Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
François, I admire the irrepressible optimism of someone who can start a sentence with "I believe Deans has great plans ..." and then find a flow of words to finish it.
I can still dimly remember when I might have been able to finish such a sentence myself.
I may have thought about such a sentence after his first Bledisloe match coaching Oz, which we won in Sydney, but wrote instead that I wouldn't get on the band wagon until I saw consistency home and away.
Just as well.