To follow on from Hennessey and Price in other sports, you have Kieren Hardy to crown the week.
1) You are a moment from 1/2 time against 14 men who have been folding under physical pressure all the 1/2 and you are 1m from the tryline with a scrum and the oppos facing a 2nd yellow. Do you
a) Try and drive over with the scrum and maybe get at least a pen and the 2nd yellow?
b) Go wide to exploit the gaps?
c) Use your fwd dominance to take you over?
d) Pass the ball to your smallest player so he can try and crash over feebly and give up a turnover for held up?
2) Having f**ked that up, on 64 odd mins, faced with a similar position, the obvious thing to do is give Hardy a 2nd opportunity to f**k it up in the same way, right? And then follow that up with successive howlers
- Priestland passing an intercept try pass (should have been a pen try)
- and then Tipuric with a cheap, nasty trip (should have been red)
3) Hawkins deciding not to kick the ball out when he had the chance to heap on the pressure.
4) Elias
5) And then to cap the worst individual performance of the AIs, Hardy does a deliberate knock on at the end which would have been a pen try and another yellow were it nor for the fortunate rebound gifting Aus the try and the game anyway.
Good luck at the RWC when Aus hasn't got 20 injured or unavailable players.
