“The pack just played lovely rugby”.
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“It is tough for Fordy and Jonny but when they initially got cited we prepared for it and from Tuesday we focused on the weekend”, said stand-in hooker Fraser Brown.
The appeal committee said: “Having conducted a detailed review of all the evidence, including new submissions from the players and their representatives, along with all available camera angles, the appeal committee dismissed the finding that the players had committed an act of foul play, as the player had not been dropped or driven and therefore the tackle was not unsafe”.
Ledesma was a breath of fresh air.
“It’s pretty surreal. It would be awesome for this team to beat Australia”. That’s not our go, we’re not playing for that type of stuff.
Australia got on the board quickly through Adam Ashley-Cooper but Scotland took the lead 10 minutes later when Peter Horne caught the Wallabies napping to go over from the back of the ruck. That is the key. In former Highlander John Hardie they boast one of the best in the competition, a natural openside who hits like a jack hammer and who hunts down the opposition stand-off with the feral instincts of a wild dog.
“There’s going to be a lot of pain, it’s going to be physical and I want the players to enjoy that as well because that’s when it’s worth it”.
“One hundred percent yes, this will be the most hard game we play and that’s not disrespecting our other opponents at all because every match has been tough but this will be the toughest”, said the 48-year-old.
Then came the moment that, for a brief moment, made it feel as if the Hampden roar had been exported south to the home of English rugby.
Wallabies: 1. Scott Sio (14 Tests), 2. We don’t know what Ledesma has done, and it has not been as simple as Contepomi described it, but it has worked wonders. But all the tactics in the world couldn’t allow for the fortitude of the Australian defence. “If Scotland are going to win this quarter-final clash they will have to have the game of their lives”. “Australia didn’t surprise me”.
“Australia are a very strong team right now and have had a very strong World Cup so we are cautious of that”. Greig Laidlaw’s conversion put them 34-32 ahead to leave the whole world asking the same question: Could they hold on?
Coach Michael Cheika cut straight to the chase early in the week, pointing to six men in the team room who had stood on the pitch in Marseilles, hollow with disbelief. But this gutsy display showed that they were not afraid to find a way to win games off the back foot.
“It’s not so much freshening them up”.
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Cheika brought discipline and organisation to an outfit that was in disarray, but he also brought heart. We will then pick these boys up later on if and when they get back. They are second favourites to lift the Webb Elliss Cup on October 31 at 2/1. “Even too if we haven’t played at the level we wanted to it isn’t necessary to change as the most important thing is to remain faithful to our image”.Moore took over as Wallabies’ captain past year, but disaster struck just five minutes into his first Test as skipper when he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament. Now they look to conquer the world.
