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I'm sure we are all well aware of the changes that are going to take place in Super Rugby in 2016. I, for one,…
Assuming there’s more than a niche demand for club rugby… which there isn’t. You want to go from club rugby straight to the Wallabies? Oh yes that will work out perfectly. That will kill the game faster than anything else.
Australia doesn’t have the standard of rugby players to have that kind of attraction. Where are you getting these high quality rugby players? You’re also assuming those high quality rugby players will want to play in this club competition. Play in Aussie in a club competition and get paid peanuts? Or play in France or Japan and get paid millions. It’s a tough decision
I’m afraid you lose any credibility as soon as you mention Randwick rugby club. It’s nonsense.
Three strikes and we should be out: Why it's time for Australia to quit Super Rugby Pacific
I think if I’d have handed this into my year 10 English/economics teacher, I would have got a D.
The reasoning and logic behind this is atrocious and relies on empty platitudes. Anything or anyone who mentions the old Randwick glory days should immediately be discredited.
Every nation has an issue with players playing in overseas comps, Wales and Scotland are noticeably lacking their top tier players in their domestic comps. Even England have players going to France. The only counties that don’t struggle are France and South Africa.
If you want to actually fix Australian rugby, these are some possible solutions:
1. Improve the advertising of the game. RA and who ever is responsible for it are atrocious at adequately selling the game
2. Any coverage is filled with nonsensical, over dramatised nonsense that is an immediate turn off to any watcher (I’m looking at you STAN sports)
3. Adequately grow the school and grass roots game. Take it out of the hands of the e.g. GPS schools and promote the game in the public schooling sector and pump money into the clubs NOT league converts.
4. Players are obviously seeing the allure of Japan. Attempt to get 2-3-4 teams from Japan into the competition and let them play in those Japanese teams. That way they get the money and get to play in super rugby. Having this Japanese teams with current overseas players will obviously have a benefit to the integrity of the competition
5. Start being smarter with how the competition is laid out. The first week, super round?, in Melbourne of all places?
It’s an easy fix, but it requires from savy heads and practical solutions. Not delusional nonsense about promoting a domestic competition that already has its issues
Three strikes and we should be out: Why it's time for Australia to quit Super Rugby Pacific
It’s a very watered down side. Some players in there shouldn’t be anywhere near it. It says more that a lot of last years u20s and this years u20s are in the wider super rugby squads. This result is not of any concern
13-man Junior Wallabies shock New Zealand in stunning win as skipper Teddy Wilson stars
Perhaps Larkam isn’t a particularly good coach?
Two issues the Brumbies need to address urgently – plus one they can’t control at all
Our u20 team last year was exceptional. It is disappointing we didn’t get to see them compete against the rest of the world
13-man Junior Wallabies shock New Zealand in stunning win as skipper Teddy Wilson stars
There was not a single moment the Brumbies looked like winning that game. The game decider was that the Brumbies got bullied physically and showed they lack any attack beyond a maul that doesn’t work against Kiwi opponents. The Brumbies style of play doesn’t work and it’s covered up during the regular season by an incredibly easy draw
Brumbies' top two hopes blow up in smoke as Chiefs confirm status as Super Rugby favourites, Alaalatoa injured
I said this a month ago and despite the neurotic responses by the brumbies supporters, it still rings true. When you have a competition and 10/14 matches are against bottom 7 opponents, you are not going to get better. The Brumbies long held 2nd position on the table was not a reflection on reality.
If you actually take yourself seriously, you’d be calling for the brumbies to have 2 games a season against the chiefs, crusaders etc. so they can actually get better! Pumping the Rebels and Waratahs 3 times a season looks good on the points table, but in reality, they’ll get found out finals time. As they do every single year for the past 10-12 years
Brumbies' top two hopes blow up in smoke as Chiefs confirm status as Super Rugby favourites, Alaalatoa injured
Anyone who actually watched Skelton play rugby in the past two years will know he’s fit, and a damn lot fitter than a lot of Australian players. I don’t Undertand why people keep saying he needs to get fitter…..
Are there any decent Aussie 15s floating around in Europe? Would seem a position the Wallabies are lacking seriousness rugby nous in
Wallabies Giteau Law power rankings: The FIVE overseas stars needed to win the World Cup
I’m glad to see one of the main contributors to the Roar can’t seem to read…
'It's a bit personal': Lolesio has the last laugh but Gordon shines as Brumbies hang on in epic showdown
Again, I didn’t imply at any stage the other Australian teams are being held back. That doesn’t enter into it in the slightest and I am unsure as to why you’ve included it.
Obviously they’ve been significantly advantaged for the reasons I’ve detailed above. You can’t claim otherwise. 10/14 games against bottom 7 opponents is clearly an advantage.
If you had any integrity in your support of the team and desire for them to get better, you’d complain about how easy their schedule is and how it is evidently not leading to any improvement.
All your comments miss my central point and seek to imply I have some bizarre agenda, which I evidently do not. Try and engage with what I’m actually saying.
'It's a bit personal': Lolesio has the last laugh but Gordon shines as Brumbies hang on in epic showdown
Ok here is an adequate explanation.
2016 because that is the first clear instance of the conference system giving a distinct advantage to an Australian team. The brumbies finished “4th” despite finishing 8th overall. Giving them a home quarter. I don’t think you can deny that is a distinct advantage.
In 2017 they finished 9th!! And still finished “4th” and got a home quarter final.
2019: they finished 5th and but still got a home quarter final.
2023: 10/14 games are against bottom 7 opposition. I’m not sure how that isn’t gift wrapping a top three finish.
