Recent content by Wilson

That'll be murder* for those on the Fiji/Argentina/South Africa track, not a lot of direct flights between those destinations. *Or it would be if Fiji were hosting their own games, my understanding is that they're playing their "home" games in Europe.

And I think this is better than it's been in the past too. I'm sure the argument is around wanting more of a lead time for scheduling and ticket sales, but based on past demand (and similar large events like the Lions tour) I'm pretty sure we'd be fine to do it at the end of 2026 instead. Has...

He was listed as unavailable for this tour and has since joined up with Montpellier but not played yet. I think they were hoping he'd be available for their upcoming game against Perpignan. It's up to them to give (or not give) injury updates now.

I think it'll be too late for O'Connor when Kiss comes in, but I wouldn't mind seeing him brought in as a specialist flyhalf coach for the world cup campaign. He's worked with Les Kiss, the current squad/system and specifically with the current crop of young 10s, so he should be well suited to...

For Bell (a proper sabbatical) yes, and maybe for Ikitau. For Hooper and Tupou that's much more up on the air - how many matches will they be "unavailable" for going forward? That said, there was no way we could've (or should've) offered Tupou what it would've taken to keep him in Australia.

It's only deliberate in so much as RA are looking for a way to save money. Tupou and Hooper in particular were uncontrolled departures. Even Ikitau's was up in the air at the time with his following contract back here not locked in until afterwards. There is zero evidence it is a "deliberate...

I'm hopeful that part of the point of getting a cheaper option in Kiss is to build out a more complete coaching team with experience around him - we've been relatively light on in the Schmidt era, possibly an over correction to excesses of Eddie.

While he was generally good, the back chat penalty definitely harms Ikitau's reputation for mine. That's in part due to how high it is, but a player of his experience shouldn't be giving those away in a test match.

Very disappointing impact from the bench there, not sure any of them injected anything into the game in the end, maybe Pollard but he was far from perfect.

And if a dummy runner takes him out the penalty will go the other way. You can not hit a man in the head, it's really that simple. Had he not hit him high he wouldn't have had anything to answer for.

That's not the case at all, Frost very clearly commits to making a tackle

Frost needs to go for that, easy yellow

Ooft, not good from Potter there, caught in no man's land.

Dickson is very kind to us

I'm not sure Ikitau ever had possession to be tackled there