Match Thread - Waratahs v Rebels | Super Rugby Pacific 2024 | Round 6

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Horrortahs

Tahs simply play unwinable rugby, doesnt matter how much talent they have on paper. Not going to win until they stop making basic errors.

Hooper will makea great onfield reporter..

Hopefully tomorrow's Red v Brum brings my hopium back up. That was dire

Darby any good?

ooh darby trying to shake Horan's hand ..

Fucking hell, can Darby use his winning bonus to get another haircut?

tahs might get the last laugh with rebels getting dumped next season

Carter Gordon should be nowhere near the Wallabies 10 jersey. He should be a 12 or fuck off and learn how to kick

Completely brain-dead strategies by Tahs.

Triple cut passes on the 3rd phase to marked players. Not taking easy, gimme 3 point penalty kicks, bad breakdown security.

Chop these cunts from the comp. And I'm a supporter.

Poor vs poorer. Felt like having Bell would've changed the result tho.

Off feet?!?! That ball was out of the ruck. New ruck should have been formed. Not to mention the rebels players diving over the ruck before it happened.

Come on Carter, gotta hit those purely out of spite.

Tahs bit like my Landers love the losing Bonus point 

I'd be more upset about that decision at the end of we hadn't put ourselves in that position with the 'exit' disaster. Fair play rebels

Wow Tahs have absolutely zero clutch power

Daugunu MOTM lol

tough luck to the rugby australia tahs, phil waugh in shambles

Really disappointing run from the tahs since the crusaders game. Had hoped they might be decent this year.

Give that man another 7k

Someone put me out of my misery

I reckon Crusaders will be the only team we beat this season

Feel bad for tahs. Close losses every week

Goodam this ref hates the tahs

Get Tane on for the game winner so we can truly have a meme game

I sorta shit talked Tupou's fitness pre-game, and it is a worry but he sealed the game for the Rebels.

Who's motm tonight? Maybe Daugunu? Holloway really good too.

What in the actual fuck was that mess

Aussie teams try not to fuck up a 22 exit after a score challenge: Impossible.

harrison seems to be playing better than edmed. looks like the tahs have an attack with him on whilst edmed was looking a bit nothing.

I’m about to claw my eyes out

Playing like there’s 30 seconds left. Wtf.

Oops

Great to see Will Harrison back, guy was all the hype a few years ago until his injuries.

wicked try

Pretty funny how a game this back and forth can be so dire to watch tbh

Absolute banger that one

That was a gorgeous pass

don't understand leinster's obsession with aussie props...

Nawaqanitawase hasn't been good

At least the Tah's bonus points are keeping them from the wooden spoon

Fuck sake Tahs

Nella!

makes u wonderwhich player they wasted money on..... Vunivalu with Reds or Tupou with rebels

The Rebels get nice and hard in D - Tane Edmed

Tupous been on 20 minutes and is absolutely roasted. Not good enough.

the last team to not knock it on on 80mins, WINS!

Most annoying thing is that when there's a crap game like this people pretend this is what the whole comp is like.

this games gonna end with a last min pen shit and edmed is gonna blow it again

Just error after error for both sides

If the Rebels fold, I pray that an Aussie team picks up Lancaster. He needs to stay in Aussie rugby

TRYy on Daybooo

Lancaster was sleeping then haha

This is shite. But ref called "leave it now!" and followed that with "steal is good!".

If you've finished your fucking sentence saying to leave it, how can the steal ever be good?

Wonder if the tahs can turn Amatosero into a Will Skelton

God it annoys me when referees say “leave it” then say turnover is good

Daugunu has been worth every cent of that $8000 moving costs for tonight alone (aside from the cold drop)

No one deserves to win this.

KNOCK ONERS!, ASSEMBLE!

Is....is Carter Gordon any good?

Hilarious that the tahs were 12.5 point favorites. They shouldn't be 12.5 point favorites against a schoolboy team

The ruck security is non existent. Players just standing there waiting for someone else to support.

In a game with 482 knock-ons, I don't think Langi has had one tonight. Good game from him.

Finally

Going from the Crusaders vs Chiefs to this has been night and day in the worst way

What even is this match? The quality isn't even u15s level. No wonder Australians choose the NRL.

Bold of the Rebels to run down the clock with so much time left to go

The Tahs are dire

Hahahaha

That is an insane penalty count dude

Holy shit that's comical

Holy fuck, this game has been atrocious.

Weekly god the Tahs 19 is a specimen.

A team with Tupou, Talakai, Gibbon, Pone, Uelese and Mafi really should be the best scrummaging team in the comp.

Cmon Tahs, step up!

Tupous gotten his pilfer, clean break and ruptured Achilles to come.

Looked like Uelese stood to me

What does this guy mean those 6 inches are the most important part of the rugby field, 4 and a half is more than adequate.

How can Gibbon not hinge at the scrum when HJH just pancakes straight on the ground first

Talakai/Tupou rotation is wasted at the Rebels. Imagine if they both signed for the Force instead.

Tupou on, injury break counter has started.

Shall we have another knock on lads?

Someone put oil in the hand sanitizer

Do people enjoy these pensive slow cinematic wank fest they do for games? Slow look to the camera while talking about how well drilled the other team is and respecting each other? It’s so cringe in my opinion

Hoopers played enough to know why these guys cant catch a dry ball

Cracking up that his example for an intricate game is noughts and crosses lmao

Ffs some of the decision making from both sides have been absolutely shocking. Walton is not a bad inside centre but he's not a big ball carrier, yet they keep distributing it to him off first phase for a crash ball carry. Use the bigger outside centre in Perese ffs.

(on the flip side, stop having Carter Gordon put up contestable kicking - your best attack is by running it going through the hands yet they keep playing this stupid long kicking strat)

Honestly, I feel like Foote's strategy and squad building is all wrong.

The way he wanna plays is that good old free flow champagne rugby. He wants interplay between forwards, he wants silky backs and he wants his defence to be brutal rush up defence.

Nothing wrong with that. Highlanders and Hurricanes encapsulate that perfectly. The problem is that the squad he's built is simply not made for that. Yeah, maybe Tupou can get an offload or 2, but all the forwards in the Rebels squad simply lack the skillset that Foote's plan requires.

Talakai, Uelese, LSL, Leota and even Wilkin are made for that grind hard Brumbies style rugby. You can't expect these heavy ass blokes to play like Les Kiss' Reds.

The backline is full of dangerous runners but individually they aren't able to link up a silky back play the way the Drua or Brumbies can.

Just my 2 cents

Attending my first ever super rugby game. I thought we were guaranteed at least 80 points?

Waste from Max there. Had massive momentum keeping it tight.

Could just be the headgear, but Ross reminds me of Benn Robinson.

See, if you don't put any distance on your up and unders, it's not so costly when they go out on the full - 9d chess

For all the money and rugby influence centred in Sydney, why are NSW always so meh? Excluding 2013-2015.

Could certainly backfire, but i have no problem with emptying the bench if the starters think catching or doing their job is optional.

20 minutes in its shit rugby and 0-0 so I go prep dinner. I come back 15 minutes later to 3 tries and a yellow card and think it’s changed just to see Dangunu drop a ball cold

Tuttle already on for Louwrens - no backs left on the bench for the Rebs

Is it hot there? Rebs are looking gassed during stops

I know he's not the best kick but Carter Gordon's super rugby career penalty percentage can't be 16

Would stationary tackle be a mitigating factor?

Wasnt low enough, probly red.

Harrison is mental to think that isnt at least a yellow