The highlight for me in Wales 1 was absolutely, incontestably, the whole calibre of the Wallaby forwards work. Aside from the The Little Master, that's all that got me excited, yet I was very excited as this area of Wallaby play has been 'the lost zone' for years: low intensity, poor technique, slow pods, poor dominance in tackles, observers not game-changing actors driving the stage play. We started to believe the dangerous illusion that the Gen X backs would save us. Post RWC, we surely now know.
I won't list all the attributes of Wallaby forwards goodness from Wales 1. You all saw them.
I have this little intuition (as I posted after the game) that Totality Tony is already adding value, potentially big lumps of it. I was a trenchant advocate that if Williams had been sacked years ago, no one would observed his passing, zero value add, and a big negative reason why Nuci was asked to quietly rescue Deans from 2010. The ARU then arose post RWC, and acted.
Deans on the ABC today said: 'it's good to have the new coaches on board and they're adding things, bringing language of their own' (the last 5 words a classic Robbieism). I sensed he really meant it. His poor previous assistants (and the absence of some specialist assistants that should have been hired) came close to writing his death sentence and were a big reason why so very few of the finer aspects of Wallaby play improved since 2008.
So on Saturday night, I'm officially on Totality Tony Watch. Please join me and report afterwards.