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Did you watch the game? Your forwards were beaten almost to a man. There was not one guy in the forward pack that outplayed his opposite number. Our front row chewed up the meters from you guys at will. Cam Smith had an eternity to pick up runners. Gallen made more metres than any back rower in the game. Laffranchi had only a handfull of metres less than Peacock. Kite, off the bench, had the most metres of all players and ran a total of 6m less than your ENTIRE BACK ROW!!....So please were have they been more than a match for the Aussie forwards because I cannot see it. They were found wanting big time. Go look at the stats, they are damning. The only poor performer in the Aussie pack was Stewart (and he was abysmall).
Stats shmats.
Put it in context. When the game was a contest our forwards were dominant. Price and Kite both dropped easy ball, I think Steward offloaded like a schoolboy inside his own 10, England were making easy easy metres.
The a host of other contributing factors that played out over the course of the game contributed to Australia having more possession, in better field position, which will obviously translate to better statistics.
Take the part of the game when it was a contest and Australia's forwards were second best.
We had a couple of shmucks, such as Faasavalu, who blew it for the rest of his teammates (pens and knock ons).