Brumbies fire then falter
30 Jun 2012
RYAN VREDE reports on the Australian derby that saw the Brumbies fall asleep after an impressive first half but still hold on for a 28-17 victory over the Force.
The Brumbies advanced their cause to top the Australian conference with a bonus-point victory in which they completely outplayed their hosts for 40 minutes. They had banked four tries before the break, exploiting some woeful defending from the Force, who routinely fell off tackles they should have made.
The Brumbies’ dominance of the gainline was at the root of the Perth team’s defensive struggles. They regularly bossed the collisions, eroding the Force’s resistance through powerful phase play. From there they stung through their back division, creating mismatches and confusion in a scattered line.
When the Force did have possession they used it poorly. Never able to establish a platform to consistently threaten on attack, the Force often went lateral in their play or kicked poorly in the face of advancing defenders. The Brumbies profited from one such misjudged punt, Jessie Mogg finishing a move that saw them strike from broken field.
The Brumbies were clinical in converting chances they created thereafter, Ben Alexander, Henry Speight and Holmes all crossing the whitewash. Zack Holmes would miss the conversions on each occasion and a hooked penalty attempt earlier meant the Brumbies’ 22-0 half-time lead should have been even more comfortable.
However, when Nick Cummins struck twice after the restart it appeared as if those misses could prove crucial in the final analysis. But the Brumbies regrouped well, slowing the game to their pace and controlling its flow. The Force hadn’t looked capable of replicating their earlier success but then burst into life, scoring through Toby Lynn to set up a tense final 10 minutes.
The Brumbies’ rebuttal was adequate. They drove down into the Force’s territory and sunk a penalty that took them 11 points ahead, enough of a buffer for them to feel confident of holding out for.
Coach Jake White won’t be pleased about the lethargy his charges displayed in the second half. A better side would have punished them. But they’ll take these five points, crucial in the context of their conference, and will march into Sydney next weekend confident of taking a massive step to a home semi-final with victory over the Waratahs.
48 Comments
30 Jun 2012, 11:23 am
Dragons
30 Jun 2012, 11:25 am
Lol, my first Dragon
30 Jun 2012, 11:29 am
@We are called the Springboks(We are called the Springboks)-2:
I hope it was as satisfying for the dragon,
as it was for you.
30 Jun 2012, 11:31 am
@We are called the Springboks(We are called the Springboks)-2:
Popped the cherry, eh?
Smoke a cigarette.
30 Jun 2012, 11:33 am
The women are called Dragons here in the place where the clouds gather, lol.
30 Jun 2012, 11:45 am
Go Brumbies!Go Jake!
30 Jun 2012, 11:58 am
Seems like Jake can actually coach doesnt it
30 Jun 2012, 12:03 pm
That’s it Boys, stick it to ‘em!!!
30 Jun 2012, 12:06 pm
@We are called the Springboks(We are called the Springboks)-7:
So can Laurie Fischer. He provides the finesse.
30 Jun 2012, 12:11 pm
Think thats Larkams influence but i like Lauries hair
30 Jun 2012, 12:13 pm
Jake White – my f**&ing hero.
30 Jun 2012, 12:14 pm
@We are called the Springboks(We are called the Springboks)-7:
Anyone that doubted it in the first place is an idiot
30 Jun 2012, 12:18 pm
That makes skopskiet the dumbest person to ever post on this site
30 Jun 2012, 12:18 pm
Jake should be coaching a South African franchise imo
30 Jun 2012, 12:27 pm
@Mike H(Mike H)-13:
Has always been and will always be. Should stick to sorka.
30 Jun 2012, 12:35 pm
JW > HM > PDIV
But HM is a good coach. Really interested to see how the Boks go in the next 4 years.
30 Jun 2012, 12:36 pm
Wouldn’t be surprised if you see him coaching the Aussies in time. Watch this space
30 Jun 2012, 12:38 pm
Too many morons in SA that turned against JW. Yes sometimes he says things in the media that wind people up but I mean his media comments about the Aussie scrum tactics were the start of the Aussie decline.
He keeps things simple and makes sure the basics are done well. Scrum well, win lineouts etc. First phase is critical in test rugby. You’re only source of good ball really.
30 Jun 2012, 12:39 pm
@Mike H(Mike H)-13: Hear, hear.
30 Jun 2012, 12:44 pm
What I like about JW coaching a Aussie side is that you have a clever coach with players that can think on their feet,
JW ensures they are in peak condition, adds physicality to their game – makes sure they are fit, lean and strong – he is seriously focused on conditioning.
Add that to a bit of Aussie streetwise and you get a great mix.
Problem with SA players is – if they don’t beat you to death they just can’t win. Not like they are going to stun you to death with backline brilliance
That’s where a good coach with good support coaches can really enjoy themselves in a Aussie side
30 Jun 2012, 12:45 pm
I respect HM for leaving out Brussouw, JW left out Watson for the same reasons.
