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Official Rugby Thread
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Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Valentini (born in Melbourne) is better than every AB loose forward except Savea. He's a great player.
Also Wright is much better than Perofeta.
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Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Agree. Codie Taylor is past it and not a great thrower, Tuipolutu is a poor lineout option, and Scott Barrett is only adequate. There's a young Dutch guy (ironically called Fabian HOLLAND) who came here in high school who will be a great lock, but isn't eligible yet.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Didn't see the Oz-Wales game. How did Botham's grandson go?
ripper868
International Coach
Played really well, came close to picking up a try, looked like he belonged.
As you mentioned Rob Valetini before, he was excellent. Had a couple of runs that led to strong Wallabies attacks and secured a couple of key turnovers (one literally at the tryline as wales pushed for the try to bring them in striking distance).
So far, I'd say every match today is worth a watch, or at minimum extended highlights viewing.
The last 10 mins of SA v IRE is probably worth a real time watch.
ripper868
International Coach
Good win for Argentina, good series - of course probably a very different outcome with the 'A' team for France, but still some great games.
These last 2 weekends have been fantastic, every game has been enjoyable, in different ways. Pretty clear gulf between Aus/Wales/Arg and the level above of ENG/NZ/SA/IRE - France can't really comment on as clearly the reserves came out.
Oh and Scotland of course doing their North American tour...because...yeah.
Next week should be fun as well, though suspect some blowouts for Fiji (v NZ) and Portugal (v SA). Very interested to see how Georgia do v Wallabies, think they could do a number as the tight 5 is usually very solid.
Wales v the Queensland Reds on Friday is on as well...would of preferred just a 3rd Aus v Wales but sure.
These last 2 weekends have been fantastic, every game has been enjoyable, in different ways. Pretty clear gulf between Aus/Wales/Arg and the level above of ENG/NZ/SA/IRE - France can't really comment on as clearly the reserves came out.
Oh and Scotland of course doing their North American tour...because...yeah.
Next week should be fun as well, though suspect some blowouts for Fiji (v NZ) and Portugal (v SA). Very interested to see how Georgia do v Wallabies, think they could do a number as the tight 5 is usually very solid.
Wales v the Queensland Reds on Friday is on as well...would of preferred just a 3rd Aus v Wales but sure.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
18 months ago, England would've been in the Aus/Wales group but have advanced so much since Jones left, he really was quite toxic.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Already working his magic with the Cherry Blossoms.
Congrats also to our U20 chaps who backed up their defeat of the Baby Boks in the group stage by beating Ireland in the semi and who will now face Le Petit Bleus in the final after they turned around an earlier 1 point loss to NZ in their pool game pretty spectacularly with a 55-31 thrashing in the other semi.