RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia
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@NTA I thought the play of the Wallabies in first half was very good, but it showed that they lacked a bit of class and showed some inexperience to finish off the opportunities they created.
Wales didn’t do much wrong or do anything earth shattering either, but importantly kept the scoreboard ticking over.
Come the second half and the wheels defensively really fell off for the Wallabies. Some strange alignments and then a lack of urgency (or fitness) to reset and get back into position.
Wales made them pay and also put in some very nice interplay to once again keep the scoreboard ticking over.
An excellent win for Wales in a pressure must win game.
Looking a little into the future, the Lions build up for Eddie is going to be a pretty rocky road ahead…
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@Mattasaurus said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Its now Super rugby's fault ..... I for one partially agree - Aussie simply has too many teams -- spreads the talent to thinly ...
I feel for Hooper standing there... poor bastard - but he spoken well and appears to be a solid bloke - he really must have taken a big steamy dump in Eddies weet a bix....
And what happens in week 2 when Hooper gets busted / has a meltdown
Correct decision to leave him at home
For his own sake
Nah, I disagree Mike - his experience would have been invaluable as a reserve or squaddie. His head is fine, he wouldn't have put his hand up for selection if it wasn't - and it wasn't because of his injury that he got left behind, it was Eddie being stubborn and wanting to carve his own path. Massive error of judgement from Eddie, and his interview blaming Hooper and others for perceived poor culture was an absolute disgrace.
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@NTA said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Anyway, I'm not done being a masochist so I'll go watch the second half.
Yep. Pretty much what everyone said: we let Wales pretty much do what they want. Which wasn't much, but when you're 100% passive these things will happen.
@ACT-Crusader said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Come the second half and the wheels defensively really fell off for the Wallabies. Some strange alignments and then a lack of urgency (or fitness)
I'm told that the training load was anywhere up to 50% higher than other teams. Make of that what you will, but we just did not have any energy in that second half.
We looked leaderless, and Porecki has to take some of that blame, but there were other senior players out there that could have stepped up as well. I don't even know who was captain when he went off.
We looked like we were on the plane after Wales' second try - and where the fuck was Kellaway or Tate to take that kick through?
I'll say it: we were defending like fucking leaguies. Everything about our alignment showed that.
At one stage Kellaway had to chase a kick, and after he got up he was frantically waving for someone to drop back. Why? That shit should be organic.
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@MiketheSnow I don’t expect many to agree with me - it’s why I posted it.
Feel free to rebut my points with reasons, maybe I’ll find I agree.
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@BerniesCorner said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Another Kiwi Welshman starring in red this time
Why have we struggled?It’s not about you ffs
Got me beat why we come into it as well, it's Wales/Aus match!
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@MajorRage said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@MiketheSnow I don’t expect many to agree with me - it’s why I posted it.
Feel free to rebut my points with reasons, maybe I’ll find I agree.
Unable to take advantage/ make the necessary changes against a 14-man England
Got absolutely smashed
That’s poor coaching, and not someone I would be pinning my hopes on
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Here's a shit take
Yeah crazy stuff, OK to go for a reset but you still need some experience, even if they are not in the top 23
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Maybe it's my failing memory but doesn't Eddie have a reputation for flogging his players with training?
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@nostrildamus said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Maybe it's my failing memory but doesn't Eddie have a reputation for flogging his players with training?
Yeah but so does Gatland
'The places we went there you won't experience in a test match'
More than 12 years after details of their brutal nature first emerged, Warren Gatland’s famous boot camps are still getting results.
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Yeah, Gatland's fitness training is notoriously tough, and it has shown - in a good way. Wales have won a lot of matches during his tenure(s) by finishing stronger in the last 20.
Perhaps he's better than Eddie at judging the recovery needed before match day. Or maybe better at the man management needed to get the players to accept the pain as a good thing because of the rewards.
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Here's a shit take
Wow.
This was apparently written with no irony:
"If Jones wanted to protect his job, he would have rolled out the same tried and tested and failed international players who between 2016 and Jones taking over had won just 42 per cent of Tests."
42% you say? Shocking.
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@MiketheSnow That what was you took exception to?
As a parallel, Gatland has coached Wales to plenty of shockers - probably more than any other coach in the history of top level rugby. But he's also coached them to some fantastic times.
Argentina were absolute shithouse vs England, no question. And didn't look a huge amount better vs Samoa. But they've had some good results as well under Chieka.
If they were to get him, it could be a resurgence or it could be a second, awful, roll of the dice. I'd put money on the former, but I could well be wrong. I've got fuck all right this world cup, but surely that form has to change at some point ...
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Here's a shit take
As somebody who wrote above in defence of Eddie, I agree that is a shit take.
He should be celebrated? Good god.
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@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@antipodean said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Here's a shit take
Wow.
This was apparently written with no irony:
"If Jones wanted to protect his job, he would have rolled out the same tried and tested and failed international players who between 2016 and Jones taking over had won just 42 per cent of Tests."
42% you say? Shocking.
Is this actually real or one of those satirical sites ?
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I think she decided what she was going to write before the tournament, and them just pushed on regardless of what happened in France.
The narrative of Eddie selflessly sacrificing the short-term easy wins in favour of bringing through the next generation was a little more credible before they were irreparably scarred by being part of the worst Wallabies ever
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@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
I think she decided what she was going to write before the tournament, and them just pushed on regardless of what happened in France.
The narrative of Eddie selflessly sacrificing the short-term easy wins in favour of bringing through the next generation was a little more credible before they were irreparably scarred by being part of the worst Wallabies ever
Christy is a bloke judging by the picture ( admittedly this can be dangerous in this day and age )
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@NTA said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
We looked like we were on the plane after Wales' second try - and where the fuck was Kellaway or Tate to take that kick through?
I remember that and wondered where the hell the fullback was at the time so just rewatched it. Kellaway is moving back and forth, too many Wallabies cycle to their right to cover, and Tate and Kellaway are covering the right hand side.
The communication for Wales to identify that was very good. If I was Nawheelbarrow, I'd be asking Tate what he was doing miles away from the rucks in case of a turnover and Kellaway on the wing.
