussie team with deficiencies in key areas having a real fucking go. You can't fault their endeavor, just their execution let them down at precisely the wrong time. Veletini was bloody good i thought, made repeated dents in the defense and never stopped throwing himself at the French. With the ball the Aussie forwards had a heap of vigour, problem was they couldn't muscle up on defense. And their ruck work was very ordinary. That little 2nd pop pass really is more miss than hit. They played most of the rugby, but could never make it count on the scoreboard. They were still full of running at the end too.
The French were pretty good too. Not much on attack outside of some eye catching counter. it was route 1 football and it was often brutally effective. The hooker had approximately 58 pick-and-goes, the 7 was in to everything, and i was impressed with the work of the skipper at #8. The fullback looked fucking classy as well.
Short turn around to the final test will be interesting. World Cup pool-of-death sort of stuff.
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@mariner4life said in Wallabies v France 2:
until last night the only rugby i had watched all year was the first 50-odd minutes of the Super Rugby TT final (and taht was on a small screen with no volume, through a boozed up haze, while simultaneously punting on harness racing and asian gallops), but that test reminded me why i love this game.
I know it's not great for the purists, or if you actually are supporting one of the teams, but errors make good rugby. Errors offer up opportunity, and when both teams are willing to have a crack at that opportunity, it makes for a spectacle.
What i saw was a young Aussie team with deficiencies in key areas having a real fucking go. You can't fault their endeavor, just their execution let them down at precisely the wrong time. Veletini was bloody good i thought, made repeated dents in the defense and never stopped throwing himself at the French. With the ball the Aussie forwards had a heap of vigour, problem was they couldn't muscle up on defense. And their ruck work was very ordinary. That little 2nd pop pass really is more miss than hit. They played most of the rugby, but could never make it count on the scoreboard. They were still full of running at the end too.
The French were pretty good too. Not much on attack outside of some eye catching counter. it was route 1 football and it was often brutally effective. The hooker had approximately 58 pick-and-goes, the 7 was in to everything, and i was impressed with the work of the skipper at #8. The fullback looked fucking classy as well.
Short turn around to the final test will be interesting. World Cup pool-of-death sort of stuff.
It's very rare for that my attention is held by a test between neutral teams, with nothing on the line, but yesterday you couldn't really stop watching, because you knew something was going to happen and that is precisely because both teams set out to play - neither were negative despite having different styles. I loved it.
And France won, which I was happy about as now the next test will be fun too.
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@mariner4life Cold light of day. The effort is there and there were actually marginal improvements across the board (except Wright). But god damn, as a Wallaby fan that is so hard to watch. The number of ridiculous, often unforced errors is mind numbing.
We could be perched on their 5 metre line and you still feel like they are on the edge of conceding a try. It's fucked.
I can appreciate a tight series (the last series with Ireland was fantastic) but forgive me for pining for the days when we would put a second string touring French side away with ease. Very good chance this team ends as wooden spooners come RC.
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I like our guys, they try hard and you can't be too disappointed with last night. It was a really fun game to watch.
But they just lack that class edge to make it at international level. Hard to blame one or two guys. We just can't break the line, or make those big game-changing plays when we need to.
They are improving and will hopefully continue to improve. But it's not a world beating team and I suggest it never will be.
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@mariner4life said in Wallabies v France 2:
Until last night the only rugby i had watched all year was the first 50-odd minutes of the Super Rugby TT final (and taht was on a small screen with no volume, through a boozed up haze, while simultaneously punting on harness racing and asian gallops), but that test reminded me why i love this game.
I know it's not great for the purists, or if you actually are supporting one of the teams, but errors make good rugby. Errors offer up opportunity, and when both teams are willing to have a crack at that opportunity, it makes for a spectacle.
What i saw was a young Aussie team with deficiencies in key areas having a real fucking go. You can't fault their endeavor, just their execution let them down at precisely the wrong time. Veletini was bloody good i thought, made repeated dents in the defense and never stopped throwing himself at the French. With the ball the Aussie forwards had a heap of vigour, problem was they couldn't muscle up on defense. And their ruck work was very ordinary. That little 2nd pop pass really is more miss than hit. They played most of the rugby, but could never make it count on the scoreboard. They were still full of running at the end too.
The French were pretty good too. Not much on attack outside of some eye catching counter. it was route 1 football and it was often brutally effective. The hooker had approximately 58 pick-and-goes, the 7 was in to everything, and i was impressed with the work of the skipper at #8. The fullback looked fucking classy as well.
Short turn around to the final test will be interesting. World Cup pool-of-death sort of stuff.
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@act-crusader said in Wallabies v France 2:
@bovidae said in Wallabies v France 2:
@act-crusader said in Wallabies v France 2:
I hate this crap at the back of a ruck when a halfback has his hands on the ball for a good 5-6 seconds and the defence can’t do anything.
I noticed in the Sharks-Lions game Peyper said to the halfbacks early in the game that if you roll/slide the ball back from a ruck with your hands it is out. I wish all refs did that.
A proper ref for starters! Good to hear and I hope there is a directive put out by World Rugby. I can tolerate the rolling it back with the foot to keep the ball in the ruck, but the multiple rolling it back and placing it under a boot lace, is taking the proverbial.
Not saying I had breakfast at the same cafe as Nigel Owens or anything, but...
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@booboo said in Wallabies v France 2:
@mariner4life said in Wallabies v France 2:
Until last night the only rugby i had watched all year was the first 50-odd minutes of the Super Rugby TT final (and taht was on a small screen with no volume, through a boozed up haze, while simultaneously punting on harness racing and asian gallops), but that test reminded me why i love this game.
I know it's not great for the purists, or if you actually are supporting one of the teams, but errors make good rugby. Errors offer up opportunity, and when both teams are willing to have a crack at that opportunity, it makes for a spectacle.
What i saw was a young Aussie team with deficiencies in key areas having a real fucking go. You can't fault their endeavor, just their execution let them down at precisely the wrong time. Veletini was bloody good i thought, made repeated dents in the defense and never stopped throwing himself at the French. With the ball the Aussie forwards had a heap of vigour, problem was they couldn't muscle up on defense. And their ruck work was very ordinary. That little 2nd pop pass really is more miss than hit. They played most of the rugby, but could never make it count on the scoreboard. They were still full of running at the end too.
The French were pretty good too. Not much on attack outside of some eye catching counter. it was route 1 football and it was often brutally effective. The hooker had approximately 58 pick-and-goes, the 7 was in to everything, and i was impressed with the work of the skipper at #8. The fullback looked fucking classy as well.
Short turn around to the final test will be interesting. World Cup pool-of-death sort of stuff.
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Great. Cements the evidence that a certain poster doesn't even watch rugby but has lots to say about it
