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Spring Tour: Australia v Wales -2nd Test. (16/06/2012 10:00GMT)
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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 511769" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>Well, yes we <em>could</em> have won the game despite the poor kicking and bad lineout if a couple of those errors hadn't have happened, but it wouldn't have been a very deserved victory imo. Other than the first try, I can barely remember another attacking opportunity in Australia's 22 (did we even have one?). Davies' try was an opportunistic pounce on an Aussie mistake. Australia had 64% possession and 66% territory, we can't realistically expect to win test matches with those kinds of stats! Priestland, Phillips and Rees were the worst offenders as to why we spent all our time defending in our own half. Pocock's dominance of the breakdown and the ref's inconsistencies also added to this, as did some of the errors made.</p><p></p><p>If we fail to get roughly an even amount of territory and possession next week, a close match that we'll probably end up losing is the best we can hope for again. Without a good kicking game we won't get territory, and without a functioning lineout we won't get possession.</p><p></p><p>Team for next week:</p><p></p><p>Gethin Jenkins, Richard Hibbard, Adam Jones, Ian Evans, Alun Wyn Jones, Dan Lydiate, Justin Tipuric, Sam Warburton, Rhys Webb, James Hook, George North, Ashley Beck, Jon Davies, Alex Cuthbert, Lee Halfpenny; Ken Owens, Paul James, Bradley Davies, Ryan Jones, Mike Phillips, Rhys Priestland, Scott Williams.</p><p></p><p>A chance to test a few players like Hibbard, Tips and Webb, and see if the experiment of playing Tipuric and Warburton can work / negate Pocock. Hook can have a chance to see if playing a full season at 10 at club level has improved his game management. Rees is now certainly behind both Hibbard and Owens imo. At least Owens' lineout throwing was on target, the rest of his game which is usually very good should improve with experience.</p><p></p><p>Gameplan should be to kick for the corners, into touch, and assert some of our forward power. Then unleash a potent backline in the right areas of the pitch. If we go down again then so be it, a win would be nice, but ultimately the series is over already.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 511769, member: 13739"] Well, yes we [I]could[/I] have won the game despite the poor kicking and bad lineout if a couple of those errors hadn't have happened, but it wouldn't have been a very deserved victory imo. Other than the first try, I can barely remember another attacking opportunity in Australia's 22 (did we even have one?). Davies' try was an opportunistic pounce on an Aussie mistake. Australia had 64% possession and 66% territory, we can't realistically expect to win test matches with those kinds of stats! Priestland, Phillips and Rees were the worst offenders as to why we spent all our time defending in our own half. Pocock's dominance of the breakdown and the ref's inconsistencies also added to this, as did some of the errors made. If we fail to get roughly an even amount of territory and possession next week, a close match that we'll probably end up losing is the best we can hope for again. Without a good kicking game we won't get territory, and without a functioning lineout we won't get possession. Team for next week: Gethin Jenkins, Richard Hibbard, Adam Jones, Ian Evans, Alun Wyn Jones, Dan Lydiate, Justin Tipuric, Sam Warburton, Rhys Webb, James Hook, George North, Ashley Beck, Jon Davies, Alex Cuthbert, Lee Halfpenny; Ken Owens, Paul James, Bradley Davies, Ryan Jones, Mike Phillips, Rhys Priestland, Scott Williams. A chance to test a few players like Hibbard, Tips and Webb, and see if the experiment of playing Tipuric and Warburton can work / negate Pocock. Hook can have a chance to see if playing a full season at 10 at club level has improved his game management. Rees is now certainly behind both Hibbard and Owens imo. At least Owens' lineout throwing was on target, the rest of his game which is usually very good should improve with experience. Gameplan should be to kick for the corners, into touch, and assert some of our forward power. Then unleash a potent backline in the right areas of the pitch. If we go down again then so be it, a win would be nice, but ultimately the series is over already. [/QUOTE]
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