Get rid of the selectors and Dean. I knew Alan Jones was the better choice. Sadly not chosen. Deans is the Arsene Wenger of rugby

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If you sacked him, you could save four to five hundred thousand a year. That seems like a good enough incentive to me since he’s shown no signs of improvement and his results are crap.

When London South Africans (aka Saracens) beat the Springboks the other day, I thought “There’s the players for South Africa’s 6th S14 side”. (Only problem is, they are the wrong skin color for the Southern Kings.)

Andrew – the murky world of being a player manager involves posting your client’s CV far and wide, whether or not the player has asked for that. If you get a good bite, you then go to your player and say “Hey, I know you didn’t ask me to do this, but did you know I can get you a contract worth three times your current one with Biarritz?” That’s simply a manager doing his job. I am not in denial here, but I think you have to be realistic about the meaning of the information from your contact. The key point is going to be how many players actively asked their managers to investigate playing overseas. I have no idea.

If these blokes reckon they can get a gig over in France good luck. Already the FFR is looking to restrict the number of foreigners in their leagues, and if anything, they will probably look at getting Springboks and All Blacks.

On a per game basis, the Wallaby players would have to be the richest in the world.

One thing I dont get is the argument that there are herds of Aussie rugby players starring on the rugby fields of Europe, and this is what the ARU is suggesting as one of the potential sources of players for Victoria S15. I have looked at the team sheets and there are plenty of South Africans, Kiwis, Argentinians and Islanders, but relatively few Aussies.

Leadership groups are a load of bull !!!! Every group has a leader, human nature calls for it, and looks for it. Good leaders don’t need co-captains or leaders because they know when to listen to opinions and they know when to be authoriative. Young people, including young inexperienced Wallabies, need to learn this simple fact of life …. just like some sports coaches need to learn it too. Every group has a pecking order …. but the captain, the general, is alone at the top !!!

Yes, I know he has flaws, and the occasional brain explosion, but I would allow Cooper to run the game without Giteau’s interference, but under Elsom’s leadership …. Elsom to confirm and enforce the decisions on game direction and everyone else to shut up, put their heads down, shoulders to the wheel and get their jobs done. Then lets see where this young and inexperienced side goes against Wales …. it would probably implode against the Boks or ABs or France (the hard heads) but against Wales it has the chance to soar …. and imagine the confidence that would breed !!!

He reckons that they have had roughly 2/3 of the current Wallaby squad’s CV’s over their head coaches desk in the last 3-4 months, looking for opportunities post World Cup 2011. He said that most of the Australian coaches he knows in Europe have had the same experience.

The reality of the professional era – rugby loyalty and national pride as we used to know it is dead.

This talk of a General has me worried though. Where did this idea come from? Dont you know that young people dont like or need Generals. They have a leadership group that they all belong to. DO NOT TRY TO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO. Come to that a suggestion is looked on with scorn and a pointer is simply laughed at.

Giteau is a fantastic member of the leadership group, I am starting to worry that you are really not getting it?

I just want somebody to step up and lead, to organise, to call the shots, to be the general …. and Giteau has shown he isn’t the man … so don’t even put him on the field where he will just stuff it up … again.

We kick for field position, passing and catching are sooooo! last season.

Oh! and counter attacking and kick chasing is very passe, it burns a lot of aerobic fitness that we need for the last 5mins of the game, to try to win it, or try to save it.

Please get on the program and start to enjoy the spectacle.

The Blunder Bros … nice touch …. did one of them even make it over the advantage line when carrying the ball?

Why oh why do the Wallaby backs continue to kick the ball? Please someone tell me why when they are hard on the attack in the oppositions 22 they put thru meaningless grubber kicks that immediately release pressure on the defence?

Wycliffe Palu was outstanding … again. The remainder of the pack was good, except for the two locks. I can excuse Kepu’s two dropped balls …. one was slammed into his chest at six inches range.

Outisde Genia, until you reached Hynes, and excluding ACC at the back, there was no backline …. and at 10 (including both Giteau and Cooper) there was no idea how to organise or use the backs.

With this current team Wales will win by 4. I would throw caution to the wind if I was Deans and revamp the team for the game as follows …..

The pack the same except Pocock for Smith and Mumm for Chisholm. Kepu to start and Dunning to bench if Robinson not fit.

The backs ….

Genia
Cooper
O’Connor
Tyrone Smith
Hynes
Turner
ACC

Giteau, Burgess, Mitchell on bench.

Any back who kicks for any reason except to clear from within the 22 is to be fined his entire tour payments. Backs to learn to run the ball and come back to support unless the defensive line is shattered. Backs to learn to run to gaps and expect the ball, whether they get it or not.

Is this too much to ask? Am I as frustrated as all hell? Bloody oath I am !!!!!

Ahem, not really.

9 players from the starting xv: Sheridan, Mears, Vickery, Shaw, Easter, Ellis, Flutey, Tindall & D.Armitage, and various subs – 25 players in total. That left England with a starting xv containing on average 22.4 caps playing against an Australian side with 35.06 caps per man. Allied to the fact that it was England’s first game of the season against a hardened test outfit and one has to wonder how there was only two points difference up to the 72nd minute. That win was not a positive omen for Australia.

You’ve got the answer! Gotta be seen to be doing something. Even if it achieves nothing but a temporary high.
Reminds me of the old maxim: “if in danger if in doubt, rush around in circles and scream and shout”. Sure makes one feel better, but it achieved nothing. How come?

I agree….. let’s sack Deans, & replace him with, let’s see….. ah, Michael Cheika.

Cheika’s been doing wonderful things with Leinster, or is it Munster, over in Ireland. Outstanding provincial record.

Oh….. hang on a minute….. isn’t that why the ARU selected Deans in the first place? Because of his outstanding provincial record with Canterbury?

Yeah, let’s sack Deans anyway….. “he floats like a duck, therefore he must be a witch!” At least we’ll feel better that we’re doing something……….

You weren’t Saddam Hussein’s spokesman, were you? You remember the guy – “we’ll smash the American infidel forces”….. yeah, just as they were entering the outskirts of Baghdad, & had the city surrounded.

Your optimism is unbounded & uplifting…..