Bledisloe II
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@nta said in Bledisloe II:
Well, that was utterly unsurprising.
What’s going on with the Aussie fitness?
@jegga said in Bledisloe II:
Foley not getting much love at g and g , a couple of people have pointed out how weak Beales defence is.
Mostly Queenslanders, no doubt. They're not very creative, hate Beale for getting that slag of Link's sacked, and bringing Link down with it, and think Quade is the answer.
@kirwan said in Bledisloe II:
@nta said in Bledisloe II:
Well, that was utterly unsurprising.
What’s going on with the Aussie fitness?
Seems to have regressed a little from what we've seen in the last year or so, eh?
TBH I dunno. Social media is saying we have the players to do it, and I agree IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF we get everything right on the night and the ABs fluff a few lines. But how likely is that?
I missed most of the second half as the wife needed a chauffeur to drop her and a friend off, and that gives me nooky points which was more important that watching us lose again. But we seemed to execute in the first half reasonably well, bar a couple of those stupid mistakes the ABs feed off.
The rest of the chat was around neck rolls.
My favourite quote of the night:
https://twitter.com/Rugbysmartarse/status/1033281551105048576
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@tim said in Bledisloe II:
Why isn't Arnold in the team?
When you don't have pay TV, you can't watch a lot of rugby here.
Rodda is a solid player. I don't think Arnold would necessarily fix our lineout issues or anything - he's a big unit but maybe a bit stringy for all that.
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@tim said in Bledisloe II:
Why isn't Arnold in the team?
When you don't have pay TV, you can't watch a lot of rugby here.
Rodda is a solid player. I don't think Arnold would necessarily fix our lineout issues or anything - he's a big unit but maybe a bit stringy for all that.
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@nta Rodda is fine, it's Simmons on the bench ahead of Arnold which is the biggest House hands in the air.
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@nta Rodda is fine, it's Simmons on the bench ahead of Arnold which is the biggest House hands in the air.
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@nta Rodda is fine, it's Simmons on the bench ahead of Arnold which is the biggest House hands in the air.
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@rocky-rockbottom I've seen this particular friend in a netball outfit - WITHOUT the skirt on - and it would have to be one hell of a tuck job.
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@act-crusader and Blake Gibson at 7!
@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe II:
@act-crusader and Blake Gibson at 7!
And apparently Weber at halfback is the ‘answer’
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@nta said in Bledisloe II:
@rocky-rockbottom I've seen this particular friend in a netball outfit - WITHOUT the skirt on - and it would have to be one hell of a tuck job.
Do go on ...
@nepia let me just say the fit was tight and she isn't shy of showing it. Think she was a bit of an ugly duckling in high school (back before I knew her). Now of course she's hot but a bit high-maintenance*, and a tad slender for my tastes. That's OK because I'm not fucking her, just looking at her.
*I refer to her as Imelda Marcos after the wife of the Philippino dictator for two decades starting in the 60s, and her reputed shoe collection of over 3000 pairs.
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Amazing what happens when the ref watches both sides of the scrum
@mikethesnow said in Bledisloe II:
Amazing what happens when the ref watches both sides of the scrum
When did he do that?
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Well, shit. BB with the statement game. Good on him, because he was awesome. I loved, loved, that dummy and run when Hooper pushed up and shut down the outside shovel pass - "Fuck it, it's mis-match anyway, I'm gone".
BFA was all kinds of awesome tonight, and I thought that Squire had one of his best games in the black jersey.
I'lll rewatch that game tomorrow and definitely write something, about someone or someones. I'm tempted to look at Goodhue, who I thought was a few shades off the awesomeness of last week.
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@mikethesnow said in Bledisloe II:
Amazing what happens when the ref watches both sides of the scrum
When did he do that?
@booboo said in Bledisloe II:
@mikethesnow said in Bledisloe II:
Amazing what happens when the ref watches both sides of the scrum
When did he do that?
Ha ha
Love your work.
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@rancid-schnitzel Queenslanders aren't a race.
They'd need more chromosomes and less fingers.
@nta said in Bledisloe II:
@rancid-schnitzel Queenslanders aren't a race.
They'd need more chromosomes and less fingers.
Paul Gallen. Nuff said.
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Foley not getting much love at g and g , a couple of people have pointed out how weak Beales defence is. St Bonocock is their man of the match .
*"@jegga said in Bledisloe II:
Foley not getting much love at g and g , a couple of people have pointed out how weak Beales defence is."*
Good Lord, who knew?
"St Bonocock is their man of the match ."
... after being dispatched tonight as effectively as he was in 2011!? Objectivity absent.
One of the more recent comments, on the gap between these two teams, demonstrates just how uninformed so many of our local fans are:
"is it widening or closing though? our backs have been shovelling the ball for a number of years, yet even their front rowers know how to draw and pass and how to run into space. we keep picking unbalanced teams and players who can't perform the basics of their position. a circuit breaker is needed"
The circuit breaker was due after 2003 but the ARU got distracted working on fabric colours and boardroom table size for the new headquarters, after near breaking their arms patting each other on the back for banking $43 million from the World Cup. Bret Robinson and someone else won fancy titles as director of elite player footpaths or something - corner office, nice four wheel drive, long lunches with player agents - but the footpaths didn't carry a lot of traffic. The ARU tried a bit of catch up by shovelling money at fading League stars, when that faded they signed up three wunderkind who could neither pass reliably nor tackle for a half million each, ramping up to three quarters of a million, and all was well in Australian rugby until the ARU discovered it wasn't. We are not long out of that phase and Michael Cheika is supposed to arm the squad with these quaint old skills inside two years? Aaarrrrggghhh!
