Wallabies vs Springboks I

@nta Australia have a reasonable pack and a decent scrum. The lack of organisation, and a good kicking game from 9 and 10 (and 12 if like me you're a fan of a true second five-eigth) seemd the biggest issue against the ABs.

Quade Cooper played a really mature, heads-up game and I felt Nick White coming on second half helped too ... organizing the forwards, more controlled exits.

Love to see Wallabies win.

OomPB

@kirwan I did. We haven't won in Aus for many years and I mentioned Cooper.

6 days turn around to come back stronger.

Player management is going to be important in the next three.

PecoTrain

@nta said in Wallabies vs Springboks I:

@landp said in Wallabies vs Springboks I:

So add the ABs and Boks plus a wave of young talent in France means the Wallabies hover between 5-7th in the world for now.

And, if we shrink our super Rugby presence, we will be lucky to hold onto anything inside the top 10.

We need to keep the professional footprint we have, in order to keep the money we have, in order to invest in the grassroots properly and eventually justify the footprint.

If we shrink, the money shrinks, the grassroots go untended, and the game heads back to pre-professional levels.

The problem is that has been the ARU thinking for the last 20 years - thinking that has resulted in a game that s significantly less popular with fans (declining at around 3-4% per annum since the 2003 RWC) and has significantly more competition from non-traditional activities as aside from soccer, all the big Australian winter sports were shrinking abeit at slower rates than rugby union..

Raelene Castle did a lot of work in trying to address the decline in creative ways (embracing the LBQT+ community competitions and pushing 7's/10s) to get people involved which I think is the answer to slowing the decline - people who play the game or a variant watch it on TV or attend games and ultimately that is what determines the value of Super/International rugby to the ARU. However there is a lot more work to be done in this area, and that work would benefit from increased funding.

The challenge is that too much power resides with rugby administrators in NSW/Queensland and their inter-state rivalry ultimately results in resources being wasted or concentrated on that battle to the detriment of the larger game in Australia. Money s directed to Queensland/NSW to allow them to beat each other to the detriment of the wider game. They are important - just not as important as they believe.

kiwiinmelb

I’ll wait until we play the boks before I go too early,

But Maybe we ( Nz ) are going better than we thought

taniwharugby

@kiwiinmelb I think we are better than we thought, but they not as good as thier absence built them up to being.

Imagine what a full strength English side would do to us all!

Rancid Schnitzel

Don't think I've ever seen so many NZers happy about the Wallabies winning!

broughie

Just saw the result. Excellent for the Ozzies. Good for us.

pakman

Bones

Imagine what Australia would do to the All Blacks.

Ahem. Let me clear my throat.

Shove that up your fucking pipe all you "oh but South Africa and England" fluffybunnies!

Good shit Oz.

L_n_P

@rancid-schnitzel said in Wallabies vs Springboks I:

Don't think I've ever seen so many NZers happy about the Wallabies winning!

All about the spiritual guardianship? :winking_face:

I don't mind physical tight rugby but the Boks were a combination of dire and rusty. Options appeared to be either Faf box kicking or Pollard sitting deep and kicking bombs, win a penalty and kick for the maul.

I expect they will recover their mojo for next game and the AB tests.

booboo

@l_n_p said in Wallabies vs Springboks I:

@rancid-schnitzel said in Wallabies vs Springboks I:

Don't think I've ever seen so many NZers happy about the Wallabies winning!

All about the spiritual guardianship? :winking_face:

I don't mind physical tight rugby but the Boks were a combination of dire and rusty. Options appeared to be either Faf box kicking or Pollard sitting deep and kicking bombs, win a penalty and kick for the maul.

I expect they will recover their mojo for next game and the AB tests.

With the same tactics only betterer

Kirwan

@bones said in Wallabies vs Springboks I:

Imagine what Australia would do to the All Blacks.

Ahem. Let me clear my throat.

Shove that up your fucking pipe all you "oh but South Africa and England" fluffybunnies!

Good shit Oz.

We better beat them after this sort of post

Kirwan

Some great memes floating around

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Wallabies vs Springboks I