Australia v England - second test

Epaminondas Pules · Post by **Epaminondas Pules** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:06 pm

Right, ball out to Arundell and we score. Game over

Epaminondas Pules · Post by **Epaminondas Pules** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:07 pm

About time Bell got refereed!

Mellsblue · Post by **Mellsblue** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:07 pm

Epaminondas Pules wrote:Smith’s kicking has been largely poor!

He’s had a bad game. Not offered as an excuse but he and Farrell are on a completely different wavelength.

Epaminondas Pules · Post by **Epaminondas Pules** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:08 pm

That should be it. Still top of lineout ball, give it to Henry and we score

Raggs · Post by **Raggs** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:08 pm

Smith had some decent passes, but some really bad kicks. Bad decisions and bad execution.

Epaminondas Pules · Post by **Epaminondas Pules** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:10 pm

Held out well in the end after it looked like we would collapse!

Mellsblue · Post by **Mellsblue** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:11 pm

Welcome to test rugby!

Mikey Brown · Post by **Mikey Brown** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:11 pm

Well JVP looked good and at least Joseph got his 90 seconds in his correct position.

Anything else?

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:11 pm

Credit for hanging in after nearly bogging it.

Forwards over the gainline a highlight along with JVP and er kick chase.

Missed tackles, poor kicking and daft penalties to er … work on.

Epaminondas Pules · Post by **Epaminondas Pules** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:12 pm

Raggs wrote:Smith had some decent passes, but some really bad kicks. Bad decisions and bad execution.

The one for me was on one advantage where he threw the long pass to Freeman when he had a short ball to Steward who was already on the outside of one on one with Nic White. Absolute walk in!

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:12 pm

Mellsblue wrote:
Epaminondas Pules wrote:Smith’s kicking has been largely poor!
He’s had a bad game. Not offered as an excuse but he and Farrell are on a completely different wavelength.

It’s not like it’s not predictable though.

Epaminondas Pules · Post by **Epaminondas Pules** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:14 pm

Banquo wrote:Credit for hanging in after nearly bogging it.

Forwards over the gainline a highlight along with JVP and er kick chase.

Missed tackles, poor kicking and daft penalties to er … work on.

Really pleased with JVP. Couple of issues but in 63 mins that’s to be expected. We still didn’t protect the breakdown as well as we should, but better!

Epaminondas Pules · Post by **Epaminondas Pules** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:15 pm

Lawes and Billy were excellent throughout! Thought Chessum did very well! He’s not Itoje, but did a proper job.

Oakboy · Post by **Oakboy** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:15 pm

Good result. A win is a win. There must be concern that we are so much a first half team.

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:16 pm

Epaminondas Pules wrote:
Banquo wrote:Credit for hanging in after nearly bogging it.

Forwards over the gainline a highlight along with JVP and er kick chase.

Missed tackles, poor kicking and daft penalties to er … work on.

Really pleased with JVP. Couple of issues but in 63 mins that’s to be expected. We still didn’t protect the breakdown as well as we should, but better!

If it goes beyond 13 we just don’t resource well.

Not sure where we go 10/12. I’d likely stick Faz at 10, but we ain’t got no 12’s.

Mellsblue · Post by **Mellsblue** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:17 pm

Very boring match.
Eng back to a tighter game plan and looked better. Oz must be pretty low on their depth chart for next week, given all the injuries.
JVP and Stuart the only plus points.

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:17 pm

Epaminondas Pules wrote:Lawes and Billy were excellent throughout! Thought Chessum did very well! He’s not Itoje, but did a proper job.

Billy was excellent but was missing tackles if being critical. But he’s back to being our number one 8 imo.

Mellsblue · Post by **Mellsblue** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:17 pm

Banquo wrote:
Mellsblue wrote:
Epaminondas Pules wrote:Smith’s kicking has been largely poor!
He’s had a bad game. Not offered as an excuse but he and Farrell are on a completely different wavelength.
It’s not like it’s not predictable though.

Yep. Been mentioned on here numerous times.

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:20 pm

Simplifying certainly help but yet we still let tries go a begging.

fivepointer · Post by **fivepointer** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:21 pm

Its nice to get a win but that was a largely underwhelming performance. Forwards did fine and JVP had an excellent game. We did well to arrest momentum and come back to score in the 2nd half but our creativity is close to zero.

Oakboy · Post by **Oakboy** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:21 pm

I thought Hill had a good game, unpopular as he is.

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:22 pm

Oakboy wrote:I thought Hill had a good game, unpopular as he is.

Yep bar one dumbass penalty- when he isn’t fannying about he’s a good lock.

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:23 pm

fivepointer wrote:Its nice to get a win but that was a largely underwhelming performance. Forwards did fine and JVP had an excellent game. We did well to arrest momentum and come back to score in the 2nd half but our creativity is close to zero.

Yep. Midfield is a quagmire but even when get somewhere we don’t finish.

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:26 pm

Faz nails it off field. Discipline and momentum shift

Banquo · Post by **Banquo** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:29 pm

Raggs wrote:Porter was a mile offside at the scrum when he carried right?

On replay looks like it but the principle was right- get a centre over the gainline happy days

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