Tri Nations Rugby

Wallabies look to be in big trouble today.

You would like to think that touch judges actually knew the rules of rugby.....

PearlJ wrote:You would like to think that touch judges actually knew the rules of rugby.....

Sooking already?

taipan wrote:

PearlJ wrote:You would like to think that touch judges actually knew the rules of rugby.....

Sooking already?

Maybe. But it's still pretty bad when th touch judge gets that wrong.

PearlJ wrote:

taipan wrote:

PearlJ wrote:You would like to think that touch judges actually knew the rules of rugby.....

Sooking already?

Maybe. But it's still pretty bad when th touch judge gets that wrong.

Must have missed that one.

But you can't blame the touch judge for your lineout disintegrating.

taipan wrote:

PearlJ wrote:

taipan wrote:

PearlJ wrote:You would like to think that touch judges actually knew the rules of rugby.....

Sooking already?

Maybe. But it's still pretty bad when th touch judge gets that wrong.

Must have missed that one.

But you can't blame the touch judge for your lineout disintegrating.

No. Nor can I blame him for our abject performance.

But it was a basic decision that he farked up giving the ABs a great field position.

34-10 with 15 minutes to go.

Smith lucky to stay on the field.

And Aus concede the bonus point in extra time

taipan wrote:And Aus concede the bonus point in extra time

That was the icing on the farking cake. An inept match ruined by inept play after the bell. Shortest renaissance ever.

Still pissed off at that last try. It was like Graeme Henry was coaching us it was so shit.

JGK wrote:Still pissed off at that last try. It was like Graeme Henry was coaching us it was so shit.

So am I, it might still hurt the Boks in the long run.

Nice comeback from the ABs.

Ugh. Talk about a systematic and surgical dismantling of an opposition. The ABs were just awesome. We were never in it from about the 10 minute mark.

Well played NZ. Eden Park is truly a fortress.

When was the last time Australia won a test against half decent opposition overseas?

Henry wrote:When was the last time Australia won a test against half decent opposition overseas?

Haven't beaten a TriNations team away in ages (although we should have beaten the Saffies last year in Cape Town).

Can't recall our last couple of tours to England and France.

JGK wrote:

Henry wrote:When was the last time Australia won a test against half decent opposition overseas?

Haven't beaten a TriNations team away in ages (although we should have beaten the Saffies last year in Cape Town).

Can't recall our last couple of tours to England and France.

I am pretty sure we have had the wood over England in the past few tours.

I said half decent teams....

England are only decent in world cup quarter finals......

The away record is absolute rubbish. They've lost something like their last 13 away games. Won't be surprised if it's more.

The Wallabies were simply not good enough, and didn't look fired up enough. I wasn't expecting a win at Eden Park, but I wasn't expecting a flogging of that magnitude, and really, a side that for most of the match just didn't look competitive all over the park.

The win in Sydney was managed despite the Kiwis having (IIRC) 60+% of the possession. That was a game plan destined not to work twice.

How much of the game was ...

1) The All Blacks being "awesome" ...

2) The Wallabies being "shit"...

?

50/50, embee.

Time to play the 'food-poisoning' card.

Nah, I'll say about 75/25.

How would you know - you actually watched the game, whilst I am unencumbered by such irrelevancies.

It was a rubbish performance. But seeing where we were at the WC it is still good progress.

taipan wrote:Nah, I'll say about 75/25.

I agree - no side is going to beat the ABs if they only make 2 or 3 handling errors in the first 60 minutes.