Anyone care to comment?
Anyone think a Tuesday night Test match would work here?Cricket South Africa scrapped the Boxing day Test match today for 3 T20's so who knows,Tuesday Night Test Matches(has a nice ring to it) could be something of a future trend.
Just remember before we write off the Aussies,they did lose to Samoa and win the TN last year
Hats off to the Scots they had some big lumps in the forwards, matched the Aussies physically and used the conditions well. The weather stifled any form of Aussie attack and a good few Aussies were missing - but having said that, the Aussie teams are struggling a little this S15, so are things slipping?
Aussies simply were beat by poor scheduling and the weather. TuesdaY? wtf? Hope our 15 are better prepared or we will suffer the same humiliation!
Worse game of rugby I've EVER EVER watched.
Weather pretty bad (about 60knot winds & heavy rain) - but no creativity in attack / no leadership from captain or any senior players / no combos / poor handling / just absolutely crap - rekin Dingo better sharpen pencil and get over his favouritisms because he is on very thin ice....
I think this game was treated as trial match for Welsh game - once can only hope Wallabies can get some combos and confidence before this weekend.
Depth in Australian rugby very light-on & with this display will prbly only get lighter......
Atrocious weather conditions were the leveller in this case and I would say that the Wallabies can recove from this fiasco. Hope after Staurday we will be able to recover as well from our envisaged fiasco.
Don't worry Wallabys they will not win again. Once Wallabys get into their stride it will be all over for the scoties.
The simple reality is that Australia succumbed to a simple fact; they are a one-dimensional team that is very poor ball in hand. They are shocking. scotland used the same template that Samoa, New Zealand, England, Wales and a host of others have used to defeat them. Scotland have beaten Australia now twice in succession. The conditions may have bee poor, but that would not have changed things at all.
First bllod to the Northern Hemisphere.
Lets keep in mind that rugby in Australia also competes with Australian Football and Rugby League,whereas all our resources are in 1 basket.
Actually, rugby is emphatically behind football in South Africa, marginally better off than cricket.
You are all being stupid. Two days to prepare, TWO DAYS!!! That is an absolute joke....No team can preapre in that time, not us, not the All blacks....sorry, that is the reason they last. No rest after Super rugby and terrible weather also didn't help. They would have lost at to a school boy rugby team, nevermind Scotland.
I am not being stupid. Stupidity would be the defiant refusal to accept that Scotland targeted Australia in a well know weak spot and beat them AGAIN, just as before. Time would not have prevented this defeat. Australia possess NO hard runners that can penetrate the defence, and that right there is the HEART of Australia's running game. Who now is a Horan? Herbert? Campese? Little? Tune? Latham? Burke? Larkham? Nobody. Then there is their weak pack, refusal to adopt any tacticality, averageset pieces and an okay presence at the breakdown. Why would another ten months to prepare have changed what has been exposed badly over the last four years? Deans only has a 52% win record. Time to rethink your stance Blue.
