Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas
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Great scrum by Australia at critical moment. Easy three.
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@mn5 said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@mn5 said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
I don't get why Pocock always gets rag dolled. He's built like a tank and lower to the ground. Is he really slow?
It is weird. You'd expect him to be like Nonu but he ain't.
Yeah or Mealamu. A nugget wrecking ball. He's bigger than Hooper, but Hooper runs km more than him.
Too much gym strength not enough functional strength maybe?
Must be but Pocock is such a professional in everything he does. I would have thought he'd be focusing on what will be best for rugby. It's bizarre that he can't break a single tackle, even late in a game.
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@pukunui said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@no-quarter said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@pukunui said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Haha Aussie comms going full retard. Pretty simple, you can't tackle a guy who doesn't, and never did, have the ball. I don't give a shit if you thought he was going to get it. The fact he held him down afterwards just reinforces it.
If tackling a dummy runner is now illegal than the game will be littered with penalties. Basically every backline move will result in one.
Tackling a player without the ball has always been illegal.
Oh yeah, for sure. But I also see dummy runners - I.E players that put their hands up and feign catching the ball - get tackled all the time and no penalty results. To rub out a try where it had no impact on whether the try would be scored or not is ridiculously harsh.
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Stockdale released ball there. But ref says ruck was formed.
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@derm-mccrum said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Stockdale released ball there. But ref says ruck was formed.
Yeah, he definitely released it and got back up. Should have just been play on.
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Good try by Pocock. Ireland couldn’t resist pressure.
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@pukunui said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Haha Aussie comms going full retard. Pretty simple, you can't tackle a guy who doesn't, and never did, have the ball. I don't give a shit if you thought he was going to get it. The fact he held him down afterwards just reinforces it.
But it's still bullshit. Because it is foul play you can go back however long you want, even if it is worth only a penalty. For everything else it is only two penalties. The ref plus two assistants missed the off the ball tackle at the time. As an aside, if they screwed up why is time not put back on the clock?
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@derm-mccrum said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Good try by Pocock. Ireland couldn’t resist pressure.
Tongan Thor helped with some interference there.
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Conversion over. That’s the game I reckon. Don’t think Ireland have the game plan to come back here.
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@no-quarter said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@derm-mccrum said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Stockdale released ball there. But ref says ruck was formed.
Yeah, he definitely released it and got back up. Should have just been play on.
I didn't think so. The ruck had formed around him, and by the time he stood up he was in an offside position. If he wanted to play the ball he needed to get onside first.
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@no-quarter said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@derm-mccrum said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Stockdale released ball there. But ref says ruck was formed.
Yeah, he definitely released it and got back up. Should have just been play on.
Ref explained it well. If the ruck is formed around you (which it clearly was) you can't get up and play it again. Stockdale was lucky to stay on the field. Aussies would have scored if he didn't infringe.
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More sneaky stuff by Wallaby hands there.
Murray needs to shut up though.
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@derm-mccrum said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
More sneaky stuff by Wallaby hands there.
Murray needs to shut up though.
It was, but the Irish foot kicked it out of his hands.
Good gamesmanship.
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@hydro11 said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@no-quarter said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@derm-mccrum said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Stockdale released ball there. But ref says ruck was formed.
Yeah, he definitely released it and got back up. Should have just been play on.
Ref explained it well. If the ruck is formed around you (which it clearly was) you can't get up and play it again. Stockdale was lucky to stay on the field. Aussies would have scored if he didn't infringe.
Fair enough, have seen players get away with that but makes sense.
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@derm-mccrum said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Glad it’s an SA ref making that call.
It was a Kiwi TMO.
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@nta said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
@derm-mccrum said in Wallabies v Ireland #1 - Brisvegas:
Glad it’s an SA ref making that call.
It was a Kiwi TMO.
Even better. 😏
