Wallabies v France 2
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@stargazer said in Wallabies v France 2:
Also interesting:
It is, I wouldn't have guessed it was that lop sided.
The Wallabies showed signs of good structures but let down badly by individual decision making and skill execution. Particularly in the backline. Hearing backs complain about effort at the breakdown as if that was the failing would be fucking galling as a forward in the sheds.
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@stargazer said in Wallabies v France 2:
Also interesting:
Get a head start on the scoreboard, then defend for ages, make a few plays on counter, get some penalties, and then defend some more.
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@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.
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@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.
Absolutely
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@kiwimurph said in Wallabies v France 2:
@voodoo said in Wallabies v France 2:
Is it just me, or do the Wallabies not look nearly pissed off enough post-game?
I thought the same with Rennie's interview to be honest.
Perhaps a recognition they were beneficiaries of considerable luck in the first fixture?
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@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.
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@voodoo said in Wallabies v France 2:
@cgrant said in Wallabies v France 2:
If the ABs cannot beat this Wallaby team my more than 20 points, even away, then they'd have to worry for the next NH tour.
Don't get @Bones started again
Yes. Imagine what a full French team would do to the ABs if they failed to beat this poor Australian outfit by more than 20 points.
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@chris said in Wallabies v France 2:
First win for 31 years in Australia unbelievable
That was the series when Peter Fitzsimmons got targeted by the French. I don’t remember the French win but the game at Ballymore is one of the great tests and the Blanco try from the Wallaby try line where he skinned Campo, Carozza and a couple of others.
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@kiwimurph said in Wallabies v France 2:
@voodoo said in Wallabies v France 2:
Is it just me, or do the Wallabies not look nearly pissed off enough post-game?
I thought the same with Rennie's interview to be honest.
Cheika era: "hey cuzzy bros look at thus pussed-off Aussie carrying on like an igg eh? Have a chull pull bro!"
Rennie era: "Aw shut bro thus igg doesn't even care uf he wuns or not eh?!"
🤷♂️
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@cgrant said in Wallabies v France 2:
@voodoo said in Wallabies v France 2:
@cgrant said in Wallabies v France 2:
If the ABs cannot beat this Wallaby team my more than 20 points, even away, then they'd have to worry for the next NH tour.
Don't get @Bones started again
Yes. Imagine what a full French team would do to the ABs if they failed to beat this poor Australian outfit by more than 20 points.
Sorry, I meant "a full strength French team".
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Just discovered this:
*"Quade Cooper denied Australian citizenship despite playing for national rugby team New Zealand-born rugby union star Quade Cooper has been refused Australian citizenship"*Tee hee - he's officialy still all yours fellas and you're welcome to him.
Evidently the li'l fella twit-for-brainsed a letter informing him that his latest residency application had been rejected because he had failed to provide evidence that he met certain requirements, including proof that he had participated in “activities of benefit to Australia”.
Of course he failed to produce evidence of any benefit - there is none! That is seriously funny!!!
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@voodoo said in Wallabies v France 2:
@cgrant said in Wallabies v France 2:
If the ABs cannot beat this Wallaby team my more than 20 points, even away, then they'd have to worry for the next NH tour.
Don't get @Bones started again
Let's just be hopeful it's not the same France who lost to England who lost to Wales and Ireland. Or maybe not the France who lost to Scotland.
Or not the Springboks that lost to a pandemic effected lions or a British team whose best lost to a covid decimated Springboks.
No, wait, where am I?
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@cgrant said in Wallabies v France 2:
@cgrant said in Wallabies v France 2:
@voodoo said in Wallabies v France 2:
@cgrant said in Wallabies v France 2:
If the ABs cannot beat this Wallaby team my more than 20 points, even away, then they'd have to worry for the next NH tour.
Don't get @Bones started again
Yes. Imagine what a full French team would do to the ABs if they failed to beat this poor Australian outfit by more than 20 points.
Sorry, I meant "a full strength French team".
As I said, hopefully not the same thing they did to a poor England eh 😬
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Really entertaining, and well deserved win for France.
Since when did it become de rigeur to pronounce Koroibete in a Frank Spencer 'Some Mother's Do 'Ave ' Em' twang?
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@bones said in Wallabies v France 2:
@voodoo said in Wallabies v France 2:
@cgrant said in Wallabies v France 2:
If the ABs cannot beat this Wallaby team my more than 20 points, even away, then they'd have to worry for the next NH tour.
Don't get @Bones started again
Let's just be hopeful it's not the same France who lost to England who lost to Wales and Ireland. Or maybe not the France who lost to Scotland.
Or not the Springboks that lost to a pandemic effected lions or a British team whose best lost to a covid decimated Springboks.
No, wait, where am I?
Oh no, not that Scotland that also lost Wales and Ireland…
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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.
