Australia vs Wales RWC Pool A 10th October

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AUSTRALIA v WALES
10 October 2015
KO: 16:45
Twickenham, London

Live on [tbc]

Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Touch judges: Jérôme Garcès (France) & Stuart Berry (South Africa)
Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)

A. Head to Head

38 Played 38
27 Won 10
1 Drawn 1
10 Lost 27
897 Points 590

B. Recent Form

8 November 2014
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
28 – 33 Australia

30 November 2013
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
26 – 30 Australia

1 December 2012
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
12 – 14 Australia

23 June 2012
Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
20 – 19 Australia

16 June 2012
Etihad Stadium, Melbourne
25 – 23 Australia

9 June 2012
Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
27 – 19 Australia

3 December 2011
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
18 – 24 Australia

21 October 2011
Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand
21 – 18 Australia

TEAMS:

AUSTRALIA

I Folau; A Ashley-Cooper, T Kuridrani, M Giteau, D Mitchell; B Foley, W Genia; S Sio, S Moore, S Kepu; K Douglas, D Mumm; S Fardy, S McMahon, D Pocock.

Replacements: T Polota-Nau, J Slipper, G Holmes, R Simmons, B MCCalman, N Phipps, M Toomua, K Beale.

WALES

G Anscombe; A Cuthbert, G North, J Roberts, L Williams; D Biggar, G Davies; P James, S Baldwin, S Lee; L Charteris, AW Jones; S Warburton, J Tipuric, T Faletau.

Replacements: K Owens, A Jarvis, T Francis, J Ball, R Moriarty, Ll Williams, R Priestland, J Hook.

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The pool decider.

Damn those boys in the Canary yellow shirts look good, really good. Going through top of the pool Wales would be likely to meet Japan or Scotland...! Go through second and we meet a refuvinated Bok side.

eirebilly wrote:Wales not doing well in the scrums, hell feed it to the second row, Joubert wont notice

I know it is a bit of a cliche by now but the Aussies's scrum is unrecognisable from 2 years ago

Uh oh

Joubert will benefit SH teams at the breakdown, always has done.

Very clever from Davis there, Genia off.

Go for the scrum!!! :/

Why wasn't Moore carded for that??!!

I seen a try.

Did he just lose that?

Fir gods sake you were standing in the perfect position and still go to video ref

Mmmmm, we have a saffa ref and a saffa tmo.

We need to do something here, like score.

love how moore was told to feck off there

Uh oh

Wales have to score now.

Double yellow card, the Aussies are creaking...

Harsh on Mumm

Finally! Some decisive refereeing. Two in the bin. Wales MUST score

Francis can't scrum, his angle isn't low enough.

Don't want to jinx it but Wales will score here.

harsh call there

Ooo, the scrummy should have left in with the pack when it was still advancing

Incredible defence from the Ozzies. Wowwww

Fantastic by Aus. We have more players and look more clueless.

If Australia hold out here it will be a remarkable feat of defence.

That had to be a try! Amazing work to hold George North up.

Heroic defending

Great D from the wallabies

Did Foley use his arms when taking North out there?

If the wallabies hold out with two men down then that is something special. They may do it.

Just remind me, you definitely can't kick the ball out of the scrum halves hands can you?

Clever play by Australia, this is winding the clock down.

They're milking the teet now though.

ebop wrote:If the wallabies hold out with two men down then that is something special. They may do it.

You guys are great at doing it... then going the length of the field!
Can't see us emulating the ABs though.

My heart can't take much more. Aus are amazing in defence.

Australia - I salute you

The last 10 minutes has seemed like half an hour.

Wales are clueless here. The Aussies are defending like legends but Wales really should be using the number advantage. Simply playing into the Aussies hands and helping them wind down the clock.

Yeah man, great D. It does say something about Wales though.

Aus falling all over the ball, getting smashed at the scrum and Joubert still refuses to put the arm out

There are going to be some very sore bodies tomorrow. This defence is brutal
Short us sending that Scottish nurse who has Ebola into both changing rooms to infect everyone, I don't see how else we can jeopardise any more player's well-being for next week!!!!

Why they didn't spread it wide when they had the chance I'll never know.

YES

And that is where you lose the match Wales...

Jesus Christ!

F*ck

That was Wales defence vs Ireland in the 6Ns level victory.

Shocking. Things like that decide the match, which Aus will no doubt go on to win. 13 men ffs!

Great defence for Australia. 2 men down and they keep Wales out

Australia have made 117 tackles compared to 46 by Wales!!

Yup, Wales blew it big time. No composure.

Here's your end to end try LD

Australia will grow from this, silly by Wales