Penriff_boy
Billy Sheehan (19)
He was doing a lot better than this clown, i guarantee we would be in the finals.
Wallabies 2024
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Rebel man
John Thornett (49)
Rennie was a flop. Move on
Penriff_boy
Billy Sheehan (19)
You really think we would have loss to Fiji with him? No way, he wasn't perfect , but a lot better than this clown
Tomthumb
Chilla Wilson (44)
I think this "which shit coach did a worse job" argument has run it's course
Rebel man
John Thornett (49)
Who cares, we can’t say either was as it never happened. It’s time to move on.
Eddie failing doesn’t make Rennie a good coach
Slim 293
Stirling Mortlock (74)
It probably does need to be addressed that firing Rennie prior to the RWC, and having Eddie blow everything up going into the tournament has been an unmitigated disaster...
I would have preferred Rennie carried my false hopes into a QF or SF exit, rather than the current embarrassing clown show.
I would have preferred Rennie carried my false hopes into a QF or SF exit, rather than the current embarrassing clown show.
This is absolutely true. We've wasted a whole heap of money paying out Rennie a year early and have made the overall situation worse.
There's no value trying to argue whether or not we'd have done better if Rennie was still coach. We don't know. It was crazy to make the change at the time though. We needed to accept that the situation wasn't good and just ride it out and start again in 2024.
Now who knows where things go?
Penriff_boy
Billy Sheehan (19)
He has a proven record, and he was developing the team. Do you really think he would have picked Donaldson to start these games? He would have definitely taken Cooper or Foley.
Rebel man
John Thornett (49)
And Cooper was horrible in 2023. All Rennie’s record proves is that he is not up to it
It doesn't matter.
We weren't going well with Rennie as coach and moved on. Things are undoubtedly worse but no one can definitively say that we'd have been significantly better this year with Rennie still at the helm.
Penriff_boy
Billy Sheehan (19)
So despite us having a much better record, you dont think we would be better?
We would have almost certainly won against fiji, and then we would had a Qf against the Struggling Poms or even Argentina/Japan.
Rennie was not going well, although results against better teams were closer than recently.
Jones has not gone well. 'nuff said.
The data we have does not support the argument that Jones is better, or that Rennie would have been worse, or indeed better.
Anyone saying so is just opining.
Changing the coach in the manner and at the time we did was not a great move.
And I think that our current situation is actually far worse than it would have been had we not, with an almost untenable coach on a multi-year big money contract.
Jones has not gone well. 'nuff said.
The data we have does not support the argument that Jones is better, or that Rennie would have been worse, or indeed better.
Anyone saying so is just opining.
Changing the coach in the manner and at the time we did was not a great move.
And I think that our current situation is actually far worse than it would have been had we not, with an almost untenable coach on a multi-year big money contract.
Beer on the hill
Ward Prentice (10)
We need to unite around Eddie and play the long game
#custodian
#custodian
Out of the woodwork
Allen Oxlade (6)
Eddie is a rebuilding wizard. Look at England in 2016.
No one can possibly know. That's the point.
We were 5 wins from 14 games last season. It was hardly a stellar run of results. Things have got worse this season. That is unarguable.
#stockholmsyndrome
Beer on the hill
Ward Prentice (10)
Play the ball not the man…
What on earth are you talking about?
Penriff_boy
Billy Sheehan (19)
We won against Wales, England, South Africa last year. And we competed against all the big teams, with narrow losses against France and Ireland.
This year, we're getting destroyed by these teams. In the space of less than a year.