Wallabies 2024

[Linerunner2023]

Just leave Wright on the wing and he'll be mostly fine.

Agree Tom Wright has shown to be a very good international winger
Good finisher and scary footwork
Just leave him at 14 and not 15 again
He deserved to be there over Suli as a winger

 

[noscrumnolife]

Cannot believe some of the things I have read about the Wallabies job being unattractive.

If Rugby Australia can promise appropriate changes off-field to any new Wallabies coach they will have their pick of the litter. The only thing that will stop them having so is if they refuse to make the changes to the performance environment that all our coaches back to Deans have been asking for. And that realistically shouldn't be hard, every franchise is already onboard for high-performance (eg Wallabies) centralisation.

Be real. It's a (very) well-paid job in a lovely country. There are more top level coaches than their our countries available to coach. You can't afford to wait around for a better opportunity and coaches don't do that. Good coaches are also attracted to a challenge, they back their own abilities. FFS, if you commit to this job you coach a Lions Series and a Home World Cup. I cannot imagine a more attractive proposition than that.

 

[Pfitzy]

I suppose money talks. I remain unconvinced we'll attract anyone particularly good.

I'll take "competent"

 

[Pfitzy]

every franchise is already onboard for high-performance (eg Wallabies) centralisation.

NEEEEEEEIGH

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

Good point from Paul cully….
“In any other circumstance, RA would look to re-set the narrative and make a clean coaching change for the next four-year cycle. Indeed, they’d probably have done so with Rennie right about now had they not gone a year early. The man originally earmarked to replace Rennie, Dan McKellar, would still be the top choice.”

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

NEEEEEEEIGH
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Aren’t Brumaire and red on board for high performance just not
Commercial? Frankly don’t care about commercial component….reds will be fine. Brumbies will be short on cash in a few years and hand that over.
If everyone signs on for skills, coaching development, performance and s&c that’s a win

 

[KevinO]

Italy were firing in 2022. Let’s not forget that.

I hope your joking? They beat a poor Wales team in 2022, and the Wallabies. Got smashed by Ireland and England, beaten easily by France.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

If you took a couple of Ange Capuozzo highlights off Instagram it’s the same old Italy.

 

[Tomthumb]

I hope your joking? They beat a poor Wales team in 2022, and the Wallabies. Got smashed by Ireland and England, beaten easily by France.

Shhh, that doesn’t fit the ‘Rennie was McQueen 2.0’ narrative

 

[shanky]

Oh cool. Dan McKellar

(reaches for whiskey bottle)

 

[Brumby Runner]

Coaching international rugby for WOBs should be easy as. Just chuck the brumbies in the deep end plus a few extra carriers like Bell, Tupou, Paisami and Nawaqanitawase. Replace a couple of bodies as team balance, form and individual temperament become evident.

And there was a team that could easily have made the quarters.

 

[Tomthumb]

And there was a team that could easily have made the quarters.

The Wallabies team that lost to Italy featured 9 Brumbies players and Tupou, Paisami & Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase)

 

[Mick The Munch]

Gregor Townsend or Buy out Warren Gatland

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

We’re going to end up with Stuart Lancaster or some other mid level bloke.

 

[Tomthumb]

These are some grim options. Might as well bring in Kieran Crowley and we can bond over our shared failures at the World Cup

 

[Members Section]

Blow everything up pick the best coach available & if all srpac sides miss the finals so be it! If & I maintain if the AB’s loose this weekend what does it say about ‘our style’

I can’t find the article anywhere but a form ab coach said frans malherbe would struggle to make a srpac side in nz he’s the bloody best 3 in the world!

did we all not learn anything from the wales game? Try bp are ‘cool’ but f me I’d rather be cool playing this week kicking goals than crying

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

I hope your joking? They beat a poor Wales team in 2022, and the Wallabies. Got smashed by Ireland and England, beaten easily by France.

Admittedly an exaggeration

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

Gregor Townsend or Buy out Warren Gatland

Is Warren the coach after this World Cup?

 

[lpd]

We’re going to end up with Stuart Lancaster or some other mid level bloke.

I would love to have Lancaster - being at Leinster he’s the head of one of the best talent pipelines in world rugby

 

[fatprop]

I know this be a bit heretical, but I would prefer RA

1 Get agreement on common goals as to common style of play, get a plan together for a longer form Super Rugby - AU based or extension of current trans/NZ format, don't care, they need more games
2 Get a central contracting system - no warehousing (we don't have enough quality for the Tahs to have 3 good 10s or the ponies have a load of locks etc etc - I like the NZ system - each side picks a core 25, the rest are available to the other sides to become part of their 25), the states are a feeder system for the national side - simple
3 Get a director of rugby to implement the style of play, fitness expectations etc across the country (and fire those not meeting standards)
4 Get a national coach employed to coach the agreed style of play