For anyone who hasn’t been watching Mark Nawaqwheresmycarkeys, he’s played in the very strong junior wallabies of 2019. In 2020 he played fullback in a super rugby trial and was probably best on ground, he then scored two tries on debut for the waratahs against the crusaders at wing (where’s he’s played exclusively since). He’s a lethal finisher, but has been dropped a few times due to his defence. Last super rugby season he came back noticeably bigger and defence has significantly improved. He had a fantastic super rugby season and after played for the Australian 7s. He then played australia A and he’s starred at every level. His fantastic form for the wallabies was no surprise to those following him and while defence is still a work on, his abilities in the air are amongst the best in the country and his long stride make him very difficult to tackle. A real find for Australia.

Australia are the weirdest team in world rugby. - They never thrash anyone, it just doesn't happen. It's either a narrow 1-2 point win/ loss or they themselves get thrashed. - They always make things as difficult as possible for themselves...even in this game with the win in the bag and only 40 seconds of match time to kill, they still managed to lose possession of the ball and almost lose the test match. - They only play good when they're down by a lot of points - They are super competitive one week against the worlds top teams and then the week after they are being beaten up by minnows.

I will forever refer to AWJ as "The Ancient Deity" from now on....

Kick battle has sort of become the the fourth (fifth?) set piece. We should be thinking about them as as important as lineouts/scrums.

Good to see someone really being themselves and giving us a beautifully creative mystical dreamland re-enactment of your rugby subconscious. I applaud you with my silent, faded B&W hands.

Hahah!!!! Tom Wright the most NRL player ever! That is he most accurate comment on Tom Wrights abilities especially his dummy kick and dummy pass. 9/10 times he is going to carry into contact 1/10 times he’ll put in a horrid kick.

I have absolutely, and I can’t stress this enough, zero need for a website. But if I or anyone ever does need it, I’ll defs use square space

Been waiting for this all week! THANK YOU SQUIDGE!!! Please do SA vs ENG 🙏🙏

Wallabies vs the Dragons, such a rich history of great games, there was a long stretch when most games were decided by a a point or two. Always enjoy watching them play each other.

The way you break down the game is brilliant,I hope you the best in your future 😊

Really appreciate all the work that goes into these amazing analysis vids

The toy Wallaby call up for a run on is classic well done 😁

Thank you for your insights as always Squide

Happy to say I donated to Joel’s fund raiser - if all the subscribers even donated $10 or so to the page, it’d be testament to the community and also to the impact these kinds of places can have galvanised by having Joel’s story brought to the forefront for a moment.

That was such an incredibly well constructed video, thanks you so much, the analysis was incredible and the way you knitted it together with the dream was fantastic. That video bordered on art. Thank you Squidgey, goat indeed. This is why I pay you 3 smackeroonies a month, coz u deserve it and more.

Amazing work Squidge!! Many thanks!

That was a lovely piece on Joel Staite at the end. Seeing real life like that, it helps put into perspective the importance of a game of Rugby. After how emotional I get watching the wallabies play, it’s helpful to remember it’s just a game. Will send a donation when I get home. Keep up the great work Squidge.

Your knowledge and presentation is phenomenal! Whatever you’re earning isn’t enough! Love it mate 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

Squidge, great analysis as usual. Particularly like how you explain the kicking tactics. As a running rugby fan it's good to understand exactly how these kicks can set up a try opportunity.

Always outstanding, thank you!!

So good. Always excellent analysis

These videos are great, thanks for posting. Noticed you've reined in the hilarious observations and annotations that featured more in the early videos. Love the analysis too but miss laughing out loud so much!

The wallabies used 51 different players in the gold jersey because of injuries and over seas clubs. Think about that the wallabies & Australia A both went on tours this year and out of both extended training teams of 30 odd. By this wales game we had o my 25 players available for selection to our national team. Just think

You're an amazing story teller. Well done.

