'Work ethic, aggression and aerial battles': Using Dave Rennie's statements to predict his first Test team selection
When I consider the likely Test team that Dave Rennie will select, I went back and looked at various statements he has made on…
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SURE BUT MY RESPONSE WAS ABOUT THE LINEOUT STILL NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH AND NEVILLE DIDNT perform well there
sorry about caps
Toole stunner sees Brumbies snap 10-year drought in Dunedin as flyer's Test stocks rise
lost 2/11 lineouts on your own throw, thats not good enough, its about 81%. Should be 90%+. Neville only caught 1 lineout, Frost caught 6. Frost also stole 1 lineout.
Missed 20% of tackles.
Toole stunner sees Brumbies snap 10-year drought in Dunedin as flyer's Test stocks rise
Any win they get this year will be an upset, they will be the wooden spooners this year, forget about a chance to make the finals.
'It hurts': Force's season goes from bad to worse as Lealiifano, Kepu lead Moana Pasifika to upset win
I never said I expect the same progress.
However if Wilson and McReight were selected for the wallabies then of course I would expect the same sneaky flick passes.
Remember Schmidt is allowed to select combinations.
Finally wallaby players are together for as many games as super rugby players in a year. Of course players from the same team in super rugby who are in the wallabies would play the most together.
I think 2 months a year for wallabies is not right , it is too low. Just on test match fixtures they have tests in July, August, September and then the Northern tour in November. The training camps, before and in between. So Wallaby players spend a lot of time together in a year with time to work on patterns and combos.
'Be useful': how unrivalled discipline and work rate is lifting the Reds to new heights
This is why L Wright with his high rate of ruck work compliments Wilson and McReight
'Be useful': how unrivalled discipline and work rate is lifting the Reds to new heights
clubs not national unions pay a transfer fee to the national union.
So every PI that leaves a PI country for france etc gets some money.
Playing for your country in a test does not attract any transfer fees.
The point is to reimburse a national union that has developed a player that gets poached by a foreign club.
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
don’t agree, who is to say whomever sponsored Suaali would provide anyone else with that sponsorship. Maybe a personal friend of Hamish and Hamish asked him/her.
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
surely the reds were in a new system, didn’t take Kiss long to make significant progress.
It is not as if the attacking structures of reds are that simple, not overly complex but not simple either.
They do create uncertainty for the defence and stress the defence.
I don’t accept that the wallabies coach can’t make significant progress in his first year with new structures.
'Be useful': how unrivalled discipline and work rate is lifting the Reds to new heights
yes McDermott’s inaccurate passing cost them possibly 2 tries
'Be useful': how unrivalled discipline and work rate is lifting the Reds to new heights
I know
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
However that ruling doesn’t apply in my hypothetical
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Bosman and all other EU footballers were given the right to a free transfer at the expiration of their contracts, provided that they transfer from a club within one EU association to a club within another EU association.
It also clearly states elsewhere it only applies within the EU.
So transfer fees out of contract CAN legally apply for players outside the eu transferring into the eu, can also apply between 2 countries outside the EU, it should also be able to apply to eu players transferring outside the eu.
With BRexit , this really only applies to France, Italy and Ireland (out of top teir countries).
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
agree, but please note it is LOSE not loose
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
Most of the wallabies have played together for years so that does make Schmidt’s job easier.
On assistant coaches this was my major fear with EJ’s when I saw the quality (lack of) assistants he ended up getting.
'Be useful': how unrivalled discipline and work rate is lifting the Reds to new heights
agree world rugby just doesn’t enforce release of players in the test window. Look how the japanese / french based players have clubs pressuring them to make themselves unavailable.
RA should let all the players go and select form world wide for tests within the test windows, for tests outside the test windows play aust based players against PI nations, japan and arg.
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
the most impressive is the attacking shape / structures happened from the 1st game , it hasn’t taken seasons etc. Improvement can happen quickly.
'Be useful': how unrivalled discipline and work rate is lifting the Reds to new heights
very good post numpty – agree with all of it.
What really impresses me about Kiss (and the assistants he brought) is he has disproved a popular theory that it takes a long time to improve discipline, attacking structures and ruck work.
With his 1st season all these have improved materially at the reds.
For years all 3 have been an issue at the wallabies and I really hope Schmidt will also have a material effect in these areas.
This is one reason aust assistants should not be forced onto the head coach, since it takes a team effort to bring these changes. The best people available that the hc can bring in that RA can afford should be used.
'Be useful': how unrivalled discipline and work rate is lifting the Reds to new heights
exactly, it is not better fitness, but simply not having to waste energy due to poor decisions, sloppy play and poor discipline.
They use the energy they have being productive. So whereas 80% of their energy use was production now 95% is.
'Be useful': how unrivalled discipline and work rate is lifting the Reds to new heights
RA welcome to how it is for PI nations.
World rugby needs to bring in a transfer system where the NATIONAL body (not club) gets a transfer fee (regardless of contract ending etc) for all the investment in training and development that country has put into that player.
It should be on a scale of how long they were in that countries system. It should not be related to the worth of an individual player (imo) since then the argument of individual talent can be made. So the same transfer fee amount applies to all players based on time in their system.
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
waste of money, put it into grassroots , a national coaching program etc.
Since a percentage of revenue (profit?) has to go to players salaries the money should be spent on the retaining the better players in rugby.
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
The ONLY caveat on that list is IF (and thats a big IF) 3rd parties actually are paying most of Sualli’s contract. IMO if RA / the franchises are just paying normal amonts as per other players then that is fine. We allow players to have individual sponsors after all.
I would add to the list of all the overpaid NRL converts being a waste of money. Ones who were paid in the top quartile AND performed better than incumbent wallabies are fine, or ones who were not paid much and wanted to try rugby are fine as well.
However most were a waste of money.
RA reeling and facing a mass exodus of biggest stars - there are three key reasons why they're in peril
its not as if nz fans are any easier on refs, since rugby is followed by all levels of society in nz they are probably worse, since it s generally the better off and better educated following rugby in aust
Tupou won't shy away from hurting ex-teammates in first clash against old team, Reds prop cops surprising four-match ban
true they are offering 1.8m over 2 years
Exclusive: NRL powerhouse set sights on Wallaby-in-waiting after ex-All Blacks boss snags Roosters star Manu
agree
Exclusive: NRL powerhouse set sights on Wallaby-in-waiting after ex-All Blacks boss snags Roosters star Manu
no way, maybe good enough for super rugby, but he has lost that extra zip that made up for a lot of his other failings.
His defence poor, multiple brain explosions with mindless grubber kicks, runs the ball at gaps that he can no longer make and turns over the ball.
'I'd love to see him back': Beale set to take first step in rugby comeback, targets milestone event
i was typing blind, didnt see caps, and i already said sorry
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