Wallabies v Fiji
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Yeah left off Rayasi who was superb.
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I went back and checked - Wilson clearly got it down eventually - what are we talking about here?
@KiwiMurph said in Wallabies v Fiji:
I went back and checked - Wilson clearly got it down eventually - what are we talking about here?
Yeah clear grounding, eventually as you said.
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@booboo said in Wallabies v Fiji:
Well, nobody will be happy with that.
The Lions will. Not much to worry about from the Wallabies. Very average.
I hope for Joe Schmidt's sake that he was keeping the powder dry.
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Fiji do play a style that has troubled the Aussies. Lions will play very different and they weren’t great last night either
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@booboo said in Wallabies v Fiji:
Well, nobody will be happy with that.
The Lions will. Not much to worry about from the Wallabies. Very average.
I hope for Joe Schmidt's sake that he was keeping the powder dry.
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@booboo said in Wallabies v Fiji:
Well, nobody will be happy with that.
The Lions will. Not much to worry about from the Wallabies. Very average.
I hope for Joe Schmidt's sake that he was keeping the powder dry.
@sparky said in Wallabies v Fiji:
@booboo said in Wallabies v Fiji:
Well, nobody will be happy with that.
The Lions will. Not much to worry about from the Wallabies. Very average.
I hope for Joe Schmidt's sake that he was keeping the powder dry.
We could just ignore that it wasn't that long ago that Fiji beat an at home England.
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@sparky said in Wallabies v Fiji:
@booboo said in Wallabies v Fiji:
Well, nobody will be happy with that.
The Lions will. Not much to worry about from the Wallabies. Very average.
I hope for Joe Schmidt's sake that he was keeping the powder dry.
We could just ignore that it wasn't that long ago that Fiji beat an at home England.
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@Bones Sure, but England were terrible in the game. And it was there fifth defeat in six games at the time.
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@sparky said in Wallabies v Fiji:
@Bones Sure, but England were terrible in the game.
Oh, that old chestnut.
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@sparky said in Wallabies v Fiji:
@Bones This is what I posted at the time:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/post/871925
Just seems rather ironic.
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Aus will get better without Lolesio
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@KiwiMurph said in Wallabies v Fiji:
I went back and checked - Wilson clearly got it down eventually - what are we talking about here?
Yeah clear grounding, eventually as you said.
@African-Monkey said in Wallabies v Fiji:
@KiwiMurph said in Wallabies v Fiji:
I went back and checked - Wilson clearly got it down eventually - what are we talking about here?
Yeah clear grounding, eventually as you said.
Why is there even discussion, the ref gave it as a try, so it was obviously grounded and a try.
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@African-Monkey said in Wallabies v Fiji:
@KiwiMurph said in Wallabies v Fiji:
I went back and checked - Wilson clearly got it down eventually - what are we talking about here?
Yeah clear grounding, eventually as you said.
Why is there even discussion, the ref gave it as a try, so it was obviously grounded and a try.
@Dan54 said in Wallabies v Fiji:
@African-Monkey said in Wallabies v Fiji:
@KiwiMurph said in Wallabies v Fiji:
I went back and checked - Wilson clearly got it down eventually - what are we talking about here?
Yeah clear grounding, eventually as you said.
Why is there even discussion, the ref gave it as a try, so it was obviously grounded and a try.
Well it is fairly common nowadays for a ref to award a try and then have to overrule himself so I wouldn't say that's the be all and end all.
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Was it a great Wallaby performance? No. But I thought it was OK.
Fiji are a good side, and if you let them into the game then they are very hard to beat. Sometimes I think we're trapped in a 90s mindset of 'minnow' nations, where it's almost expected we put 50 on them. Those days are long gone.
That said we got ourselves in a big hole. The first 38 minutes was pretty good, if a little wasteful inside the Fijian 22. But then to concede a try on halftime thanks to a series of dumb decisions let them into the game.
And then a beautiful end-to-end try and they've got their tails up. Offloads start sticking. The balls start bouncing for them. The crowd find their voice. I've seen this game a thousand times with the Wallabies.
We did pretty well to win the game in the last five minutes, though of course it should never have come to that.
Bobby V and Skelton will make a difference if they are fit. We got a bit too lateral at times and more direct hard running in close is what we need. Gleeson is great at that, and Wilson, so the players are there. Just a bit more direction.
And obviously a change at 10. Noah isn't even a safe pair of hands anymore. Just don't know how we can keep playing him and expecting a different outcome.
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Was it a great Wallaby performance? No. But I thought it was OK.
Fiji are a good side, and if you let them into the game then they are very hard to beat. Sometimes I think we're trapped in a 90s mindset of 'minnow' nations, where it's almost expected we put 50 on them. Those days are long gone.
That said we got ourselves in a big hole. The first 38 minutes was pretty good, if a little wasteful inside the Fijian 22. But then to concede a try on halftime thanks to a series of dumb decisions let them into the game.
And then a beautiful end-to-end try and they've got their tails up. Offloads start sticking. The balls start bouncing for them. The crowd find their voice. I've seen this game a thousand times with the Wallabies.
We did pretty well to win the game in the last five minutes, though of course it should never have come to that.
Bobby V and Skelton will make a difference if they are fit. We got a bit too lateral at times and more direct hard running in close is what we need. Gleeson is great at that, and Wilson, so the players are there. Just a bit more direction.
And obviously a change at 10. Noah isn't even a safe pair of hands anymore. Just don't know how we can keep playing him and expecting a different outcome.
@barbarian said in Wallabies v Fiji:
We did pretty well to win the game in the last five minutes, though of course it should never have come to that.
Bobby V and Skelton will make a difference if they are fit. We got a bit too lateral at times and more direct hard running in close is what we need. Gleeson is great at that, and Wilson, so the players are there. Just a bit more direction.
I actually tipped Fiji to win because of a number of factors
- Day time game and dry track,
- Oz missing a couple of key players that have size to combat the confrontational style of Fiji,
- an improved 9-10-12-13 for Fiji
- Oz 9-10 combination selected is/was not the answer
- Fiji style tends to discomfort the Aussies.
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It's not a great trial game for the Lions, stylistically. I know the Lions aren't as stodgy as they once were, but they certainly aren't playing Fijian rugby out there and it makes this game a bit hard to judge in that light.
@barbarian said in Wallabies v Fiji:
It's not a great trial game for the Lions, stylistically. I know the Lions aren't as stodgy as they once were, but they certainly aren't playing Fijian rugby out there and it makes this game a bit hard to judge in that light.
The physicality was very useful for a pre Lions hit out though
