Wallabies v Springboks
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@NTA said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@Unco Clearly you haven't spoken with any Queenslanders. Quade is our best 10
Sometimes it's easier to ignore mariner.
Would a backline of Genia, Foley, Hodge, Kerevi, Kuridrani, Folau, Cooper be out of the question? Quaaade can't tackle for shit and needs more space to work with, soooo...
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@Unco said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@NTA said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@Unco Clearly you haven't spoken with any Queenslanders. Quade is our best 10
Sometimes it's easier to ignore mariner.
Would a backline of Genia, Foley, Hodge, Kerevi, Kuridrani, Folau, Cooper be out of the question? Quaaade can't tackle for shit and needs more space to work with, soooo...
Don't mind that.
This talk of Folau at centre kind of ignores the fact that if he "needs to get his hands on the ball" he can bloody well join at any phase.
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Cheika has lost his mind
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@mariner4life said in Wallabies v Springboks:
Cheika has lost his mind
You mean he found it after he lost it last time?
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@Stargazer said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@mariner4life said in Wallabies v Springboks:
Cheika has lost his mind
You mean he found it after he lost it last time?
Good point. 8 months ago I was convinced. I'm really not now.
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I'll be hoping for a SA win here. Can't believe Cheika stuck with the Foley at 12 selection.
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@Billy-Tell said in Wallabies v Springboks:
I'll be hoping for a SA win here.
As long as the Boks are humble in victory.
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@pukunui said in Wallabies v Springboks:
Lets just hope one of the wobblies gets cited for eye gouging. The meltdown would be spectacular. They might even quit rugby.
Actually I'm really hoping one of the Argies gets done for eye-gouging for waving his hands in the general direction of Kieran Read.
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@Unco said in Wallabies v Springboks:
Are they that shallow in the centres with Gits and Toomua out or is Chieka taking some coaching lessons from Toddy playing his best 10 at 12?
And Beale who was probably playing his best rugby before he got injured.
But Foley's form is poor and Quade is largely an unknown quantity at this point in terms of his international form.
But the biggest problem isn't necessarily with the players but the structure and gameplan or lack thereof.
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@NTA said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@Unco Clearly you haven't spoken with any Queenslanders. Quade is our best 10
My second thread on the New & Improved Fern and already I am being entertained.
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@NTA said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@Unco said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@NTA said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@Unco Clearly you haven't spoken with any Queenslanders. Quade is our best 10
Sometimes it's easier to ignore mariner.
Would a backline of Genia, Foley, Hodge, Kerevi, Kuridrani, Folau, Cooper be out of the question? Quaaade can't tackle for shit and needs more space to work with, soooo...
Don't mind that.
This talk of Folau at centre kind of ignores the fact that if he "needs to get his hands on the ball" he can bloody well join at any phase.
Yeah, let’s bring another bloke up into the mid field who doesn’t fare so well in that tackling thingy (and in the concept of passing accurately and early) and we’ll have three of ‘em all lined up like ducks in a row for the Springboks to run at and rediscover their best form.
It could get horribly crowded in that hidey hole out on the wing during extended defensive periods.
As talented as Folau is it is pretty clear they never showed him footage of Chris Latham chiming in from the back to make incisive runs. If he had the ability it would have been sighted already.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Wallabies v Springboks:
@Unco said in Wallabies v Springboks:
Are they that shallow in the centres with Gits and Toomua out or is Chieka taking some coaching lessons from Toddy playing his best 10 at 12?
And Beale who was probably playing his best rugby before he got injured.
But Foley's form is poor and Quade is largely an unknown quantity at this point in terms of his international form.
But the biggest problem isn't necessarily with the players but the structure and gameplan or lack thereof.
I dunno - three coaches and pretty much the same players (look at the number of caps dished out above) and still there is no elephant in the room?
What curious instruction from the coach had the Wallaby No 10 (heh, heh) doing star jumps then tripping over while Leinart-Brown passed to Dagg for a try a minute into the second match at Wellington? Why did Cheika then direct the same No 10 (heh, heh) to pirouette, pat Dagg on the back on the way through and fall over again as he scored his second try 21 minutes later?
They have long found it impossible to progress up the scale from "M" for mediocre!
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@mariner4life
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That backline is um, would like to say exciting but..
Unless they can let the genie out of the old age bottle, give more space to the 10 (as lately he is easily cooped up), somehow extract finesse from that hodge podge on the wing, correct what has been a tactical folly at 12, stop the greedy at 13, cut out the petty patticakes on the other wing (plus hide this Nordic laptop from the 10) and allow the fullback to follow an actually planned backline move, it might be competitive. Looks like a full on berocca advert for Mr Cheika. -
I love Springboks vs Wallabies tests,, rugby test matches I can relaxedly watch. Like the Springboks players & team in general more (as how they come across in the media), so will be rooting for them. And that's despite their racist transformation crap. And Cheika just irks me somehow.
