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On the weekend two friends of mine - a couple in their 40s - had beer thrown on them while they were walking in their Wallabies kit on the street in Auckland. This is a relatively minor thing, which can happen anywhere in the world, but it has left them with a very negative impression. Telling...

Eales kicked enough crucial goals over enough tests to demonstrate his reliability. His low total wasn't a result of his kicking, but his early retirement.

I'd like to qualify my last comment. Yesterday's loss was the absolute template for a Wallabies capitulation since the start of the reign of Eddie Jones. Under Jones, Connelly and now Deans, the Wallabies forwards have been completely nullified in just this way on many occasions. Why is that?

Yes, we've had some good years and a good long stretch, but those are outliers. Yesterday's loss was the absolute template for a Wallabies capitulation. Blaming Deans for it is like blaming any other variable. It is the constants we should be looking to.

Yeah, well perhaps we just aren't good enough to win consistently, no matter who our coach is, and never have been. It has always been like this with the Wallabies, ever since I started playing and watching rugby as a schoolboy in the 70s.

So every Irish player played better than Beale, for example?

Because we lost to Ireland? Ho hum. This forum has died and been replaced by the cast of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. :lmao: I understand as well as anyone that this was a shit loss, but it isn't the first the Wallabies have dished up. Who was coach in 2007? Who was coach the dozen times...

3. Beale 2. Genia 1. Cooper

A self-indulgent, entirely pretentious sore loser.

Those are the ratings from a 50-0 drubbing.

BPC, If you think the Wallabies started doing this under Deans, then you only started watching rugby. I've been putting up with this shit since the seventies.

Inventive bollocks, but bollocks nonetheless. TPN threw badly, as he often does on his way back.

Fainga'a on the pitch is a real problem. And the shape of games in this RWC has us starting to pull away, just when he comes on. Maybe that's not so bad - front-foot Fainga'a isn't such a disaster.

All I can say is, vive la unmentionable.

We've hardly begun. Tr-Nations games reach fifty pages on here before the game starts. I predict this'll hit 25 by kickoff.

RedsHappy, I really don't understand this 'self-praising' criticism. We're sports fans. It's entirely natural for sports fans to speak positively, and optimistically, about their team. And neither are we the worst team in the world. In fact we're one of the best. There will be a lot of...

This forum is full of drama queens at the moment. With all due respect to the Irish, they are in terrible form. Predicting an "insanely close" game, or even a loss as some are doing here, is pure self-indulgence. The Wallabies should win this one comfortably to have any realistic claim to...

Why? McCalman plays very well for the Wallabies.

There seems to be a wide assumption that Quade's niggle will cause a negative outcome for him, but that isn't necessarily true. The reason players use niggle is that it often works to achieve a result. It may not be pretty, but it's a part of the game, and a part that fans only see a tiny subset...

I think that breaking up the static McCabe Fainga'a midfield sorts that out. I don't think we'll see Ant for a while.