Wallabies 2025

[stillmissit]

SOunds like a stuff up to me. I imagine that Tahs supporters would like to see the best team play the Lions as would Lions supporters. Then the match v Fiji one day later would either not feature a full Wallaby squad or the Tahs would have a weakened squad.

 

[Adam84]

It sounds rather deliberate. Otherwise, the Wallabies are going in cold without playing a game, whilst the B&I Lions have had multiple warm-up matches?

Tahs play with a weakened squad, as Super Rugby teams did in previous tours?

 

[Braveheart81]

This is never how Lions tours work.

Why would I expect something different this time around?

From what I can see none of the Australian sides got to select all their Wallabies in 2013.

 

[Slim 293]

Yeah, I don't see the problem...

As Adam and BH mentioned above, the Australian teams played the Lions without their test players on the last tour as well because of Wallabies duties.

 

[barbarian]

Also if you're trying to beat the living shit out of the Lions, better to get your squaddies to do it rather than guys who may worry about retribution in a later game.

 

[Sully]

The Wallabies have never won in Newcastle.

 

[Slim 293]

Also if you're trying to beat the living shit out of the Lions, better to get your squaddies to do it rather than guys who may worry about retribution in a later game.

 

[stillmissit]

Long time between games Slim many changes in recovery etc. The warm up game v Fiji I have no issue with but the Tahs fixture seems will be lacking some key players, depending on how they go in Super Rugby. The saving grace is that the B&ILplay Qld only 3 days before tahs.

 

[stillmissit]

Been away for a while, what is happening with the Rebels fixture?

 

[Braveheart81]

I would assume that all the tour games will be without the overwhelming majority of the Australian test players (if not all of them).

 

[cyclopath]

Sorry for living

Meh, I've been around here long enough to see the annual cycle of Super Rugby hopes and dreams.

 

[TSR]

I doubt even he could out-do McRae’s efforts.

 

[Spamnoodle]

Look what the east coast elitists did to the last reds coach to go on to the wallabies.

And the one before that.

 

[Dctarget]

Confirmed we'll know Schmidt’s movements in the next two weeks. Confirmed Cheika has declined to stay on at Tigers further. Coincidence?

 

[wamberal99]

No. (I hope).

 

[Purce]

God I hope he stays on. IMO the most important individual to Rugby in Australia right now.

 

[stillmissit]

Nobody is irreplaceable but if he goes he will be remembered as one of the great coaches along with Macqueen, Jones v1, Dwyer et al.
I expect that we will build a solid coaching group to follow him. I also believe Daniel Herbert and Phil Waugh can do this.

 

[barbarian]

Really? I like Joe but it's not like we won the Bledisloe or anything. We had a decent EOYT but it's still pretty likely we'll lose 3-0 to the Lions.

I'll be sad to see him go if he does, but I don't think the world will come crashing down if we have to find a replacement.

 

[stillmissit]

I assume the replacement is already in place, going out on a WW search would not gain us a lot ATT. I am assuming Joe will go.

Your opening sentence belies where we were in world rugby, also a bit of an insult I thought to 'like' the guy dismisses what he has done with this team.

 

[Strewthcobber]

To his credit, he really has got us having the wood on the worst Wales team of all time though