Search results

Maybe we should stop discussing Shipps as the next thing is he'll be injured...

Agree all re Shipps, have rated him for some time. Just to add: he's also got exceptional lower body strength giving him great leg drive in his successful line breaks (which he makes often in contact). Then, on top, he combines all this with excellence in judging body height into the tackle in...

What do we think of our position in the comp if: Brums bt Lions next game, putting them on 30 pts (maybe more with 4 tries) and we lose v Blues and stay on 21 points (again, subject to Bps that we have really struggled to get unlike other Aus teams)? This scenario would mean we'd have to win -...

A new discovery tonight, perhaps more of Robbie bronze than the silvers and golds above, but importantly sheds new light on what is now required inside the 2012 Wallabies, and that's better driving of 'processes and outcomes'. And Robbie has started to define that 'substance' he noted in above...

Although this thread must stick to Robbie-isms in the raw, I do need Bruce Ross to deal with one - quoted indirectly - that might be of great significance to the contractual longevity of Totality Tony, and that I for one found alarming in such a context, namely: Bruce, you have gained much...

Scotty. Re L Gill: you may be right, but we was pretty damn good late in 2011's season. Remember v Chiefs away, in the wet. He's been as good this year, agree, better?, not sure. As you mention, hard to say re Lucas, we was for me merely OK vs the Stormers, but give him the doubt benefit as we...

I actually think this is potentially a quite brilliant suggestion and, with a coach of flair and imagination, well worth trying. Partly I say this as, over the last 4 or so years watching BB I have become quite convinced that he has a deep-seated anxiety issue that comes out in pressure...

Input 2: This is not a direct quote, but is really a bit of a classic Robbie-ism by indirect reference. Ben Horne, FoxSports, April 23, from the new coaches presser: Did he mean 'no excuses' when the ambulance takes away the multiple Wallaby players who won't play again until 2013 after...

I'm excited! Not only do we have a new Wallabies Test season about to start, just as tantalisingly we can again plot the course of one of most enjoyable aspects of such seasons under our fearless national coach - the unfolding array of pure Robbie-isms derived from media conferences and the...

Parachuting in from Brisbane for a moment....geez, surveying this thread I don't think I've ever seen Tahs' posters so downcast and pessimistic re their team's prospects vs a top side. You have a much better 2012 forwards pack than the Reds' 2010 and 2011 ones that ended up being part of a team...

With all due respect to Arbib and Cosgrove, what are their applicable and directly relevant qualifications for an exercise of this potentially huge significance for Australian rugby? Arbib is a Labor/union careerist, through and through. What businesses or substantial enterprises has he run...

Just talking Morahan...like a number of our players in 2012, he's been consistently mediocre to poor almost every game. Nothing improves. We see the same (serious) deficiencies every week. I just wonder how the coaches are assisting these obvious under performers, whether the issue is...

Absolutely. As I noted elsewhere, he's looking and playing like he's mentally retired. As an aside, every Reds player that played the full Reds season to S15 GF, and then played the full Wallaby program, look jaded in 2012.

Yeah, but it's also narkily silly (at this juncture and on these numbers). The Brums are within 2 of the Cru and 4 of the Highlanders and there's much, much to play for yet.

Piece re Harris commenting on his past re Blues etc + speculation that Ant might be bench material this Friday. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-23/harris-on-edge-for-eden-park-return/3967362?section=sport

Taps 3 months out, collarbone requires surgery.

Just note from the media release that Scrivener and Blades already have quite close links to Nuci.

tl12, an astute rugby mate of mine remarked today "...Samo looks like he has mentally retired..." and I thought: spot on. Playing like it too. How Link thought it wise to start him v Stormers is inexplicable to me, yet indicative of the whole new way we seem to be approaching our selection tasks...

rt, that is a good pickup you have just made re: yet again, no clearly defined backs/attack coach. This looks to me suspiciously like a Deans-led replay of the obtuse world as it was of RG as 'skills coach' 2009-10 where, for inexplicable reasons, we could not have what every other elite...

After the disgraceful sociopathic behaviour meted out to him during the RWC by NZ crowds, and then often being directly blamed for RWC playing deficiencies that were as much Deans' truly odd game plan reversals as they had anything to do with him, QC (Quade Cooper) must surely be tempted to leave rugby and...