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.

Must score here.

Lovely from Priestland thats more of a clever kick, good offloads from both wingers and Tipuric is every where

Billy!!!!

Wales can push for the match here. Make or break

Why are they screaming that James is dropping it? WHY WOULD HE, please don't fall for it Joubert!

Thats 1!!!

Warning?

I don't think you should be allowed to ref a game unless you have been a prop

Oh god. Ben Alexander is scrum penalty MACHINE!

do we go for more scrums here? this series it's been such a lottery I'm not sure it's the best plan, even if our scrum is that much better.

Hope Adam lasts.

He is screaming for help from the ref too Credit!!!

Didnt think I would be saying this, but this game is opening up I think you need to bring Hook on at 12 instead of Beck and give him carte blanche to destroy Oz. I think he has got that pace that Beck hasnt

HOW JOUBERT HOW?

James had noone to scrummage against!!!

Ryan Jones you can sh2g my imaginary sister!

RYAN!!!!!


YEs!!!!!!



poss yellow card for Aus for their deliberate knock on, the ref should really go back for that.

Good try that, just what we needed. Tidy.

Ryan Jones deserves that, he's doing some great work behind the scenes!!!

We still need a restart though, and EXACTLY THE SAME AS LAST WEEK, DON@T STOP PLAYING!!!!!!!!!!!

Outstanding Aus defence, but a deserved try eventually. Wallaby players really putting their bodies on the line against some big men. If the try hadn't come I was sensing a yellow for Aus (or was that more wishful thinking?).

Nice well done team try,
but come on lads go foe it now, show you can hold your concentration and go for more points not defend the lead.

My commentary is about a minute before the action LOL
Wales score?

Make or break it was!.
Do not let the foot off the pedal wales.
Straight back at them.

Billy - my stream is about two minutes behind.

12 - 16.

16 - 12 to Wales, billy.


AWJ needs to come off. now.

And that was good defending from Georgie.

And we have just stopped playing!

Why don't we play when ahead?!

why is he going to TMO? that's a try,

and typical Wales, score one, concede one two mins later.

Argh Fing hell same old same old

Unbeleivable

oh actually I can see why he went to TMO. Still! tis a try.

Great try oz. Expected theyd wana score imnediately.
Nearly lost it but fair try.

A few rucks before that though big shoulder charges, and one nearly knocks 1/2p clean out!

Barnes missed the conversion. Small mercies I guess.


Stupid by Wales, just so blydi stupid.

Terrible defence. Looks like the Aussies can go up a gear.

Just pure village

Players rushing out, we lose our heads when we take the lead! Why not just treat it as 0 - 0?

It all comes back to our mentality, we are too fragile to win!

Fragile? no the word is stupid.

This is still on for Wales here. Be a right sheeter if they lost this one by a small margin as well

At least he's used the bench. We'll see if we have the top two inches now.

Stupidity comes from mental weakness!!!

rugbydreamer wrote:Fragile? no the word is stupid.

+1

I can't watch!!

Hey look the best way to stop Oz scoring is not score ourselves because when we do they do

OMG, Hook is on for Priestland. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to watch.

mowgli

Spot on mate!

Last week we did the same, the restart was Aus's best weapon!

Now shut them down and play smart

Should get the kick but the restart is all that more important...

right, don't blydi concede now Wales!!!

Should get the kick but the restart is all that more important...

Here we go, 1 good lineout and maul and it may just be game over...

I bet it's not!

rugbydreamer wrote:


OMG, Hook is on for Priestland. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to watch.

So Dreamer, as a mod do you get the picture before the rest of us? Your comments are ahead of the action.

Get lost ref get lost

Joubert it was the same maul mate!!!

We were touched first which meant it was a maul, if they then back off it's not our fault FFS!!!!