Australia v Wales 3rd Test: Teams and Build-Up

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Saturday 23rd June, 2012
15:00 EST, 06:00 BMT
Allianz Stadium (SFS), Moore Park, Capacity: 45,500
Current forecast for Saturday: Fine, 7-15 deg. C
Sydney Radar (The ground is halfway between .Sydney and .Randwick on the diagonal)

Australia:
15 Kurtley Beale
14 Adam Ashley-Cooper
13 Rob Horne
12 Pat McCabe
11 Digby Ioane
10 Berrick Barnes
9 Will Genia
8 Wycliff Palu
7 David Pocock (capt.)
6 Scott Higginbotham
5 Nathan Sharpe
4 Sitaleki Timani
3 Sekope Kepu
2 Tatafu Polota Nau
1 Benn Robinson

Reserves:
16 Stephen Moore, 17 Ben Alexander, 18 Rob Simmons, 19 Dave Dennis, 20 Michael Hooper, 21 Nic White, 22 Anthony Fainga'a.

Wales:
15 Leigh Halfpenny
14 Alex Cuthbert
13 Jonathan Davies
12 Ashley Beck
11 George North
10 Rhys Priestland
9 Mike Phillips
8 Ryan Jones
7 Sam Warburton (capt.)
6 Dan Lydiate
5 Alun Wyn Jones
4 Bradley Davies
3 Adam Jones
2 Matthew Rees
1 Gethin Jenkins

Reserves:
16 Ken Owens, 17 Paul James, 18 Luke Charteris, 19 Justin Tipuric, 20 Rhys Webb, 21 James Hook, 22 Scott Williams.

rugbydreamer wrote:harsh on Geth there, he was trying to move.


that's 2 re-starts dropped by AWJ, not good enough.

Agree, thats another poor ref decision. I think with a NH ref we would have won last week, I hope the refs performance is not the main talking point again.

15 v 16 again then

we're not helping ourselves at the breakdown either mind. Far too passive. Nice to see Joubert penalise the Aussies for going straight down over the ball for a change mind a few mins back.

Who puked on the pitch? I heard the commentators say "The contents of his stomach came up..."

Awww Sammo...get well soon. I hope it's not like the bloody RWC semi again.

But go Tippy!

Shoulder to the neck on Beck then!!! That stopped a possible break too

the great North South divide, I always thought the extra man was meant to be the effect of the crowd, seems not in the south.

Matthew Rees has to go.

His lineout work is dreadful.

for the love o god why so many mistakes!!

can't believe I got up at 6 for this.

Phillips

Note to self... YOU CANNOT KICK!

We are just making too many soft mistakes.

Ok that was a great clearance kick

Cari - it was Sam that threw up.


Better last 5 mins at the breakdown tho, we've won a couple of turnovers at least (even if Ryan's wasn't actually all that legal!)

AAARRRGGGHHHH Why just gift them an out in their 22, Danny your better than that!

Every time we get up there we give them their exit, they don't need a strategy, they just need 3 rucks before they get a pen!!!

This ref seems to think you can roll away from a ruck with 3 Aussies on top of you???

well that is blatant bias, Aussies lying on all over the place but Lydiate gets pinged

Lydiate was in the wrong there mind, Aus have been doing it too but he was too static, and gave a soft pen

it's not bias, it's just incompetent.

Lads, we'll have to deal with it. CJ wants us to lose. He's another not very nice South African.

Higginbotham goes into a maul with a forearm smash?

Why are Aus allowed to do anything they want?!

I thought when a player was tackled he couldn't get back up and run again?

Genia and Barnes have both done this now.

Anyone know what this penalty is for?

aaaarggg. this is so frustrating to watch.

Head knock and vomiting is not good at all

Because we've let go dreamer, see we're playing to the rules, whereas they are playing a yard beyond them!!!

Morgannwg wrote:Anyone know what this penalty is for?

