We don't want to win lineouts?
Anyone can do it competently once they learn what to do.
Anyone can call a lineout but it is a real art to call well - not just a matter of learning what to do.
For every lineout the caller needs to consider where the ball is required for the 1st phase play that's called, how the opposition is defending and where the space is in the particular lineout. Then come up with the right call that best fits all three criteria, and then be ready to change the call to a backup option if the opposition change their defensive setup to counter how you setup for the preferred option.
All of that has to be done in a short space of time in a pressure environment when also under fatigue. Not a role most players can handle without taking away from their own game.
Hugh Pyle to replace Sharpie and it solve's the problems, he has been good enough to earn his shot. He calls the line outs for the Rebels and has been called into Wallabies camps the last 2 seasons.
It makes sense that he would want as strong a team as possible, you really can't blame him for arguing it.Let Queensland Reds rip into the British and Lions, says Ewen McKenzie
QUEENSLAND coach Ewen McKenzie wants Australia to call the bluff of British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland and allow the Reds to go in at full strength against the visitors at Suncorp Stadium on June 8.
McKenzie is convinced Gatland was indulging in some cute reverse psychology with his public call to Wallabies coach Robbie Deans earlier this week to release his Test players back to their Super Rugby teams to combat the Lions in the build-up to the first of three Tests on tour, also in Brisbane on June 22.
"It's all about preparing for the Test matches so the harder the games are, the better prepared we're going to be," said Gatland. "If Robbie will let as many of the Wallabies play in those warm-up games, that will help us prepare."
Where he really has a point though, is at the end of the article, it's pointed out that:Although the policy has not been fully locked into place, the ARU looks to be headed down the path of quarantining selected Wallabies from playing in any of the Lions' lead-up matches, primarily so that they can go into camp in preparation for the Test series but also to minimise the risk of them being injured.
The Reds have surrendered their Super Rugby bye to play the Lions. But on the same weekend they play the tourists, the Brumbies host the Rebels and the Force hosts the Waratahs. If the logic is that none of the likely starting Test players should meet the Lions a fortnight out from the first Test, then that same logic should see the top Australian players in the other provinces stood down from the two derbies.
For the Reds I'd be happy to see Genia and Horwill told to sit out but the rest are only fringe wallabies at best.
Good joke
The make-up of the Force side to play the Lions will be interesting, only 4 days later they face the Tahs who they'd want a full strength side for. Might have to look outside the squad for that one. Same with the Tahs who won't have any Wallabies available.