Rugby Championship and RWC build up games

[a311]

Anyone watching the (shortened) Rugby Championship?

NZ ran out comfortable winners 39–18 in the end against Argentina yesterday.

Watching the Boks vs Australia. Australia don't seem to have very settled combinations in key positions at the moment. Quade Cooper and Genia at 10,9 after having pretty bad seasons domestically all be it behind a piss poor pack. Matt Giteau back in the side, hasn't played at test level for a while and it shows. Skelton other than being a behemoth doesn't do too much, poor scrummaging lock and doesn't look particularly fit enough to last more than a half.

Boks despite quite a few injuries are winning without having to do too much so far. They've battered them up front and at the breakdown.

August fixtures

SATURDAY 8TH AUGUST 2015

Wales Vs Ireland

SATURDAY 22ND AUGUST 2015

Italy Vs Scotland

France Vs England

SATURDAY 29TH AUGUST 2015

Ireland Vs Wales

Scotland Vs Italy

SATURDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 2015

England Vs Ireland

Wales Vs Italy

France Vs Scotland

[DJRC]

Watches the AB/Pumas highlights last night.
Watching Aus v Boks now, flicking between this and Ashes.

[a311]

DJRC said:

Watches the AB/Pumas highlights last night.
Watching Aus v Boks now, flicking between this and Ashes.

Same here, nice combo to flick between. Aus coming back into it in the rugby.

ETA didn't see that result, Aus win.

Edited by a311 on Saturday 18th July 13:01

[DJRC]

The Boks seemed to just retreat into themselves in the last 10mins.

[a311]

The Boks substitutions were naive and they looked very poor in the latter stages of the second half, Australia's were much more astute David Pocock came on and they started winning turnovers and collisions and the breakdown. Quinns bound James Horwill played well coming on. England (and Wales) come the world cup plan should be the same as always smash them in the forwards.