Wales V Australia

profitius

Anyone watching? The Aussies are pulling away at the moment.

thomond2006

Halfpenny's sinbinning has cost Wales in a big way.

durkadurka

Most expensive sin binning ever.

That genia is a good player when travelling under his own steam

durkadurka

Lovely Williams!

Richard Hillman

Great ending for Williams

Burgo

Shane Williams, what a legend.

thomond2006

International Rugby will miss Shane Williams! He's still got 2 years left IIRC with the Ospreys.

Welshman666

Great ending for S.Williams. Will be missed internationally for sure!

irishbucsfan

Such an emotional week for Welsh sports. Williams scored some amazing tries in his career, absolutely deserved a great send off like that.

Elsewhere, the idea of something similar for BOD in the Aviva or ROG in Thomond has me in tears already.

The Aussie

Former England hooker Brian Moore on BBC One: O'Connor may look like Justin Bieber but he's a hell of a player."

HAHAHA Justin Bieber, class...

First half was start stop, second half opened up a bit, as far as playing it must have been hard to get up for this tour, nothing to be gained and Super 15 Pre Season to look forward to, ah well there is always next year.

CatFromHue

What surprises me most about that is that Brian Moore knows who Justin Bieber is!

Berrick Barnes showed some great skill today as did JOC. If the World Cup was next September OZ would be in a much better position with those two at 10 and 12.

Marto10

Shane Williams, a true gent of the sport and it was fitting for him to score with his last ever touch in a test match!

I grew up admiring this guy and his unbelievable step. He will be hugely missed on the International stage!

profitius

Any thoughts on the match and Wales in general? They played alright but Australia won it easy enough. Mike Phillips was a big loss for Wales and SW will be in the future.

The pressure will be on Wales now once the 6 nations comes around. It wouldn't surprise me to see them finish fourth again.

profitius

JOC was outstanding at 10. His pass for one of the tries was like Larkham at his best. He looks a much more reliable 10 than Cooper.

Webbs

profitius wrote: »

Any thoughts on the match and Wales in general? They played alright but Australia won it easy enough. Mike Phillips was a big loss for Wales and SW will be in the future.

The pressure will be on Wales now once the 6 nations comes around. It wouldn't surprise me to see them finish fourth again.

Hard to say really, Wales were missing a big chunk of their first choice players and with minds on domestic duties (heineken Cup etc) you wonder how up for it they were. I think the first half showed that with its stop start nature.

Biggest disappointment for me was Lloyd Williams as he has had good reports in the past few months and he was poor in a lot of his early decision making and execution that limited Wales opportunities. He did improve a little as game went on but wasnt great.

Biggest positive was return of Ian Evans and he had good game which will be important as Charteris is out for the 6N

Digifriendly

Wales were without Adam Jones and Alan Wyn Jones up front as well as Mike Phillips, James Hook and Jonathan Davies in backline while Australia were missing Quade Cooper and Kurtley Beale so both sides at full strength would have been interesting. Yellow card was turning point. O'Connor I think is better and safer option for Ausralia at OH but his goal kicking remains a bit flaky.

Colm_OReilly

Any youtube highlights knocking about?

profitius

Colm_OReilly wrote: »

Any youtube highlights knocking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1FEXmHkH-k