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Gagger, I think there's a great deal of merit for RD to experiment now with your suggestion which is surely a smart, not reckless, calculated risk. But we all know this means confronting 'the unmovable icon' and placing him at wing or bench or out for a game or two (or three...). And this is...

Some posters above think the injury possibility is raised via Subbies, btw. I would be way less concerned if we had some winger depth, which we certainly do not. The sensible idea would surely be to keep the 'number of opportunities for injury' down to the bare essentials at this stage of the...

In all seriousness, surely the ARU/RD etc must be less (potentially) reckless to permit this type of non-essential physical risk at this crucial stage of the 3N campaign. If DM was badly injured, where would we be re Wallaby wing depth, and with LT seemingly totally allocated to 7s and out of...

Imagine if either is injured, and out. (Giteau doubters, be quiet boys ;-) )

Just btw, not me. (The Tahs' playing style and the ANZ Stadium are his favourite negatives, over and over again.) I bag him for (a) excessive compliance with the ARU 'party line' in most cases vs the hard(er) analysis needed (b) flopping from 'good Wallabies' one Sunday to 'awful Wallabies' the...

Re this thread. The following tit-bit just goes into my huge folder re Deans: How on earth can this be assessed so conclusively re JO'C on the wing? His awkwardness on the wing surely is clear for all to see and it was I think down that very channel that the ABs have been consistently scoring...

Re Giteau: A MAINSTREAM MEDIA BREAKTHROUGH HAS OCCURRED TODAY!! DOUBTS ARE PERMITTED RE 'THE UNSHIFTABLE ICON'!: MONTHS AFTER GAGR POSTERS HAVE CLAIMED 'THE GREAT ONE MUST BE MOVED', A KEY COMMENTATOR HAS FINALLY CAUGHT ON: Wayne Smith, The Australian, August 8:

Scarf, whatever the viewpoints re your debutant video, two things are clear: one, it was exemplary in that it used careful analysis, observable fact, and close observation to make its points. These standards of work are light years ahead of much mainstream rugby commentary in, say, planetrugby...

Indeed da_g, a good point. Unfortunately, rugby is an injurious game, and what so many posters forget when they talk relentlessly about the revival we will have when 'the missing stars' come back is that, sadly, there will be more injuries between now and then and other good players will likely...

Gnostic, well spotted! I have had cause to highlight just this point on many occasions when quoting from the docile Oz mainstream rugby press. Otherwise astute posters here often fail to grasp what an active PR machine the ARU runs and how it shrewdly exploits the lazy lack of rigour in the...

Point taken JJJ. I guess I was thinking of Boks Bris as 'lower pressure' given the very fact as you note that we were expected to win there given fortress Suncorp, etc, but I understand where you're coming from. But how regrettable is it that from Bris if no win 'we'd be staring down the barrel...

Thanks Gnostic. I think you'd agree - that whole 'trial' of Weeks was bizarre, playing him out of posn. IMO, to have banished him fm further consideration just from that trial was short-sighted and foolhardy given the many issues we were facing with our stock of forwards. He played important...

And, may I say, fucking good on you mate!

Agree. But should not Ma'afu have been dispensed with? And could not Hogdson represent a better risk-reward in the starting side, ditto Simmons? A major problem is that RD should have blooded these new players incl A Finger way earlier in the June Tests, or Bris Boks, (where the pressure and...

Yes. The notion of 'what we're _really_ all about is the RWC and what matters most is winning/peaking then, not necessarily now' is surely one of the most spurious, irrational, arrogant, and reckless strategies any major football code could ever pursue. My blood has started reboiling re...

Whatever your views, in this context the thing I admire and like re Dwyer is that he's had the professional guts to come out and say what many of us have thought for some considerable time: there are severe (mental and skills) problems in this Wallabies team that show (as of now) no sign of...

Yes, RR, yes. SZ can give us the (very) occasional piece of insight, but it's a long wait between drinks. The rest is, best case, hilariously inconsistent, bizarre even, the worst, highly inaccurate and shamefully so for a paid journalist. Just this last week I saw a piece wherein he was...

....any glimmer of hope for Saturday will suffice...;-)

Aussie D, Campo is a very interesting name to bring into the mix, and why not?! Graham surely can be assessed now as being ineffective at best, and less than competent at worst. Hasn't Campo had endless fall-outs all over the Aus rugby community though?...i have vague recollections of this over...

I guess the other thing we must all reflect upon here is that, across just two sequential matches, we have had two serious issues with discipline by key players, Cooper and Mitchell. Both have been very costly (assuming we assess that Cooper would have added value v NZ, which I do).