Cool video! Would love to see a video on Portugal’s path to the World Cup. A proper dramatic tale, with plenty of politics, drama, skill, and effort. Despite their up and down nature, they’re a really exciting squad making a lot out of one of the smallest player pools and budgets out there!

Just quietly…was that a thicc Sam Warburton I saw in the coaches box with Pivac? Much love Robby thanks for this. Adoring Oz fan

Aaaah yes, been waiting to feel the pain again

Another incredible video!

Awesome breakdown chief... most appreciative.. Cooment for ther algo

Great video - it's easy to get tunnel vision and only pay attention to the story of 'your' team. As a Wallabies supporter, it was great to watch the match from Wales's perspective.

Great Analysis as Always 👏

wow - we have found the answer to our problem postion!

I would like to see a deep dive in Argentina’s progress this year. All the ups and downs the Pumas have had this year are as concerning as they are exciting, transmitting doubts and confidence at the same time. Beating the ABs and England away, pumping the Wallabies by +30, but also getting pumped by 50 against the ABs, by +20 against Scotland and choking against Australia. Here in Argentina we are illusioned with our Pumas’ build-up, which could peak/click next year. But can it really? An analysis on them would be, at least by me, appreciated and enjoyed. Cheers!

Will you di Italy vs Australia?

I said to my dad after watching Wales u20 in the summer Joe Hawkins will own the 12 shirt for a very long time. Hopefully with Llewyln at 13.

W on the Vid Squidge, love the content

unreal as always

Awesome as always

Love the opening, Ms/Constable Squidge.

I think Lachy Lonergan's performance was CRIMINALLY underrated...that lineout, beautifully thrown, then scurries around the pack to play scrumhalf, drawing the Welsh defence in to switch it to Nawaqanitawase on the inside for the try, his own try to clinch the match, then some absolutely perfect rucking, forcing the turnover to kick it into touch when the clock's in the red. Just outstanding

I need you to do a deep dive on Rhys Priestland because i am CONVINCED that he has been cursed or something to never win an international match

you are the best, thanks mate keep up the vids

I forgot about the first half performance after my optimism was swiftly crushed by Australia's reality exposing comeback.

thanks a bunch for another great video !! brilliant break down of Hawkins' role but you're wrong on Australia's world cup run since they'll meet France in the semi-final (if they can get past England in the quarter)

"Natural 3rd fly half, Adam Beard" 😂😂😂

We love the Squidge!

Len Ikitau has it all, very convenient he is left footed as well. - having a right and left foot kicker in midfield can be a great lever if used correctly.

Hey @SquidgeRugby awesome video. Is England vs South Africa in the pipeline?

Surely your dreams Squidge now must be nightmares of Wallabies at that right corner at Principality stadium 😉

When you do the 20 team pre world cup would you think about putting your starting team for that country

Great to see the ref not rob the wallabies this year. Was a good game

Is anyone else also just longing for a South Africa vs England analysis 😂

Springboks vs england?! England got hammered so hard they had to fire someone who was the best couch they've had in ages? Look forward to the video.

Gonna need a Portugal video squidge rugby

Honestly think squidge would do a better job as Wales coach right now

Thanks Squidge, a superb analysis. I am 59 and have played in school in Cardiff and 2nd division rugby in Kenya and am a passionate Welshman. But your understanding of the game is astonishing and really helps me to follow what happened and why. You should probably coach Wales, but only after Warren v 2.0

give us a video on Scotland!!! or a two hour video on Finn, either are acceptable

Great video

Dude it's been 4 months since your last video on Ireland, you're killing me here

so no Italy-Australia? :(

Any chance we could get a video on some of the African teams (besides SA)?

Never clicked a notification faster

England vs Springboks please, been waiting

do all of them please squidgey

Please do SA vs ENG next Mr Squidge sir

Squidge can you please do a video on Japan, they have recently fallen off

Springboks vs England analysis please 😊

Please do break down of Springhoks/England game

We need the England vs Boks! *PLEASE* 😭😭

Please please pleeeaaase do RSAvsENG Mr Squidge 🙏🏽🥺

Is there a SA v England video inbound?

