Hate to tell you but they are getting flogged by Ireland.
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Hate to tell you but they are getting flogged by Ireland.
Thanks for the update champion @jadtiger, I'll be watching the replay later (and hoping for the best) but the Irish (the men in green) are a really good team and have been strong for the last few years, so no great surprise .......
Halbrowne61
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And we are mediocre at best. The rugby revival was short lived !
Sorry i did not mean to spoil your viewing of the game as i thought you must have been watching it.
Halbrowne61
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Only redeeming factor about overnight result was Poms coming from 12-0 down to spank the All Blacks 33-19. Yee ha !
All good champion @jadtiger, I've been out and about, now back, and about to stream a game with optimism amid the gloom .....
I hate losing but I try and find the strengths within - a bit like watching the Tigers 😉
Well, the final score was not pretty for the Wallabies who tried hard, but were simply outclassed by a relentless home side in Dublin, Ireland, the score being 46-19.
Just in the way of sad trivia (and maybe an insight into the current state of play re Australian Rugby at the high-rep end), might I add a comment:
"Mack Hansen, the ex-Brumby who grew up in Canberra and was snapped up by his mother's home country, scored his hat-trick of tries within the first half-hour to kick start Ireland's record 46-19 win over Australia".......
Well, I know this lad's family and the truth is he is Aussie born and bred, was a talented junior back coming up in Canberra, playing outside backs and fullback, played for the Brumbies 2017 to 2021, then had an arrangement to play for the Queensland Reds.
At this point, there was a discussion with senior Australian coaching staff indicative that he would not be chosen in the rep team at national level - so he upped and went to Ireland - at their behest, and now is an established test player wearing the emerald green of Ireland.
And so watching him play today, and performing so well, he is (imo) but one of many Aussie stuff ups in player identification.
What might have been .....
Just in the way of sad trivia (and maybe an insight into the current state of play re Australian Rugby at the high-rep end), might I add a comment:
"Mack Hansen, the ex-Brumby who grew up in Canberra and was snapped up by his mother's home country, scored his hat-trick of tries within the first half-hour to kick start Ireland's record 46-19 win over Australia".......
Well, I know this lad's family and the truth is he is Aussie born and bred, was a talented junior back coming up in Canberra, playing outside backs and fullback, played for the Brumbies 2017 to 2021, then had an arrangement to play for the Queensland Reds.
At this point, there was a discussion with senior Australian coaching staff indicative that he would not be chosen in the rep team at national level - so he upped and went to Ireland - at their behest, and now is an established test player wearing the emerald green of Ireland.
And so watching him play today, and performing so well, he is (imo) but one of many Aussie stuff ups in player identification.
What might have been .....
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That is undoubtedly one of the many reasons why RU in Australia is on it's last legs,unfortunately it has always been administered very poorly and believes it is above criticism and it's "status" will prevent it's demise.
Yes champion @jadtiger, I'm so angry at Rugby Australia admin. They politicize every decision from our national team down, and (again, only my opinion) the way they've dealt with the Shute Shield comp is a disgrace.
Tito Santana
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The ARU and the Tigers are one and the same. God we even have them two wingers plus took one of theirs.
We have finally got a good administrator at the Tigers but the ARU just lacks strategy all across the board. They need to focus on grass roots. But they don’t want to grow the game outside of private schools.
How can rugby compete with league when a lot of the rugby kids are from super wealthy back grounds? Herein lies the fundamental problem. League for a lot of kids and their families is a way out of poverty or a way to a better life. And this is reflected in how they play. With desperation and without self preservation. Union, if they don’t succeed they’ll get a job in investment banking or contruction and life we be great. Union is paying the price for not growing the game after the 2003 World Cup when the Wallabies were still flying. And Phil Waugh is not the guy to rescue it.
There has always been a sense of entitlement in rugby union ever since i was kid back in the 1950's and it is still firmly entrenched.
