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Brad Thorn? Andy Farrell? Jason Robinson?

Amazon will come out hard swinging too

The rain was light but consistent. Handling still way below professional standard.

In the 46 players that took the field tonight only Naisarani looked like a Wallaby candidate. Not as bad as the 6-0 French test at Docklands in 2014, but the lowest quality game besides that (from both sides) that I can remember attending in Melbs.

My feelings about/towards clubs are reasonably well known, and hence I won't spend much time talking about it. But, if this is the route you are taking, you have to be ambitious, you have to be committed and you have to be ruthless. It needs to be seen as a twenty year proposition, and five to...

Still not a big fan of the 6-2 split. Is that 7 props used in the first 3 weeks without injury or just 6? Would it kill them to release a list of unavailables and why? Would end a lot frustration on a personal level. Otherwise, I'm reasonably happy with the changes made to the starting...

If recently means 2-4 years, then sure, recently

Don't really understand the team. Not sure what Deegan did wrong to get dropped, particularly when To'omua was very average by his standards. Not my job to understand though I guess, I'll just tune in, watch us lose, be frustrated for 24 hours and just recover enough enthusiasm to be excited for...

I'm trying to work out what people in the business see in Kellaway.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/rugby-union/stable-leaders-sense-of-self-give-melbourne-rebels-new-hope-20200131-p53wlc.html Article is all worth it for the line below

Yikes. Good luck everybody

Israel: "Durrrr, I'm the captain, my team is wallabies."

You don't need to represent the nation at the Olympics, just at an Olympic qualification event. Based on previous years, that's: a) 4 events of the world series in the year the top 4 qualify (Tim Nanai Williams), b) the regional qualifier (I don't know a player who has done this) or c) the...

So, Tim Nanai Williams changed allegiance by playing 4 events of the Sevens series for Samoa in the qualification year, after not playing International 15s, 15s A's or Sevens for 3 years. Qualification year for the 2024 Olympics will be the 2022/2023 series. Depending on the rules of what...

Classic Murica

Funny thing about that is that Browny was the earliest of our 3 hookers to make the switch to the front row: Turner played in the back row at U20s level and McInally got his first international cap as a blindside: and yet he's always the one who gets put to the backrow. Goes back to the Bath v...

I don't think it were me who said that. The only thing I remember along those lines is that you can't gain new eligibility after you've been capped. Cap limit is a decent idea. Could be variable between the tiers of nations too. I'd be reasonably happy for someone with a bunch (50ish) of caps...

Fixed stand down periods might be an inevitable part of it if it were ever to eventuate, but I don't really like them myself. I would definitely prefer for it to be no more than one Nation per cup cycle: I'd have lot fewer problems with an All Black or Wallaby or whatever turning out for...

I don't know what the appetite for allegiance switching is in general, but I've always been a fan of the idea if it's done in a way that ensures its integrity. For mine, that looks something like: No more than 2 Nations for a player over their lifetime You can't represent Nation "A" after...

Wells is a good player, but signing him makes little sense to me unless we're VERY worried about the durability of Hardwick/Wilkin. I wouldn't have him in my 23, and I would have thought Killingworth would have been that 3rd "small" flanker in the squad after those two, with Cottrell being the...