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And it dovetails into the coverage done by the SMH, which is consistently excellent. I'd be really gutted if they moved away from Stan/9 for the next deal.
I think saying the NRL US tilt has 'nothing to do with promoting the game' is off the mark.
I do think the NRL has a genuine desire to grow the game in the US. Now that's based on a fair bit of delusion (hello PVL), but it's as much about TV money and ongoing PR as it is gambling.
What's more...
I won't hear a bad word about Morgan Turinui. On a forum where a lot of shit is spoken, he's one person who is continually stepping up to grow the game.
The unpaid work he does with the Classic Wallabies is fantastic, taking the game to places where it has been absent for decades. Running...
What's Jake White been doing since leaving the Brumbies?
Bit surprised he's being mentioned here. Feels like yesterday's man. Not to mention a noted Eddie Jones type personality, and I think there's probably enough evidence now that this squad doesn't respond to the that type of coach.
McLennan's predilection for making big calls leaves me concerned. Can't you just see him in a press conference standing next to Michael Cheika with a shit eating grin telling us 'we got him' like he did with Eddie.
I'm not sure he's got it in him to make an unsexy pick and roll with a McKeller.
The game plan changes are the most interesting to me. Would love a whole article on that. Looked like we had no discernable plan, and sure enough it seems we didn't.
It's an odd contradiction to deliberately pick an inexperienced squad and then give them no structure in which to play. Surely...
I think it would be really good to get the perspective of someone who has been a part of a large number of RWC campaigns, both good and bad, with multiple nations.
Eddie Jones is a name that springs to mind. I believe he's on the payroll for a few more weeks. Put him to work.
I want us to move away from our messiah complex when it comes to coaches. No one person is going to save us and there's no shortcut to success here.
Hire Dan McKeller and surround him with steady experienced heads. I'd love to see Joe Schmidt in there. Simon Raiwalui lives in Brisbane and you'd...
We open on a dimly lit basement office deep in the bowels of Stan HQ. A spotty 19 year old hears a ding on a computer, looks up from his phone and reading the email his eyes noticeably widen. He picks up the phone - "Jim, you're going to want to see this"
The email is pored over by increasingly...
It raises the question of what has to happen to actually get the full ban as prescribed?
Farrell has received a two week discount for merely acknowledging his actions and refusing to verbally abuse the magistrate during the hearing.
The state of the bloke who has to serve the full sentence...
This is critical for mine.
We can't have a situation like we did a few years ago when three of our five teams had a starting 10 who wasn't Wallaby eligible. From memory the players were Andre Pretorius, Jackson Garden-Bachop and a third who I can't quite recall (Hawera at the Brumbies?).
Ref appointments for pool matches confirmed.
We've got Luke Pearce for the Georgia game, Andrew Brace for the Fiji game and Wayne Barnes for the Wales game.
Great news for us, especially Barnes. Best ref in the world for teams who want to play free-flowing rugby.
So I'm now wondering if people have slightly overreacted to the squad announcement.
When it all boils down, the four guys who should feel the most aggrieved are Hooper, Cooper, Ikitau and Holloway. All in our best XV at the start of the season (arguably).
Two of them are carrying injury, and...
It's not so much that Quade has been robbed of selection, it's they seem to be preferring an untried Donaldson ahead of him. And I struggle to see the justification for that call.