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Scott (and Cyclo): Can I add: 1. I have worked with doctors in business and to a lesser degree with some professional sportspersons. There's just a world of difference in the capacities for self-adjustment that these two highly varied skill sets and typical educational backgrounds bring in...

I think Shipps is deemed down a rank as he's tended to play and score in a relatively fixed outer channel position and has scored few (if any?) tries in penetrating and evasive cross field moves. Vuna's 2012 show reel probably looks more agile and, in this sense, versatile, as wingers go. But...

Bruce, as you and I seem to share the duties this year for having the earliest sensors out for the best Robbie-isms, can I please rely upon you to be vigilant for the emerging subspecies of Totality Tony-speak as such will soon be upon us (in some quantity and regularity I suspect). In fact, I...

......or was Deans quietly happy to have some seemingly legitimate reasons to have QC (Quade Cooper) out of this squad?

What is remarkable is the manner by which a coach/leader after 4.5 years in charge of the Wallabies can be - in all sanctimonious seriousness - talking about 'them' not 'yet having it in their DNA to close out tight games'. It blows me away that people don't see how ludicrous and deeply...

bh, I guess this slow release of Quade is very sensible, low risk etc, so long as we believe we have a 9-10-12 combo that is just as productive as would be WG-QC (Quade Cooper)-BB(or XX), or QC (Quade Cooper) as bench player if BB turns bad or burns out. I have my serious doubts, but we'll know more after Saturday. We...

Scott, you may recall that many weeks back (March from memory) Deans/ARU leaked to GG that they were very interested in Vuna as a Wallaby. You know that Deans gets favorites into his head and then there's no stopping him. Actual form across multiple parameters doesn't matter as much as Deans'...

Agree TBH. The 'mystery' to me in all this is how can a clearly competent coach like Ewen deems QC (Quade Cooper) fit to play 80 in a mission critical Reds game v Brums, but Deans categorically with no qualification sends QC (Quade Cooper) back home with not even the chance of a bench slot (which would be the smart way to...

Excellent points, and recollections Slim. I vividly recall how consistently bad our forwards preparedness, intensity and skill were that match. I remember thinking at the end of the game: if this is the best our coaching group can achieve for a forwards pack in a Test not long away from a RWC...

Interesting: virtually no posts re (a) captaincy and (b) this team's tactical nous and tactical agility. 99% comments re selections only. IMO, it was poor - or perhaps inexperienced - captaincy plus poor tactical nous up around the Scots line that lost us the Scotland game, selections were of...

Following in the footsteps of Glen McGrath.

The piece in today's The Australian by Wayne Smith was far more revealing. And IIRC a genuine first: a Growden piece doubting Deans, one for the framer. ARU just might be preparing the ground.

He's had a mere 4.5 years to ensure a DNA transplant of his own design, and unfortunately he's conceded that the process has not yet been successfully concluded. In fact, he seemed to imply that it may not even have begun.

Collarbone break requiring surgical correction is typically 3 months until contact sports can be resumed. If so in BT's case, that would put his return at late July would it not?

Ath: Deans has made it clear that QC (Quade Cooper) will play no part in the June Tests. It's all a bit of a mystery quite why even the bench option for QC (Quade Cooper) is also excluded. Continued rehab is being referred to. Apart from the June 15 match, it's not clear yet how QC (Quade Cooper) will get more game time pre the...

Hmmm....suggestions from NZ that Wallaby weather will worsen and Robbie should head back home and coach the Blues: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10811191

Reg....that would be interesting! Btw: Toua status? Who are the likely ABs out for the 'Canes?

An update on Ewen's planning for this match, which I for one am looking forward to! 'Canes have troubled the Reds in recent years. CFS, LG and Frisby of course are in RSA.

Sort of a side reflection, but relevant. In the melee of angst over the Newcastle Nightmare we have perhaps forgotten about the arrival of Totality Tony who, as we all will recall, self-announced in Ireland his arrival on the Wallaby scene some months back, and did so with such a bang it...

Useful article in The Roar by P Cully: