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If the Wallabies are to achieve a greater level of success they need to straighten up. For too long they have moved laterally to try and gain some sort of competitive advantage and it’s not working.
I am not just talking about on the field, but also off it.
On the field, they tend to drift sideways on attack, making it easier for the defenders to capitalise. Passing to their right is not their greatest skill set and combined with too much lateral running they are easy to pick off.
They need to straighten up on attack, run the angles and improve their basic passing skills.
Off the field, they have been guilty of too much sideways movement also. Many may disagree but I think the recruiting of league players in the past seven years has in fact lowered the standard of the Wallabies.
Individually, some of these players have been successful and even stood out but it comes back to that old adage ‘a champion team will always beat a team of champions’ and this hasn’t been the policy of late. The most successful teams in the past have been those built from within.
I appreciate these players draw crowds but surely in an ideal world this money would be better spent on developing grass roots rugby or rewarding those that have come through the grades?
It could yet prove a master stroke, but moving laterally to recruit a coach from overseas is more of the same. Understandable if there is no one better but surely that says more about the coaching structure from within.
A house built on sand will always be vulnerable no matter how good the finishing touches look.
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