Rodríguez realised his team were just too ragged and were now at risk of a rout.
With even the conservative commentariat attacking his government, it was calculated to give the impression he was listening (sure, things have been a bit ragged) and making concessions (yes, ABC cuts are at odds with what I said before the election), while pointing out hand on heart that he had "guts" and "conviction" (one thing no one had ever really doubted).
But from there, until Petrie twice got out the back late in the third-quarter, the Lions ran the Kangaroos ragged.
In his famously 'enigmatic' interviews (ie: he's an infuriating,tight- lipped sod until the tape recorder is turned off), he still manages to get in the odd dig at RSAMD specifically, and drama schools generally ('I had rawness and energy, and that's the thing drama schools try to squash out of you. They don't like ragged edges').
"Just recently we had around 20 Boko Haram men coming here looking very ragged, very dirty," an official for Cameroon's far north security force said.
I'm of an age to call someone roughly other like Giggs "pop", but he more or less inhabits some highly specified area that flickers in and around hip-hop and gangsta rap and the knotty domestic deviation, grime, that added certain ragged home truths and electronically quarried sonic grit to grabby, waggish hip-hop alertness.
Fed by images and messages on social media and discovering that they are far cleverer than the ragged clutch of paper qualifications by which the rest of us will judge them for the rest of their lives, they have grown resentful at why older generations seem happy to tolerate inequality in an affluent land.
He conceded the government had finished 2014 "in a slightly ragged position but we still have two years to go before an election is due".
Ethan Steifel's solo, to Brother, Can You Spare a Dime, is truly affecting, the ragged energy of the dancing capturing a pulse of tragedy without being mawkish.
It featured a ragged-clothed man, dark-skinned and strong-looking, with bloodshot eyes, holding out a rope knotted around his waist.
Television images of ragged-looking youngsters held in detention camps horrified the United States and the whole region.Since then the numbers have fallen somewhat and the cameras have moved elsewhere, though the United States' Customs and Border Protection still says more than 15,000 unaccompanied minors have been apprehended in the past six months (see chart).
