Waratahs ease past Rebels
21 Apr 2012
GARETH DUNCAN reports on the Waratahs’ 30-21 victory over the Rebels in Sydney.
The result was expected. The Rebels are known for their poor record on the road, and they expectedly folded against the Waratahs’ charge. The latter dominated with a strong superior forwards display, moments of impressive backline interplay and clever decision-making to cruise to victory. Despite two tries in a late fightback from the visitors, the hosts still held on for a comfortable win.
The Waratahs will, however, lament their inability to score a fourth try for the bonus point. In the dying moments, they camped in the Rebels’ red zone, but they couldn’t reach the whitewash after several attempts. This could prove costly in their pursuit for a play-off place, considering their poor start to the season.
The Sydney team started the match strongly, grabbing the opening try after just 26 seconds. After winning possession from the kick-off, they built moment through strong ball carries before a smart backline move, mixed with inside and outside offloads, was finished off by fullback Bernard Foley. Scrumhalf Brendan McKibbin added the extras, and kicked two penalties for an early 13-0 lead.
The Rebels managed to hit back through a try scored by hooker Ged Robinson, but McKibbin slotted another three-pointer to make the half-time tally 16-7 in the Waratahs’ favour.
Hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau powered through after a clever lineout move to give the hosts a perfect start to the second half, and outside centre Rob Horne created a big opportunity for a bonus-point win when he scored the third try moments later. But their ill-discipline cost them momentum, and saw them reduced to 14 men when Horne was yellow carded.
The Rebels made full use of their one-man advantage and capitalised on that ascendancy to cross the chalk via flanker Tom Davidson and wing Lachlan Mitchell.
Once they returned to 15 men, the Waratahs regained their control of the match, but failed to find that valuable fourth try.
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21 Apr 2012, 13:00 pm
@skyewalker(skyewalker)-33:
Correct the dumb fck sharkslover arseholes who wanna protect these man eating scum while same time luring them toward human bait in their stupid quest to profit from a dubious industry that creates havoc with natures boundaries and norms.
21 Apr 2012, 13:02 pm
Just one last thought, why don’t we see this remembrance nonsense at the following sports:
Boxing
Running
Cycling
Motorsport
I will check your response later
21 Apr 2012, 13:09 pm
@viewer(viewer)-50:
Yeah,it’s the same as some guy feeding lions every day and then becomes the meal one day.The predator associates the feeder with food.Exept that you can’t cage the sharks in the ocean.
21 Apr 2012, 13:10 pm
I’m with NRG on this war veteran sentiment nonsense wtf it gotta do with a rugby game
Just a fat excuse to shed crocodile tears for somebody you lost all association with. They might have died for a cause but that cause is now consigned to history, how long they gonna keep shedding crocodile tears about it ., another 250 generations into the future?
21 Apr 2012, 13:14 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-13:
The Aussies are defending super and tri nation title holders, they have beaten you 6 from the last 8 tests and came 3rd at the last WC, perhaps its time for you to the face the facts?
21 Apr 2012, 13:17 pm
This feels weird. On a non-SA team thread people are civil.
I don’t know what to think
Guru 52 – in rugby there’s a nice big field where those old farts can stand in their army uniforms (with adult diapers underneath) & make those serious facial expressions
21 Apr 2012, 13:25 pm
The moment Beale moved to 10, the Rebels looked better…
21 Apr 2012, 13:28 pm
As for the old disrespectful codger, if not for the Anzacs and a few of their mates we know where you would have been Joel!
21 Apr 2012, 13:33 pm
If comments are closed now like they were on the hurricanes thread it might be a record low for a SR match? Anyone know?
21 Apr 2012, 13:34 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-54: You, with that post just reminded me that some people are just a r s e holes. Keo seriously you need to get some mods, p r i c k s like these chase away more people than it attracks.
21 Apr 2012, 13:36 pm
@greentea(greentea)-55:and how does allof this relate to the boring rebels & tahs game?
you’re like a scratched record chap, give yourself a poesklap.
21 Apr 2012, 13:39 pm
LOL @ Steve’s rant
21 Apr 2012, 13:42 pm
Lol @ Transie
21 Apr 2012, 13:45 pm
@SteveWarren(SteveWarren)-60:
Skoppie holds the record for bannings,but you gotta give it to him,he just keeps coming back.
21 Apr 2012, 13:46 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-54:
My people lost their Fathers,brothers and sons .A generation of leaders amongst my people lying in battlefields overseas… if they had lived…. hopefully my people wouldn’t be in the shiit they are today.