Philllips was about a mile and a half offside

Another poor decision. I could not see any offside there but again he is dying to ping Wales.

offside, Morg.


Ah mean we're killing ourselves out here though. Re-start and line out. We need a miracle to fix that at HT>

Swinging arm on Phillips. He does not look happy

well we are playing badly but this ref is just about as appalling as a ref can be, Hes makig clancy look good.

Once again the match is all about the man in the middle and not the two teams It's getting really tedious now...

Why does RP still try drop-goals after the season he has had?

Yes I agree awful reffing

Palu all over the ball there!

RP you migh as well not have bothered!!!

Bad decision making, bad basics, poor unit coordination = NO FUDGING CHANCE!

FFS, we know we can't do a DG! and that was a shocking attempt.


Loads for us to work on. We're getting better at the breakdown, and we've shown lovely glimpses of offloading play and moving up the pitch, just really need to do the basics a lot better. We're hamstringing ourselves out there.

Nonsense. Ok the ref ihas missed a couple of things but Wales are making so many basic errors we'll feel lucky not to be down by more. The lineout is a shambles and too many penalties yet again. pitiful

agree with you there mckay. We are so far our own worse enemy out there it's just not funny anymore.

Only 3 points down? I'll take that.

My dog has disappeared, found him under the table with his welsh dragon squeaky toy

Cari wrote:Once again the match is all about the man in the middle and not the two teams It's getting really tedious now...

Well nobody forces you to post/read on this forum. Do you have anything better to do? Some of us are outspoken and today with Joubert trying to kill us off, I welcome it.

Higginbotham smashes Phillips with a forearm nothing, 1/2p clumsily clattered by a lock nothing, Pocock wrestling players off the side of the ruck at every opportunity nothing, Aus pack lying all over the rucks nothing.

But in their defence we are just that bad, 3 restarts = 2 penalties, 1 lineout = 1 pen, and phillips boxkick dead = 1 pen.

I'm not being biased am I when I say we again have handed them all of their points?!

mckay1402 wrote:Nonsense. Ok the ref ihas missed a couple of things but Wales are making so many basic errors we'll feel lucky not to be down by more. The lineout is a shambles and too many penalties yet again. pitiful

Yep

I think Cari is more annoyed at the reffing not the comments, Morg.

The Aussies are killing themselves. Loose ball carries, soft first-up tackling, dodgy lineouts. We should be miles ahead by now with all the pill and field position we've had.

40 minutes of errors. Wales look lethargic. Just not good enough. Poor ref as well.

so....

both sides are killing themselves?

This must be awful to watch for a neutral!

mckay1402 wrote:Nonsense. Ok the ref ihas missed a couple of things but Wales are making so many basic errors we'll feel lucky not to be down by more. The lineout is a shambles and too many penalties yet again. pitiful

So far he has missed two high tackles, one instance of crossing, two of obstruction, one late tackle, multiple orange players sealing off, multiple orange knoock ons, multiple orange offside in the defensive line, but yeah only a couple of things.

TO - he's missed some of the stuff we've done too.

We are getting humped by the ref, so many high tackles no time on the ball to compete its all rather frustraing

Credit

I think this is actually the best Ive seen of Aus so far, they look dangerous when the ball goes wide, Barnes and Genia look sharp.

I'd say the game is going to go one of 2 ways, if Wales tighten up and straighten out the set piece they'll win, if not they are going to fall 3 - 5 points short... again!

I know which scenario I'd put my money on!

Morgannwg wrote:

Cari wrote:Once again the match is all about the man in the middle and not the two teams It's getting really tedious now...

Well nobody forces you to post/read on this forum. Do you have anything better to do? Some of us are outspoken and today with Joubert trying to kill us off, I welcome it.

Morg - Calm down. I wasn't having a go at this forum, I meant generally. Happens a lot in internationals these days it seems. More discussion is focused on the ref rather than the teams/players. The referee should hardly be mentioned at all.