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Touche - although I'd argue that's never been my point. Rather, my point is this reverence for White on the back of his RWC win is misplaced given that it fails to take into account his easy run and the fact that between 2006 and 2008 the boks came last in the TN.

How is it dumb? Are you seriously telling me there's no element of luck in a World Cup? Or do you think every match is a perfectly scientific measurement of a team's ability. We all know that they had to beat the teams that beat the teams etc, but are you honestly telling me that they had a...

How is that a cop out? World Cups are a series of one-off tests effectively, and one-off tests can produce unpredictable results that aren't always reflective of a team's ability. The All Blacks in '07 were a splendid team, and copped a massive upset through a dubious decision in their game...

Don't cut the context out. The 2007 RWC was the easiest path a victor has had in the tournaments history. They played Fiji in the knockouts FFS and had an England side they had obliterated in the pools as their final. They didn't have to play either NZ or Aus, or even France. An RC is tougher...

It doesn't, but Cheika also has Two Euro Championships. So he's been successful in a couple pretty tough settings. He's up against it, but he's definitely a good candidate.

Wasn't he forced out at the Sharks? I'd heard his departure there wasn't quite voluntary...

Is that right? Because last time I checked, of the two - both who were coaching Super Rugby teams the past two years - only one has a Super Rugby title to his name. Something I consider tougher than a World Cup win in which a team avoids playing both Australia and NZ. I'd also point out that...

This here is why I find posts like yours so bewildering. The ARU FIRED Deans, choosing to pay him out and then throw a new coach straight into the RC with no preparation. And no, it didn't work out great. Now, through its own awful and incompetent management of a minor crisis, the ARU have had a...

Exactly. What annoys me most about this whole sorry saga, is that by trying to make this all about Beale and NSW, people are completely absolving the Wallabies management and the ARU from any responsibility in dealing with a crisis that in reality was on the minor scale when compared to the...

Yeah, and somehow Tim Sheens picked hardly any Tigers after moving straight from their to the Kangaroos a few years back. You seriously didn't read my post did you? Mate, Origin and the NRL occur concurrently. Next year the Super Rugby season and the Wallabies season are completely separate - with a...

Do the Waratahs and Wallabies seasons occur concurrently? Next year there'll be no mid season tour, so it's not overlapping in the slightest, so Cheika will just take his Tahs hat off, leave it behind and put his Wallabies one on at the start of the RC. Heck, for years the NRL had coaches...

With the ARU caught short and keen to have him above anyone else, they don't seem to be in much of a bargaining position. As for COI concerns in general, structurally the ARU shouldn't allow this, but for case called for desperate measures and I have every confidence Cheika will remain...

To be honest I don't really see that... if there was ever a code of football that required a strong attention span, American Football is it.

Yes, well it doesn't do much to restore my faith in the ARU... To be frank I thought it was bloody stupid they dumped Robbie with most of the season left to play. What happened? Link got thrown into the middle of Deans' creation and the team got smashed by the boks and ABs in all their...

Subs only partly explain Saturday night. It was the last 3 minutes that killed it for mine. As soon as our forwards started bashing it up one out, I knew we'd lose. But that's not about fitness, it's about mentality and maturity. If our boys had more self belief they'd have stuck to Link's plan...

Agreed. I've always preferred your fellow country-man Spiro's term of "all-court rugby" and also despise this notion that the game needs to cater to League's tastes. Don't get me wrong, I love League almost as much as Union, but its a fundamentally different beast and that fact should be both...

It was a natural tangent and one likely to go in this direction to be fair - it's the McKenzie resignation thread after-all, so it's not awfully surprising the circumstances that led to the resignation would be looked at again. Anyway though, I suppose the bigger question is will Pulver now...

This bit in the Guardian sums up the reality around Cheika nicely: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/oct/19/michael-cheika-the-man-to-fix-ewen-mckenzie-and-arus-wallabies-mess

I don't know that he will... He's never not completed a contract, and by all accounts he's not going to accept it without being allowed to coach the Tahs next year and have a full 5 years at the Wallabies. He's coached Leinster to 2 titles and broken a 21 year title drought at the Waratahs...

So you have information that she saved money by cutting player privileges? If that's accurate, then it would explain an awful lot. This appears pretty accurate based on stuff coming out now, and to be honest I'm still really shocked to hear how much shit Deans had to put up with. Pulver was...