Brumbieman
Dick Tooth (41)
It was mainly Cooper's game against SA than against NZ that fucked us. He ruined our forwards by his errors.
Good god man, did Quade fuck your mother, run over your dog and leave a burning bag of shit on your doorstep or something?
He ruined our forwards did he? Did he force Elsom to miss Kaino and let that try in? Did he force them to run one out and isolated? Did he force them to miss tackles, have poor body height at the ruck, mess up lineouts and get thrown around like Justin Beiber in prison at the ruck time?
Without him, we are utterly toothless in attack and look like we don't have a clue.We simply cant fire a shot.
With him, our backline looks dangerous. You can not blame Quade for other players not running good lines, running from depth with pace and aggression, being in front of the ball carrier or the McCabe special: run headfirst into a tighthead props shoulder while two Cooper and Ioane are unmarked outside you with a clear run to the line.
Deans is a fucking idiot, he's been unable to progress this Wallabies team since 2010. Even the introduction of McCabe was idiotic. He, granted, saw the need for a defensive oriented, hard/straight running centre to help straighten our attack and give the outside backs more space. SO what did he do? Pick a novice fullback who'd probably never even met Quade, put him at 12 and told him to learn a new position at international lever about a month before the world cup. Instead of picking the other player who does the same thing, but better, IS a centre, had played with Quade for 3 years and new his playing style and when to hang back/run off his shoulder.
Why the fuck would you pick an F1 car to compete in Paris to Dakar? By picking Quade at 10, and then forcing him to play an entirely new style of play that he'd never played before, AND with a new centre partner who had played about 3 games as a centre next to him? I cant think of a better way to hamstring a player than that.
Yes, he put himself under a lot of pressure, and eventually crumbled under it, but a big chunk of that would be down to the added pressure of suddenly playing with a new centre partner in a totally new playing style.
Deans is JUST as culpable as Cooper for the WC implosion. And then to top it off, last year he ignored Cooper (on the basis that he wasn't fit) for the first game, and we sucked. So he picks him a week later without any extra physio or fitness training, throws him into the Eden Park match and then publicly slandered him because he failed to ignite the attack.
I would have snotted Deans if he'd done that to me.