My view after a first (and only viewing):-
1. The Wallabies have absolutely no attack beyond the constant recycle and "pressure" game. This is even given away by the commentators who have certainly an inside word with Larkham like Kafer constantly repeating "the Wallabies just need to hold onto the ball for 7 or more phases. FFS Larkham that McQueen constant recycle game was old in 2002, with the changes to the ruck interpretation its Neolithic, especially given that after two or three phases the speed drops to what it was in 2002. If we have a look at the tries Australia actually does score they rarely come from a 7 phase grind and pounding a set defence. I had doubts at the start of this year about Larkham as an attack coach given the lack of anything resembling attack at the Brumbies, I have no doubts now.
2. Lineout - Chieka has shown a very disturbing propensity to be obstinate and blind to significant aspects of the game until its too late. After the 2014 Super win the scrum was much talked about as a weakness for the Tahs, but I and others raised the lack of lock coverage as the real weakness and so it was. The Lineout was discussed at the end of last year and all this year as a weakness and what has been done to improve it. We have managed to have two games where the Wallabies were acceptable on their own feed, but at no point have they pressured the opposition at all. In this as in most else I do not accept that the players who have displayed the skills to perform in the past cannot do it again if they are properly equipped.
3. Support play - how many times have we seen breaks made and the player then easily turned over because NOBODY or at best one player is in support?
4. Selection - the selection of the side is all over the place. Chieka is looking to me like Robbie Deans, selecting players out of position and fielding unbalanced sides and not owning the results, instead there are always extraneous reasons, be they refereeing, injuries, blooding rookies, winning the statistics but not taking "our chances".
Moving forward what I'd like to see but most certainly will not:-
1. Players selected on form and in position. Not trying to fit the 15 best rugby players somewhere on the field.
2. Larkham - goodbye. doesn't need explanation.
3. A dedicated forwards/lineout coach, that isn't Chieka or Ledesma because IF they have been doing something about it for two years it hasn't been doing anything positive.
So to my eye that would make the team next week from the squad available:-
1. Sio
2. TPN
3. Kepu
4. Coleman
5. Douglas
6. Fardy/Mumm (it doesn't matter neither is doing much though perhaps Mumm has given more to the lineout excluding the last game)
7. Hooper
8. Timani - though next year I hope that Holloway or Huston get a decent run injury free. (I would have liked Timani to play for Tonga because I don't think he has much future in the Wallabies)
9 Genia
10. Cooper
12. Kerevi
13. Folau
11. Hodge
14. Naivalu
15. DHP
16. Moore
17. Slipper (needs to work with Ledesma because he was woeful in the scrum from the set up with his elbow down on every set up)
18. Robertson
19. Coleman/Skelton (again doesn't matter unless the lineout is coached better, apparently the lineout issues had all been because there wasn't 3 genuine jumpers, but against the Saffas in the second half there were four and still they couldn't win ball except at 2)
20. McMahon - he is a 7. If he is injured with Gill gone OS draft in Jordy Reid.
21. Phipps
22. Foley
23. Kurindrani
The personnel hasn't changed much but the structure has.
