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.

Defence like that wins world cups.

Wow... this is too much.

Penalty Aus, game over

I may be Irish but I am fuming at the Welsh here, perfect chance with two men missing from the Aussie defensive line and yet try to force it through the forwards. Totally deserve to lose from here.

Defending like that takes it out of you. Wales need to tear it up in this last 10 minutes. Try and penalty needed.

North a lucky boy there, missing that tackle

ebop wrote:Here's your end to end try LD

I wish.
So close. Izzy slipped after all that work, then Foley almost got there.

9 point buffer helps...

still think Aus will win the world cup this year

Gutsy LD, very gutsy.

Just how crucial was that passage of play jeez, fantastic character by Aus. Still can't believe we didn't use the 2 man advantage.

True grit by the Aussies. They're still my pick to win this thing.

why are they risking him?

Hook is on, now all is truly lost for Wales.

We know Australia are good, but a team that can't take advantage of 13 man opposition doesn't really deserve to be in the Quarter finals...

It's going to get worse with Hook and Priestland on.

C'mon Aus!!

Still can't believe we didn't score, then we go and give away a cheap penalty under our post.

And Liam Williams limps off...perfect.

Biggar off, Gatland has given up on this game then.

Hook, intercept try to australia then!

Needed Aus to win this. We had no chance against them. Not smart enough

A Hooke sub is effectively a white flag

mikey_dragon wrote:We know Australia are good, but a team that can't take advantage of 13 man opposition doesn't really deserve to be in the Quarter finals...

It's going to get worse with Hook and Priestland on.

Can understand why they didn't want to risk the interception or grubber but loads of space was there to be exploited and the one-pass rugby was too predictable

Even if we're out of wingers, I'd still drop Cuthbert. This deliberate knock-on is the cherry on top!

kingraf wrote:Needed Aus to win this. We had no chance against them. Not smart enough

Not sure mate. With our potential injury list Scotland might see a chink in our armour... if we can hold on.

Thanks for your ref, btw. and the TMO "no tly" bloke up in the box.

You can't think about giving a penalty try for that!!!!!!

Scrum capitulation and some awful decision making (scrum rather than lineout) has cost us this game.

Not helped by Jouberts pathetic decision making during those 10 minute on the Aus line (no advantage from either time the Aus scrum imploded)

InjuredYetAgain wrote:You can't think about giving a penalty try for that!!!!!!

No way - there were two maybe 3 players covering

Disappointing not to top the group, but not as disappointing to be out of the world cup and latching on to other teams. Not sure why people are so convinced we'll get demolished by SA either, they're beatable.

InjuredYetAgain wrote:You can't think about giving a penalty try for that!!!!!!

Collapsing the scrum and lineouts multiple times on your own line isn't a penalty try, but clearly a knock on near the 22m line is....

InjuredYetAgain wrote:You can't think about giving a penalty try for that!!!!!!

of course you can think about it, the ref got the right decision though

The Loaded Dog wrote:

kingraf wrote:Needed Aus to win this. We had no chance against them. Not smart enough

Not sure mate. With our potential injury list Scotland might see a chink in our armour... if we can hold on.

You obviously didn't see our game today then.

cuthbert.....

Watch us look fantastic with Cuthbert off!

mikey_dragon wrote:Disappointing not to top the group, but not as disappointing to be out of the world cup and latching on to other teams. Not sure why people are so convinced we'll get demolished by SA either, they're beatable.

you just love to have a dig.

InjuredYetAgain wrote:

The Loaded Dog wrote:

kingraf wrote:Needed Aus to win this. We had no chance against them. Not smart enough

Not sure mate. With our potential injury list Scotland might see a chink in our armour... if we can hold on.

You obviously didn't see our game today then.

I did. You played a much better 2nd half. Samoa threw everything st you in the first and you still held on for the win.

Well done wallabies. Not that convincing to be honest. Far from it. Gutsy but Wales blew it big time.

nathan wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:Disappointing not to top the group, but not as disappointing to be out of the world cup and latching on to other teams. Not sure why people are so convinced we'll get demolished by SA either, they're beatable.

you just love to have a dig.

You just love to have a whinge.

nathan wrote:

InjuredYetAgain wrote:You can't think about giving a penalty try for that!!!!!!

of course you can think about it, the ref got the right decision though

I think the TMO got it right.

well played Aus!

mikey_dragon wrote:Disappointing not to top the group, but not as disappointing to be out of the world cup and latching on to other teams. Not sure why people are so convinced we'll get demolished by SA either, they're beatable.

Honestly, I think Wales can take a lot of heart from this. Noone was giving you a chance during the week, you stopped a very potent Australia scoring a try, and were unlucky not to get more when Oz went down to 13. SA won't be looking past you lot.

Yeah ebop, not the type of game that they would have wanted but their defence was something special.

Big wasted opportunity.

Still, at least we will have another chance next week.

Some valiant Aussie defending but Wales are truly clueless in attack.

You get the feeling it would have been a larger margin if Folau hadn't been hobbling through most of the game.

You've got to feel a bit sorry for Cuthbert. He gets worse and worse with every performance. If you could score an 'own try' in rugby he would manage it!

Fantastic game - so much commitment from both sides.
Defending with 2 men in the bin like that was just phenomenal.
Credit to Wales - their defence was equally solid but for the soft penalties that cost them the game.

Such a missed chance for Wales. Warburton's captaincy has to be called into question here. How can you have a 2 man advantage (in the defensive backline) and still fail to ship it wide where you had numbers and score a try. Clueless decision making during that period cost Wales dearly.

Still think that they will give SA a very good game and not sure if SA are such a power to beat Wales. That will be a very good match.

Cyril wrote:

You've got to feel a bit sorry for Cuthbert.

Will Liam Williams out we now have no options but Cuthbert on the wing!

Great win for Australia. Wales looked good but could not score when they was 2 men up and camped in the Australian line for 10 minutes.

Gatland will not be happy about Wales not able to score when in the Australian half and being 2 men up as well.

But no doubt Australia was truly the better side.

Well done Wales for putting up a brave fight.

wales606 wrote:Big wasted opportunity.

Still, at least we will have another chance next week.

The 2 best teams from the toughest pool got through but surely it will take its toll for our next matches.

Well done Australia. Guts and determination in defence when down to 13 men and camped in redzone.

Wales blew this, how did they not take advantage of that situation?

It seems they have a mental block against Australia, how else do you explain it?

Poor decidion making and poor game management.

eirebilly wrote:Such a missed chance for Wales. Warburton's captaincy has to be called into question here. How can you have a 2 man advantage (in the defensive backline) and still fail to ship it wide where you had numbers and score a try. Clueless decision making during that period cost Wales dearly.

Still think that they will give SA a very good game and not sure if SA are such a power to beat Wales. That will be a very good match.

How is Warburton at fault for the backs decision-making? We kept it tight as long as we could and nothing came of it. Warburton has had a fantastic tournament.

Hard luck to Wales, kept what has been the best attacking team in the competition so far honest for a very long time. I don't know what can be done, but the scrum is an obvious target for teams playing against you, and particularly when Jarvis and Francis came on. If you are going to beat SA, you'll need a good cushion by the 65 minutes mark, because that new front row is going to cost you points. Also hope Liam Williams is OK, but didn't look good.

mikey_dragon wrote:

nathan wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:Disappointing not to top the group, but not as disappointing to be out of the world cup and latching on to other teams. Not sure why people are so convinced we'll get demolished by SA either, they're beatable.

you just love to have a dig.

You just love to have a whinge.

Get a room - the sexual tension between you is obvious!