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Yea sorry, i should of given his stats an approx 1.5x boost.Originally Posted by Zimeric
Tries - 0
Try Assists - 0
Runs - 22
Tackles Bust - 5
Offloads - 2
Linebreaks - 0
Tackles made - 27
Errors - 2
Yea, pretty similar to Carter.
I think 240 minutes of rugby can give us a good indication. But by round 6 we will have a better picture, usually one month is a good period of time to judge form. If you think its too early i don't disagree. I was only using the point about Coleman playing well to say there is still a place in the game for agile 12's!
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I think the Shorks had it in their game plan to smash our best players (Poey and JOC, for eg) and if they got injured in the process, well and good. If this is done fairly, fair enough. Rugby is a hard game. But I can't help but wonder of Bam Bam's injury would not have been as bad if he wasn't pinned and headlocked so.
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Not sure if it was the same guy, but I was chatting to a group of Sharks supporters as we walked out and they were asking where the ref was from, as they couldn't believe how one-sided he was.
Mind you, even if the ref had been perfect from the red card onwards, I don't think we would have won with our tactics playing 14 against 15. Sharpie had a bit of a mare, lining up as first receiver and then passing half the time and dropping it half of the rest. I can see the purpose of our best runner passing when it was 15 vs 15, as he was committing two defenders, but when we were a man down it doesn't produce the overlap it is supposed to. In that instance, better to keep ball in hand and try and tire them out with repeated phases of ball. Instead, they tired us out and we weren't bright enough to change the game plan.
I wouldnt describe it as bashing.......more like running them off their feet. The highlanders were recycling the ball so fast the Bulls had little time to set their defense. I was amazed by the level of intensity and high tempo pace of the game they played. What was excellent to see was they pretty much used the entire 22 to maintain that intensity. Bloody great.
How funny is it that pretty much everyone thought the Highlanders would be the shittest team in this year's competition, along with the Rebels and Lions of course. Kudos to Jamie Joseph. I wonder if they'll consider him as a replacement for Graham Henry.
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The Bulls would have sat in the change rooms after the game and wanted to know "what the f*** just happened out there".
I watched the bulls warm up and thought who is ever going the knock this team off with the size of most of their players. Little beats big when little is smart.
Watch it again, the commitment of the Highlanders players especially the forwards at the breakdown was awesome, yeah the backs ran them off their feet but only through the work up front.
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Giteau snarls at the players around him every match and he is the greatest player alive...
"Bloody oath we did!"
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Totally agree - the ref was an absolute shocker...you could've excused a yellow card in the heat of the moment but the reply clearly showed the Sharks player being parallel to the ground (ie not spearing) and 'guilty' Force player actually releasing him rather than drining him into the ground with a follow up shoulder....borderline penalty. The yellow card was equally unmerited, unwarranted. Who knows what would have happened without these two cards but yeh, too many handling errors and turnovers on both sides....wasn't a very attractive game. Go the Force.
Yeh, well unfortunately Gitts hasn't been anywhere near the best in the world for the past two years (not even in the best 15 Aussies either). Perhaps they're the long term effects of having one of the best ever inside centres playing out of position (at number ten) for so long. On last year's form Giteau shouldn't even make the Wallabies squad...jury's still out this year, I guess, but I don't think he'll ever play again like he did in his heyday 3 and more years ago.