Search results

Not sure I'd like to see Nathan Grey have any role with the U20s and Scoolboys/U18s. Both groups showed a lot in defense in their games this year. If it ain't broke... etc.

Good advice BJ. I can attest, however, that having a Cheika moment is a whole lot more disconcerting than having a Seniors' moment.

Thanks BJ. Of course, TK has the 13 spot wrapped up. I must have had a Cheika moment and forgot that TK was still around. Sorry TK.

I like the look of Keunzle. Very much in the Handre Pollard mould. He has a well balanced game covering all aspects of No 10 play as far as I can see. Can set up the backline play, can run the ball himself with good pace and a step, can kick in general play and defends like another No 12...

Keeping the powder dry, I'd suggest. If Rory had stayed on, I would be talking up the chances of a Super title in 2020 at every opportunity.

BH, that's probably exactly why these types of poor appointments are allowed to continue, because neither are they held accountable while in the job, but are protected from exposure by their successors. Assuming Clyne is as bad as portrayed here, he will simply move on to some other similar...

BH, do you know if Fox made up the bulk of that $58m, or was the deal to show Super Rugby in Europe worth more?

Plenty of other excellent sporting events only available on Fox. World cycling circuit, MotoGP for example. Won't be getting rid of Foxsports any time soon.

JK, I don't doubt that the players (well most of them) have the skills when they make it into the Wallabies. But over the past five years, there was no apparent improvement in the application of skills across the board. Witness the continual paucity of a kicking game, from hand and for goal, the...

I may be way off the mark BH and I readily concede you have more links/contacts than I have, but it was my distinct understanding and belief that the Patstpn affair was the sole reason leading to Link's untimely departure. I have never seen it claimed or reported that he spent too much time on...

I recognise your approach BH, but really there must be more to an appointment of a national coach than simply money. As I said above, the KPI or whatever term we want to use for the first year has to be reasonable and considered achievable by both parties. And it would cover a number of...

Either case is arguably better than paying a $Million bucks a year to a coach whom very few wanted after the first twelve months. The four year term is the only quibble I have with the appointment. If we learnt anything from the last four years, it must be that the coach must be able to be moved...

Would be most happy to see the Pocock v Hooper debate put away for good now, but there are a few resilient posters around who can't accept that DP wasn't paid to have a year off. FP now even wants to expand the error by suggesting Pocock had his salary increased during the years he played, when...

Nonu came good at a relatively late age. Plenty of time for Kerevi to expand his game to near the same level. I really can't understand the negative comments that are already coming out above about Kerevi when it isn't at all clear if he meant what he apparently said.

Sully, I would think a contract issued in 2016 to finish in 2019 is a four year deal. That's what is reported in the article and is also my recollection.

An excellent post Sully calling it exactly as it was.

Both John Connolly and Bob Dwyer have questioned on Foxsport the sense of offering a four year coaching deal to the next Wallaby coach, citing issues with the Cheika reign as evidence that 4 years is too long...

Congratulations to all the award winners. All very well deserved. I thought Fines, Deegan, Lee-Warner, Stowers and Lloyd all had stand out years, and I'm confident that those going to Super clubs in 2020 will make their presence felt.

In the mix for the Tahs undoubtedly. But I was referencing test standard players in my reply to Dan. Will be a few years yet before Angus makes the national side. I would put him behind or on par with Harry Lloyd, Les Makin and Shambeckler Vui atm and Hoopert at the Reds.

Dan, Just my opinion of course, but any front row containing Ta'avao being rated as one of the stronger ones doesn't say much at all about the rest. Compare with the Brumbies front row of Sio, Fainga'a and Ala'alatoa with Slipper on the bench. That could very well be the Australia front row...