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Don't forget he took the Tahs to the Super Rugby final in 2008 as fly-half, and the Crusaders only got on top in that game when KB (Kurtley Beale) went off with injury. So he's OK as fly-half. Whilst 12 or 15 are better options for him, I've always thought it a shame that the Tahs and Wallabies didn't keep...

Absolutely. I was at a school rugby awards dinner a couple of months ago, where he was interviewed, and he silenced the room with a very thoughtful, passionate discussion about how he cherishes the opportunity to play for his home town, and the joy it brings in tough times.

Seems like Foster is campaigning hard for the AB job, with news he's organised a "dream team" of assistants - no names though. Paul Cully has been pushing the line that Rennie wouldn't want the AB job, given he burned some bridges there. If that's the case, Rennie would be wise to stay clear...

I know everyone wants to catastrophise right now, but perhaps the choice of Wallaby HC and assistants isn't the most important thing right now. Perhaps the only way for us to actually improve is to build the foundation, and that's more important right now. We have some great young talent filling...

If you remove the 60 cap threshold on Giteau's law, the workload for the Wallaby coaching staff and selectors goes up significantly. Instead of monitoring 3 or 4 Super games a weekend, plus maybe a few club games, they're supposed to then keep track of maybe a dozen players in Europe, trying to...

Great article by Morgan Turinui here, emphasising the bigger picture beyond just the Head Coach (but also with some great points about the HC too): https://www.therugbyruckus.com/2019/10/23/the-who-and-how-of-the-next-wallabies-coach/

If Wallaby assistant coaches are going to be full-time appointments, I'd like to see them working across all of Australian rugby to upskill other coaches in their area of expertise. Otherwise I can't see the justification for them being full-time. We don't need all Australian teams following...

Scott Wisemantel has been floated as the most likely candidate by the SMH. Seems like he has the right sort of background for a successful Super Rugby coach - 20 years of experience under some very good coaches, currently with Eddie in England. But not much experience as a head coach before...

Yes, and a larger 27,000 you would not find. Capacity of the SFS is 43K or so? Not sure where they would have found room for 16K more people on Sunday - if it had been an NRL match, reported crowd would have been 35K or so. Tahs need to use their counting system.

I saw half the Sydney Uni game and the Parramatta game. I can't pass much comment on the rugby itself, it was mostly pretty scrappy as you'd expect. I think I was most impressed by the Two Blues' efforts to play the Tahs-style continuity game, which worked pretty well - they even put a try on...

He can simply deadbat it with a "I don't discuss my future when I'm negotiating my contract", or something similar. He doesn't have to lie. Most of these blokes seem to be very capable at providing non-informative answers when it suits them. Perhaps make the journalist look for a more...

Well, I don't like it. I've no problem with players looking overseas or to other domestic teams when contract negotiations are on, but there's no need to make it public. How do you feel about the workmate who's regularly telling you that he's open to other offers?

I reckon the consultants may have told Pulver to get some news out there - I fear the media channels were clogged with crap from the Beale camp because absolutely nothing useful was coming from the ARU. So many of those early stories could have been squashed by some simple clarification from the...

Good points Lee. You think the Tahs would play without their head coach at the ground? That would be an unusual sight. Interesting that you put the Tahs' physicality down to Grey's influence - I would have thought that was very much TGC's forte. Undoubtedly Grey's work in defence was the great...

Of course - but being indispensable never hurt anyone's cause at a tribunal hearing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The talk earlier this year was that Nathan Grey was to be groomed as the successor. But what would you prefer to be - assistant coach with the Wallabies, or head Super Rugby coach? Goes for Larkham and Foley also.

Yes, and it might have made Kurtley a little nervous about his prospects to see someone else playing the 2nd 5/8 role so well in a team that's now Cheika's.

KB (Kurtley Beale)'s not in the squad for Europe. Consequence of delaying the hearing until after the plane leaves, I guess.

Yes, I agree MR. The more rabid elements of the NRL press haven't bothered mentioning rugby for the past few years, because it's been nowhere. Except maybe for the Lions tour last year. When rugby puts on a spectacle like the Super Rugby final, with both great play and great atmosphere, the NRL boys...

And Izzy is 100% reliable under the high ball. So reliable it's getting hard to remember the years and years we wished that fullbacks could master that basic skill. I reckon he's been teaching Kurtley that skill also.