Ash
Michael Lynagh (62)
Selection of backs (unless you have a couple of absolute world beaters in the backline, which we don't) means nothing if you can't get your forwards right.
I just don't know who we can select. We don't have a starting THP. Moore is so far from good form it's hilarious, he looked like a 3rd grade nose picker half the time. Our one good prop is maybe Slipper, and I can't even tell if he is doing OK because the rest of the tight 5 around him are sucking so much.
Our locks are all over the place, and the next lock brought in (Timani) was fucking horrible against a club side, let alone a test side. Our best lock and captain, who is in pretty average form, is going to be out next week again.
Our backrow is getting bitchslapped by all and sundry, the only one carrying his share of the work is Fardy and even he is getting outplayed. Our best two backrowers - Pocock and Higgers - are gone and the best of the rest is barely carrying his weight, and none of them are combining as a unit.
Here's the rub. Who have we got to select instead? No-one. Will parachuting this player or that player in within the next week make a real difference?
I don't know what to do. Hope the Boks game was just an aberration? Clearly not the case, but nothing else we can do.
Oh, and people arguing about backs whilst ignoring forwards after that game shows why Australian rugby is truly in the shit.
I guess I just sit here hoping for the best come Saturday, because sure as fuck there's nothing else that I know we can do.
I just don't know who we can select. We don't have a starting THP. Moore is so far from good form it's hilarious, he looked like a 3rd grade nose picker half the time. Our one good prop is maybe Slipper, and I can't even tell if he is doing OK because the rest of the tight 5 around him are sucking so much.
Our locks are all over the place, and the next lock brought in (Timani) was fucking horrible against a club side, let alone a test side. Our best lock and captain, who is in pretty average form, is going to be out next week again.
Our backrow is getting bitchslapped by all and sundry, the only one carrying his share of the work is Fardy and even he is getting outplayed. Our best two backrowers - Pocock and Higgers - are gone and the best of the rest is barely carrying his weight, and none of them are combining as a unit.
Here's the rub. Who have we got to select instead? No-one. Will parachuting this player or that player in within the next week make a real difference?
I don't know what to do. Hope the Boks game was just an aberration? Clearly not the case, but nothing else we can do.
Oh, and people arguing about backs whilst ignoring forwards after that game shows why Australian rugby is truly in the shit.
I guess I just sit here hoping for the best come Saturday, because sure as fuck there's nothing else that I know we can do.