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    Sharpe Inspires Wallabies to 3pt Win Over Wales

    A reshuffled Australia backline expertly overcame the shock of losing full back Kurtley Beale and fly half Quade Cooper to injury and led their team to a 21-18 win in the Bronze Final.

    Taking centre stage in a composed effort at Eden Park on Friday was Berrick Barnes, who has spent most of Australia’s World Cup campaign on the bench.

    With Cooper hobbling off with a serious knee injury in the 22nd minute, the inside centre suddenly found himself at the helm of the Wallabies back line and turned in a man-of-the-match performance that included a try, timely drop goal and an array of deft kicks for field position.

    It must have felt like history repeating for Barnes, who made his made his second appearance for Australia in a RWC 2007 match against Wales, filling in at fly half for the injured Stephen Larkham.

    By comparison Wales fly half James Hook appeared out of sorts and missed a couple of early penalties before being replaced by Stephen Jones in the 51st minute.

    With Beale also having succumbed to his troublesome hamstring, the improvised Australian back line saw replacements Rob Horne at inside centre, Anthony Faingaa at outside centre while Adam Ashley-Cooper shifted to full back.

    Kicking deep

    Despite the disruption, the Wallabies enjoyed a majority of field position courtesy of a thoughtful kicking game that constantly sent Wales scurrying back into their 22.

    Most noticeable was the absence of the midfield high balls that undermined their efforts against New Zealand in last week’s semi-final.

    However, the strategy of kicking deep meant the Wallabies were forced to spend 60 per cent of the match in defence and racked up 146 tackles to the 74 that were made by Wales.

    Yet the Australians displayed the dogged determination without the ball that got them through their quarter-final against South Africa.

    The forwards constantly imposed themselves in the tackle, the wide men rushed up effectively when outnumbered and the team did not miss a tackle in the second half as they closed out the match.

    Wales did not help their own cause by making 12 handling errors, including one pass on a promising attack that ended up in the hands of the linesman rather than wing Shane Williams.

    Torrid breakdown

    The new-look Wallabies front-row stood up to the challenge posed by their more experienced opponents and earned a number of scrum penalties, as well as ensuring the Welsh had to play with unsettled ball.

    The breakdown was more of a torrid affair with both sides passionately throwing themselves into the fray but Australia flanker David Pocock once again showed his class by earning a couple of crucial penalties.

    Wales full back Leigh Halfpenny may have had the final say with a converted try to finish the match, but the night belonged to Wallaby second row Nathan Sharpe, who was carried from the field by his exhausted teammates.

    The 100-cap veteran inspired a brave Australian performance worthy of his impressive milestone.

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    How about the title says Sharpie undefeated in World Cup!
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    How useless were those two touch judges? Each one was metres away when Wales were able to score tries from a forward pass that an NFL player would be proud of and a player so far in touch that he was almost in the first row of seating.

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    Williams was out

    1st thing 1st Congrads to the team that was feilded tonight they played well and most deserve to be on the NH tour of wales.. Nathan you beauty sorry if you miss the tour with the injury but that means you will be fit and healthy for our opening game here at NIB in 2012

    I watched the play in slow motion and he was holding the ball when his legs were over the line then he pushed the ball back to the half

    This is not a beat up on the game just another example of very poor quaility refereing I think the IRB neds to take on board the comments by the fans before the next world cup

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    Wayne Barnes is a muppet.

    Well done Sharpie, what a performance of skill and guts, ended by yet another humble interview, much like your career. Legend

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    i think the problem lies in the fact that the touchies are no longer just linesmen but are "assistant referrees" therefore are not focussing soley on the touch line but are more worried about whats going on on the the field...

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    What, like judging if a pass goes 2m forward...that type of thing?

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    Or judging whether shortly after a pass thrown back by a good half metro is forward and comparing it to the other one

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burgs View Post
    Wayne Barnes is a muppet.

    Well done Sharpie, what a performance of skill and guts, ended by yet another humble interview, much like your career. Legend
    I didn't think Barnes was that bad. That forward pass was a long way ahead of play and he must have been relying on the TJ/AR to call it. Similarly that player in touch was definitely the responsibility of the TJ.

    We have a very good win/loss record with Barnes as the ref.

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    Surely he has a few more Tests left in him to go past Bernie and f'ing Campo?

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    Quote Originally Posted by James View Post
    I didn't think Barnes was that bad. That forward pass was a long way ahead of play and he must have been relying on the TJ/AR to call it. Similarly that player in touch was definitely the responsibility of the TJ.

    We have a very good win/loss record with Barnes as the ref.
    thought on the whole barnes was ok, but the assistants were worse than useless. The missed Welsh pass was so far forward Shane Williams almost gave himself up. The ar was right in line with not a word
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    Geez with all the whinghing about the forward pass anyone would think your mob lost.

    Imagine if our boys hadn't kicked 2 from 9 shots at goal, then you'd be really whinghing about the pass.

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    Oh come on wrf, even the try scorer looked confused
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    Quote Originally Posted by welshrugbyfan View Post
    Geez with all the whinghing about the forward pass anyone would think your mob lost.

    Imagine if our boys hadn't kicked 2 from 9 shots at goal, then you'd be really whinghing about the pass.
    Whinging? Sounds like merely stating facts; as is the incredibly off goal kicking, which I think had more of an influence in the outcome..

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