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1. HERSH

Yeah I'd agree....we always turn up for the big games........glad Roberts has shown the Samoan's how to tackle!!

Just don't like the way some people think that the Welsh fans are always poor judges of rugby!

Great maul defence there after the awful kick reception by Samoa. Wales will still win this

Nah mate, your fans are all good. Went to Uni with loads of welsh rugby lads, good boys. Just you're media that's a joke, just like our football lot, always expect loads and pile the pressure on. Still love a good bit of banter though. But Jonathan Davies is a tool, but equally as are guscott and Barnes and Moore. Love Quinell though, he is realistic.

This is messy

Numbers again and Priestland kicks it!!

Yeah Jiffy is funny..there's a good drinking game to his commentary......Gareth Thomas is pretty realistic too.

Clear blocking by Samoa...

Scrum pummelled by Samoa?!! Samson lee needs to be the messiah, Adam jones will be a huuuuuge loss. Arguably most important nh player to their team for last decade

To be fair, the Samoan scrum is no joke now days, now JJ's improved his technique, if he gets a clean hit in you are Frak

Geth's struggling today too!!

Great save by Samoan 9

Poor kick

from a poor 10 at the moment!!!!!

If Wales lose this, I might boycott the International section for a while, not sure I could take the abuse that's going to occur there...

Not a fan of the booing

Game over.

I'm a Halfpenny fan, but shouldn't have done better on that

Screw this I've had enough......there's no passion in this Welsh side at all, no one wanted to be on that pitch, no one gee-ing the other's up, no leadership from the sidelines.......mad to think that with almost the same side we won the grand slam.

Harsh on Halfpenny but I tell you what the Top 8 battle is seriously on now

Wales should of done a Ireland and made this an uncapped game!

Put my welsh ratings on the other prem season.

Halfpenny world class, given his balls to that team and the blues for a very long time, can't fault him

But wow, dominated at the set piece and break down. Look like England in the early Johnson days, boring, predictable and no confidence.

On another note, Kahn been very good for season and a bit now. Rated him highly when at crusaders, had poor start at ospreys, but been been great since. Commands game well, great instinct and huge commitment. But unlike some PIs, has got a great rugby brain on him

Wales get beat?? Lol

Just doing a bit of lower league scouting on sky sports 1 now. Putting up a good fight against the maoris

Ben youngs has made three awful mistakes and it is costing us big time!!

Roman poite!! You're giving me a prolapse

What mistake has Youngs made? Seen a knock on but nothing else

Farrell's distribution is terrible

England should've taken the points instead of the lineout. But thats the choices you make

Frustrating performance that

Sgt_Pooly wrote:What mistake has Youngs made? Seen a knock on but nothing else

His decision making which is terrible! Well, that one decision really but that was never a tap and go and if you are going to go for it you have got to score a try, no excuses

Anyone got any players they don't want, or interested in any of mine? Up for a deal!

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Sgt_Pooly wrote:What mistake has Youngs made? Seen a knock on but nothing else

His decision making which is terrible! Well, that one decision really but that was never a tap and go and if you are going to go for it you have got to score a try, no excuses

Woodward reckons he made the right call. We got to the Aus line and should of scored. It's not Youngs fault we failed to penetrate the Aus defence.

If we were to go for posts we should have done it instead of going for the lineout 20 mins before

Sgt_Pooly wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Sgt_Pooly wrote:What mistake has Youngs made? Seen a knock on but nothing else

His decision making which is terrible! Well, that one decision really but that was never a tap and go and if you are going to go for it you have got to score a try, no excuses

Woodward reckons he made the right call. We got to the Aus line and should of scored. It's not Youngs fault we failed to penetrate the Aus defence.

If we were to go for posts we should have done it instead of going for the lineout 20 mins before

I disagree with Woodward, the Aussie defence was set and deep and it was never on. I would have gone for the corner actually, as our lineout was pretty good, way better than our breakdown

Yeah agree with CJ it was a silly decision. Youngs wasn't particularly that sharp with a few silly knock ons as well.

Marler struggled badly today. Just isn't stepping up the club form to international yet talk of him starting for the Lions is bery premature at this stage. Can't understand the decision to bring Farrell on at the end as well. Thought Barrett did fairly well and Farrell just isn't the man to have on when your looking for a try

50/50 call, hindsight helps.

Breakdown was really poor. We just seem to flop into it, SH teams have much better technique. Our scrum half always has to dig for it

Wasn't a 50/50 though. Any international scrummie should know not to go then. Agree on the breakdown. Hooper and Palu where fantastic there for the Aussies and showed our lads how it should be done

I thought it was a valid go and this was proven as we got to line, we should have scored.

What would the side be for the Saffas next then? I can see Launchberry and Wood starting

But we didn't and that was by far the more likely outcome given the position. Nothing to do with hindsight, the whole pub was shouting the same thing when he first made the decision

Fluxy wrote:What would the side be for the Saffas next then? I can see Launchberry and Wood starting

I hope so. Robshaw and Wood playing R and L please!

I only saw the last twenty minutes, but how was Goode? I would be highly tempted to move him inside to accommodate his intelligence and the form of Brown.

He was OK, much less chance to show himself off. One thing that annoys me with fullbacks, not Goode specifically but generally at Int level, is letting the rugby ball bounce. Big no

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Wales get beat?? Lol

This is set up for me to make a comeback........

Goode was ok not outstanding. Found space alot harder to come by today. If Corbs is fit he should tart next week. Wood to BS. Palmer out. Annoymous for me. I think the backs should stay the same but then again maybe Brown can slot in at fullback to give us an extra carrier

Manu can be so frustrating to watch, I know he can offload and pass, so why does he back himslef so much?

We didn't but he got Aus on back foot and we SHOULD have scored. Flood could have missed the kick?!?! Totally not an issue for me.

Goode was ok. Nobody was great.

Marler, Palmer, TJ, Sharples poor

Manu passed a bit more today then usual but wasn't always looking where he was passing so killed a lot of momentum.

Thought Sharples was good on attack but he got ran over too many times for an international winger

We are going to have to agree to disagree on that Youngs decision, I thought it was terrible. Marler really struggled, Palmer and TJ anonymous, thought Sharples wasn't that bad, but I missed a lot of the first half so might have sucked then. Care and Robshaw showed some great but also weak moments. T Youngs looks good.

Sexton injured pre game for Ireland. First thought that comes to my head is please God dont be a bad one or else its ROG starting next week

I thought Youngs was alright around the oark and lineout wise but his scrummaging isn't international standard. Hartley would of helped Marler out a hell of a lot more in that game