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Western Force Lose to Waratahs 18 - 23
Western Force have gone down 18 - 23 against the Waratahs in Perth tonight. 15 unanswered points in the second half should have been enough to see the Force maintain momentum and upset the tahs, but it wasn't to be. We rather had to settle for a single bonus point for losing by less than 8 points (our 3rd for the season)
Good news from the night was seeing Sheps pull an 80 minute shift without injury - he was handy with the tactical boot too. The locks 'n loosies were tight as always, front row struggled a little, but didn't embarrass themselves and the backs did their job. Whilst there were a few clangers which may or may not have turned the game, all in all it was a team loss.
For mine, I felt pretty much the same as I do when we draw, which indicates to me that we didn't entirely suck, but we let something that should have been ours slip away. again ...
What do you reckon?
To summarise: 'tahs suck, we get 4 points for the bye next week and then we're up against top of the table Stormers.
Bring it on.
Random thoughts on the game with 'tahs
Angrysad so this is going to be allover the place;
After the 'tah player got a yellow (Foley IIRC) the backline became deep, and they managed to actually make metres, so why did this happen only after the yellow? The entire first half they were flat as usual and weren't going anywhere.
Receiving kickoffs - what the bloody hell happened there! You'd think they were a second tier NPC team with how badly they were 'attempting' to take the kickoffs!
Ma'afu - ???????????????? I really need someone to explain why he is in the XV, let alone 22. We have gold on one side of the frontrow, and rubbish on the other.
Harvey - I thought he actually had a good game, but he needs to spend a few days on a bike non-stop to work those short twitch muscles! Every time he tries to step he just stops on the spot and gets tackled.
Cummins - 13 is his position.
At the moment we are basically the blues with a very good pack. Lots of potential but it isn't coming off in the backline, and I don't think a decent specialist flyhalf would actually fix it at the moment.