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as of today i'd settle for three close losses against the lions based off what we saw this year.....BUT...while we lost with rennie we were definitely a better team so i do have hope we can improve quickly but super rugby needs to start doing its job. get the players fitter, keep the skills up...

For me my conclusions are: 1) Firing Rennie was a big mistake (in hindsight surely and in my mind it was the time it happened) 2) Hiring Jones was a bigger mistake. You didn't need to look far to find people saying "this is going to be a disaster like it always is with eddie....." 3) next coach...

List revised Turnaround Specialists 1) Cheika 2) Jake White 3) Rassie 4) Lancaster Aussies 1) Mckellar 2) Larkham 3) Friend Other 1) Simon Cron 2) Ian Foster 3) Shag Hansen 4) Ogara Out/Unlikely Deans Crowley Gatland (contracted to 2027) Best of the bunch would be Rassie, Fos and Hansen surely.

Oh is also add Gatland as a possibility. When is he contracted with wales till?

It would look poor if they did. I do wonder if they’ve talked to players and gotten negative feedback which resulted in a pretty quick turnaround from “I’m committed” to “I’m out and I have it a go (lol)”

Realistically it’s probably down to Larkham Mckellar Cheika I’m going to keep Lancaster in and assume he has an international out in contract. Ronan ogara - first international gig a major turnaround? Don’t see it really. rassie (could never afford him) but he is the best candidate Foster -...

UK press must be having a field day. They all hate eddie

Id be inclined to agree and I have a hard time seeing RA go back to him. Would be great to get him at a super club or u20s

Press sounding like its Cheika Foster Larkham Mckellar Andy friend being touted for high performance in a couple places. Cheika clearly a good coach but Argentina was not firing at all this tournament so a hard time thinking he’s the man. They were great under ladesma with him as assistant but...

He hasn’t coached in 8 years? I don’t think we want him back. Maybe as a high performance director tho….

I would also add that yes he picked a young squad for the cup but even in the pre cup games when he had experience in the squad - what was the game plan? I just couldn’t piece it together at all and am probably of the mind he’s passed it. If that was a semblance of the “Australian way” we don’t...

we Need a top notch high performance director too. Nucifora obviously the first name but I think hansen would also be excellent. Lost him up in Sydney with a few caseloads of grange and I reckon he’d be happy. 18 months to review and outline what needs to be done. He could go and coach Fiji for...

So who are the candidates Australian cheika Larkham Mckeller Friend international Ronan Jake white Rassie Deans Crowley Stuart Lancaster? Gatland Joseph

Either would be great but I feel like Schmidt is out of head coach assignments? What a cluster. i love Hamish saying it proves the system is broken. Sacked cheika and he gets to a semi…..fails to mention that he sacked rennie. Seems like Jones was always telling the truth that he was gone...

Lol. Very good

Let’s not litigate the past but I disagree and I think his views were bizarre and absurd.

Firing folau was a terrible decision.

And then forced out Marinos who thought $1.6M a year would be better spent paying $320k a year to 5 young stars to stay in the game and who thought a coach on the decline wasn’t a great hire. Better to save the rennie termination payment …..I digress. I hope he’s just negotiating - how...

I can’t get past more then two lines of his drivel and quickly hit exit! We sat here at amateur level for 30 years. Gap from club to pro fell away. We had visa issues v other countries in Europe and a poor poor administration. Sucks as a fan to be here and see how bad we are. Happened quickly...

Does this go here? is there a worse rugby journalist in aus than Peter fitzimmons?