He’s on $800000 and has been pretty ordinary. Australia A games he was no where… and I too have heard he is a poor trainer. Eddie won’t tolerate that.
Agree with your view (although the figure of $800k had been debunked to my understanding).
In the Australia A games he was generally poor. But there was one try we score off three quality contributions from him in the space of about 30 seconds.
Which means nothing if you’re poor for the rest of the time - right? That’s the point you & JB are trying to make, isn’t it? Which I 100% agree with.
I’m pretty removed from this so what I hear may be rubbish. But what I heard is that even at the Storm he was on a very specific program to manage his body aimed at allowing him to perform on game day. At the Reds and at the Wallabies he has been treated differently and it has hindered his performance. Again - I am not close to this so this could all be complete rubbish (and if anyone knows better happy for you to shoot me down on this). But if you watched him move for Australia A he certainly wasn’t running confidently.
He is a very long shot to make if - I 100% agree with that.
But all I am saying is Jones is a very savvy coach and is very diligent in all parts of his prep. He is the sort of guy I can see would have no problems overhauling a players training regime. I also don’t see any logic in him not investing in a couple of calls to Vunivalu to try and get the best out of him. He will be visiting Reds training anyway. What’s he got to lose?
Will Vunivalu make the cut - extremely unlikely. Would Jones have ruled him out already. I find that even more unlikely.