Bledisloe II: a pakeha, a Maori, a Fijian and two hookers walk into a bar...

[zer0]

Far too lateral. Australia aren't rolling over to die like they did last week, so the forwards need to do some dirty work to create the space.

[Len]

Australia just holding on. Only a matter of time till they leak another couple of tries. The ABs will kick it up a gear in the 20 too.

[zer0]

WTF happened in that scrum? Ref calls engage then the Wallaby loosies just disengage and somehow earn a free kick?

[Spy]

WTF happened in that scrum? Ref calls engage then the Wallaby loosies just disengage and somehow earn a free kick?

Frustrating

[Spy]

Now that's good rugby

[Len]

Dagg has been good tonight. The Taffs used to give him stick, then he made their great ginger hope Patchell look shite.

[Len]

That Leinert Brown fella has gone good too

[Spy]

Fuck off little kicks

[jared_7]

It's amazing, I feel like the Wallaby scrum has looked to be struggling all game yet they're the ones who have come away with all the calls?!

[Spy]

It's amazing, I feel like the Wallaby scrum has looked to be struggling all game yet they're the ones who have come away with all the calls?!

It's been gregan-esque

[Len]

Awesome run from Smith.

[Spy]

Gee that's good play.

[Spy]

Fuck off little kicks you cunts

[zer0]

FFS Cruden.

[Len]

Little kick bellends. He could have fallen over the tryline then!

[zer0]

These late tries are an annoyance.

EDIT: Nope. He somehow managed to lose it.

[Len]

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[Len]

Aussies

[scuzzaman]

The big problem, with gauging how well the All Blacks have handled the transition from RWC champions to losing half the team in retirement, is that the Aussies have been such pants all year.

Hopefully the Saffers and Argies can give us a better gauge.

[Spy]

Good second half. Can't help feeling we were worth an extra 10 points, but 20 points over Australia is always a good result.

Wallabies pretty impotent despite their early truculence, never really in the game. They've got big problems. Moore's got to go. Lineout a shambles, scrum probably statistically had a win but goodness knows how. Backline clueless.

Coles, Cane, Retallick, Barrett all had big games. Dagg finished well twice. Good debut from linert brown. Some poor kicking.

[Lizard]

Loved the slow-mo replay, following the scrum penalty at about 73 minutes, of Cheika in the box yelling at the ref. If my lip reading is right he, said, "Oh, f*** off. F*** off. F***ing cheating c***."

All class, Cheiks. All class.

[scuzzaman]

Good second half. Can't help feeling we were worth an extra 10 points, but 20 points over Australia is always a good result.

Wallabies pretty impotent despite their early truculence, never really in the game. They've got big problems. Moore's got to go. Lineout a shambles, scrum probably statistically had a win but goodness knows how. Backline clueless.

Coles, Cane, Retallick, Barrett all had big games. Dagg finished well twice. Good debut from linert brown. Some poor kicking.

Just to put their problems in context, they've faced the number 1 ranked team in the world, true, but that team has also lost a handful of some of the greatest players the game has ever seen. That team has also been hit by injuries and had to reform the front row, the centre field, and the back 3, on the fly.

And the Aussies have still been dicked badly twice in succession. They were a little better tonight, sure, a little more "physical" as they like to call it, but their discipline sucked (losing the ball when on attack, in a game where you're struggling for any possession at all, due to off the ball idiocy, is fecking criminal) and they still looked basically clueless.

Speaking of increased "physicality", why does every game Quade Cooper plays in devolve into a running series of off the ball niggles, cheap shots, and infringements?

And the Aussie commentators wonder why the ref didn't even want to talk to the Aussie captain. Well, I could show them a few clues.

[Lizard]

ALB looked right at home, which is good.

[Len]

The ABs didn't play to their best either. Quite a few opportunities blown. If they had clicked it would be a bloodbath. Argentina and SA will give us bigger problems

[scuzzaman]

The ABs didn't play to their best either. Quite a few opportunities blown. If they had clicked it would be a bloodbath. Argentina and SA will give us bigger problems

I hope so. Because we need to know before we go north in November.