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David Wilson (68)
Proof will be in the pudding.
Not "will be"."Was". But god this discussion is getting boring.
Proof will be in the pudding.
Fattie, are you suggesting that McLennan being an advertising person put his eggs into the marketing value of Eddie?Jones is a good coach, Rennie is a good coach
Rennie was screwed over by injuries, our depth just isn't there
Jones will have the same problem
The key difference between the two is their manipulation of the media, Jones does a shed load of interviews and PR (sitting there like the "everyman" in shorts on the grass at trials)
Rennie did the bare minimum with the media
Jones commercially is more of an asset, he should have more time before he is sacked eventually
I think Eddie is a smart, media savvy unit, it would be a factor in his acquisition - and rugby needs more column inches\clicksFattie, are you suggesting that McLennan being an advertising person put his eggs into the marketing value of Eddie?
It's their standard M.O. - I wonder why anyone takes them seriously, I occasionally look at the daily mail for a laugh and the rugby.They will build him up and then tear him down
Where is that from??
Succinctly put Namerican, laid the facts squarely on the table for these noobs! Eddie's appointment is merely a big smoke & mirrors distraction tactic from McLennan while Australian rugby continues to flounder at every level - Hamish is a politician, he ain't fooling me!Personally I think Rennie got screwed and he had the team in good shape for the RWC. He blooded a ton of new players and the vast majority looked good and developed under his tutelage. He was dealt extraordinarily difficult circumstances (injuries, overseas players, civic, Aus player base erosion). My only knock on him is that discipline was consistently poor.
The Italy loss was a gamble to blood new players and preserve a banged up squad. That's it. In the grand scheme it's not the be all end all.
Can Jones improve the squad performance? He's looked more clueless than Rennie the past 2 years. I'm not a rugby coach so maybe the ARU knows better than me. The England team was dreadful relative to their talent level. Far worse than Australia.
I bet Larkam's their plan B (in the unlikely case Rugby Australia actually has one..) which isn't entirely ambitious - ambitious would see Less Kiss & Simon Cron - with Nuicifora as Director of Rugby, to develop and cultivate the player pathways as he's done brilliantly for Ireland...
Of course … results do matter. I’ll give Eddie one thing. He has hit the ground running and has put rugby in the news in a way Rennie wasn’t able to. Now it’s up to our Super Rugby teams to play some attractive, attacking rugby, to keep the turnstiles ticking and also kick some Kiwi arse! I say that with all due respect to our Kiwi friends… you are the benchmark though!
I might've missed something, but are a couple of games weekly not being shown on 9/9Gem this year?But the engagement with Super Rugby is really lacking outside the hardcore fans. Having the product isolated on Stan Sports (which I really like as a platform) is always going to hinder getting Super Rugby back into the spotlight as a product on it's own.
Succinctly put Namerican, laid the facts squarely on the table for these noobs! Eddie's appointment is merely a big smoke & mirrors distraction tactic from McLennan while Australian rugby continues to disintegrate at every level - Hamish is a politician, he ain't fooling me!
I might've missed something, but are a couple of games weekly not being shown on 9/9Gem this year?
Yeah that's valid - better than nothing though. Better than the days of the entirety of Super being only available on Fox / Kayo imo.There are, and there was last year, but it didn't seem to help viewership or crowd attendance in terms of making people aware.
I don't watch a heap of free to air tv these days, but when I have, I've not really seen much engagement about the Super Rugby season starting, and the first game (and arguably the 'big event') is in a few weeks. Maybe I've tuned in at the wrong times though.
Yeah none of us know anything about the game. Clearly.
The implementation of meaningful structural change at Australian rugby's lower-levels, player pathways, player development - the abdication of responsibility towards the grassroot's game, etc... Stephen Moore probably summed it up better than I could:What are they distracting us from exactly?
Depends on whether Eddie can do any better. He wasn't any better in England.Not "will be"."Was". But god this discussion is getting boring.