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Wallabies 2025

Adam84

Rod McCall (65)
But in all seriousness…

it’s clear there are real questions over the quality and/or depth in key positions like front-row, fly-half and lock; hence casting the net wide.

Wallabies are only 2 or 3 front-row injuries away from disaster at scrum time, and the main-stay front-rowers are injury prone as it is.

Some players from the tight 5 are clearly there for exposure/depth experience in the event of injury, if no injuries occur they won’t be there in actual B&I Lions squad selections.
 
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dru

David Wilson (68)
But in all seriousness…

What? Here?

Edit: Actually, in my experience this place is easily the most effective gathering of rugby knowledge, well within social media, in Australia. (And Adam you lead the pack.)

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It seems to me that rugby in Aus is in a really difficult but really opportunistic time. I am not a fan of shrink to greatness even where the reduction is self imposed. I have little faith in the direction, or more correctly the INTENDED direction in front of us.

But I’m resigned to what comes next. Recognise that “the plan” might have legs.
 
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Rhino_rugby

Herbert Moran (7)
But in all seriousness…

it’s clear there are real questions over the quality and/or depth in key positions like front-row, fly-half and lock; hence casting the net wide.

Wallabies are only 2 or 3 front-row injuries away from disaster at scrum time, and the main-stay front-rowers are injury prone as it is.

Some players from the tight 5 are clearly there for exposure/depth experience in the event of injury, if no injuries occur they won’t be there in actual B&I Lions squad selections.
Valid concerns.......depth in the tight five is crucial, and the reliance on injury-prone players makes the risk clear. Smart to build experience now, even if some won't make the final squad
 

Slim 293

George Smith (75)
And apparently two of his assistants to leave as well…

I’m going to speculate it’s Laurie and Cron.

The gossip of Leon MacDonald coming on board would sure make things spicy…
 

Wilson

Rod McCall (65)
And apparently two of his assistants to leave as well…

I’m going to speculate it’s Laurie and Cron.

The gossip of Leon MacDonald coming on board would sure make things spicy…
Would love to see Dan Palmer step back in to replace Cron as the scrum coach if he moves on.

Defence might be a bit trickier to fill, or will at least need the head coach to be settled to set the direction there first. Ideally it'll be someone coming in with a lot of experience, most of the candidates being thrown around as head coach (or coming in as assistants like MacDonald) are not super experienced at that level.
 

Wilson

Rod McCall (65)
I mean yeah... if he is the only option then Les would be better. But surely not?
Vern Cotter is probably the biggest name who would potentially be available as far as international experience (Scotland 14-17, Fiji 20-23) and recent success goes. All depends on whether or not he's interested though.

The other one that will surely come up is Cheika, but I really hope we don't go there right now. What we've been trying to build at a national level is still way too new and fragile to survive his all or nothing style.
 

PhilClinton

Mark Loane (55)
And apparently two of his assistants to leave as well…

I’m going to speculate it’s Laurie and Cron.

The gossip of Leon MacDonald coming on board would sure make things spicy…

I believe Cron hasn't perm relocated to Australia either for the exact reason that he was just going to mirror whatever Schmidt does. So it would make sense he was definitely one coach who won't be continuing.
 

Dismal Pillock

Michael Lynagh (62)
None of this matters. There is occasionally an heretical anti-Gnosticism in artificial limitation to the meaning of “Queenslander”. It’s an epiphany that addresses desire, and in the absence of desire, a physical location, even temporarily, at any point in life. “Queensland” is a state of mind, and if the Queenslander in case of point, denies this state of mind then the qualifying state of mind is any other individual Queenslander. BR knows this but posts expressing his inner turmoil on the nature of being.
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Dismal Pillock

Michael Lynagh (62)
Vern Cotter is probably the biggest name who would potentially be available as far as international experience (Scotland 14-17, Fiji 20-23) and recent success goes. All depends on whether or not he's interested though.
OMFG.

@zer0 is going to blow a gasket in his brain when he reads this shit
 

zer0

John Thornett (49)
So, from reading the above, it sounds to me as though the takeaway message is that Schmidt is returning to NZ to join his old mucker Stern Vern at the Blues?

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