Wales v Australia

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Wales beaten at home by Italy, Georgia and the Waratahs in the same year. Must be a first.

[MN5]

@NTA said in Wales v Australia:

@MN5 said in Wales v Australia:

cripple fight between 8 and 9

Scotland: choking on cripples in 2022...

They had to fluke a win sometimes after the previous three embarrassments

[NTA]

@MN5

[MiketheSnow]

Was there, so watching it back

We played very well with the exception of the balls up right at the halftime whistle

We should have scored there, and then the match would have been won

But there were already signs of the Australian back play

And they were carving us up with ease

Superb half from our inside centre on his debut

Jack Morgan excellent

AWJ and Faletau at their Lions best

[MiketheSnow]

The quality of ball and service to North confirmed to me that he’s done as a centre

Hawkins and Tompkins going forward for me

WalesOnline rated Hawkins 6 and North 7

What match were they watching?

[MiketheSnow]

51 mins and patience and phase play puts Dyer in

Great pass from Anscombe

34-13 up
27 mins to go
14 man Australia

Should have been on our way to 50 points

[MiketheSnow]

Australian substitutions on, and already changed the shape of the match

Anscombe off

Pivotal

Up to that point Pivac has done everything right
Players stuffed up one opportunity

Then he puts Priestland on

Massive mistake

Costello should have gone on

[MiketheSnow]

The young kid in at the corner

Australia raised the pace demonstrably and immediately rewarded

Cuthbert poor defence

Last match for Wales

Donaldson had a great debut

Lolesio was excellent as the fulcrum for everything Australia did from this point on

[MiketheSnow]

64 mins
And we blow another goal line assault

Ken Owens off
Elias on

Samu awesome since he came on

Stupid pass from Priestland

Forward and obvious

Clumsy from Tipuric
Dumb

Absolutely fantastic second try for Nawaqanitawase

Reserve hooker was massive in his 15 mins

[MiketheSnow]

71 mins
AWJ and Faletau substituted
Tipuric still in the bin

Three most experienced Welsh players/leaders off the pitch

Terrible coaching decision

That’s the moment that should seal Pivac’s fate

[MiketheSnow]

Great maul from Australia
Elias rightfully carded
Penalty Try correct call

Tom Wright almost hands the match back to Wales with a terrible drop off the kickoff

Massive defensive scrum from Australia

Tom Wright’s decision to run the ball back after a series of aerial ping pong was key

Let the ball do the work and carved us open

Reserve hooker in

Excellent Australian adventure rewarded

[MiketheSnow]

Clock goes red

We get the penalty for Australia sealing off

Shit kick from Priestland

Excellent phase play from Wales but Lonergan does superbly over the ball and seals the win

Thoroughly deserved

Possibly Gethin Jenkins and Neil Jenkins the only coaches to avoid the inevitable and long called for canning

[pooler fan]

@Catogrande wondered the same thing for many years.

[MiketheSnow]

[Kirwan]

If I was an Australian fan I would have been very pissed off with how this game was adjudicated. Pleased they won despite being up against "un-sympathetic" refereeing.

Huge fan of sideshow bob on the wing.

[NTA]

@Kirwan said in Wales v Australia:

If I was an Australian fan I would have been very pissed off with how this game was adjudicated. Pleased they won despite being up against "un-sympathetic" refereeing.

I was getting my dander up about the TMO intervening in open play against us, even having known the result. Especially when it is home broadcaster bullshit.

Scrums were a bit of a lottery as usual but generally we were getting outsmarted on Wales ball.

[Dan54]

@NTA Haven't seen the game yet NTA, but how did the home broadcaster get the TMO to interfere. TMOs don't actually see the big screen or tv coverage, but have their own feed generally. More often than not when there a replay of some incident it's because the broadcaster has heard the TOM, so actually other way around. I always wonder how we get idea that a TMO watching muitple screens is only seemingly making decisions on what some producer/director has picked up.

[NTA]

@Dan54 nothing memorable in this game - I was speaking generally about home broadcasters.

Your point about the TMO is valid BUT that doesn't stop the OB director replaying stuff up on the big screen and getting the ref to check.

Happened to us several times on EOYT last year.