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June International Test: Australia vs. England [2nd Test] (18/06/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="Pieter Steph du Teague" data-source="post: 803555" data-attributes="member: 72520"><p>They ran 4 tries past us, and broke our defensive line repeatedly. I think saying that we won through our "cold hard jagged rocks of Northern Hemisphere defence" is frankly inaccurate. We won through the Aussies giving away (lots of) penalties and making some poor mistakes and decisions.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>1. I don't think AP defence is better, just SR attack is much better than AP attack, so the defence appears worse.</p><p>2. I think you misread my post, I didn't say the SR was harder than international rugby, I said it was harder in <em>some ways</em>. For example, it's much faster paced and so is going to challenge players' fitness much more. Obviously international rugby as a whole is far more challenging than SR, but there are aspects of SR which I would argue are probably harder on the players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pieter Steph du Teague, post: 803555, member: 72520"] They ran 4 tries past us, and broke our defensive line repeatedly. I think saying that we won through our "cold hard jagged rocks of Northern Hemisphere defence" is frankly inaccurate. We won through the Aussies giving away (lots of) penalties and making some poor mistakes and decisions. [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] 1. I don't think AP defence is better, just SR attack is much better than AP attack, so the defence appears worse. 2. I think you misread my post, I didn't say the SR was harder than international rugby, I said it was harder in [I]some ways[/I]. For example, it's much faster paced and so is going to challenge players' fitness much more. Obviously international rugby as a whole is far more challenging than SR, but there are aspects of SR which I would argue are probably harder on the players. [/QUOTE]
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