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red_stag wrote:

Glas a du wrote:Stag is there anything in the rule nook which says you can play in on the floor innate ruck as long as there's nothing on?

I'll be honest Glas, I'm not sure I understand the question.

Aus are obviously handling in rucks, but are not pinged, presumably because it's slow ball.

The Australian commentators are not happy. Two-and-a-half metres forward, they reckon.

It was a good 3/4 yards forward dreamer, absolute shocker from Barnes!

feathers?... I'm spitting bricks!

and now WB calls a perfectly legit pass 'forward'?

Barnes evens it up. Well done.

That's a disgraceful decision, Wayne Barnes has a Welsh father

Australia having a dreadful tournament. Lose to Samoa in warm up, lose to Ireland, completely outplayed by SA, NZ beat them by about 20 points, Wales beating them now.

ooo ouch, poor poor call then. You'd think that Barnes would have learnt to spot forward passes by now, no?

sorry Breaker, can't see the game but it does sound like a shocker of a call.

AWJ on for Charteris. Can't put into words how proud Charteris has made me this tournament.

Great kick by O Connor.

rugbydreamer wrote:ha guess Wayne Barnes strikes again? if it was as far forward as it sounded how did the ref and the AR's miss it? Harsh for Autralia. Chuffed for Shane though.

And Stevo on for good this time? yay

They missed it because it came from a break by Wales and a change in pace. The assistant ref and Barnes were both trying to catch up with play.

See, that's how you kick goals.

Fair play Breaker you're back in the lead care of a dodgy penalty. He doesn't ping your boys for doing exactly the same now and pings us again. He really is trying his best for you.

How long before someone suggests that Barnes is evening up the score by awarding the 2 kickable penalties.

Ah conspiracy theories. To be fair to Wales they aren't playing great in this match though compared to other games.

It'd be a pity if the discipline breaks down and players start to niggle each other due to frustration. The 1st half was played in better spirit.

Ah Glas beat me too it.

Got there before you Stag!

Its gonna be really weird in the inevitable Team of the Tournament articles to write:

09 Mike Phillips!!!

Glas a du wrote:Fair play Breaker you're back in the lead care of a dodgy penalty. He doesn't ping your boys for doing exactly the same now and pings us again. He really is trying his best for you.

I'm at a loss to explain it mate... it's a lottery out there with that guy WB in control.

But back to my initial point, what I'm trying to say is, its all well and good beating Figi by 60 points, when they put up almost no defence but when it comes to the big teams they choke. Apart from the Ireland game where they were great


Case and point here again, they get one point ahead and SHOITE themselves and give away two stupid penalties and are now 5 down. No mental strength

Clearly hughie is on the wum but he makes a good point. People say on their day Wales can beat anyone. They've had a series of good performances yet have lost most of the time. Maybe a better way to say it is on their day Wales can beat Ireland.

. . . .what does that say about Ireland though?

BTW Glas I agree - too many hands in the ruck

red_stag wrote:Been having a massive debate in work about RWC player of the year. I reckon Kaino, my boss reckons Genia is a certainty.

Has Genia really been that good? Shown up pretty badly against Ireland, although to be fair he was not protected well at all, and not hugely influential in the knockouts.

I personally would go for Piri Weepu, though Kaino or Nonu would be good shouts. Can't help but think if New Zealand win the World Cup in New Zealand its a three-horse race...

Who's got the winning ticket? NZ.

No mental strength? Kicks aside did you watch how we played down to 14 men against France?

I will conede that our kickers don't seem to quite have it when it comes to the crucial kicks like against SA and France, but I think this whole tournament has shown that the vast majority of our players have huge mental strenght. The way we went on to perform after our close defeat to SA was brilliant and not something we have shown to be capable of before.

Quite frankly Hughie, I completely disagree with you (our kickers aside)

Sorry Barnes is having a shocker, Aus slowing ball at will.

Kaino for me. Followed by Weepu.

red_stag wrote:Its gonna be really weird in the inevitable Team of the Tournament articles to write:

09 Mike Phillips!!!

Stag, if he's in the team of the tournament it'll be on the back of two tries. He must have the slowest, most ponderous service of any scrum half in the tournament.

red_stag wrote:Clearly hughie is on the wum but he makes a good point. People say on their day Wales can beat anyone. They've had a series of good performances yet have lost most of the time. Maybe a better way to say it is on their day Wales can beat Ireland.

. . . .what does that say about Ireland though?

he is isn't he? and I bit! shame on me.

Barnes is showing why he was nowhere near getting the final. He is having a complete 'mare.

spot on dreamer - I can't believe your kicking is actually worse than ours is... usually.

red_stag wrote:Its gonna be really weird in the inevitable Team of the Tournament articles to write:

09 Mike Phillips!!!

You will? Not for me, sorry

Barnes MOTM? Not Wayne like.

We've given up. The subs wouldn't be on if Gatland thought we could win.

Dreamer he is on the wum BUT makes some good points. Despite performing in all key games - the only victory of note was against Ireland. They lost to SA, lost to France and losing to Australia.

And your kickers are a part of your team.

That seals that for Barnes.

Who'd you say Asbo - Weepu?

That's the thing Staggy, we can beat anyone on our day, well they were on their day and still couldn't beat a distinctly average South Africa coached by a mad man.

Against France, they were superb and really played well but your never going to beat anyone when you leave 13 odd points on the pitch.


Now against Oz, where you had a really really good opportunity to take a big scalp but looks like a half strength Oz and going to beat you by at least a score.

But at least ye are consistent, consistent at coming up short against the big boys

How much better is it with Lloyd Williams at sh!!

Aye I know that Stag. But he seems to think that we're happy with our defeats when we clearly aren't. He also made a sweeping statement about the mental strenght of our team, which as I've said, kickers aside, has been very strong.

It's going to be a weird feeling that if we lose and finish 4th, I'm going to be much more miserable than if we hadn't have made it out of our group like last time.

Stevo! lovely kick by the sounds of it.

Please Jeebus kick this one!

red_stag wrote:Who'd you say Asbo - Weepu?

I would.

(No one asked you Notch...)

hughie1986 wrote:That's the thing Staggy, we can beat anyone on our day, well they were on their day and still couldn't beat a distinctly average South Africa coached by a mad man.

Against France, they were superb and really played well but your never going to beat anyone when you leave 13 odd points on the pitch.


Now against Oz, where you had a really really good opportunity to take a big scalp but looks like a half strength Oz and going to beat you by at least a score.

But at least ye are consistent, consistent at coming up short against the big boys

Oi Huw, you know that free Scarlets ticket? It's just gone up in smoke.

Rhys Priestland looks like a blonde Euros Childs. If you don't know who Euros Childs is, he's like a brown-haired Rhys Priestland.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Rhys Priestland looks like a blonde Euros Childs. If you don't know who Euros Childs is, he's like a brown-haired Rhys Priestland.

Jacques Derrida would love this

Hughie, I really don't need to be reading posts like yours here in the pub. keep ignoring the fact that Wales aren't at full strengh either for their last two matches. And imo that last bit wasn't needed. This was supposed to be a wum free place but hey, cheers for kicking us when we're down.

Luckless he looks like a 20 year old ROG.

stripped over the line...!

Sweet Jebus!

Aus have to win this now. There is no justice otherwise.