Sat 15 Oct: RLWC: Australia v Fiji KO 19:30

[GUBRATS]

Aussies getting tired , staying onside now 

[GUBRATS]

BLX

[EastLondonMike]

And the speed of their own PTBs

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Boo! 

[DI Keith Fowler]

Frustrating the Fiji errors, they're their own worst enemy it would be level if they didn't keep shooting themselves in the foot.

[bratman]

Not happy with the Aussie squad numbers

[Sports Prophet]

3 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Literally untrue before that as well.

Alright, let me be more accurate for you.

In my opinion, the Kangaroos are regularly offside, the Fijians have had two harsh knock on calls and the Kangaroos are regularly blocking kick chasers illegally.

Of course, being my opinion, there is no literal way that can be untrue.

[Eddie]

How fast is he! 

[Sports Prophet]

Fiji hardly helping themselves. Completion rate must be woeful.

[JimBronco]

Entertaining first half. You just feel that Fiji are going to get knackered and more and more errors will creep into their game. Aussies going to go up a level in the second half.

[Irish Saint]

Enjoyable first half

[Mark S]

Some of movement forward after the tackle by the Aussies would make Tom Briscoe blush.

[Sports Prophet]

Very scrappy half that. Do Fiji have a chance?

[Sports Prophet]

1 minute ago, Sports Prophet said:

Very scrappy half that. Do Fiji have a chance?

Yes, yes @Futtocks, literally they do

[Changa]

1 minute ago, Mark S said:

Some of movement forward after the tackle by the Aussies would make Tom Briscoe blush.

Makes a world of difference to their go forward, it's one of my biggest bug bears

[Futtocks]

4 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

Very scrappy half that. Do Fiji have a chance?

There's still an outside chance that the Kangaroos will feel a bit tired after 40 minutes and decide to pull out of the rest of the RWC and insist all the other NRL players quit too. Unlikely, but nobody would be 100% surprised. 

Edited October 15, 2022 by Futtocks

[Jughead]

4 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

Very scrappy half that. Do Fiji have a chance?

Almost none, I’d say. Their completion rate will be woeful and the unforced errors are killing them. 

[Damien]

Fiji did really well to hang in there considering their silly mistakes and all the close calls going against them.

[JonM]

5 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

Very scrappy half that. Do Fiji have a chance?

No, Australia won't play as badly as they have in the first forty minutes in the second half.

[Tosh]

Hats off to Fiji and their defensive effort.

They need to settle things down in the 2nd half and complete their sets as they have showed they are making big meters with ball in hand.

[arcticchris]

Fiji doing pretty well but getting stuffed by the ref.

Enjoyable match to be at and pitch is looking in fantastic shape. Had a perfect view of the first part of Addo Carr blistering run.

 

Cant see Fiji staying within 40 points now but at least it wasn’t a walk through for the full 80.

[DavidM]

Aussies worked into that and have control without looking anywhere near their best yet . In passing BBC could do with a Aussie style replay box for their random replays when plays going on 

[Sports Prophet]

4 minutes ago, Jughead said:

Almost none, I’d say. Their completion rate will be woeful and the unforced errors are killing them. 

Disappointing and they would be very disappointed in their ball handling themselves. I don’t feel confident that they can get themselves out of the rut they are in. Certainly not as confident I am that the Kangaroos can get themselves out of their own first half rut.

[Jughead]

Interesting that the BBC panel didn’t buy into this Australia conspiracy at HT. 

[GUBRATS]

Come on Big Ben , smash them convicts lad