Wallabies 2023

[LeCheese]

Morgs says Jorgensen won't be ready for about another month... Meanwhile Eddie cites Hooper's injury ("might be ready for France but we're not sure") and Quade's lack of potency since his achilles as decisions to leave them out. Certainly something

 

[Wilson]

Morgs says Jorgensen won't be ready for about another month... Meanwhile Eddie cites Hooper's injury ("might be ready for France but we're not sure") and Quade's lack of potency since his achilles as decisions to leave them out. Certainly something

Eddie did correct him on Jorgensen, said it would be 2 or 3 weeks and he should be right for the warm up against France.

 

[Tomthumb]

Skelton has won more than anyone else in the squad so not a crazy call

Fines was really good vs Tonga so excited to see him a crack too. Lonergan unlucky, but good for the depth

 

[LeCheese]

Eddie did correct him on Jorgensen, said it would be 2 or 3 weeks and he should be right for the warm up against France.

Fair enough - still pretty rough on the guy though. Coming in with not only no game time, but with understandably limited training.

 

[tighthead show and go]

Squad of a coach who is blooding players for 2027, not seriously wanting a tilt at this one

 

[LeCheese]

Skelton's actually great on the mic. Looking forward to his interviews and future career in media

 

[dusk]

We are simply fucked for the World Cup. Will be nice to see the youngsters get a crack.

 

[TSR]

Scorched Earth approach.

Okay - I’m on board.

If it all ends in disappointment then it probably really isn’t any different to the last 20 yrs.

 

[qwerty51]

I think that's exactly what he was doing, fully intending on switching to someone else once they put their hand up (White, McDermott, Bell and McReight being the obvious candidates)

Turns out Skelton was the candidate.

 

[Bullrush]

God, Eddie Jones is such a patronising fuck.

He complains about and lambasts fans in Dunedin during an interview with Jeff Wilsin cos he says they aren’t ‘real rugby fans’ but he has the gall to stand there and say bullshit like

“I’ve backed the young blokes because they earned it. Simple as that. I haven’t handed it to them. They grabbed it."

“It’s a young squad, it’s an exciting squad and it will be a successful squad.”

GTFOH and stop bullshitting us man. You selected a team that is about the future and NOT winning this RWC. And that’s fine, that’s his prerogative. But spare us the fake hype cos it’s not fooling the ‘real rugby fans.’

 

[Sam Old]

A ” very low expectations so everything is a bonus” squad. Some mind blowing selections. Again, either a complete madman or a genius. So far the genius hasn’t been seen in results.

 

[SouthernX]

I think the back 3 will be

Jorgensen/Koribete on the wings. Petaia at fullback.

My logic is same reason as we started Petaia in 2019.

the one good thing cheika got my respect on was backing the prodigy… back Jorgensen on his raw skills and freak ability (you can’t teach that type of speed)

behind Kerevi, Petaia was probably our best performer in Japan. he was 18 years old in 2019

My bolter prediction back in April.

I hope that knees ok, go get it Jorgensen.

 

[Sword of Justice]

Jones mentioned JOC (James O'Connor) and I think one or two others were training with the squad, anyone catch the name/s.

 

[Tomthumb]

God, Eddie Jones is such a patronising fuck.

He complains about and lambasts fans in Dunedin during an interview with Jeff Wilsin cos he says they aren’t ‘real rugby fans’ but he has the gall to stand there and say bullshit like

“I’ve backed the young blokes because they earned it. Simple as that. I haven’t handed it to them. They grabbed it."

“It’s a young squad, it’s an exciting squad and it will be a successful squad.”

GTFOH and stop bullshitting rugby fans. You selected a team that is about the future and NOT winning this RWC. And that’s fine, that’s his prerogative. But spare us the fake hype cos it’s not fooling the ‘real rugby fans.’

No what's patronizing is Kiwi media telling how us how proud of the Wallabies we should be for getting so close to winning a game, and that we should all throw a party because we almost won

And speaking of bullshitting fans, why are NZ still pretending Ian Foster is the coach?

 

[Wilson]

Jones mentioned JOC (James O'Connor) (James O'Connor) and I think one or two others were training with the squad, anyone catch the name/s.

Didn't catch what Jones said, but I have heard Fainga'a too

 

[SouthernX]

I’m so excited for this team…

There’s rugby scouts across the globe watching old highlights of super rugby/NRC matches watching unfamiliar names that Eddie has just selected.

Also believe Eddie maintained the gateau law of 3 maximum…

 

[LeCheese]

Jones mentioned JOC (James O'Connor) (James O'Connor) and I think one or two others were training with the squad, anyone catch the name/s.

He mentioned Fainga'a and JOC (James O'Connor) - "to help fill the training vacancies"

 

[qwerty51]

Also believe Eddie maintained the gateau law of 3 maximum…

What's that got to do with anything? Are you implying he was restricted by it?

 

[TSR]

I know there are a lot of surprise picks in the squad - but how good has Schoup’s year been. What a cracking story.

 

[Bullrush]

No what's patronizing is Kiwi media telling how us how proud of the Wallabies we should be for getting so close to winning a game, and that we should all throw a party because we almost won

And speaking of bullshitting fans, why are NZ still pretending Ian Foster is the coach?

Nah fuck that….the RWC is the pinnacle of the sport we love and EJ (Eddie Jones) is shitting all over it and trying to tell us it’s fucken roses.

Disgraceful.