All seems a bit quiet leading in to such a big game?
Anyone a bit nervous? I am......
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All seems a bit quiet leading in to such a big game?
Anyone a bit nervous? I am......
DHP is starting!!!!
http://www.rugby.com.au/News/2016/06...irst-test-team
The talk on rugby360 (rugby from an exclusively Sydney angle) last night was that Check isn't taking any of eddies bait. Team should have been announced by now tho
There it is
WOOHOO!!
Go DHP! that is awesome news!
can't really complain about that back row either. I assume that Mumm is a cover for lock and 6/7.
Great News for DHP.
At last our first Wallaby that has come through the system. :)
Officials for the game
Australia vs England in Brisbane
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant referees: Craig Joubert (South Africa), Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
From: http://www.rugby365.com/latest-news/...o-12-june-2016
Well if England try any box kicks I'm sure between DHP and Folau the Wallabies will be well covered
Just arrived in Briz for the tour!! Made even better with the DHP news! Shall wear a little bit of blue amongst the green and gold on Sat night!!
The poms may talk of revenge etc but it doesn't matter - we can't steal the title of being kicked out of your own world cup during the pool stage.
Bit of unfortunate news- Alec Hepburn, who played for the Spirit in 2014, is going to be capped by the English Saxons over the weekend. This will make him permanently ineligible for Australia and mean that a return to the Force is now out of the picture. Hepburn was born in Perth. I have a feeling that, like Jake Ball, Hepburn is the kind of player where we face-palm for letting go.
Does that make him permanently ineligible? It's not like when Jason Jones-Hughes played for the "full" Wallabies, but only in a tour match, but was still able to play for Wales?
Can't blame these young guys for going. There's not been much to entice them to stay in WA of late :-(
Congrats DHP fully deserved.
team looks pretty good.
Interested to see how the two crash ballers go in the centres. Cheika was a big fan of two playmakers at 10 & 12 so this is departing from his script but cheika seems to be able to bring the best out of the troops and lets face it England are not the most creative backline team on the planet :sarcastic:
only ? would be at lock. England has big raps on the two Saracan locks. Arnold deserves a run and is very solid but Coleman is more aggressive out of the two and may have been better to face off against the English locks.
we've got size all over the park and should hope to touch up the poms a tiny bit.
England have named Burrell at 12 (104 kg) with the lighter Joseph outside him, so the two bigger centres could be to counter the English crash-ball threat and target Joseph. There was thought that Te'o would be 12, who really is a crash-ball merchant, and naming Burrell may be a smart move by Jones.
Itoje & Kruis are certainly a useful pair of locks and it'll be interesting to see how possibly the best club/national lock combination in the NH fairs against us. England have picked both Launchbury & Lawes on the bench, and no back-rower, so I expect to see Itoje move to 6 later in the game.
This is pretty close to the best XV England have at the moment, so I wouldn't underestimate them, but they seem more solid and workmanlike than exciting.
Since when have Burrell, Joseph been crash ball centres ? I think they're bit more creative than that ... but is there a few nervous Aussies out there with Folou & DHP performing in Super rugby, but are now playing "out of position" internationally against an English backline who are all in their primary positions ...
Still, would put money on Haskell getting carded for 10 for thumping Pocock out of frustration at being beaten all game !