Wallabies masters of being ambushed
Neither Eddie Jones or John Connolly, and now it seems Robbie Deans, have really understood that actions will not necessarily follow words. I would…
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Tissot Time
You’ve got it. “What can we do about it?
That’s the question that seems to be never seriously thought through … perhaps too much influenced by the prediction of ARU boss, John O’Neill, that the WC will see an All Blacks v Wallabies final. How do you come to that? “I just like what I see” was O’Niell’s response in mid-April this year.
And again, can anyone ‘translate’ Adam Ashley-Copper’s after-match ‘what-we-tried-to-do’ comment last weekend?:
“We had the focus of going through them” … could well set the pattern for another purposeless discussion at the next team meeting!
George Shirling
Leave the "magic" to others, Wallabies
Let’s get two things straight.
1. All history is interpretation. Good history gives insight to the problems of the present.
2. Statistics can easily be used to obscure obvious truths. Just as a tennis match can be won by the players loosing more points, rugby games can be won by the team scoring fewer tries or kicking less penalties, etc.
Winners write history, so why help them?