Brumbies hold firm to see off Stormers in crucial away win

Ppersonally the referees and assistant refs need to be tackled on this issue.

Had they dealt with it early in the game, he might have changed or been yellow carded for repeat offences.

Not Aussie.

If you look at the whole era though you’d have to say that Farrell probably would have been a better coach for 21 series selecting mainly Irish, and Gatland would have been better this year, giving the team reasonable expectations and no player bias towards what looks like fading Irish players.

I mean if you want to think of the likes of Sione and DVdM as part of the “era” of their rugby. Personally I wouldn’t, but they do matter and where selected.

In first halves in both tests refs did not control Wobblies in same way the Lions. Looked only at Lions, overlooked so much from Skelton he should have been yellow carded in first half. Kelleher sent packing was totally unwarranted.

The match was engineered by World Rugby because the game is under pressure in Sus due to their own football game

The Wobblies 9 got away because he's small but also should have been carded. So much went unpunished and reffed listened too much to Wilson every time he blew against them watch it back.

A player coming in from Fiji has a huge culture shock too but in rugby terms the French attitude probably suits them quite well and they're earning more money than they've ever dreamed of. It's very different from a couple of hard nosed Englishmen stepping in to leadership roles trying to force a load of Frenchmen at a very challenging Parisian club to adopt an entirely different attitude, they were always going to rub each other up the wrong way. Lancaster obviously signed Farrell because he wanted a lieutenant to enforce discipline, the writing was on the wall at this point. At a club like Toulouse or La Rochelle it might have worked better but at Racing no chance.

.. and don't get me wrong this isn't a criticism of the French, I absolutely love France. They're certainly better at rugby than we are right now. It's just two very disparate styles which don't play nicely together and perhaps a bit of a criticism of Racing, there are some deep seeded issues at the club.

Attack/Backs, same thing, Hansen runs patterns and Holland executes skills execution for the backs I’d imagine. Or are you mainly talking how the forwards play?

I don’t know how you cant see all the back passing and looping as different , you’re just calling that an evolution of last years mess? It was absent a lot from the last test as it was mainly a Barrett brothers thing, certainly not polished if that’s what you mean. Just look at Jordan hanging around the ruck, that was a plan, just a bad one!