I like others would ideally like to see some considered alternative players and combos thereof played in the post-BIL 2013 Wallaby back line, not only at 10, but just as much in the centres and at 15.
However, nothing of any great substance will become clear until we appoint and gain value from the services of a top-class national backs/attack coach.
The absence of this crucial specialist competency and person (and, just as importantly, a specialist whose opinion is valued and listened to by his national coach boss) for an elite rugby team has damned the Wallabies to years of unstable and generally incoherent back line play. The crowning evidence of this truth was on display in each and every BIL Test.
A major consequence of this central problem has been the difficulty it presents in really ascertaining if visible individual player deficiencies are truly that player's own, or alternatively derive from the chaos and uncertainty for the players that results from, e.g., poor back line preparation, odd and unbalanced game plans, inadequate practice routines, low inter-player confidence in each other given changing roles and key players out of position, lack of thoroughly designed back line plays, etc.
Accordingly, I feel no confidence in my own assessment of individual Wallaby actual or potential backs until a far more competent specialist coaching capability is imposed upon the many talented backs players this country routinely creates.