Where all the HM haters for that decision. Its the right one though.
30 Jun 2012, 12:59 pm
Brussoux is the best player you’ve got.
30 Jun 2012, 13:01 pm
Force could take this. The mood of the game has changed
30 Jun 2012, 13:14 pm
Coaches in SA are to blame for the bash bash and if that doesnt work bash some more. At least the Cheetahs are good to watch and show that SA players can play a more expansive game and play the situation infront of them instead of playing the same old structure
30 Jun 2012, 13:21 pm
JW is a dumb moron, limited coach who needs brains like Jones and Fischer and Larkham and Gregan to fix hospital backward thinking.
Aussie rugby suits him down to a T because all the Aussie brains can prop his dumb idiocy up without him looking like the self centered arsehole moron he is. Is this Nic White one of his beer fetching sons who don’t need fetchers like Watson but now he needs Hooper and Pocock next year to prop his no fetchers required philosophy up.
Check this no name Force outfit f’ng him up at the collisions, he just lucky ref gave him runaway first half 3 tries for nothing because second half Force been stuffing these Fakey’s wannabes all over the park.
30 Jun 2012, 13:24 pm
It hurts, doesn’t it Skop? Jake has worked miracles with this team and that really gets your goat
30 Jun 2012, 13:26 pm
You area dumb moron. You have egg on your deformed head and are too arrogant to take your words back even though you know you are wrong you frikking cnut.
You have no rep on this site…nada…forkoll…Madame Dirty Harriette.
30 Jun 2012, 13:29 pm
Oh Whoopee-Doo, Skopskietendonner praat sy k*k al weer…
30 Jun 2012, 13:31 pm
Shut it fuckadilly.
30 Jun 2012, 13:31 pm
This skopshyte cockpolisher always says it was luck this and luck that. Strange how the word ‘luck’ pops up when Jake White wins.
Fuuny how the word Puke Twatson comes up in conversation too huh Dirty Harriette…you must go watch sorka comrade.
Fark off from this site.
30 Jun 2012, 13:41 pm
HM another dumb moron that don’t know how to select a balanced back row just like the other white moron White who lost 49-0 because of his absolute dumb idiocy no fetchers required philosophy. So HM leaves Brussow out and plays 3 twatsunamis like Potgieter Spies Kankowski to carry the ball to nowhere and 6th rank England almost fck him up in his own backyard.
Now Whites best player is Hooper a Luke Watson type clone and next year he’s buying Pocock to bolster his Watsonian fetcher stocks up.
Morons united rule the saffa rugby world sending saffa rugby into spiraling oblivion the past twelve years
30 Jun 2012, 13:50 pm
Jake White has rescued this Brumbies lot. This is like a skilled contractor coming in at short notice and rebuilding one of Skoppie’s wonky sites. Unrecognisably good.
30 Jun 2012, 13:53 pm
Bit like the Springboks against the just 2 weekends ago
30 Jun 2012, 13:54 pm
@louis schropnel(louis shrapnel)-31:
Test rugby and Super rugby are very different buddy.
Yes in Super Rugby a fetcher has more influence. Less tight, more time to get over the ball etc.
You’re and idiot, go blog on your bedroom wall like i’ve been asking for 6 years.
PLEASE!!
30 Jun 2012, 13:55 pm
at least HM is a decent human being so with some luck he can still learn what it takes to be a good international coach. White is just a dumb moronic idiot that loses 49-0 and gets smacked by NZ 7 out of 10 games twice at home, gets fckd up by Ireland and France and drops to 4th rank before Eddy Jones shows him how to coach a rugby team so he flukes a no contest WC playing nobody that matters in world rugby.
White can’t even call on his human credentials like Heyneke can cos he don’t have that many.
30 Jun 2012, 14:02 pm
FIGHT!!!!!!!
30 Jun 2012, 14:14 pm
Force were stuffing these Fakeys wannabes through their rearguard naughts the whole second half in Perth. Lucky for them they’d already built up a gimme no contested lead through sheer lack of defense on Forces part through first half. But when ref started blowing an even handed contest and Force got on a bit of a roll Fakey’s wannabes couldn’t quite match the intensity 2nd half at the collision points and if ref hadn’t pinged Pocock few times too many Force might have unsettled Snakey Fakeys apple cart cos the spluttering Brumbies couldn’t cross the whitewash and get their mojo running at all after the first 3 gimme non contested waltzing Matilda pisseasy prances in the park in the first half.
30 Jun 2012, 14:27 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-32:
Somebody gave one of fuckadilly’s sl fresco longdrops an extreme makeover?
30 Jun 2012, 14:29 pm
How can a visiting team which flown nearly 3,500 km to the venue and then won by 11 points be called ‘faltered’?
Just asking?
