Jun 14, 2019 -- 2:35PM, The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE wrote:

An embarrassing night for Australian Rugby. Again.I don't get this. It's halftime the hooter has sounded you're 60-70 metres from the Chiefs tryline and Genia and Cooper decide to chuck it around and see if they can conjure a try out of nothing. They haven't done anything in the previous 40 minutes to suggest they were capable of scoring a try. So after the hooter has gone and they are down 3-14 (so the Rebels are still in the game) they decide they want to score a try. So naturally they fxck it up big style and the Chiefs score instead 21-3 game over.These two blokes are internationals have been playing super rugby for a decade. I can't believe it!!! There's not a 9 or 10 in even the lowest grades of Sydney club rugby playing tomorrow that wouldn't hoof that ball into touch and head for the sheds. Is it arrogance? Delusional? Do these slow old blokes still think they're the same players they were in 2011? I thought experienced players got slower as they got older but smarter? These two just get slower and dumber!

I've been saying it over and over again - Australian rugby union players are dumb and last night was a perfect example of it. When you're dealing with such a shallow talent pool and at the same time an increase in teams (from the original three) purely to make up the numbers in SAANZAR it is never going to work. Throw in a dumb union in the form of the ARU who, when a side was finally to be culled, they chose the inferior Rebels organisation who were a rabble compared to the Force who actually had developed local talent and had a thriving junior system in place. Instead we are left with the Rebels who this season were talking it up big time about finally making it to the playoffs yet end it with a 2-6 record. LOL! Oh and going back to the union - they've know hired some weirdo pirate lady as CEO who left her previous organisation (a rugby league club) in disarray!

I 'get' completely what happened last night - you have Genia and Copper who have a history of risky plays who have never truly learned from their mistakes. I put this down to the fact they somehow won the Super Rugby title with the Reds in 2011 which IMO was lucky - it was the one time their risk taking worked. The problem is because they have been validated by a title the same errors will keep on occurring until they retire.

There is a lot of delusion within the ranks of Australian Super Rugby players due to many only being professionals by virtue of the number of spots available versus level of talent. This also applies to the veterans like Dumb and Dumber (Genia and Cooper) because there is no one really capable of supplanting them due to the lack of talent issue at hand.