21 Apr 2012, 13:56 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-61:
With no player base as you say, they seem to be doing just fine.
21 Apr 2012, 13:57 pm
this seemingly sensitive ANZAC stuff, is it one of those times when politics & sport mix comfortably?
21 Apr 2012, 13:58 pm
@greentea(greentea)-66:are the rebels doing fine?
21 Apr 2012, 14:00 pm
Nothing like a SAFFA in denial when it comes to Australian rugby, ” we’re better than them, we just don’t beat them very often”
21 Apr 2012, 14:01 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-68:
When it comes to wooden spoons in SANZAR rugby your lot take first prize, daylight is second.
21 Apr 2012, 14:05 pm
So wouldn’t that indicate you don’t have the playing base?
21 Apr 2012, 14:06 pm
@greentea(greentea)-69:clearly you derive some sort of infantile, perverse pleasure in always trying to lord it over us saffas
poor china
21 Apr 2012, 14:07 pm
@Te Rangatira(Te Rangatira)-65: what were they doing over there in Turkey protecting the interests of Victoria and her empire
Cannon fodder for somebody else’s war.. same as the Yanks doing in Middle East.. all about OIL and nothing more sentimental than that…
@SteveWarren(SteveWarren)-60: who this prick think he is the protector of Old Mother Hubbards bare cupboard.. The empire is long last lost and forgotten.. get over it…
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-58: tell Me Koosie.. where in the WORLD would I have been if not for the Anzacs and their mates..?? I’m seriously DYING to know?
Beside you welcome to have all your sentiment crocodile tears about something that HAPPENED in history, if it gonna help you with your sentimental reverence remembrance of who you might think you are.. the fact of the issue is WTF all of this bugles and half mast flags and crocodile tears got to do with a modern rugby game in 2012.. ANYTHING .. anything at ALL??
21 Apr 2012, 14:08 pm
@greentea(greentea)-70:are the rebels doing well?
21 Apr 2012, 14:10 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-72:
No it just makes me laugh when I hear how good you are, when the results say otherwise.
21 Apr 2012, 14:10 pm
What happened to crusaders thread
21 Apr 2012, 14:14 pm
@greentea(greentea)-70: The one got NOTHING to do with the other but some sentimental empire protectors reckon rugby is the perfect stage to cry crocodile tears and blow bugles and have mothers and fathers throughout the land declaring their allegiance to the old empire dill doomsday.. and their sentimentally bred offspring doing exactly the same in robotic like fashion… remembering that which extols the virtues of humanity.. to die for a cause… whatever it is… your cause or theirs.. as long as you die for it.. then they’ll be crying crocodile tears for you forever ad infinitum.. till the daisies come popping up on your grave.
21 Apr 2012, 14:15 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-77: meant for @Transformation(Transformation)-67: wrong reply..
21 Apr 2012, 14:18 pm
@greentea(greentea)-75: we don’t beat them very often is because we are THICK as two bricks.. not because they are better rugby players than us or match our player base depth.. there’s a big difference.
21 Apr 2012, 14:18 pm
The Super rugby format (like the Aussie teams) is a farce.
A team that would normally be lying 8th on the log, with hardly a sniff at a playoff spot is lying 3rd.
Once again, the Aussies have done wonderfully well to manipulate SANZAR to ensure they have something to talk about come the tail end.
And all the while, far worthier teams must suck it up and accept that they won’t make the playoffs despite being FAR, FAR superior.
Oh bring back the days of the Super 12.
21 Apr 2012, 14:21 pm
oh look its the groot held Genius lecturing alweer for a change huh.
ag tog i shampoo ma poopoo and like to talk alotofittoo
21 Apr 2012, 14:24 pm
I see those plonkers didn’t respond to my question. Plonkers of note
@ skop, I agree with you, there’s no place in rugby for this nonsense.
This fairy tale about aussies being respectful and serious about history is rubbish. Are you kidding me?
When Aussies won the Mandela cup a couple of years ago none of them wanted to hold the cup and made jokes about it.
Where’s the respect? Fark me? Are you serious?
21 Apr 2012, 14:24 pm
yeah the little lab rat crawled out his hole to come remember the fallen on Armistice day.. tell me something lab rat.. you also cry crocodile tears for those near and dear ones you never knew from Adam or Steve.. who sacrificed their lives so you could live in blissful harmony under Granny Lizzy and her dying dynasty ??
21 Apr 2012, 14:26 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-79:
yer maybe but you just get the feeling around here that Australian rugby is the poor cousin of SA when in reality in recent years they own you, there’s alot to be said for respecting your opponent and lets be honest very few around here respect Australian rugby.