30 Jun 2012, 14:45 pm
JW does well, fact that both Aussie greats Gregan and Larkham were willing to work with him is another proof that JW can work with assistants, like Eddie Jones and Gert Smal before,
As mentioned here many times, the role of a fetcher is limited in Test while in the Super Rugby it’s a must.
In the Boks situation HM is forced to select the Beast – who does fukcal – and thus picking a smaller open side loosie would have been a madness, add Spies to the equation – don’t know why – so the omitting of Brussow is understandable, not necessarily acceptable though
30 Jun 2012, 14:59 pm
score was 22-0 at half time – 3 gimme tries to nothing because Force just parted like the red sea and said to Fakey’s wannabe’s let my people pass…
then 2nd half was 3 tries to Force when they started contesting the resolve of the tackle area in the front on collision stakes
Check how long it takes for Gregan – Larkham to work this Okie Dokie out and realize he’s just a fancy front.. not a real coach who couldn’t do squat about losing hand over fist when he had his own saffa assistants propping him up like Coetsee and Smal..
if not for Eddy Jones White would have been a nonentity nobody worse even than PdV when push actually came to shove – he fielded JvN, Cronje, and Smith at loose forward, with Matfield, Bakkies, Os, Smit, Gurthro, FdP, Percy etc etc and STILL LOST 49-0 .. 7 tries to ZERO.. that my rugby connoisseur friends is the REAL state of the JW rugby related affair.
His record vs NZ is 30%
Ireland away played 2 lost 2
France home and away.. played 4 won one.
Ranked 4th going into a WC where EJ did all the coaching and JW sucked up the plaudits for beating 6th rank Argy and 7th rank England by 5 penalties to 2 to win a lucky packet gimme WC
That is the real legacy that JW the non fetcher philosophy coach actually left behind.
30 Jun 2012, 15:08 pm
the Czech fly in the ointment that put Nadal out is going down very next match – poor Nadal got him at the top of his game.. even Federer and Djoko almost went out to nobodies in round 3
Current standing
P Kohlschreiber 6 5 - - -
L Rosol 2 3 - - -
in the world of sprinting looks like Bolts reign at the top of the heap could be coming to an end… I reckon by end of London Olympics we gonna see a new world sprint champ..
Bolt shocked by Blake at trials
Yohan Blake delivered a shock that will be felt all the way to London by exploding past world record holder Usain Bolt to claim a stunning 100 metres victory at the Jamaican Olympic trials in Kingston.
The showdown between triple Olympic champion Bolt and world champion Blake lived up to its billing as the highlight of the four-day meeting as ‘The Beast’ roared home in a dazzling 9.75 seconds, a personal best and fastest in the world this year.
The time also made Blake the fourth fastest man of all time behind Bolt (9.58), American Tyson *** (9.69) and Asafa Powell (9.72).
“No pressure at all… everything is good. I’m just fortunate,” Blake said after eclipsing his personal best of 9.82. “I’m the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.”
Bolt, who was unable to reel in his training partner, settled for second in 9.86 followed by former world record holder Powell in 9.88.
All three men qualified for the Jamaican Olympic team and will line up against a formidable American contingent at the London Games starting on July 27.
30 Jun 2012, 15:13 pm
P Kohlschreiber 6 6 1 - - L Rosol 2 3 1 - -
- – KOHLSCHREIBER 6-2 6-3 – SET! Rosol is really struggling to compete on Court 12, and Kohlschreiber cruises through the second set in very fine fashion to take it 6-3. The Czech needs to improve markedly.
- – KOHLSCHREIBER 6-2 – SET! Rosol is not firing at all so far on Court 12 as Kohlschreiber cruises through the opening set in very comfortable fashion.
30 Jun 2012, 15:42 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-38: Indeed. Madam Zille regrets the day she singed the tender document giving FCK A. Dilly Construction Inc the go-ahead to enclose those toilets. How was she to know he’d use sheets of woven cow dung fibres and Plaka craft paint?
30 Jun 2012, 15:50 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-44: Do you live in Gunther’s poephol???
30 Jun 2012, 16:00 pm
@stormerforlife1(stormerforlife1)-45: Hey, poodle lover, just because you and yours live in the arse of the world, doesn’t mean we all do. I live in the suburbs, thanks. Walking distance from Newlands, which is where I’m off to now. Give us a shout in about 20 minutes if you’re passing down the main road. MOWBRAYCLAREMONTWYNBERG.
30 Jun 2012, 16:10 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-46: Rest my case.Now he is using Gunther’s favourite line as well!!FFS mate,can’t you think for yourself instead of sucking on Gunther’s balls???
30 Jun 2012, 16:30 pm
Yip not bad for a supposedly kak coach – what are the odds on the brumbies winning it?
1 RWC, 1 3N and 1 S15?
Must be moerse lucky
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