BH, although I think you are largely right about confining the discussion to the topic of the thread, taken literally that would mean no posts at all about the team makeup until it has been announced only a day or two before the game, and lately almost on game day by the delayed announcement of the reserves bench.
There are many aspects to the makeup of the team and the game plans constructed by the coaching staff that can be and deserve to be aired form the earliest moments leading to the next game. And a lot of those comments are quite rightly critical of the skills being shown by players either in or not in the squad, and of the coaching structures being followed in games.
For example, imo it is quite within the bounds of the thread topic to discuss the poor kicking outcomes that were apparent last week and have been for probably over 2 years now, and that discussion will inevitably come back to the longer term inadequacies of the players involved and the lack of action by the coaches to try to rectify the problem.
Same can be said about the very poor defensive patters on display last week and how they form part of an ongoing pattern that hasn't seen any improvement over 2016 and 2017.
Criticism of the coaches, particularly, and players who constantly show deficiencies in their play or game management should not be discouraged or banned just because it is aimed at, or suggests, longer term issues with a few of the favoured personalities involved.
I note n at least about 50+ posts of yours you ay noting about the Wallaby coaches,so obviously you are ecstatic the way the HC and Assistants are going.
Great post Slim on again.
I note you quoted Gnostic who has the uts to be critical of at least one of the Coaches.
I note n at least about 50+ posts of yours you ay noting about the Wallaby coaches,so obviously you are ecstatic the way the HC and Assistants are going.
So sack Grey, Larkham, Ledesma, Byrnes and Cheika tomorrow.
Who do you bring in?
Dimsal Pillock
Further, and to this very point, when we as fans or rugby analysts or both look at a rugby player or team of players in action, we are really looking at two separate dimensions of time and space. These dimension unite in the moment of play, but they are different.
One is actually, physically what we see happening here and now with player x or team y. On the day, in the moment of immediate observation, how do they kick, run, tackle, swerve, work in pods, etc, etc. Do they do that well, not so well, or plain badly.
Two, and whether we acknowledge it or not, we watch just as much in that same moment of observation what might be called the embedded history of that player x's rugby life cycle to that very moment. Namely, the calibre and type of rugby institutional history player x has endured and been exposed to in terms of coaching quality and depth, nationally preferred modes of play (consciously or unconsciously designed and practiced over past periods of time), types of teams, support systems, physical training, team cultures and core values and so on.
I'm not much into ethnic cooking.Dimsal Pillock
So sack Grey, Larkham, Ledesma, Byrnes and Cheika tomorrow.Who do you bring in?
what ever money leftSo sack Grey, Larkham, Ledesma, Byrnes and Cheika tomorrow.Who do you bring in?
That suggestion is one way to unite this countrywhat ever money left
or handjobs he wants but get Sir Graham Henry in a role
Sir Graham Henry
So who's going? Does anyone else have GA tickets? I've just realised I don't have seats assigned. Is it all GA???? Sit where you like???
I am going. Actually went for Platinum tickets as they are same price as I usually pay for Bronze at the Bledisloe/Boks Tests.So who's going? Does anyone else have GA tickets? I've just realised I don't have seats assigned. Is it all GA???? Sit where you like???