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Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
I’m at @haribaldijones on X
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Good point
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Check on Kemeny deal. Anyone know the €?
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Fair
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Great post
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Deep cohesiveness in parts of the squad: WP schools, the Boland. Go way back
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Beautifully fonted post!
Winning big Tests absolutely spikes revenue for a national union.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Yes, the levels of commitment, planning, passion. Episode 4 was the best scrum ode I’ve ever seen.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Australia can be back in the SFs, be in the top 4 rankings, beat the Lions, go 3-1 on EOYTs regularly, and make the winner of the Bledisloe a mystery again. That’ll do. Let the Boks keep winning the Cup! 😂
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
I felt like QLD would just slap all of it on a long buffet in the backyard and slide along it with a garden hose, slurping and snorting it up whilst neighing like horses?
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
😱
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Very possible.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Exactly. The more one knows about the Irish model, the harder it seems to replicate.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Cheers to you!
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
I’d hardly suspect Franco Mostert, PSDT, Vermeulen, Kitshoff, Malherbe, and Wiese as being gym cheats! Several other teams in world rugby look mysteriously jacked, juiced and vascular. Boks are mostly adverse to heavy lifting or obsession with leaning out.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
This is my sense, too, because the top clubs have really good scouting teams (e.g. Manny Meafou, Mack Hansen, Angus Scott-Young) who see raw potential better than a lot of the SRP do. Put them in a camp for 4 weeks and go head to head w WBs and I bet it shocks people.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
This is good! Opens minds! My word!
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Thanks for commenting. To be fair, I’m not using this article to claim there is separation between SA and Ireland and NZ (France just a bit of gap below) in the last 5 years. There is parity. Unusually so.
So, the issue is WHICH of those four in the top group should OZ emulate the most? I was always thinking Ireland, but lately I’ve changed my mind around 4 main issues:
(1) unlikelihood all the states will submit to a Leinster-like overlord
(2) the size difference (and the fact Ireland does not need to win for its fans to spend, travel, and love rugby
(3) the vast resource of overseas Aussies (Ireland simply does not haves this)
(4) the similarity between SA and OZ in how poor — incredibly poor — their administration is and will be, but also how well it all tracks when winning
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
I felt the same! Really enjoyed the banter, info, and reasoning.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
When I write at this pace (every 2 weeks) I tend to land on meatier topics. 😂
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
I want the WBs to become lucky in Bledisloes, v the Lions, and against all NH
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
A necessity, of course, would be to have a “Currie Cup” in OZ with 10 or so teams.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
You have very particular desires! I like winning + celebrating + then doing that again
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table
Yes, for me the main thing Australia could do is cap anyone who shows Test quality, wherever they may be. So many have slipped between the cracks or could not find the contract they liked. So cap them! Imagine a Bledisloe Cup squad with Meafou, Hansen, Dempsey, Tuipolotu and the five best current Aussie forwards abroad in it? Better? Yes.
Scrap the Giteau Law: Rugby Australia should look to Rassie's 'Boks RWC recipe if it wants to re-join the big boys' table