by Every time the camera cut into the lion’s coaching box, Andy Farrell shook the head. The Lions head coach had to be disappointed by a dozen players to disappoint the test in a collective performance against New South Wales Waratahs, which was not missing a fire.
Above all, what Farrell rates in a lion prices are the players who burst a belly for their teammates. The happiest that he was on this trip was the discussion about Mack Hansen’s double efforts to drive Ben Donaldson’s kick again before pursuing his own kick to force a scrum. It was far from a consistent moment in a routine victory against western strength, but as Farrell said, it embodied “the kind of spirit that we want throughout the team”.
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It was also noteworthy that Farrell had covered Scott Cummings on Saturday evening, who sounded a difficult match against the western force, after his experimental intervention in order to extend a waratah outbreak from sales.
But in the middle of the large number of knock-ons, missed tackles and bad kicks there was an incident that summarized the night of the lions and leaves farrell particularly angry.
The Lions came in midfield in the 58th minute. Flanker Josh van der Flier descends from his right foot to initiate a line breaker, with Ellis Genge with him. Van der Flier invites Genge, who is quickly tackled by Matt Philip. This is a perfect attack with front football on the edge of the Waratahs 22.
Van der Flier, however, towered over, and suddenly the Lions are in trouble because the outstanding Charlie Gamble enters the scene. The Scrum-Half Alex Mitchell is initially the only player who is supported, and the Waratah’s OpenSide Flanker properly wins a punishment.
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What Farrell had alerted the most was that five Waratah’s strikers summarized in the line of defense at Genge, before Tadhg Beirne finally came to support Mitchell’s lost fight. At the point where Van der Flier takes his step, there are five strikers in his immediate vicinity, including Genge, as well as Fin Smith and Sione Tuipulotu.
This was a simple failure of the effort. The Waratahs strikers worked harder to get back in again than the Lions pack to manage cleaning. Practice error and there were many of them in Farrell’s eyes forgive; Out-Husted and outcuting are not, especially from one side that the local media expected to send 70 points.
The excellent Charlie Gamble, who celebrated his attempt, celebrated the strikers of his rival Lions – Getty Images/Cameron Spencer
It is a shameful prejudices against the winning side that Van der Flier and all Lions strikers of Gamble, who achieved four sales, was awarded to van der Flier. Gamble, who wears an excellent Australian mustache, has never played Rugby test. In fact, a few years ago he played half -professional in the NSW Suburban Rugby while working as a beer delivery driver. “I rolled barrels and delivered beers to the pub, it was actually pretty cool,” said Gamble, the Van der Flier, the 2022 World Player of the Year, if not even superior.
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In total, the Waratahs won 10 sales for the Lions’ One – the tourists also committed 20 sales – as part of a deliberate attack on breakdown. The Waratahs had investigated the way Argentina also caused the lion in the 28-24 victory in Dublin, and the view that both the western armed forces and Queensland Reds, who had made both 50-point strokes, were too passive in this area.
“We saw a little film,” said Gamble. “We thought that Argentina really put them under pressure, came from the line and gave them less time to play the ball on the side. We thought the strength and the red tones were holding back. Our schedule was to always press from the line and force an error.
Joe Schmidt, the Australia head coach, who is preparing for the Wallabies’ warm-up game against Fiji in Newcastle on Sunday, is made plenty of notes.
If the Waratah’s Scrum had been stuck from afar, the lions had seriously in trouble. The offset was an area in which the last two performances on Australian soil improved significantly. As soon as a problem is solved, another, like a mole like a mole, appears to chew like a mole when the lions jump to Canberra on Monday.
