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Arch Winning (36)
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Wallabies 2024
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dillyboy
Nev Cottrell (35)
What's Greg Holmes up to these days???
HogansHeros
Syd Malcolm (24)
Surely playing lawn bowls?
Filipo Daugunu
Peter Burge (5)
Why wasn't there a Wallabies April training squad? They have been doing them for years during the bye rounds. Joe said in his first press conference he would be doing an April squad naming, does anyone know why it didn't happen?
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
As far as I'm aware there was never any plan to announce an April training squad, and Schmidt wasn't going to select his first squad until the end of the SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) season...
LeCheese
Peter Johnson (47)
May be getting my wires crossed, but I think he said he wouldn't even be thinking about what a squad looks like until April-ish
I have read a lot of chat on these boards
Bell is predicted to be back in July.
Hodgman is an ex-All Black prop and has been a quality player for a number of years. His mobility at LHP is what is lacking in the Australian game.
Slipper at 34 has maturity and experience and can match it with the best of them.
Ngonggor is a great up and Comer that can.play both sides.
All this talk about looking towards MLR. I mean seriously MLR???????
I think people.on this forum are hitting the panic button a little too soon.
I may have misunderstood your post but if you believe these are slim pickings as far as our frontrow is concerned, you are sadly mistaken.
Bell is predicted to be back in July.
Hodgman is an ex-All Black prop and has been a quality player for a number of years. His mobility at LHP is what is lacking in the Australian game.
Slipper at 34 has maturity and experience and can match it with the best of them.
Ngonggor is a great up and Comer that can.play both sides.
All this talk about looking towards MLR. I mean seriously MLR???????
I think people.on this forum are hitting the panic button a little too soon.
You've conflated two conversations. The second one mentioning Dane Zander and MLR was purely about Australians playing overseas. No one was suggesting the Wallabies were looking to that competition for a player.
Highlander35
Andrew Slack (58)
I think you need to learn to read.
It's following on a thought exercise, that Derpus, UpTheReds and Phil Clinton have contributed to, looking at the potential "overseas eligible" Wallabies. As part of this, they've pointed out that other than Sio, there are not many Australian Looseheads plying their trade overseas in the URC/Prem/French Leagues/Japanese Leagues.
No one is seriously suggesting that Cameron Orr will be lining up in the Bledisloe.
No I can read.
Thanks for the clarification, like I said I may have misunderstood the post and I clearly did. Cheers.
Tazzmania
Charlie Fox (21)
He is the forwards coach at the Fortesque Western Force academy.
Jeremy Thrush head coach, Jono Lance backs coach
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Bill Watson (15)
The point I was making was that while we have some good players up front we are only a couple of injuries away from being very short on depth. Guys like Talakai, Gibbon et al have been the back up for the past few years but if they are now our frontline Wallaby props we don’t have a heap of experience waiting in the wings if they go down or if someone like Bell has an extended injury layoff or AAA doesn’t come back from his injury as quickly as hoped.
Just wondering where did you hear or read that Bell is predicted to be back in July?
Bell has now injured his same toe twice. Not sure what the chances are of him doing it a 3rd time but rushing back in would be foolish.
I thought this was number 3.
Ignoto
John Thornett (49)
There's some conjecture around if this is the same toe.
After the second injury, Bell had his toe fused. So its hard to understand what the "pop" noise he heard similar to the other incidents are.
That's what the Orthopods have told me, but I've got no visibility on how true that is.
My understanding of the surgery last time around was that they removed a bone that is deemed non-essential rather than reattaching it.
Allegedly it was meant to meant that the specific injury couldn't happen again.
Angus Bell confident of Wallabies return as he reflects on 'radical' surgery
Wallabies prop Angus Bell is confident he will be ready to go for September's Rugby World Cup.
www.rugby.com.au
I guess that does mean it's a bit different this time but to me as a completely amateur diagnostician it maybe just moved the point of failure?
Strewthcobber
Mark Ella (57)
6 tries in 13 games. His Saitama Wild Knights team are undefeated
Dctarget
John Eales (66)
watching some highlights of his now. Still doing his amazing kick chases, lined up Isaac Lucas and smacked him, then scored two tries, so he's going fine.