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How the Wallabies can attack the All Blacks

Photo by Steven Markham/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

The Wallabies, like every team in The Rugby Championship have given fans moments of brilliance amongst moments of mediocrity and everything in between.

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Two tests remain for each team in the tournament and the trophy remains within reach of all four nations.

The remaining two clashes in the Wallabies’ schedule are against their most familiar foe, New Zealand.

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James Parsons of the Aotearoa Rugby Pod and previously of the Auckland Blues shared his thoughts on how the Australians should go about attacking the All Blacks:

“I think what we’ve seen from all these teams, is when they’ve got it right they’ve just focused on themselves,” Parsons said.

“It’s not about over-looking that (game) tape and trying to find reasons how or why they were so much better, it’s really (about) what can we nail? what can we execute to manipulate them?

“We’ve seen it time and time again with this Aussie attack and it’s their work off the ball, their blindside wingers coming involved, being that extra man on the opposite side, getting their hands on the ball at first receiver creating time and space for guys that can put little kicks through or get it to that edge through quick hands.

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“I think they’re in control of their own destiny on attack, they’ve just got to go to their own strengths and back that.”

Parsons’ co-panellist and ex-Crusaders halfback Bryn Hall also lent his observations to the conversation.

“As it’s shown this year, if you’re five per cent off and you don’t get things right,” Hall said. “Predominantly at the breakdown, It’s the area where the Australians need to get right because I think when they get that right they’ve got the ability of Nic White and like Jip (Parsons) said, they’ve got the ability to rove off nine, they’ve got the ability to rove off ten and work off the ball and get that animation right through that phase play shape.”

The breakdown has been a huge talking point this season, the ability to execute a rush defence and control the pace of the game are aspects of the game tightly knit into certain teams’ identity and very reliant on breakdown execution.

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“Even Dave Rennie said after the match he thought their cleanup work was pretty poor,” Hall continued. “Their anticipation, their clean-outs, their ball carrier was too high and they didn’t get the entry right.

“Every time the All Blacks have lost this year, they haven’t won that breakdown battle so you’d have to think the Australians will be pretty good around the next ten days previewing, getting those pictures right and getting that right in the training week to be able to try and ask questions of the All Blacks.”

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JWH 5 hours ago
'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Do you hear yourself? Do you have any concept of world view? Have you tried looking into why people call Ireland ‘arrogant’? Obviously not.


We started calling you arrogant when you called our captain a ‘shit Richie McCaw’. In New Zealand. On our turf. Don’t think that kind of behaviour really calls for respect, does it.


NZ don’t really talk ourselves up, if anything the rugby does it for us. No kiwi goes in the media and says: ‘We are gonna win the RWC’. However, I have found many instance of IRISH media saying that the Irish should win, without a doubt. THAT is disrespectful.


The All Blacks have played good rugby, even some of the best rugby ever, at many points in history, but I don’t think you could find a single instance of one of those players, or the NZ media, saying that they should whitewash their opponents. Ever.


Now, onto your analysis. Ireland DID choke the QF. They beat the champions, they were ranked first coming into it, a lot of players at the peaks of their powers. Its hard to say that they didn’t choke. Obviously, their preparation was just not as good as NZ, and thats all there really is to it.


If Ireland had repsected that ABs team and that QF more, maybe they would’ve prepared properly for it and won. But they didn’t.


Maybe if Ireland had won their QF last RWC, they wouldn’t have to be in the same pool as SA and Scotland. I mean, its called a draw for a reason. NZ got third last RWC, so of course they should get a reasonable pool, and they were ranked pretty highly too. If you want to talk about easy pools, look no further than Pool 3 with England, Australia, Fiji, and Georgia I think?


Now, obviously you don’t remember how that QF ended, so I’ll go ahead and rectify that. Ireland reclaimed the ball off kickoff and marched for 20ish phases into the opposition half. Savea then won a turnover, but the referee refused to give it, so play went on. Finally, at the NZ 22, after not giving up a single penatly in 25 phases of hard defense, Sam Whitelock, the most capped All Black of all time, wins the game with an incredible steal.


Now, NZ players having a go at Ireland. Do you cry when you get hit after making the first swing? We all know Sexton is a prick on the field, its just the truth. And Ioane never backs down from a clash, so he thought he should humble a player who has never won an international knockout game who thought he was all that. Don’t really see the issue, its poetic justice really.

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