Wales team v Australia

[Sandydragon]

Clearly forward which is a shame. Some nice interplay in the lead up to that

[Sandydragon]

Massive Welsh scrum forces an error. Great position

[Sandydragon]

Asserati has just done Slipper big time

[Sandydragon]

And with a five meter attacking lineout, we lose it.

Silly mistakes

Interception try for Australia.

[Sandydragon]

We have had a man advantage for almost twenty minutes but that’s not stopping the Aussies scoring.

The silly mistakes continue and that intercepted pass form Costelow was just horrible to watch.

13-40 now and with twenty to go, it’s just about pride.

I think Gatland is toast

[Sandydragon]

What’s infuriating is that it’s not like there aren’t Welsh players who are having good games.

Rhodes Williams has done really well. Jac Morgan is everywhere and Botham is having a good game. Rodger’s was superb before injury.

But collectively we aren’t at the rwces

[Sandydragon]

Deserved try for Ben Thomas.

This could have been an interesting last ten if not for the gifted tries

[Sandydragon]

The new Aussie wonderkid tackling leaves a bit to be desired.

[Sandydragon]

Despite what I posted earlier about not constantly changing the centres, I think Eddie James deserves a go next week.

[Sandydragon]

Five minutes to go to keep the Aussies under 50.

[Sandydragon]

Not a good sign when Welsh supporters leave five minutes early

[Sandydragon]

And there it is. All too easily Australia get past 50.

Not sure is the Welsh tackling at the end was tired or despondent but either way thanks God that’s over.

[Graigwen]

What’s infuriating is that it’s not like there aren’t Welsh players who are having good games.

Rhodes Williams has done really well. Jac Morgan is everywhere and Botham is having a good game. Rodger’s was superb before injury.

But collectively we aren’t at the rwces

Spot on.

[Graigwen]

That was a terrible team performance, despite some individual good efforts.

[Wallpaperman]

What’s infuriating is that it’s not like there aren’t Welsh players who are having good games.

Rhodes Williams has done really well. Jac Morgan is everywhere and Botham is having a good game. Rodger’s was superb before injury.

But collectively we aren’t at the rwces

Sorry to abandon you Sandy, had a visitor over for the second half, watched the match though. There were a few positives, Griffin, Rowlands, Botham, Morgan and Rogers all had good games. But we have too many small backs to defend well, and some of the game management was really poor.

Not counting 4 lost lineouts in a row and throwing and intercept pass.

Painful in the end. It was a toss up whether I went to the match, I think I made the right choice

[Wallpaperman]

That was a terrible team performance, despite some individual good efforts.

Agreed, too. Sorry Graigwen, was typing my post before yours came up

[Wallpaperman]

The new Aussie wonderkid tackling leaves a bit to be desired.

2 round the neck (Thomas, while scoring and Llewelyn) and a shoulder to the face for Morgan by my reckoning

[Graigwen]

Game after game we let Winnett get smashed without support, it all came home to roost at the end today.

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[Sandydragon]

What’s infuriating is that it’s not like there aren’t Welsh players who are having good games.

Rhodes Williams has done really well. Jac Morgan is everywhere and Botham is having a good game. Rodger’s was superb before injury.

But collectively we aren’t at the rwces

Sorry to abandon you Sandy, had a visitor over for the second half, watched the match though. There were a few positives, Griffin, Rowlands, Botham, Morgan and Rogers all had good games. But we have too many small backs to defend well, and some of the game management was really poor.

Not counting 4 lost lineouts in a row and throwing and intercept pass.

Painful in the end. It was a toss up whether I went to the match, I think I made the right choice

I’m very glad I didn’t pay good money to endure that shyte.

We have a fairly small 10/12 channel but Llewelyn is hardly lightweight. Thought our wings did well, particularly Roger’s, and Winnett was solid and had some decent runs.

James when he came on was much better and carried a punch with ball in hand. Llewelyn was disappointing today, dying with the ball after that break from deep was criminal.

[Graigwen]

Rhodri Williams was our best scrum half by a clear margin. Right from the start, Bevan was slow to get to a lot of breakdowns.

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[Sandydragon]

The new Aussie wonderkid tackling leaves a bit to be desired.

2 round the neck (Thomas, while scoring and Llewelyn) and a shoulder to the face for Morgan by my reckoning

Yep. That hit on Morgan deserved a closer look.

[Sandydragon]

Rhodri Williams was our best scrum half by a clear margin. Right from the start, Bevan was slow to get to a lot of breakdowns.

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Rhodes has been in good form for a while and he took his chance well.

[Wallpaperman]

What’s infuriating is that it’s not like there aren’t Welsh players who are having good games.

Rhodes Williams has done really well. Jac Morgan is everywhere and Botham is having a good game. Rodger’s was superb before injury.

But collectively we aren’t at the rwces

Sorry to abandon you Sandy, had a visitor over for the second half, watched the match though. There were a few positives, Griffin, Rowlands, Botham, Morgan and Rogers all had good games. But we have too many small backs to defend well, and some of the game management was really poor.

Not counting 4 lost lineouts in a row and throwing and intercept pass.

Painful in the end. It was a toss up whether I went to the match, I think I made the right choice

I’m very glad I didn’t pay good money to endure that shyte.

We have a fairly small 10/12 channel but Llewelyn is hardly lightweight. Thought our wings did well, particularly Roger’s, and Winnett was solid and had some decent runs.

James when he came on was much better and carried a punch with ball in hand. Llewelyn was disappointing today, dying with the ball after that break from deep was criminal.

Spot on re Llewelyn, he is having a really good season for Gloucester (as are Tomos Williams and Anscombe) but he had a stinker today. Not sure why James hasn’t started.

If Wales pick small backs, they have to present a threat in attack. Last week and today they got a hiding

[Son of Mathonwy]

Embarrassing. Outclassed. And yet, as has been said, there were plenty of good performances from our boys. Not good enough though. They were a lot better than we were, especially in the collisions. As usual, a man advantage is absolutely useless to us, in fact by the 3 tries to 0 they scored in that 20 minutes I think we're better against 15 men. And wtf happened to our lineout once the subs came on?

I don't think Llewellyn is a back. He hasn't got the pace.

Rogers seized his chance - he's rightly ahead of Dyer.

Hope the WRU have some break clauses in their contract with Gatland. He needs to go. Two wasted years.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Scoreline? My guess is
Wales 24 - 38 Australia

The optimism of this guy!