At this time and place for the Wallabies, I am far more concerned with quality in depth and effectiveness in this coaching group, than raw cost. The revelations from Gagger's chat with Horwill reported elsewhere today are simply dynamite - that Nuci is de facto required, inter alia, to coach the tackle contest and breakdown generally as, seemingly, Williams was not doing this well enough (then couple this with the prior Sharpie revelation on podcast that really no Wallaby coaching was directly focussed on the breakdown).
As Gagger has rightly said, there can be few other areas of the modern game more important for technical, S&C, mental and team coaching/training than the breakdown/tackle contest, and all that goes with it. If it now takes Nuci or Alan Jones or Bob Dwyer to come in and coach that area, I will feel far better than what I felt on sighting the ridiculous, third-rate way our forwards approached - or rather did not - the breakdown in this year's first Test...and that feeling was a replica of one many of us have experienced over so many years of watching a sub-standard forwards performance by the Wallabies in this area of play, and losses directly or indirectly resulting. Here has been the great Australian rugby heart of darkness, a place of shame and deficiency that no drugs could ever cure.
