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- From: cjp@aber.ac.uk (C J Price)
- Newsgroups: rec.sport.rugby
- Subject: Wales 6 Australia 23
- Message-ID: <CJP.92Nov21221457@aberda.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:14:57 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., UCW Aberystwyth
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- An interesting game. My heart stopped when I saw the referee was in
- white, but it was an Englishman I've never heard of, rather than Fred
- Howard, and didn't do too badly.
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- Wales played fairly solidly in the first half, not exactly
- adventurous (Colin Stephens managed to drop the ball rather than a
- goal in front of the posts), but defending well when they needed to.
-
- The most amazing feature of the first half was that Wales won good
- lineout ball and disrupted some of the Aussie lineouts. Neither side
- had much of a platform and the game tended to be played around the
- half way line. The Aussie lead (5-3) was due to Roebuck hitting the
- post with an easy kick, catching the return and sending his forwards
- over. Wow, I wish he could teach me to do that...
-
- Start of second half was a very different story. Aussies dominate
- lineout and loose, three trips into Welsh territory come back with two
- tries and a penalty which I wouldn't have given. 18-6.
-
- Wales even out a bit, do some adventurous attacking stoutly defended
- by Australia. Interception on Oz 20 metre line, kick ahead leads to
- only piece of Campese magic in the game as he races 60 yards to
- touchdown.
-
- Willy O was pretty huge (but then he always was :->), as were the rest
- of the Oz forwards. The centres and Roebuck defended well, although
- one felt that the speed with which they came up made it worth trying
- the chip that worked for England against SA last week. Maybe the Babas
- will try it next week. Is there another Oz outside half over here who
- would care to turn up and play a game for his country? Liner is being
- sorely missed.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Chris Price
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- Chris Price, Department of Computer Science, University College of Wales,
- Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SY23 3BZ, United Kingdom.
- email: cjp@uk.ac.aber (within UK) cjp@aber.ac.uk (rest of world?)
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