No Ulster players in Australia Tri Nations Squad

John McMurtry

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July 10, 2011

Not that there were expected to be any but as I’ve already rolled out the “Ulster laden” New Zealand and South African squads I thought I might as well complete the picture with the Wallabies :).

Of more interest is that this squad, shown below, will form the basis the Wallaby squad for the World Cup where Australia have been drawn in the same group as Ireland.

The 40 man selection contains 15 Queensland Reds players who featured in yesterdays Super XV Championship win in a game that showed how difficult it’s going to be for Ireland and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere teams to progress in the World Cup in New Zealand – the land of the long wide offside line. Not that Ireland will struggle particularly due to the quality of the opposition more that they will have to quickly come to terms with the refereeing standards if Bryce Lawrence’s interpretation of the laws of the game is anything to go by. The New Zealander, who will be in charge for Ireland’s world cup clash with Australia, had a huge influence on the game, ironically for doing very little!

Yesterdays match was far from a classic . . .

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2 responses to “No Ulster players in Australia Tri Nations Squad”

the mote

July 15, 2011

Super 12 is played on a loose application of the laws which basically seem to be ” don’t blow the whistle unless an excessive unfair advantage has been gained ” such as a try scoring forward pass. this form of application assumes that each side commit a similiar number of like offences.

The down side is that by failing to apply an offside line the game gets closed out and becomes a kick fest because of the lack of space in mid-field and the recycle also becomes slower because the game is being played close to the ruck .

thus the intended gain of a whistle free match leading to an action packed game becomes a myth as players make errors in a tight “man and ball ” situations.

the one thing that was noticeable in the game was McGaws lack of pace in the second half which left the gaps that reds exploited.

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junty

July 10, 2011

watched the finaland as you say John, Lawerence was pretty poor at calling the offside. The line appeared to have moved to the front foot of the ruck, and the crusaders 9 had a free reign at every put in to the reds scrum, whereas on the crusaders put in Lawerence kept calling to Genia 1 metre 1/2. Overall i’m glad the reds won they have played the best rugby all season and scored 2 great tries yesterday, and had a 3rd try disallowed by a crap decision by Lawerence

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