Comments on: Rate the match: Wales vs Australia November 2014

By: Anarky

Anarky — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:27:30 +0000

I think we all called an Aussie win, but again put ourselves in a position to win it. A few of the things I picked up on:- some are new, some have been a persistent issue.

Up and unders inside our own 22 – persistent issue, not just with Priestland it would seem.

Welsh chase non existent – persistent issue.

Kicking to the opposition back 3 – Persistent issue. I think the aussies found the floor or touch with just about every kick.

Liam Williams – I don’t think he caught 1 high ball he contested for. Halfpenny and Byrne before him were solid here. He seemed to challenge for a lot, which suggests the aussies were targeting him.

Rhys Webb rolled a lot of ball out of the ruck when tackled which immediately put pressure on us with the aussies free to contest. He need’s to tighten up.

Missed tackles – unacceptable. I think the Aussies missed more tackles as an overall stat, crucially none were terminal for them. Wales always seem to miss the one that matters.

Apologies if I’ve got any of the above wrong, I was enjoying a few beers at the time so my accuracy, much like Wales, may not be 100%.

By: brighty

brighty — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:40:39 +0000

“All this said good teams with winning habits win games of this ilk.” – That’s it in a nutshell Dia. We have no excuses for not winning that one. Hard to believe it happened again while simultaneously and paradoxically acknowledging that it was inevitable that it would happen again.

By: Big Dia

Big Dia — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:36:54 +0000

Without doubt Wales were the better side and ‘should’ have won. I can forgive the first Aussie try, as it was a result of positive play from Wales, just a poor choice from RW. Would be good to hear any pitch side commentary to hear if GN was calling for the ball? Having watched the game 4 times I still cannot believe that no one has picked up that the scoring pass for the second Aussie try looked to be forward. Have to agree that they was some poor tactical choices made by Wales in the last 8 minutes which defiantly had a bearing on the final outcome of the game, it is a simple game, play in the opponents half and look after the ball. All this said good teams with winning habits win games of this ilk.

By: ProphetEnoch

ProphetEnoch — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:34:27 +0000

If this is what Gatland conjures up after 7 years at the helm ………dear oh dear

1 stupid interception try from Webb, he almost gave away another too but the Aussies dropped it.

No attempt to tackle by Cuthbert and AWJ. Result 1 try.

Poor tackle from Biggar result 1 try.

WG now announces the squad had not been tackling 1-1 in training ‘for a couple of weeks now’.

What ‘long term plan’ is this?

Rubbish, utter utter rubbish.

It is quite obvious that Wales are heading out of RWC again at the pool stage and we are seeing the kind of excuses that Graham Henry and Steve Hansen used to use all the time between 2000-2004.

The ABs and Boks could put their 2nd teams out and still extend their victories run ever further over this shower.

Meanwhile at WRU website……

£75 a ticket for the ABs (+ a £4.60 booking fee!!)

£40 a ticket for the Boks minimum (+£4.60 booking fee!!)

Factor in food, drink, train fare and getting treated like dirt by the ever-customer focussed international day bar staff/door staff and then try getting home on the dreadfully overcrowded and under resourced local train network and all to watch another DEFEAT like have do ever year!!!

No thanks Wales/Warren/WRU-

Me thinks ……a warm, dry living room with the rest of the gang plus the food and drink of my own choice at a fraction of the ‘Day out in Cardiff cost’ and a far more pleasant experience to boot!

£79.60 a ticket they are having a laugh!!!

By: Pablito

Pablito — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:17:03 +0000

Interestingly, over on Green and Gold, they are all complaining that there was no way it was a penalty try and that the Welsh scrum was walking it around and boring in

Now of course they’d say that, but some of the stills posted seem to back them up – http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/wallabies-silence-wales/

I’ve not yet had a chance to watch the game, so can’t say either way but thought I’d introduce another view point

PS – irrespective of who is actually cheating at the scrum (I’ll assume both sides are), if the ref gives a number of penalties followed by a penalty try against one side, then surely there has to be a card!

By: brighty

brighty — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:58:59 +0000

Same old – can point at a dozen or so points that made the difference. Interception passes (will forgive Webb at this point, he’s a relative newbie with 7 caps so I’ll use the SL excuses on that one), missed tackles – that’s the first 2 Australia tries there.

We played really well going forward – made lots of tries, ran some exciting stuff, some good corner kicking when needed. Can’t hand the Aussies 2 tries though and expect to win. Can’t bring myself to see it as much of a positive that we played well mind – cos we still lost.

The Pen try was magnificent but lord how I’d have loved a NH ref there who wanted to let scrummaging win. Mangled them umpteen times – they tried every trick in the book to stop us going over. Eventually, after 5 attempts, Joubert has to give it. But he lets them get away with it for ages and doesn’t bin a single one of them for a professional infringement. Ridiculous.

By: Gaz

Gaz — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 05:44:26 +0000

Entertaining rugby and both sides have some work to do to tighten up defence and discipline. Wallabies cannot afford to give away penalty tries – they must be leading the records by now

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:35:21 +0000

Wales again have no composure, no Team management skills and lacking a captain to make right decisions at critical times, tactics poor and going backwards rapidly each year, good points are they are consistent and predictable tactically. Need to re biuld for the World Cup in 2019,