Wallabies v Pumas, Perth
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@pakman said in Wallabies v Pumas, Perth:
To be fair Morlock was a massive throrn in our side and I did think about adding to Herbert/Little. Giteau to me more like Hawker. Very good, but looked better than his was because of the talent around him.
I liked Mortlock cos he was such a hard running fucker and seemed like a niceish joker when interviewed.
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@MN5 said in Wallabies v Pumas, Perth:
@pakman said in Wallabies v Pumas, Perth:
To be fair Morlock was a massive throrn in our side and I did think about adding to Herbert/Little. Giteau to me more like Hawker. Very good, but looked better than his was because of the talent around him.
I liked Mortlock cos
he was such a hard running fucker and seemed like a niceish joker when interviewedbloke with muscles.Fixed.
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Giteau? Ha! That is one bloke who the more he doesn't play the higher he gets rated. What has he ever done to be rated so highly?
He was a key player for one of the worst eras in Wallaby history. Buggered off overseas and is bought back as some sort of saviour. -
Can't see the Wallabies winning this one if the Pumas play with same style and intent has last week.
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@Wreck-Diver said in Wallabies v Pumas, Perth:
Can't see the Wallabies winning this one if the Pumas play with same style and intent has last week.
I think the Wallabies will go into the game feeling superior in the pecking order , and are far less likely to have that deer in the headlights look about them like they do against us .
I guess im saying I suspect the current Wallabies to be a bit of a downhill type side .
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@pakman said in Wallabies v Pumas, Perth:
Cooper is a world class attacker.Not to rehash the whole Cooper thing, but what world class defensive patterns has he had success against? I would think this is a prerequisite to being labelled world class himself?
Both Cooper and Foley are far from ideal in the 10 slot, I can only hope there are some 10 options that grew up watching Carter or Steyn rather than the dross the Wallabies have been turning out the past 10 years.
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Not really going to matter if the forwards can't win decent ball, and the halfback can't get it to them quick enough.
As for "world class defensive patterns" - you mean the ABs? Yeah based on that assumption everyone but the AB flyhalf is shit based on the fact the AB flyhalf never gets to play the ABs. What a conundrum!
Look, its easy to take shots from an ebony tower, and you frequently do. But please, justify putting Carter and Steyn in the same bracket, if you're talking about Morne Steyn.
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Oh don't play this "poor us Aussies game". You had Genia as the greatest half going a few short years ago, now Cooper has never gotten decent ball.
Obviously his implosions and impotence against the ABs are a huge factor into that simply by the large part they play in the Aussie schedule. Cooper has been weighed and measured by the ABs more than most.
They Boks generally are another decent measuring stick and for the most part and he has been monstered and smothered by them fairly regularly. He has generally performed pretty poorly against the northern teams outside of the June international windows.
If you show me a Quade Cooper highlight reel it's going to be Super Rugby stuff from half a decade ago and him carving up Italy. If that makes him World Class player (a moniker pakman threw out there) I can only imagine how devastating he would been with World Class winger Caleb Ralph outside him and World Class forwards like Troy Flavell and Todd Blackadder securing quick ball - he might almost have been better than that other World Class first five Peter Grant.
To eqaute him with World Class Rupeni Caucau would be an insult to the great Fijian.
Very different prospect feasting on Super Rugby teams with holes in their backline through injury, travel and game plans often concocted in 4days and international defenses. burning Lachie Munro playing on the wing in a Super Rugby semi final and doing cartwheels doesn't means very little in my assessment of how a guy goes at the international game.
Steyn and Carter are mentioned simply because they only 10s in the past 10 years in the 3N/TRC who were remotely world class. Hell, they were the only ones that could hold down their jersey for any length of time. I guess Sanchez is there now too - we assume Barrett gets there soon. Cruden perhaps eventually could have - but certainly looked out of his depth to begin with, but he will never get the tenure. Very different players and very different players Steyn and DC - but both provided an attacking weapon that gave their team a constructive place to attack from.
This isn't to say Cooper isn't a half decent hand at international level. He just isn't remotely World Class.
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@rotated said in Wallabies v Pumas, Perth:
@NTA
Very different prospect feasting on Super Rugby teams with holes in their backline through injury, travel and game plans often concocted in 4days and international defenses. burning Lachie Munro playing on the wing in a Super Rugby semi final and doing cartwheels doesn't means very little in my assessment of how a guy goes at the international game.Lachie Munro. Fark, I just had flashbacks. That post should have had a trigger warning.
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@rotated said in Wallabies v Pumas, Perth:
Oh don't play this "poor us Aussies game". You had Genia as the greatest half going a few short years ago, now Cooper has never gotten decent ball.
Obviously his implosions and impotence against the ABs are a huge factor into that simply by the large part they play in the Aussie schedule. Cooper has been weighed and measured by the ABs more than most.
They Boks generally are another decent measuring stick and for the most part and he has been monstered and smothered by them fairly regularly. He has generally performed pretty poorly against the northern teams outside of the June international windows.
If you show me a Quade Cooper highlight reel it's going to be Super Rugby stuff from half a decade ago and him carving up Italy. If that makes him World Class player (a moniker pakman threw out there) I can only imagine how devastating he would been with World Class winger Caleb Ralph outside him and World Class forwards like Troy Flavell and Todd Blackadder securing quick ball - he might almost have been better than that other World Class first five Peter Grant.
To eqaute him with World Class Rupeni Caucau would be an insult to the great Fijian.
Very different prospect feasting on Super Rugby teams with holes in their backline through injury, travel and game plans often concocted in 4days and international defenses. burning Lachie Munro playing on the wing in a Super Rugby semi final and doing cartwheels doesn't means very little in my assessment of how a guy goes at the international game.
Steyn and Carter are mentioned simply because they only 10s in the past 10 years in the 3N/TRC who were remotely world class. Hell, they were the only ones that could hold down their jersey for any length of time. I guess Sanchez is there now too - we assume Barrett gets there soon. Cruden perhaps eventually could have - but certainly looked out of his depth to begin with, but he will never get the tenure. Very different players and very different players Steyn and DC - but both provided an attacking weapon that gave their team a constructive place to attack from.
This isn't to say Cooper isn't a half decent hand at international level. He just isn't remotely World Class.
Hey come on, leave Flavell out of this, he should have been one of our best ever. Not his fault he had no filter system between fists, feet and brain.
