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DPK - IMO it is possible, demonstrably so, to have elite Australian sports teams/players that: - do love their games with high passion; - are very patriotic and proud to represent their country on very possible occasion; - play with a team mind that is intense, dedicated and highly mentally...

Let me tell you why I think it's a (big) problem. First up, of course I agree: the players have to perform, and be expected to perform to a high level in an elite sport and with our flag on their backs. No issue there as a principle. But if crass media ploys and ARU media leaking re who'll be...

Just to add a side note on this: the ARU PR machine is here working in overdrive. This is the second 'Dean Mumm shares all concerns and worries' story they have set up for GG in just a few weeks - a similar one ran recently in RugbyH where the line was 'Mumm's realised he must try harder'. They...

Noted. Yr point 2 was on the money IMO. I should have added in my list (re Cooper) that it's very hard psychologically for a king to have to become a prince again. Where we certainly agree is that something very different for Gits is needed, in fact it's essential. Yr scenario makes sense...

RugbyReg, you are a superb observer of the game, far better than me, but I ask this: why do we never consider that perhaps Gits is just, at a deeper level, psychologically fatigued with the game and is being drained and negatively affected by that? He's been playing for Aus since 2002, he's had...

Fp, I agree with many posters re Kearnsey being a kind of 'good bloke' and (just) tolerable, but, really, as you note above that Kearns comment re the continuing losses to the ABs and RD was quite absurd. He said that '...well, those v bad stats for RD re multiple losses to ABs, geez, all of...

Yes Blue, and that infuriating self-righteous tone and FIGJAM smile of JP's. The double shame and stupidity is with FoxSports' obsession with ex-players as oracles of great insight about the game and all matters Wallaby. This hapless panel surely yet depressingly proves that being a decent...

Lee, I'd like to thank you for this and the many fine things I have learnt about the game and current players etc from reading your excellent posts to GAGR.

DPK, I always watch for your posts mate, but I just cannot accept that somehow, as you seem to infer here, 'experience' matters more in the back line than in the forwards. I would have thought if anything, the opposite is true, relatively. Experience in depth in, for example, scrummaging against...

Tick. And most observers thought he played exceptionally well against all the big buggers from the 2010 SA teams, both in attack and, even more so, in defence. I am not by a long shot a rugby-playing expert, but I do feel that occasionally the 'Tests are always a mile different from S14 in all...

+1. Radical steps and some fresh risks need to be taken now the moments of Tris truth have arrived. Btw, IMO Hodgson has been way under used in June and should be given much more of a show in the early Tris.

So fp you consider A Finger's quite successful (attack and defence) work v the SA teams in this year's S14 was just a bit of good fortune...?

The problem with the 'go with experience' selection mode is (at least) twofold. One, that is not what RD has been consistently doing as a core selection mode. If it was, surely Baxter would have been included, and potentially other experienced front-rowers available but not considered in a...

It's almost as if the coaches are terrified that something awful will go wrong for just about everybody (including themselves) without Gits, the 'old' Wallabies talisman... Cooper/Barnes the way to go with A Finger too. Agree with Ruggo that it could be that just one success for himself on the...

Also the only Test we won decisively (despite the forwards horror movie) and departed it with good confidence within the backs as to what they'd achieved. + There weren't many media leaks along the lines of 'OMG, we badly missed the icon'. Given alternatives, I like the idea of Barnes, but it's...

Yes! Very odd. In homage, perhaps?

As you say Reddy!, it's kind of 'do or die' time now. The four-way-bet selection modality (coupled with v poor bench use) we've seen in the June Tests was hardly a recipe for the best reward-risk profile in the Tris. It may well be the time to be more 'pure' with a selections strategy and...

As you say Reddy!, it's kind of 'do or die' time now. The four-way-bet selection modality (coupled with v poor bench use) we've seen in the June Tests was hardly a recipe for the best reward-risk profile in the Tris. It may well be the time to be more 'pure' with a selections strategy and...

Unlicensed pharmacy ;-).

Absolutely right! Do you recall him spilling those easy out wide passes in BaaBaas 1 that were near-certain tries? This news is a shocker. I have promised daz to lay off Deans for Lent but, seriously, Cummins, that is just such poor selection, or short list whatever, judgement it beggars...