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RuggaMatrix Episode 246 - Waratahs Woes and Super Rugby Finals

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Published: 18 July 2017 01:01 PDT

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Australia’s biggest state bombs big time, while New Zealand teams dominate the first weekend of finals coming up in Super Rugby.

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JW 8 minutes ago

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The ones who haven’t been playing much in NZ recently you mean or am I still supposed to be responding about Super Rugby? LOL

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JW 23 minutes ago

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They’re bounce back for sure. This game was the coaching team regressing into the same sort of pattern Razor n Co found themselves doing.

They’ll spot that and it will be back to full bore next weekend.

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JW 26 minutes ago

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Thankfully the won’t be needed?

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JW 29 minutes ago

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The won some big moments in the last 10 for sure. And the reverse was always expected of players like Moung and Leicester, they’ve got to try to be match winners but it’s far too much to ask of them not coming through Super Rugby (and being injured).

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ColinK 29 minutes ago

Wales cling on to end 73-year wait to beat the All Blacks

Congrats to Wales, hopefully my boys will be better for this. Incredibly courageous defense from Wales and also France yesterday. Wales deserved to win, hats off to them. For my beloved ABs a sad day, but we will judge if its a blip or something more serious next week against a resurgent England. It’s been a long injury-riddled season but no excuse, as all teams face this now days. At least it’s nice to know that there will be many people so, so happy in Wales. Hopefully they will rise again now.

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JW 31 minutes ago

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Not at all, three times (really only twice looked like scoring though) they held players up over the line, that was the luck they needed.

Also if they hadn’t of stopped those tries they could just have scored again themselves. It was great work don’t get us wrong, but it doesn’t invalid or making it more important than the prio 60min of good threatening rugby. One would even call your take disrespectul of Wales and more anit AB than anything else.

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JW 35 minutes ago

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That Bok side went on to demolish France in the same fashion using one less player. It certainly wasn’t as bad a performance as this one.

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Even Argentina at home was worse than that following one.

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B 47 minutes ago

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Managed to get the full replay without the spoiler alerts!

Incredibly they backed up their jaw dropping response to the haka

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JW 53 minutes ago

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Wildkard saying the Scarlets have been really good this year. I wouldn’t put it past Wales putting as much on Aus as we did.

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cnw 1 hour ago

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Yeah that was very painful too but losing to the No 10 in the world, is just utterly demoralising - it should never have happened - they only just beat Japan by about the same margin last week - who were then slaughtered by the English today. Its bad JD, very bad.

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Tom 1 hour ago

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Agreed on all points… although I'm not really bothered if Fisilau or Earl start. Earl playing the first 55 and Fisilau and Pollock coming off the bench works well.

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