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I don't disagree that his on the ball work is good, although I'd have him behind Hooper and Alcock as well - but my problem is that he's actually quite slow to get there. This is just my opinion of course, we don't really have access to the stats that would give us that sort of information just...

We'll have to agree to disagree. I think he gives his all, probably a great bloke to have around the club, but we're never going to make the finals on a consistent basis if he's our starting openside. Fainga'a has the potential to be every bit as good as Gill and Hooper IMO, don't think...

Why? We averaged just under 30 points a game with that noted playmaker spending most of the time in the 12 jersey. At others it was filled by Lachlan Mitchell, a player who would probably best be described as a trier. Ellison will be much, much, better. The pack will be hugely better. A...

Great bunch of lads. Wish I'd been there. Would have been a top night.

Still does to me. I'd much rather have heard something about building on strengths (scoring points) and fixing weakness (conceding points.) I don't think the game plan needs a radical shift, it just needed to be more focussed and better executed.

Sometimes. Deliberately building your gameplan around that is something I'd never like to hear from a coach. Especially when you've got a team built like this. We don't have a team of grinders, it's a team of big, fast, dynamic athletes. We're not cut out to play 10-man Munster rugby. We're...

Don't like the sound of that at all.

Ha I actually don't mind the drumming to be honest. Maybe they should just play it though. I've had some disturbingly dark thoughts about that ground announcer though. My life would be a lot better if he'd never come into it. Les Miserables can fuck off as well. And no fireworks.

This is what I was getting at. Good post.

That's a bingo.

@jay-c Nice try sport, but wrong on both counts. Want me to have a go at doing you? Personally I think you've got an utterly archaic view of sports fandom. But hey, maybe you're right. Maybe the Australian rugby public are really really fucking stupid. Maybe we need Link to tell us what we...

But here's the thing, he's not in a position of power over us. At all. He's in a position of power over his players. If coaches were chosen by people power, Deans would have been thrown out by the ARU as soon as the tantrums from Queensland started. It just doesn't work like that. This is...

That makes no sense to me at all. I'll see him as the best man for the job if he proves he's the best man for the job. I want to here the explanation for the processes the Wallabies are going through. Even if you disagree with certain individual decisions, as long as the fundamental processes...

It was an entirely tongue in cheek comment. Although one with an element of truth to it. Of course McKenzie knows more than anyone on this forum, in much the same way Deans does. However McKenzie is now doing exactly the sort of thing that had punters utterly frothing over Deans. I don't mind...

Fixed for historical accuracy.

I'm starting to think Link is completely out of his depth.

What the fuck? Has there been any explanation given?

I might be alone in this, especially as a Rebels fan, but I really don't rate Neville. He's got an enormous motor, covers huge ground and has very little impact on the game. He's a poor mans Hugh Pyle at the moment.

Ah right, I'm with you now. Agree White is the superior player to Prior, as a pure passer I'd take Prior over him though - that's the only point I was making. Good post though, I agree with pretty much all of it.

Gill or Pocock will come in when there are at least one or two halfway adequate ball-runners in the pack.