Japan v Wallabies

[NTA]

Starting in Japan tomorrow, when last week and Australia "A" side whipped "Japan XV" silly in Osaka.

Using members of that A squad, Joe has gone for an interesting lineup in Tokyo:

1 Bell
2 Nasser
3 Nonggorr
4 Williams
5 LSL
6 CdC (c)
7 Tizzano
8 Valetini
9 Gordon
10 Edmed
11 Pietsch
12 Paisami
13 Flook
14 Toole
15 Kellaway

Bench: 16 Pollard, 17 Ross, 18 Robertson, 19 Canham, 20 Wilson, 21 Lonergan, 22 Stewart, 23 Daugunu

[NTA]

[KiwiMurph]

Good that it doesnt clash with npc final

With 5 tests in 5 weeks I can understand Schmidt taking the opportunity to test the squad depth.

[Duluth]

Yoshitaka Yazaki, Kippei Ishida, Dylan Riley, Shogo Nakano, Tomoki Osada, Seungsin Lee, Shinobu Fujiwara, Michael Leitch, Kanji Shimokawa, Ben Gunter, Warner Dearns, Jack Cornelsen, Shuhei Takeuchi, Hayate Era, Kenta Kobayashi

Replacements: Kenji Sato, Ryosuke Iwaihara, Keijiro Tamefusa, Tyler Paul, Tiennan Costley, Kenta Fukuda, Charlie Lawrence, Sam Greene

[NTA]

Nice to see a few more Aussies out there

[African Monkey]

Last week's Aussie A v Japan XV game was like watching a game of touch.

[Duluth]

Two Aussie locks injured after 20mins

[Dan54]

This has been a bit of a let down so far, after last game.

[Duluth]

7-3 to AUS after 27mins

Aussie's have had loads of ball plus Japan had a card

[Duluth]

That’s better. Wallabies finally create something

[Duluth]

This could get awkward. Japan only 6 behind and the Wallabies bench is a bit compromised after the early injuries

[KiwiMurph]

Japan look better second half

[sparky]

Japan 15 Australia 19 at full time.

[sparky]

I guess the Wallabies will take the win and move on, but that was unconvincing.

[Bovidae]

Leitch still plays well for a 37 yr old.

This match was all about resting key players before the next 4 tests.

[NTA]

Australia "B" come away with a win

[ACT Crusader]

@Bovidae said in Japan v Wallabies:

Leitch still plays well for a 37 yr old.

This match was all about resting key players before the next 4 tests.

Was doing everything out there - hitting the ball up, taking LO ball regularly, winning breakdown turnovers.

[African Monkey]

@NTA said in Japan v Wallabies:

Australia "B" come away with a win

Lol come on, that's a cop out.

Aussie made that very hard for themselves. They should have been out of sight in the first half. The Brave blossoms gained a bit of confidence as there was no Scoreboard pressure applied and ended up getting a lot closer than they should have.

[ACT Crusader]

@African-Monkey tactics weren’t great by the Aussies in those conditions. Neither their 9, 10 or 15 provided the sort of kicking game to get the field position needed to apply pressure.

Japan lifted their intensity when they went down to 14 men and Aussies seemed to struggle.

[African Monkey]

@ACT-Crusader said in Japan v Wallabies:

@African-Monkey tactics weren’t great by the Aussies in those conditions. Neither their 9, 10 or 15 provided the sort of kicking game to get the field position needed to apply pressure.

Japan lifted their intensity when they went down to 14 men and Aussies seemed to struggle.

Yeah one thing Japan deserve credit for was their goaline defence, especially in the midway point if the first half where they defended about 30 phases .