By Adrian Warren
November 23rd 2009 @ 4:02am
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The Wallabies‘ attack has “gone to pieces” and the team is suffering from an absence of world class locks. That’s the view of former coach Bob Dwyer after Robbie Deans’ men slumped to a new low in a 9-8 loss to ninth-ranked Scotland at Murrayfield.
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Frank O'Keeffe said | November 23rd 2009 @ 6:16pm | Report comment
Dwyer’s criticism got even worse on Fox Sports News today. He’s now saying the assistant coaches have let the side down and that players are lacking essential attention to detail. Dwyer’s always been of the view that since Deans was such a great coach for Canterbury, and they had all the skills, that it must be the assistent coaches. He then noted Ireland’s backline play in the last 20 minutes was much more potent, and therefore we have the Aussie backline coach of Ireland.
Mark Ella has suggested Deans knows what he’s doing, but the players aren’t soaking it in for some reason. That might be true. It doesn’t quite make sense that such a well acredited coach such as Robbie Deans could be so unsuccessful.
Tim Horan saying Australia are on track for the World Cup is a joke. The Wallabies don’t look like they’ll win the Bledisloe for a couple of years, let alone the World Cup.
cookee said | November 23rd 2009 @ 6:58pm | Report comment
FRANK. i suggest dwyer is talking around the edges of the real problem;as always its the leader who should take responsibility.
if deans cant get his players to drink from the well maybe ,just maybe its the water.
fred said | November 23rd 2009 @ 7:03pm | Report comment
COOKEE
maybe youre right here cos deans apparently picked his own assistants and nucifora wasnt one of them.interesting thought?