At the end of the day, the Brumbies have been clearly advantaged by a flawed conference system, and a flawed scheduling system this year. You cannot deny this.
At the end of the day, this clear leg up papers over the cracks of a team that relies on a watered down Northern Hemisphere game plan, that is constantly exposed in the finals, and systems that fail to adequately develop test quality players, particularly in the backs. The stunted growth of NL is a clear example. The most complete back, Nick White, learnt it from playing in France, not Canberra.
You can create straw man arguments out of what I’m saying all you want, but at the end of the day, it won’t hide the fact that the Brumbies have failed to deliver time and time again, despite being gifted home quarter and semi finals.
'It's a bit personal': Lolesio has the last laugh but Gordon shines as Brumbies hang on in epic showdown
Why do people take these comments so personally. There is no hate, not in the slightest. I’m just trying to point out that the Brumbies are persisting with a system that doesn’t work, that doesn’t produce test quality players, particularly in the backs. The results, aided by a favourable draw, are masking the fact that it just isn’t working
'It's a bit personal': Lolesio has the last laugh but Gordon shines as Brumbies hang on in epic showdown
I don’t think implied they’ve lobbied for a dream draw at all at any stage in my comment, have I?
I think a cursory glance at their ladder position across the last 5-6 years would show they have benefitted from favourable draws and the quirk off getting an automatic home quarter final from being the top Aussie team in previous years.
Explain, despite this, despite having the best squad, they’ve repeatedly failed when it’s mattered. Zero titles, one Super rugby finals appearance over eight years.
What they have doesn’t work, despite an obvious leg up.
'It's a bit personal': Lolesio has the last laugh but Gordon shines as Brumbies hang on in epic showdown
I know I’m going to get shot to pieces for this, but the Brumbies are not what they are cracked up to be, and it is not good for Australian rugby that they are where they are.
The only reason the Brumbies will get a home quarter, and likely semi final, is that their schedule has been gift wrapped for them. Since about 2016, Super Rugby has made it as easy as possible for the Brumbies to succeed, and they have failed every time.
Their game plan is a half baked version of what we see up north, without the redeeming qualities of traditional SH rugby. Over the past 5-6 years, they have constantly been shown up tactically, and have failed to produce in play off rugby (both last year and Super Rugby AU). Something needs to change and the positivism around the Brumbies being 2nd needs to be seen in the context of their schedule and the constant failings of a game plan that hasn’t worked.
'It's a bit personal': Lolesio has the last laugh but Gordon shines as Brumbies hang on in epic showdown
Also not sold on Ofa. Comes across as a tad lazy and lacking in focus. A lot of good young props around NZ
Is this the All Blacks squad that will bring home the Rugby World Cup?
Ideally, take clarke out of Jordan
Is this the All Blacks squad that will bring home the Rugby World Cup?
It blows my mind that the RA are resting their wallabies against the top kiwi teams. How in the hell are those players supposed to get decent game time against decent opposition before the World Cup. Get the usual and predictable wake up call in the Rugby Championship, make under baked promises in front of the media before the WC, then get thrashed by better seasoned opponents.
COMPLETE SRP Round 9 teams: Tahs Test stars sidelined, Force skipper returns, Rebels big guns are back
Can’t wait for a serious weekend of great rugby and unpredictable results. Even as a staunch super rugby advocate, seeing the match ups this weekend was depressing
Super Rugby Pacific tipping week 8: homecomings and top two showdowns
Was Wright really that good? I mean a few good skills but largely nullified by a 3rd string crusaders back row. Constantly gets stopped short of the gain line and rarely makes a dominate tackle. Not sure he’s in the answer in an already under sized wallabies team
Crusaders too good for clumsy Reds as Petaia, Wright star to push Wallabies credentials
Oh god, how pathetic…
'I struggled mentally - I've never been that guy': Suli blames Rennie's demands for failure to launch as a Wallaby
Savea was a better attacker, tackler, and better under the highball. His positional play was also exceptional.
Which All Blacks side would win: 1995 or 2015?
Julian Savea, at his peak, was one of the best wingers ever. Clearly above Wilson
Which All Blacks side would win: 1995 or 2015?
AB’s obviously should have won but the last three games have shown a lot of positives and answered a lot of questions for the AB’s:
1. The starting pack was immense and dominated everything bar the lineout
2. Mounga had a great game apart from a few missed kicks into touch. I can take that when he is clearly the best 10 option. Defensively sound, beat plenty of defenders, good kicking in play.
3. J Barrett and Rieko are the obvious centre pairing. Rieko made some dumb mistakes, granted, but that first hit he put on Manu was fantastic. He’s physical and defensively was a lot better. Will only get better with another season at 13 for the Blues and a RC.
4. Jordan and Blackadder can’t come back quick enough. Jordan seems like the obvious choice at 15. B Barrett on the bench seems like the logical place for him.
5. Hoskins and Akira must be out of the squad. Jacobson or Christie are superior options
6. With Moody coming back, the AB’s front rower is one of the better front rows in the world now.
7. TJP’s revival started and ended with Scotland. I have no idea why Webber isn’t on the bench.
'We would have had a crack': England score three tries in last ten to level with ABs - then do something puzzling
Stonis had the most runs and second best batting average (only passed by Finch thanks to his lucky innings against Ireland). The only time the Australian batting looked threatening was when Marsh and Stoinis were at teh crease.
Full speed ahead: Australia to unleash frontline quicks in ODI series, name squad for Windies Tests
This is coming from an Australian rugby supporter?
Kiwi View: Bleak reality facing Tahs, Reds have the 'consistency of a slightly blocked toilet,' Brumbies' big burden