Sunday 27 July 2008

ELV's - an RSVP...

Henry's trademark Headmasterly stare in use as his ex pupil out thinks him in the Bledisloe Cup encounter. Robbie Deans has more experience than his old coach in one crucial respect - he has played a season under the contoversial new ELV laws, and it showed.
A breathless game, played at breakneck speed, but Northern hemisphere purists will have plenty of anti ELV ammunition to play with too. The scrums were poorly managed by the ref, and became an irrelevant mess - which is not something the Wallabies would be losing any sleep over. If you're Andy Sheridan, however, your raison d'etre is being undermined...
And as for the break down - George Smith was king of the turnovers - again, the ref was frankly bewildered as many hands made light work of whatever clean possession was available.