ashley bach
Cricketer Of The Year
Congratulations to the Wallabies who successfully chalked up their first ever defeat to the Italians.
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Official Rugby Thread
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ripper868
International Coach
Italy deserved it tbf, Capuozzo is a superstar. Felt for Donaldson missing the kick on debut to win it.
Loving these weekends of rugby, looking forward to France/Boks, hoping Pumas can get back in this Wales game after that charge down.
Also, congrats to the NZ ladies, decent crowd for the final as well!
Loving these weekends of rugby, looking forward to France/Boks, hoping Pumas can get back in this Wales game after that charge down.
Also, congrats to the NZ ladies, decent crowd for the final as well!
ripper868
International Coach
The team that won today is young, a lot of the core 'stars' of theirs are 22-4 years old, so will be around for 2-3 world cups - I don't think they are at a level where they'll threaten the world cup, but they have improved significantly - a win like this would be 1 in 15 years for them normally, but this is the 2nd 'big; scalp they've taken this year (beating Wales in the 6 nations this year as well) - so I'd say the 'something special' comments relate to some of the individual brilliance they have, as they've often had 1-2 guys carrying them (Parisse, Castrogiovanni) - but now seem to have a group of 6-7 that would be in consideration to be classed as properly international standard players, rtaher than jsut shirt fillers.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
They are improving a lot after being dreadful for a long time. They also had a good win over Wales (in Wales) at the start of the year. Unfortunately they are in the same Rugby World Cup pool as France and NZ, so won't go through.
Howe_zat
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Also yeah Capuzzo is legit.
What's notable here is that both tries come from the same backline move of switching over 3-4 sets of hands from behind the 10 to stack the openside. This is actually pretty new from Italy, I don't think I've seen them do this in the six nations, so maybe they thought this is just how to get around Australia?
What's notable here is that both tries come from the same backline move of switching over 3-4 sets of hands from behind the 10 to stack the openside. This is actually pretty new from Italy, I don't think I've seen them do this in the six nations, so maybe they thought this is just how to get around Australia?
Heboric
International Debutant
Game spoilt by that **** ref Wayne Barnes, hideous individual
ripper868
International Coach
Which bit did he spoil? I'm sure Rassie will have a video on it soon (omitting RSA neck rolls of course) but if you're referring to the PSDT red card, it was 100% the correct call.
the big bambino
International Captain
Italy beat Australia in the rugby but fail to make the soccer WC Australia's qualified. Personally think this is a great result and may there be many more humiliations for the wallabies and the sleazebags running the sport here.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
He was dreadful in that 2007 Fra-NZ qf as was WAY too inexperienced, but is now a pretty decent ref imo.
Aritro
International Regular
Haha, I've decided to start watching rugby because I want to make the extortionate fees I pay to Stan Sports to otherwise watch a few Champions League matches worth it. I'm probably the only person in Australia who's now watching more rugby than they used to since they moved to Stan Sports.
After beating France the other day I'd rather thought I'd caught them on an upturn so this latest reverse is a bit unfortunate.
Also I learned yesterday while reading the paper on the shitter that the Wallabies don't pick anyone who plays club rugby overseas. Fantastic policy, well thought out. It worked so well for Scottish football back in the day when they stopped picking anyone good.
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ashley bach
Cricketer Of The Year
Good to see you making use of Stan sports. They didn't beat France the other day, they lost 30-29 at the death.
Aritro
International Regular
Oh dear. I'd filed it away as a victory in my head, so this is most disappointing!
Burgey
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TBF, losing by a point or two is a win for Aus rugby.