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They should take their time to get this whole centralise/alignment business sorted out, hire a high performance director (who can conduct the search for a HC), put some duct tape over McLennan's mouth and finish the umpteenth review (and actually implement the recommended changes) before we try...

I think Lord could be a great Test match player. Between Vaa'i, Barrett and Lord they will be fine. Always going to be hard to follow up Whitelock-Retallick.

Short memory here. We literally just watched a World Cup Final that was won by a team with a gameplan built around playing without the ball. Whether its possible without the world's best scrum and effectively two World Class forward packs...that's another question.

I mean I think he might be wrong about whether it can win a World Cup, or whether it would have won England a World Cup. I have no idea tbh. Could see a world where it works. Equally, it might just be a bridge too far for international rugby where you dont have lots of time with the players...

We've had a shitton of reviews commissioned before into the wider system of Australian Rugby. Inevitably, they always come to the same conclusion: - Centralise - Run a domestic competition - Improve youth identification and development. Inevitably, through a mixture of belligerence by the states...

Squidge has done a couple of videos on it in depth. Theoretically (and currently, solely theoretically) its a good idea. Personally I don't think it worked with English players because culturally they are a very un-thinking Rugby nation which is not good at playing eyes up footy. But there have...

I can live with cards when they come from pushing the edge around the ruck. Scott Barrett gets a silly amount of cards, but he gets away with it more than not and on balance it is probably for the teams benefit (although ideally you just McCaw it and get away with everything). I can't stand...

The difference between England, Wales and Australia is that Borthwick had worked under Eddie for 8 years, been in the premiership as a HC for 3 and had strong working relationships with the senior players in the camp. Gatland had been the coach who bought most of the players through into Test...

I'm not making any comparisons to Eddie. His results speak for themselves. I think it was wrong to sack Rennie a year out. I also don't need to delude myself into pretending he was a master coach to have those opinions.

You don't understand tomthumb. You just couldn't see it. But it was a very coherent plan. He was always building and being cognizant of the future by picking a 35 year old ten who hadn't played test rugby for six years. Rennie fanboys never fail to produce a chuckle. Their capacity to shunt...

Who cares lol. State of modern journalism. Thought the AFR was meant to be a serious newspaper. Legit Daily Mail tier stuff. I'm sure there are slightly bigger fish to fry atm. I've seen far worse wasn't exactly anything serious she said. And I'm sure people have said far worse about her husband.

Why? Surely we should get the best assistants, who can also be dedicated full-time to their role as Wallabies coaches. No other team in the world makes domestic HCs their national team assistants. Nor have most of them demonstrated the level of detail in their coaching at Super level required...

I think I'd have an aneurysm. I'd certainly rather have one.

Their media manager has been briefing their was no pay-out. If their was they'd just no comment it or say a slightly creative lie. Waugh's "sensible agreement" can also be read as no pay-out. If Jones had been holding their balls over a barrel to make him leave I think Waugh wouldn't have been...

I thought Waugh spoke pretty well tbh in his press conference. I've been a sucker for words before so I don't put too much stock into it. But he came across as pretty pragmatic which I appreciated. It is for fans to emotionally shit the bed, not our administrators. Cool heads are what we need at...

No doubt it was a very good run Derpus. But equally it would never be seen that way were it not for such a tiny margin. Such is sport and a coaches lot. Think we are in agreement about how we see Cheika anyway.

Or if Joubert just hadn't made the openly wrong call lol. I'd contend that up until this year Cheika was the worst performing coach we'd had since going professional, especially when cattle he was working with are taken into account. Closely followed by dull dave. Luckily for them Eddie...

Honestly the thought of Cheika gives me a conniption. The only coach in the world who can match Eddie in the petulance stakes. Has already been the Wallabies coach and it wasn't very good. Why hire a guy for two years when its a four year job. Surely we'd be better off assessing the massive...

Not sure why it has to be one or the other. Without kids excited by the sport no one will enter a pathway. Without a pathway there is little value to getting a kid excited.

Pretty ridiculous team, NH bias really coming in strong. Even though he was coming off the bench I was blown away by how good Kwagga Smith was. No idea how Ringrose is in the team, thought Kriel & Ioane were more impressive. Would have Levani Botia over one of the flankers also. Pollard a bit...