All Blacks defence were all over Folau. They were also pretty successful at the breakdown, albeit quite cynical.

Wallabies did well to fight back for a draw, we were very bad in the first half. A tough game in terrible conditions.

Edited by lastbroadcast: 17/8/2014 12:12:01 AM

Great game ? Really? If that's the type of game that is considered great now in rugby that's very concerning.

Really no one looked like scoring a try all game. I think we really miss a guy like Digby Ioane, someone who can cause trouble out wide and break the line, we can't just leave it all up to Izzy.

How did the Wallabies not win that with so many penalties and at least 1/2 of them ridiculous?

Smith in the first half made a break and passed inside to a forward when he should he gone outside to the left to a back for a better chance at the try.

2nd yellow card was a farkin joke.

Edited by benelsmore: 17/8/2014 12:46:24 AM

Digby was huge for us, wish he came back home.

It was good in the sense that it was tense and went down to the wire.

It was nerve racking.

what a shit game that was last night

the equivalent to a nil-all draw in rugby

Hopefully they apply the points rule for more points for tries and conversions, and less for penalty goals and field goals

Meanwhile I'll watch league, one of the few games that actually has just about everything right

Apart from the refing howler every single game. Sometimes I think they have a monkey as video ref with some of the blatant wrong calls they have made this season.

I was at a bar last night watching the Bledisloe

It was hilarious that several sports were on at the same time (NRL & AFL)

You get a farsical situation where some people at the bar watch one sport, and not the other, in the same room :lol:

The NRL is usually the easiest sport to tune out of once an inevitable outcome is established

Also it would put a victard, a perthite or an adelaideian in shock to see people not be watching the VFL :lol:

If only Ballymore wasn't in the middle of fucking nowhere. Might have gone tonight.

In the same boat. Cunt of a place to get to

The things I'd do for a match at QE2. (Sadly would never happen :( )

Good win by the boys,

First half was pretty trash, far to much shirt grabbing from us.

But I'm calling it now, get Samu Kerevi in the Wallabies the mans a freak.

Here we go!! Should be a great game

3-0. Perfect start.

Richie McCaw in the bin after 13 minutes :lol: 6 all now

Can't believe McCaw has been binned. :lol:

Simmons in the bin as McCaw comes back. All Blacks looking dangerous now

We've been shocking today.

Don't get me started on the forwards.

Folau has been particularly woeful, continually out of position.

Wish we would stop selecting guys like AAC or McCabe on the wing, they are not wingers FFS. We should be selecting either fast and light footed guys (in the mold of a Habana) or damaging ball runners ( a Savea). I don't know why we see plodders like AAC & McCabe in both league and union continually being selected on the wing.

AAC wasn't on the wing..and also we don't have any wingers in either of those moulds atm

Meant Horne. :oops: :oops: :oops:

Says a lot about our player development though.

Is it time to allow guys playing in overseas leagues to play for the Wallabies. JOC, Digby & the Cummins would make a massive difference. :-k

It's a tough call. Those players would make huge difference, and they're not the only ones. Would be terrible for our super rugby teams if we did but great for the NT. Ideally the clubs would have the money to keep all these players but they just don't, and now it looks like Genia is going too. Maybe this new competition will help fix things?

Too many knock-ons and turnovers at key moments.

There must've been like 15 of them. Profoundly frustrating game to watch.

They may have to. With french rugby recently getting a massive tv deal they are going to increasingly look at Super players. After the WC I can see the likes of Horwill, Quade, Genia, Izzy all moving to France or even Japan.

Players are going to leave anyway regardless of whether the ARU continue to keep their heads in the sand. The sooner they accept that, the quicker they'll be able to adjust.

Horwill and Quade won't be at the World Cup anyway :d The answer might be. To let players play the rest of the year in Europe after our season finishes.

Disagree Quade is still our best 10. The rugby he played under Link at the Reds was unbelievable certainly a much more mature player now as well. The havoc he'd create with Izzy running off him. =p~

Until Horwill gets his running game back he wont be at the WC.

In terms of the NRC retaining players that wont happen IMO, not enough money in the comp. However it should improve our player depth and quality of rugby which will be a huge for the game.

Its a very difficult decision to be made, as 99P said above it really would be terrible for our Super Rugby teams.

We really need more money in the game. :(

Some positive news, JOC will be announced soon & Speight will be eligible for the Wallabies in the next couple of months as well.

Australia won't make it out of the group if Quade is 10. You don't win world cups playing flamboyant/careless rugby, you need a structured game with a quality tight 5 and with a first receiver who can keep things together under pressure with quick delivery and accurate kicking. Foley needs to start from now on because he is the only 10 who offers that.

It's this running rugby bullshit mentality which the ARU keeps fapping over that is causing half of Australian rugbys problems (the other half being the ARU's obsession on having the Wallabies as the pinnacle). People always hype up the wallabies ahead of Bledisloe but the reality is Australia will never win until they learn how to win with their forwards.

I do enjoy the change in commentating mood when the Wallabies are being hammered. It's so depressing but so enjoyable.

Theres nothing better than a half century against the Wallabies. The whinging and bitching on FB during the match was just too amusing.

The fox sports commentators are pack of idiots anyway. Anything that shuts them up is a good thing. It must just be a Fox Sports thing to hire cheerleading fools as commentators rather than actual analysts who can carry on as proffesionals.

I doubt it. The All Blacks could do that to any team. I'd say a full strength Wallabies is the second best team in the world. Come World Cup time I'd be more worried about England than South Africa

In fairness, I thought our scrum was the least of our problems. We conceded a penalty try when one of our forwards was off.

Our biggest problem was errors. We didn't hang on to the ball, it's that simple. The amount of times we were in an attacking position, coughed up the ball and found ourselves down the other end of the field within 10seconds was ridiculous. We gave up so many penalties and missed tackles.

As for running rugby - that's exactly how the NSW Waratahs won Super Rugby this season. We had the personnel sitting on the bench to do it - Foley, Pipps, etc. The moment they came on off the bench, we scored two tries.

Folau should be on the wing, rather than at the back. He is wasted there - and he's been sitting too deep, which has allowed the All Blacks to kick in behind our defense and cause big problems.