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This is absolutely true for Tate. His pass is clearly the Achilles heel for him but with a dominant forward pack who give him either extra time or the option to pick and pass, it's then good enough to not hinder the team. When his team is being beaten at the breakdown, he's severely muted

What PR would an English Broadcaster get from choosing him?

Can we offer him a Portuguese Chicken dinner at Hame's place?

I suppose the clear difference to me between the Wright and Banks arcs is that Banks never had the break out year in the Wallabies jersey that Wright has just had - and so when Banks got the monster offer, RA probably didn't see the value in matching.

If this is the case and he goes to the wing - which of Jorgo or Kellaway gets the flight to Toulon/ Tokyo? Kellaway clearly has an outstanding rugby brain and great decision making but some of his skill execution has let him down.

Sure he has, Iain.

Hopefully its just a case of a guy not being acutely aware of the language he's using and how it might be construed in the context of the story. The only known facts are that his contract is up, he's deeply committed to his home life and that he's been loving his time in the wallabies set up...

I'm not getting the same feeling from his comments - not that I'm getting an overly positive or optimistic sense either, just more it feels he's firmly riding the fence publicly despite almost certainly having made a decision either way

Is there any new mail on this? Last I heard he was going to make a call post ANS and since we've just seen Journo's pining over him.

I wouldn't say Tate is inconsistent - just mostly ineffective inside our own half. Unless there is a half hole around the edge of a ruck where he can gas a lazy A defender, he doesn't have the boot (or a good enough 10 to work with) to relieve pressure.

I think they offer different things - Kalani to me has a quicker pass/ distribution off the deck and is a more traditional 9 , with Werchon well and truly has modelled his game off Tate as a probing ball runner who can take on the line. Kalani also not known to be a head case like Werchon, but...

He's probably a while off - likely post 2027 at best, depending the the direction his career takes. Unlikely to see much floor time behind Tate and Kalani this year.

Sorry was this Australia's federation or laws of rugby?

It very rarely happens, and subtly (usually from the TMO who will just ‘show them the incident again’). Brett Cronan TMO for Angus Gardner, NZ v ARG there was a penalty where this seemed to happen. but otherwise rarely - and it’s usually a pointless collective agreement. only other famous one...

Fuck, we got there in the end.

Again, you misunderstand it, and that's fine. Literally every decision is at the discretion of the refand we have plenty of examples of referees deeming something low risk. Off the dome, I can think of: - NZ v Argentina with Angus Gardener earlier in the year, and the hit on nick White two...

I'm genuinely open to having my mind changed and can accept that I'm wrong (I swear), but I just wish the people debating this would bring more to this than pointlessly dog-whistling "WHERE'S THE CONSISTENCY!!!" What's inconsistent with? Show me some clips from the last few weeks or refer to...

Ok, I think its very clear now that you’ve been completely misguided and formed an incorrect view. There has never been a mandate that all head contact was a card - that’s just your (and no doubt a number of others) read of what youve seen on TV. No doubt that rugby went through a period...

I think this is a strawman argument, and Im not sure where the end point is? Do you want all head contact to be deemed as foul play? Brain trauma can occur from zero head contact (whiplash is a good example) and so I think if you follow the garden path your argument is heading down, the answer...

Yeah maybe - Jordie going backwards as a passive tackler would be enough to mitigate to PK only if they had deemed it not be high danger in the first place.