Genia talked a little about this as well. He said that he felt that the skills and the decision making abilities of the current Wallabies might not be at the same level as the ABs, the French etc. To quote Genia
"I had a real good to talk to Samu Kerevi about it. He was someone who really enjoyed the way Dave Rennie wanted to play the game and it involved a lot of moving parts around decision-making and skill execution. I asked him point blank, is it a case where the game style was too complicated or was it just the skill level wasn't up to scratch. He said it was probably a combination of both but leaned more towards saying that our skill level probably wasn't up to scratch to be able to execute under pressure in big moments."
This is the big problem for Australia right now and going forward. (And looking at the big picture....I'll say it's a big problem for Aotearoa as well). If Genia is right, Rennie wanted to play a game that maybe the players weren't at a level to be able to execute. Injuries and unavailability only exasperate that. I think EJ (Eddie Jones) (Eddie Jones) will run into the same problems - at least for the RWC.
you look at the Super Rugby teams, we play plod rugby most of the time, very static, slow, prescriptive rugby.
few have ability to call plays,
few of our runners have the ability/want to call lines consistently.
few of runners will consistently run dummy lines
we rarely have the ability to reset after a few phases
we just bucket it to our next pig to run from a standing start
we see a short pass from a pig to another static runner without dropping it as quality rugby
