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Regarding Jones’s response about Hooper; even if it is true (and it very well might, the guys been playing top- line rugby for over a decade), why would you even publicly say it? Just say his fitness and form wasn’t up to scratch. Its obviously disrespectful to a legend, and all it does is...

This is a strange comment.

Who are the elite?

It’s definitely their default MO in the most high pressure games though; look at any World Cup and the Lions series. And it’s a real shame. These are the games, the world is watching and a real opportunity to grow the sport.

He’ll definitely kill it over there. He‘s a good Super Rugby player which is essentially the same as being an Irish international rockstar.

I genuinely hope that regardless of personnel, the Wallabies never play the way that England and the Springboks do.

David Rennie isn’t an absolute prick like Jones is.

Our best player is Gordon?

I’m not sure how any qualities you listed make Perese suitable for fullback?

You’re focusing on the minors Dan.

His schtick isn’t even funny anymore- it’s just become weird and apart from Hamish chuckling on his boat, isn’t really doing a lot for people.

He’s also family friends with the Crichton‘s and publicly boasts about it- his lack of awareness is frightening.

How do you explain that mammoth effort against the ABs earlier this year?

Absolutely no Mark Gasnier in Angus Crichton.

Also some of these top ups are absolutely minuscule and not worth fretting about. Lalakai Foketi gets around an additional 20k per year - don’t worry about it.

I’m in the fortunate position of being able to benefit from hindsight. Players like J Gordon and Swinton have top ups and would likely have been picked for the World Cup under Rennie. The Wallabies performed better when these guys were getting picked. It comes down to talent identification-...

It’s a reflection of the leeway that Jones was given from Rugby Australia more than anything else. A competent organization would have had some checks/ balances and asked questions. They gambled with Jones, it backfired immensely and now those accountable have to go.

Bloke can disrupt a maul but I don’t think he has a single fast twitch muscle fibre.

Eddie‘s decisions continue to make no fucking sense- does anyone from RA actually question any of his decisions.

It was either fatprop or cyclo who said it, but if we are relying on kicking (and hence Donaldson) to win then we are even more fucked than we think. We should have picked Gordon and given him the direction to lead the team and focus on our attacking structure.