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this long-standing Tah supporter doesn't want a straight swap. we had enough of The Coach for 2004-07. if the Tahs must lose The Great Cheik to save the Australian rugby nation, Nathan Grey or Daryl Gibson will do, thank you

i see only four realistic chances: - The Great Cheik - Jake the Snake - Sir Graeme - Wayne Smith (the rugby player and coach, not the "Australian" journo hack.

and i'll reply: none of the above

i missed that vital news. i heard that BilliPu had selected "Perfidia" as the ARU theme song.

the Evil have better reasons that emuarse's birthday to throw the game.

what is each of them proponing? even poning would be interesting

Mate, your headline goes not far enough. i see added: "Pulver leads ARU to cut all its salaries by 50 per cent". don't you?

Wallabies will win this in the veritable canter. too big, too fast, too good. too committed, ready to die for the cause. too well coached. too --- well --- too just everything

err, yes in that Fijians are passably similar to most of the people of the islands of New Britain, Bougainville, New Ireland, Manus and a few coastal areas of the mainland. no, in that there is very little similarity between Fijians and the peoples of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea who are...

you don't need to be so specific. "Australians" would have been better than "the league boys". then you would have been correct on a far grander scale.

we have a winner. optimist of the millennium.

i didn't write that "superstars" didn't make good coaches. i wrote that the "outrageously gifted" players didn't make it as coaches and that the best coaches seemed to be less gifted players who had to work very hard to make it as footballers including studying their game intensely and using...

no, but i bet Leo Cullen was. ever been to Ireland and traded horses with an Irishman? that is a learning experience. TGC would surely forgive Leinster if they delivered a retribalized Jarrod Hayne to him. i certainly would.

you can go way beyond rugby and find a similar story in all football codes. the blokes who don't make great coaches are those who are naturally gifted "freakish" types to whom playing was very easy. looking through the records a few years back, i could find only one "outrageously gifted"...

a nice ewe fush 'n' chups some widges

i suspect that the teacher/coach thing was a historical accident. when rugby went professional, the blokes in the best position to become coaches were teachers. the world has changed. looking at the coaches and their assistants now, it appears to me that most are ex players who have done or...

thank you, Mate. i am not sure how to judge the indicated change in my powers of recall since i wrote that post years back. i was trying then to get some discussion going and sustained on the matter of coaches. i even suggested we have a coaches' league and continually revise the pecking...

yeah. going to be interesting. i wonder if The Great Cheik might have a word with Hayne's manager about a (highly) paid internship at Leinster on his way home from the USA?

your glass is half full AND half empty, isn't it?

Wallabies by 19 fact here first only