21 Apr 2012, 14:27 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-73:
Not only Gallipoli,the Somme,El Alamein,Battle of Britain,Casino,Vietnam,Nth Korea,Afghanistan all over the globe.Yes we were and are political cannon fodder,but they are our loved ones.
21 Apr 2012, 14:27 pm
am i the lab rat? last time i been in a lab was in high school, presumably the same as you, before u went off the learn about bricks and how thick they are.
as if i give a continental about armistice day or watookal, u the big war veteran afterall that time on the kaprivi strip sadf initiative.
21 Apr 2012, 14:32 pm
@Vetkoek(Vetkoek)-80:
Correct if i’m wrong but I thought SA pushed hard for the new format as well?
21 Apr 2012, 14:35 pm
@Te Rangatira(Te Rangatira)-85: yeah I know.. WTF WERE your fathers and brothers and sons doing over all those places defending somebody else’s war… and now you supposed to cry crocodile tears for THEIR long lost cause… they come from there.. they infiltrate your land.. then they convert you to their religion and their indoctrinated causes .. and to top it they expect you to die for it.. when it got absolutely nothing to do with you at all from the beginning… and then when all the bloodshed is all over then its poppy time on the lapels and big ceremonies to stand in unison of remembered allegiances for dying for a cause which weren’t yours at ALL…
shameful empire builders and colonizers thinking they own the world..
@cab(cab)-86: I was cannon fodder just like Te Rangatira’s people only I got lucky.. I never had to die for nobody else’s dumb fck war or cause…
21 Apr 2012, 14:37 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-88:
Are you still going on? When I left you yesterday you were ranting.
21 Apr 2012, 14:38 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-88:
so why u giving te tangatira and bryce a hard time if those are your beliefs?
besides what you think the sadf was doing, a humanitarian mission?
21 Apr 2012, 14:41 pm
@greentea(greentea)-84: Australian rugby is no way as demanding or at same level of traditional attrition rugby as NZ or SA rugby .. but they make up for their lack of physicality with superior tactical acumen and mental strengths..
Still the fact we lost to them so often in recent years is a dumb stupidity induced tragedy.. it all goes around this insane penchant by Saffas to retreat into conservative fear induced states of paranoia.. and picking players and captains on sentimental hogwash historical hero worship.. and NOT on current expertise and ability.. and definitely our tactical nous is way behind Aussie and lacking in brains.
21 Apr 2012, 14:43 pm
I watched a league test yesterday between the Aussies and the kiwis. Makes absolutely no sense.
They bash their way up 60 meters and then kick. Bash up 50, then kick.
21 Apr 2012, 14:46 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-92:
yeah i recorded a game earlier today – but that league is just bash it up stuff, tackle after tackle, they are skillful but it aint got nothing on union imo, too little space to run in.
21 Apr 2012, 14:47 pm
@cab(cab)-90: so like Te Rangatira’s people I had to fall in line with the overruling sentiment driving the politics of the colonized land I lived in.. just like its been going on for countless hundreds of centuries.. when in Rome you do as the Romans do.. or they chuck you into the lions den or crucify you for being a rabble rouser .. or they didn’t teach you that in the science lab..
21 Apr 2012, 14:50 pm
@cab(cab)-93: Terrible game. Three okes tackle one. The one tackled then goes into spasm, ref shouts let go! and then he gets up and footsie the ball between his legs. Then they start over. And after all the hard work of going through 20 tackle situations, they kick the ball.
21 Apr 2012, 14:51 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-94:
yeah its a difficult one, i dunno, used to think all that honour and duty was horseshit but there is a time and place for it, so wtf actually knows. there’s alot of all that mawkish rememberance going on here, but suppose if pa and oupa died in that whatever war, no-one wants to think it were all for nothing, it mostly is, but on other occasions perhaps not so like wwII.
21 Apr 2012, 14:53 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-95:
janee, i agree – had a friend who showed me some old videos in the 80s and it was pretty damn exciting and skillful, but just bash tackle bash tackle, then kick as you say.
21 Apr 2012, 14:54 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-88
Thank you for your opinion.Food for thought
21 Apr 2012, 14:59 pm
I have Bulls by 9 and Sharks by 3.
21 Apr 2012, 15:00 pm
Kleuter I think they kick cos of the six tackle rule. Rather than turn over the ball, they will go for field position. I’m SA so don’t see any league. I know most of the players irrespective of position, are approximately the size of a flank in union. And there’s a lot of broken noses. In aussie rules its concussions
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