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After those first two rounds, there's no doubt McKellar is the best coach in Australia right now. I think the sooner he becomes Wallabies coach the better. Rennie is really just a caretaker coach for the Wobbs & is merely a stop-gap measure for the meantime. I truly believe McKellar is a...

Well.. relatively speaking, it was probably the best of a bad bunch, (of that 2016-2019 World Cup cycle), but even without that context it sure wasn't pretty either.. It was the last time all key players were in excellent form - Hodge, Genia, Beale, Foley, It was also Folau's best year...

Oh yeah.. for some reason, I remember that period very clearly.. like it was only yesterday. Him & McMahon were in the form of their lives. That 2017 rugby championship campaign (ending with the win in Brisbane against the All Blacks) was the peak of Cheika's Wallabies from the 2016-2019 cycle...

Yes, I would like to see Petatia convert to fullback. There are plenty of quality centre's coming through. The Wallabies just don't have any depth at 15 whatsoever.. It's genuinely appalling compared to the plethora of options the All Blacks have available. Tom Banks is serviceable at...

yes.

Perhaps ARU should step in & limit the talent hoarding from certain franchises *cough *cough.. Let's start off by splitting in-half and merging Reds & Tahs squads to even out the playing field?

I have two questions: 1 - Where is Campbell Magney? Didn't see his name on the Rebel's team sheet. 2 - Is Geoff Parling still the forwards coach or is he full-time with the Wallabies now?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/300238957/australia-makes-gamechanging-offer-to-host-british-and-irish-lions-tour Rugby Australia has made a "game-changing" intervention over the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa by offering to underwrite the cost of playing Down...

Support reportedly is growing for an Australian-based Lions tour this year.. https://www.rugbypass.com/news/support-reportedly-growing-for-australia-option-as-lions-officials-set-to-discuss-finer-details/

Seems to be quite a few players exiting the Tahs over last 18 months, and with Holloway & Robertson's claims about the direction under Penney, it makes you wonder a bit doesn't it?

Found some high praise for Tandy on reddit, the Scots are viewing his appointment as a god-send: "Scotland have been building a genuinely competitive squad for a while now. Their results have at times been hit and miss. But I suspect to most rugby fans, the talent in that squad has been...

I'm not sure why Taylor was so highly sought after on here. I mean the one great success he had was when he was part of a coaching group than also included Link Mackenzie & Jim McKay. And yeah, the defense was solid during most of those years, but even in 2011 it's wasn't at the best in the...

Once again Scotland's enormously improved defensive structure under Steve Tandy (compared to Taylor) continues to prove the erroneous mistake of the ARU letting their best candidate leave Australian shores..

https://www.rugbypass.com/news/former-nrl-star-vunivalu-shows-glimpses-of-class-on-reds-debut/ ok, the Tahs beat the Reds 45-33 in their pre-season game.. why has nobody mentioned this yet?

then Simon Cron leaving at the end of that year to top it all off..

Perhaps that improvement could be more attributed to the addition of Jason Gilmore to the coaching staff?

McLennan said that if the offer was accepted it would make sense to stage two of the three Lions Tests in Perth to take advantage of the huge number of South African ex-pats living there. “Perth would be a natural, you would think that,” McLennan said. “But we would hope to stage one Test on the...

Chiefs are a really odd choice for O'Conner considering they've 3 promising 10's coming through in Rivez Reihana, Caleb Trask & Bryn Gatland.. they certainly aren't bad in that space, at all. really he should have targeted the Hurricanes, Garden-Bachop & Hickey are genuinely useless. The Canes...

So.. basically the Robbie Deans mentality? the selection emphasis on reliable, more composed, high workrate, 'team players' such as Pat McCabe, Peter Hynes, Berrick Barnes, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), over more naturally gifted athletes? careful what you wish for there matey..

I figured Waratahs fans might be interested to listen to this. Scott Robertson speaks very highly of Rob Penney in this interview. (skip to 7:33).