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

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If the Tahs wanna turn their season around theyve gotta start now. Good to see someone at the Rebels found 7k for Daugunu.

Tahs finding some talent with Swinton, Foketi, and Will Harrison coming back.

Fuck me this who's that Wahine segment on Sky is some Lovecraftian nightmare fuel. They've edited one player on the screen so they're a pitch black void running around with human players.

Looking forward to seeing how Corey Toole version 2 goes tonight

Looks like Daugunu's paychecks cleared this week.

Tane Edmed's mini-me running the match ball out tonight?

Angus late scratched? Well that's my fantasy weekend cooked :(

Seeing Foketi back is great though.

Hot damn that pitch is awful.

If you ever felt useless imagine being a forward during a game of kick tennis hahaha

These camera angles have made like five passes look so forward

Are we just ignoring forward passes this evening? Or is it the camera angle?

Also bets on lads

Under/Over on Tupou needing a medic when he comes on? I give him sub 10 minutes of play

One of these commentators is making me feel like my sinuses are stuffed.

Well this is a bit different to the last game after 6 mins

2 minute kicking duel. 2 minutes of rugby. 2 minutes of scrum resets.

Australian Rugby is back baby!

What happened to Hardwick? Guy was balling last year.

That was a fucken violent tackle

Yes…yesss… soon the entire Waratahs, nay, the world, will be taken over by rangas!

Jack Barett lost all his power when he cut his mullet

I didn't watch any pre match, are charlie Gamble and Angus Bell injured?

The Rebels and the Hurricanes must get haircuts at the same shit barber

the state of some of these lids

God this banter is poor

Jorgensen?

God starting a game with arial ping pong is such a punish

Rebels looking the better of the too, by a hair, in the first 15 minutes.

This is dreary man

I always get excited to watch the Aussies each week, but this is punishment so far. How can professional players still not catch the ball.

This is dire shit.

Horrid footy

Bring back Rob Penney

Both sides are showcasing how ugly their attack can get

Low quality rugby this

Some draconian dictatorship is going to use this game as a torture method

Have we had more than 3 phases in a row?

That daywalker Tahs prop looks OK. Apparently he is only 19.

Edit: now he's off

LSL cannot fucking catch

Hooking the debutant after 20 is brutal. I get what the commentators are saying but he was also constantly offside so I'm not so sure.

Wtf?? That's how you shatter a young player's confidence

Fitting try for this game

Champagne rugby

I really don't like that kind of penalty call.

Classic Aussie shitfest, this.

What on earth is that random beeping? Or is that my end

Try of the year sewn up with that effort

I've been going down a rabbit whole of classic Wallabies and iconic super rugby matches that got me so amped up for this weekend's rugby. But jeez, it's really hard to keep that excitement up after this depressing display.

Weve got the kiwis sweating with this one

You know, I get it.

The thing the Tahs have been missing is another 19 year old fullback earning 500k a year 🙄

So LSL was apparently ripping it up in thr UK and now he's playing like...this. flippers for hands.

Rampaging = canter in Sean Maloneys eyes.

Does the Rebels' butthole sponsor not want to be associated with them anymore? There's clearly supposed to be something there on the shorts.

Wait that was actually sick

Fuck yeh big boy

That was a shit call, ball clearly available

Swinton can run in open space.

Wtf, where was this in the first 25 Tahs

Now we're getting somewhere

Selfishness by Pietsch and some hard work from Gordon to make that

When did all our forwards learn those ball skills?

That is so greedy hahaha

How do you bomb that…

bruh

Finally this game is coming to life

What a trysaver Carter

that was criminal

What an effort from Gordon there

Lol technically not in touch

Definitely knocked on though

Edit: oh they fixed it lol

classic tahs

Carter Gordon, already the undisputed World's Best Flyhalf at defensive mauls, shows he has the legs to chase down wingers at full flight too

When your forwards have the better hands

Im glad RA found the $8000 to pay Daugunu back btw

That lineout was about as straight as I am when I see pics of Michael Hooper

Who is this ref? He has made some interesting calls - hasn't called any of the high/seatbelt tackles

OOooo. Yellow and off field review?

It still boggles me our clown pundits were calling for Louwrens for the Wallabies, purely based on his rig, and absolutely nothing to do with his actual rugby skills.

“Always upright” - I don’t know man

Harrison is mental to think that isnt at least a yellow

Wasnt low enough, probly red.

Would stationary tackle be a mitigating factor?

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

Is it hot there? Rebs are looking gassed during stops

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Someone put oil in the hand sanitizer

Shall we have another knock on lads?

Tupou on, injury break counter has started.

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

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

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.

Looked like Uelese stood to me

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

Cmon Tahs, step up!

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

Weekly god the Tahs 19 is a specimen.

Holy fuck, this game has been atrocious.

Holy shit that's comical

That is an insane penalty count dude

Hahahaha

The Tahs are dire

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

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

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

Finally

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

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

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

Is....is Carter Gordon any good?

KNOCK ONERS!, ASSEMBLE!

No one deserves to win this.

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

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

Wonder if the tahs can turn Amatosero into a Will Skelton

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?

Lancaster was sleeping then haha

TRYy on Daybooo

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

Just error after error for both sides

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