By Darren Walton
November 3rd 2009 @ 2:22am
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Mumm’s the word as Wallabies face injury crisis
Lock Dean Mumm will captain the Wallabies for the first time as the tourists hope to avert a full-blown injury crisis in Tuesday night’s fixture against English club side Gloucester.
Physically and mentally battered from their seventh straight loss to the All Blacks, the Wallabies arrived in London from Tokyo with a worrying injury list even [...]
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Terry said | November 3rd 2009 @ 7:28am | Report comment
What a great decision to leave Phil Waugh behind! Dean Mumm a Wallaby captain???????????????? PLEASE
Knives Out said | November 3rd 2009 @ 7:38am | Report comment
Don’t worry, Terry. Gloucester have released a hideous team.
Justin said | November 3rd 2009 @ 8:13am | Report comment
Its the best decision Deans has made to leave Waugh behind! We have Hodgson and Brown but Mumm as skipper is bewildering, he is hardly an at the coalface type player…
ilikedahoodoogurusingha said | November 3rd 2009 @ 8:01am | Report comment
Mumm is made captain….does this suggest that George Smith is likely to start against England?
Peter North said | November 3rd 2009 @ 11:05am | Report comment
Considering the other options in the team, the decision is a solid one. Considering all the bench-warmers are on, it’s not what you call a full-strength side. But then again, we are playing Gloucester, not England.
It’s good to give the youngens ago for further development of the wallaby squad, or we will just end up with a (excuse the pun) green rugby team not used to the pressures of the international rugby circuit.
Stash said | November 3rd 2009 @ 1:38pm | Report comment
Ouch – and who said playing the all blacks in Tokyo was going to be tiddly winks?!!
Mumm as captain – oh dear – Dean’s selections have gone from being tricky…to being unpredictable… to bewildering…to a farce.
Those wanting Deans over Henry in NZ have grown silent. Suddenly Graeme Henry looks like a solid, reliable (tricky) old dog (which is what I always expected anyway)
reds fan said | November 3rd 2009 @ 2:11pm | Report comment
Robbie Deans has done the impossible. He has coached the Wallabies into a worse team than the one he inherited. Time to go Robbie. Please.
Aljay said | November 3rd 2009 @ 3:02pm | Report comment
Yes, who’d have thought the we’d end up getting worse.
7 on the trot against the All Blacks now !
reds fan said | November 3rd 2009 @ 2:44pm | Report comment
Where are these reknowned man-management skills? The ability to find diamonds in the rough? The focus on lifting skill levels such that they are instinctual to a player? He has delivered nothing. Over the two years we have gone backwards.
Dean Pantio said | November 3rd 2009 @ 3:05pm | Report comment
Mumm as captain? Must be the antithesis of Elsom’s example.