This typically thoughtful analysis will now have to filed under "what might have been", alongside Squidge's similarly in-depth scrutiny of Eddie Jones and England. On the whole Pivac v Gatland question: the touching fondness for Warren's dour-but-usually-effective rugby style in the land of the Daffodils belies the true history of the team under his auspices. In the (much more numerous) years when the team were not winning Six Nations titles, or placing in the semifinals of a World Cup, they were frequently a dire, frustrating and extremely disappointing side; constantly trying to win through sheer bloody-minded dedication to absolute dinosaur rugby tactics, and repeatedly running the most predictable lines of attack of any team not called England. Zero wins against the All Blacks, few against the Boks or Wallabies, an average record against Ireland, and frequent multiple-game losing streaks make the affection for Gatland's staunchly old-school strategy (and the evident resistance to Pivac's more adventurous philosophy) a baffling phenomenon to anyone outside the Marches. His reinstatement, like that of Eddie Jones for Australia, reeks of a panicked attempt at a reset, a return to familiar or known quantities, and (again, like Australian rugby) a fundamental unwillingness to address or even acknowledge the deep structural problems within the sport.

Wales and Australia are becoming teams that can challenge the likes of Georgia and Italy as well as each other

Awesome video as always, please do eng vs sa!!!

In minute 76 when the kicking battle was happening would it have been better if Wales had let it go to touch? 1) it would have eaten up time to get a lineout going, and 2) they would have had the throw in and a good chance of retaining possession. From there, they would have been able to just run basic forwards ball until time ran out. Hindsight is 20/20, but am I wrong about that?

You know were waiting for an England vs South Africa vid

Squidge, please could you make a master plan video about how to improve rugby and make it a more global game

Good points but Mark Nawaqanitawase was deservedly Man of the Match, he's the player who swung it Australia's way and he only earned his first full cap this year.

Will you be doing England vs Sa

Australia looking stronger despite poor luck this autumn, thought the would beat us Irish for long periods of that game

I think a "Springbok vs England" video is needed...😁

No Springboks vs England video?

What about the SA vs Eng match?

Can you do sco vs arg

Do South Africa vs. England!

What a vid

Surely they don't sack their coach, less than a year out from a world cup.

Waiting for the "how did the Georgians win in Wales" video, I'm sure it's on the way...

Havnt watched the video yet, but it is blatantly obvious why Wales lost, and why they keep losing... Pivac selects squads based on keeping his job, and not based on where he wants to go long term. He lacks confidence, and this trickles down to the players. Alex Cuthbert selection is a huge sign of this, he has offered nothing in any element, but is 'experienced'and big, meaning he feels safe. Let's take Mcleods selection, he finally gets a cap, at 8, but isnt trusted to defend at 8, and is told to defend at 6 and hidden out of the way, he also was shifted to attack at 6 from set peice too! This obliterated his confidence. Wales first 60 mins against Aus were a shock because of how bad Aus were, with over 40 unfit or unavailable players, but over time during the game Aus realised how unconfident a team Wales really are, and eventually took control.

Squidge - god bless ya. You offer some really good insights at time. But this is insane 😂. Squeezing some good will gymnastics out of the shit pommel horse that is welsh rugby. I score it 10 10 10. I’ve not laughed so much for a while. Thank you.

Ireland vs Australia pls

Even though we lost we looked good in the first 50 mins

Waiting for an SA vs ENG please make one

Warren is home.

wheres the SA vs ENG Squidge ?

A bit of hyperbole over Hawkins, when in fact it was the carrying of Morgan which was the real game changer.

He's got to go, it's utterly confounding to see talented players creating stuff but seemingly having no game plan. I'd love to see a Pat Lam vibe (people love warren but I think the lions tour rules hime out for me)

i wish rugby aus would hire u

Please do SA vs ENG

Please do a how did Georgia beat Wales... please please.