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Langthorne, you're not feeling guilty are you for leading the charge sheet against Deans, so now positives must be uncovered on each occasion? ;-)... Yes, a win. Tick. As a Deans co-prosecutor, I better then add my positives too, only 3: - Cooper continues to show consistency and regular...

Agree re looked better...but didn't finally execute at all well, less well than usual for Ireland.

Cyclo, the other fact (btw not much observed here today) is that the Irish backline was consistently dysfunctional last night. Many good attacking ploys (especially out wider) were bungled with droppsies and clumsy passes that went wrong. Just a bit lower error rate (from that...

I thought the same. As a newcomer to GAGR, it's notable to me how mainstream rugby writers (part or full time) seem to cotton on to an issue of importance that has burnt itself in quantity onto the the GAGR servers some considerable time before. For example, we debated the 'dangers and delusions...

Scotty, agree re the three you mention above. Yesterday (for example) Gagger asked 'what's the mania re Hynes?'. I would have thought that seeing say Mitchell at such a low point last night (and at Sydney) might go some way to answering that. Hynes is an excellent pressure player, he runs hard...

Indeed. The danger from last night though is that we are emerging as a circus dependent upon a single act. I think it's very probable that if Cooper had been out injured and say Barnes had replaced him, the Wallabies would have lost.

2 Pocock 1 Cooper They were the only 2 players of confidence and _consistent_ distinction tonight. Searching for a 3 is hard work if absolute standards matter vs just searching for a happy list. S Fainga'a is probably the closest IMO. Elsom is performing way below the standard of intensity...

Cyclopath - along with you, we have so many talented and passionate observers of our game here on GAGR, can we possibly tomorrow (or soon?) turn our attention to what must be done to properly fix this long-standing Wallabies debacle. I for one don't believe the answer lies in pep-talks with...

Compare and contrast (in my own mind): - the joy I got from finding a lonely sports cafe early morning, London, April 2010, and watching the Reds beat the Bulls with dozens of fired up compatriots around me, pushed on by a dazzling, wonderful game full of confidence, guts, commitment, skill; -...

Gagger - I was not in the GAGR community then, but I do think this suggestion you made was prescient. His 'inconsistent phases' started to worsen (as I recall) at the beginning of last year's Tris. Different situation/person I know, but J Wilkinson raves about the benefits and 'total refresh' he...

Indeed. But that glaring indictment goes deeper. For me, THE biggest single (and singularly unfixed) problem in Australia rugby over the past say 5-7 years is the under-development of an adequate stock of the quantity and types of forwards required to consistently best the top teams and deal...

Thanks Ash. I'm harsher re those BaaBaas game than you. I think of the fans and the money they paid in all good faith (not suggesting you don't care about them, btw). My core objection is that 9,000+ people were asked to see games where, IMO: (a) the Oz teams appeared to have no solid prep as a...

I rather think that after Sydney - in fact after the last 12 months - it is he that should be tuning into us.

Scotty - excellent comments/suggestions. I am a Reds fan, but I think your assessment is objective and correct. I am greatly surprised at Hynes's recent omissions, which dumfound me (after Hynes's excellent S14 2010) when contrasted with your also correct assessment that RD appears to have blind...