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Rugby Championship Round 6 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Olap@lemmy.world to c/rugby@sh.itjust.works

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This is it final round. Early doors: NZ vs Aus. Followed by Arg vs SA. It's technically all on the line, but los Pumas still need a miracle. I'm hoping to catch at least a bit of both, this year's TRC has been the best in donkeys years!

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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

33 pts isn't that clunky though. There was some great handling and broken play they excelled in. Hard to fault the team imo, first phase maybe a touch uncreative, certainly Austrailia playing with more flair. But they lost

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah first phase Australia looked much better, and they were also more patient were able to build phases and still look like they had a plan going deep into them. After 5 or 6 phases the ABs attack fairly consistently fell apart and looked like it didn't really have a successful out.

Pretty consistently through this year though its the out wide defence and then lack of punch on gain line that's the worry heading up north. Defence in particular has gone backwards this year, the system looks very exploitable.