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Chris McKivat (8)
I'm 100% behind this.
I can't wait to see what he cooks up in response to the Haka.
"The Gunston Macarena".
This.
I'm 100% behind this.
I can't wait to see what he cooks up in response to the Haka.
"The Gunston Macarena".
You'd think that the 'powers that be' might be keeping a finger on the pulse of this. But hey, that's probably too much to expect.
In the mean time, if you are serious, I know you are not, it would be perfectly cognitavely reasonable to think that we can find a domestic coach grouping, on a one-off that could give a boost. On a one off basis.
Or we could bring in a decent strategist. I can think of a couple, but what is Chook Fowler up to at the moment?
Cheika, Larkham, and Grey - SHOULD be under stress. Long term. And right now, in the run up to every single test. Every single fucking test.
This is as good a place for that as any.
It looks like they should start with fitness coaches at Super Rugby level. One at each franchise responsible for making sure all of the players, particularly the Wallabies, are in tip top shape at all times.
It is a much more plausible explanation that our core skills go missing when we are fatigued rather than the core skills not being there at all and that we are getting fatigued much earlier than our opposition.
It looks like they should start with fitness coaches at Super Rugby level. One at each franchise responsible for making sure all of the players, particularly the Wallabies, are in tip top shape at all times.
It is a much more plausible explanation that our core skills go missing when we are fatigued rather than the core skills not being there at all and that we are getting fatigued much earlier than our opposition.
Hey Joe. There are S&C staff in the coaching teams at every franchise. Rather than these coaching summits they could hold an S&C workshop. Often the teams are impacted by what seems unnecessarily high injury rates.
Fitness wont however answer the baffling game strategies.
does he really have to do this, or is it just a convenient excuse for (yet another) poor performance, that's not his fault?Why does Cheika have to flog them to try and bring them up to a decent level of fitness every time they get together?
It is an interesting conundrum, the Kiwis have buy in from all the provinces and the play and train essentially the same way.
We have this drive for "independence" of the provinces, different styles being played, different scrummaging approaches, fitness etc etc
Cheika has certainly been trying to bring the Australian teams closer together in terms of having Wallaby coaching staff (aside from Grey and Larkham) attend each team during the year and then bringing the coaches together.
Hopefully that increases next year once none of the Wallaby coaches are involved with a Super Rugby team.
No, but it will mean that we play at a higher speed for longer and more effectively. All sides are impacted by injury and a good level of fitness helps in that regard as well.
Why does Cheika have to flog them to try and bring them up to a decent level of fitness every time they get together?
Chek picks the team, Chek determines the game plan
Which changes do you think he should make to the team and the game plan for this weekend?
As previously stated, I do like having a couple of selectors that are removed from the running of the side. It just makes a lot of sense to have some input from outside of the group but that of course is within line with what the coach is trying to achieve.
Fresh ideas and direction from within is also good. If it is not forthcoming then maybe changes need to be made from time to time to keep the systems current.
Which changes do you think he should make to the team and the game plan for this weekend?
Scrubber might or might not respond, but really the changes are not just about this weekend. There has been a pattern at least since the RWC and probably beforehand of very worrying selections and non-selections by Cheika. His propensity to play two No 7s leading to a fairly undersized pack in most games, the continual selection of players with little aggression or impact, the refusal to change an under-performing defensive structure, the selection poor defensive players and shuffling them around to try to hide them - all are ongoing issues that most posters here have been raising for more than the last year or so. It is just trying to minimise the issues to ask, or suggest, they can be fixed between last week's test and this week's. They are long term issues that should have been addressed by Cheika a long time ago.
I'm ganna take a stab at the team based on pics and reports.
1. Sio
2. Moore
3. Alphabet
4. Arnold
5. Coleman
6. Hanigan
7. Hooper
8. Timani
9. Genia
10. Foley
11. Naivalu
12. Horne
13. Tevita
14. Hodge
15. Folau
God I hope I'm wrong