Japan v Wallabies
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Ref pretty poor for both sides. Japan spent half the time offside and Aussie seemed to get the rub of the green a bit too much.
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@bones I thought he was doing a headstand while stealing it.
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@gt12 said in Japan v Wallabies:
@bones said in Japan v Wallabies:
I'm watching via alternative means and have some amateur (I think) yank commentators. Anyone else got them? Hilariously awful.
I gave up watching, they were that horrible.
The main guy has obviously been watching rugby for only this year. So many bad takes on plays and replays. Funny listening to him try to decide if the aus player was out or a try had been scored... when they were looking at the shoulder charge.
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@taniwharugby said in Japan v Wallabies:
@bones I thought he was doing a headstand while stealing it.
Don't be jealous of his hair.
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@akan004 said in Japan v Wallabies:
Seems like Williams is only looking at infringements from Japan.
Except every single Japanese player offside and the Japanese dummy runners in midfield metres ahead of the ball and taking defenders out of play.
Japan could have seen a yellow before halftime but Williams and his assistants were utterly ignoring the last feet, and Australia had most of the ball.
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We certainly didn't make it easy, but then having Kerevi and Koroibete is a much easier team to run. Paisami hasn't played any footy in a month, and needs time. Wright I just don't rate.
Intercept tries. FFS. Short passing in their half, we win easily. Long passes in our own? Nup.
Throw in the first half silly offloads and we made Japan look a lot more competitive than they ultimately were.
Our set piece was better but we lost concentration at critical times. Thankfully the forwards stepped up for the two tries that mattered - short passing, or no passing. Easy money.
Andrew Kellaway has 9 Tests now, with 5 tries, and probably less errors than the difference. He just seems to have time to sum up the situation and provide the best option. Doesn't transfer pressure. Does the little things right.
Petaia was rock solid under the restarts too, which cannot be said of our forwards on the restart.
Our back row was largely nullified on defence as Japan targeted almost everyone bar them with their attacking runs.
We got the win playing shit for long periods. James Slipper was interviewed via Zoom (modern!) at the end of the game and he made the simple point: "We can take confidence in our game plan. When we do it well; when we look after the ball and kick with a good strategy we can put teams under a lot of pressure. When we go away from that , we put ourselves under pressure"
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@sparky said in Japan v Wallabies:
Time to draft Japan into The Rugby Championship.
They were great. They'd fit perfectly to counter the slow, physical play of the Boks and Pumas.
I'm happy with the win. Scrappy at times but the Blossoms came to play and we struggled to adapt to their speed in attack.
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@sparky said in Japan v Wallabies:
The All Blacks really should be playing Japan at least once a year.
Another post match comment from Slipper, when asked about the guys swapping jerseys with Japan: "this is the first time I've played them"
He's got over 100 tests!
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@barbarian said in Japan v Wallabies:
@sparky said in Japan v Wallabies:
Time to draft Japan into The Rugby Championship.
They were great. They'd fit perfectly to counter the slow, physical play of the Boks and Pumas.
I'm happy with the win. Scrappy at times but the Blossoms came to play and we struggled to adapt to their speed in attack.
Tony Brown has to be a part of the next AB set-up. I can't believe that Joseph, he and Rennie couldn't put themselves together as a team last time.
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@gt12 said in Japan v Wallabies:
@barbarian said in Japan v Wallabies:
@sparky said in Japan v Wallabies:
Time to draft Japan into The Rugby Championship.
They were great. They'd fit perfectly to counter the slow, physical play of the Boks and Pumas.
I'm happy with the win. Scrappy at times but the Blossoms came to play and we struggled to adapt to their speed in attack.
Tony Brown has to be a part of the next AB set-up. I can't believe that Joseph, he and Rennie couldn't put themselves together as a team last time.
Who would be the head coach, because I couldn’t see Joseph or Rennie being an assistant…
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@act-crusader said in Japan v Wallabies:
@gt12 said in Japan v Wallabies:
@barbarian said in Japan v Wallabies:
@sparky said in Japan v Wallabies:
Time to draft Japan into The Rugby Championship.
They were great. They'd fit perfectly to counter the slow, physical play of the Boks and Pumas.
I'm happy with the win. Scrappy at times but the Blossoms came to play and we struggled to adapt to their speed in attack.
Tony Brown has to be a part of the next AB set-up. I can't believe that Joseph, he and Rennie couldn't put themselves together as a team last time.
Who would be the head coach, because I couldn’t see Joseph or Rennie being an assistant…
I imagine that was the issue, and none of them ended up in the running. We could sub in Razor and have the same problem.
Some are at their best as Assistants at that level though.
I can’t solve that issue, but I do know that to displace the set assistants you’d need a super group.
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In any case, reckon it is time Japan joined us in TRC. Can only help their development.
At the same time, looking at this morning's game: USA and Canada need their shit sorted out, because South America is overtaking them despite a slower start.
MLR isn't a bad start, but it is flooded with crap internationals like Paddy Ryan, so it isn't going to bring through new guys.
