Aaron Cruden. Yep, the future is pretty scary.
Replaced Carter in the last WC and didn't miss a beat.
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Aaron Cruden. Yep, the future is pretty scary.
If they paid that forward pass this game would be completely different rubbish umpiring all game in favor of the All Blacks!
Folau was decent to good tonight, kicking was mostly to advantage. He's struggled throughout the tournament though with injury.Is Folau s**t at two sports?
All I saw him do tonight was kick the ball straight to the ABs. Maybe I just don't understand the sport enough.
Agreed. Quoted post is well of the mark - and further to the point, this current Wallabies side is on paper possible even better than the All Blacks, but the All Blacks will continue to get the job done so long as only they are capable of the intangibles (the way they move the ball so quickly on both sides, keep it off the ground and avoid the breakdowns, win 99% of lineouts, etc) that turn a lot of great players into a team. They tackled a lot better than we did for the majority of the night and ultimately you're not going to win many games of rugby when you can't make and stick the tackles which we failed to do once Douglas and then Giteau (possibly our two best tacklers) did.No it isn't.
They're absolute champions - watching the best team in the world do their thing should be a pleasure.
Moore just sounded bored with another loss to the All Blacks I thought. Needed more rage.Really quite proud of that second half and Moore spoke very well just then.
Well done Wallabies.
7 different MLB World Champions in last 10 years and 6 different NBA champs in last 10 years, pretty even comps IMODisagree, watching one team dominate a sport is just bloody embarrassing, same goes with the USA with baseball & basketball.
Key moments;
Douglas injury.
Karma bus strikes the Wallabies how sad
That was it for me. So at the 15-minute mark this happened:
1. We lost our key line-out man. Result: we get smashed in the lineouts all game. Lost pssession at least 3-4 times. Rarely had a clean line-out to work with.
2. We lose our leading tackler.
3. Mumm comes on, and to put it bluntly, has a right shocker. We would have been better keeping Douglas hopping around on one leg.
Look, the ABs would probably still have won - but that took so much of our structure away at set pieces.
That was it for me. So at the 15-minute mark this happened:
1. We lost our key line-out man. Result: we get smashed in the lineouts all game. Lost pssession at least 3-4 times. Rarely had a clean line-out to work with.
2. We lose our leading tackler.
3. Mumm comes on, and to put it bluntly, has a right shocker. We would have been better keeping Douglas hopping around on one leg.
Look, the ABs would probably still have won - but that took so much of our structure away at set pieces.
They'll just pick the next off the production line.There'll be about 50 to choose from.
Aaron Cruden. Yep, the future is pretty scary.
Replaced Carter in the last WC and didn't miss a beat.
Cheika looks a broken man
Surely he's not as much of a freak?
AH Prince Harry having a laugh, pointing and joking with the boys on stage, love it
Any Kiwis know who is likely to be their next Captain?
Surely Read gets the gig?
You'd think so, but he's 30-odd; I wonder whether they might go a younger, long term prospect.
They've always had a stupid bronze medal match, so yes, unfortunately.Do they usually give out silver medals at this sort of thing?
To be fair the Wallabies were coming very hard before the yellow card happened, which is part of what led to it coming about. Ben Smith just panicked.Anyway, no excuses. Wallabies just made too many errors and couldn't get the ball. Lineout(!), kick offs, scrum, attack, defence, breakdown...in every area New Zealand were stronger. Proud of the Wallabies effort to come back in the 2nd half, but it was during the yellow card. When it was 15 v 15 the All Blacks were easily the better team.