Cheika the favourite for Wallabies post

yes...he was stood down for a lewd act, one that you or I would likely be sacked for. How is that not obvious? Or are you pleading that ignorance is bliss? That where there is smoke there is no fire? With Beales track record... please.

I wanted Beale to stay too, and I said so publicly. Does that mean that I'm one of the Brutus' that did Link in? Give it a rest. No-one knows the full truth. Not even Ewen. Too many half informed expert opinions on this site, (and everywhere really) Btw, wallabies played well last Saturday. Was anyone watching the game? On the field, that is.

If Beale/Hooper/AAC stay and Cheika gets the job as coach the ARU have basically said we condone their behaviour....Beale sending the texts, Hooper and AAC supporting him. There's a toxic environment for anyone coming in to the job...except perhaps Cheika, who presumably knew about the texts in June and kept schtum like everyone else....which is the underlying problem.

It will be cheika. Hooper doesn't like white and Hooper gets what Hooper wants.

Then you can jam rugby right up ya

There might just be a little more stability in the Wallabies setup now that McKenzie is gone. If Cheika is appointed coach does that mean he relinquishes the Waratahs post? Shame if that happened as the Waratahs under Chieka were so good this year.

That pretty well sums it up. I can't see him accepting the job (if it is offered to him) without asking some hard questions first, and expecting answers.

I wouldn't like to see Cheika take the job either he's good enough, alright and strong enough and has substantial resolve more than his predecessors, I should think and yes it wouldn't be about money but hey if it's on offer rip' em because they will surely rip you emotionally. He's a great guy a brilliant coach and it would be painfull to ask him to step into the cauldron of anarchy, and mentor a bunch of snotty nosed undisciplined back stabbing would be's if they could be's, who want everything and play to a high standard only when they want to- they literally hold the paying public and the gutless ARU to ransom, week in week out. So the coach would have to coach/mentor the snotty noses and than contend and disclose information to a shambolic, lets sit on our hands an administration -obviously reactionary and that's traditional. Hmmmm well, I guess if you've got nothing to live for than, yeah, knock yourself out, otherwise read the papers and give it a body swerve- after all the latest offering is smeared across the pommy papers cover to cover in all the sordid detail that responsible journalism take no prisoners equates to.

People thought the same about EM after the Deans reign. "He's a local, understands Aus style, etc, etc". Whoever accepts this almost poisoned chalice deserves time to change the culture and build a team. Good luck to whoever it is.

Cheik, us here in NSW love you to bits mate, but please please PLEASE stay the heck away from the Wallabies... it's not because you're not a good man for the job, but because the whole filthy carcass that is the ARU and the Wallabies set-up may well just infect you like it has Deans and McKenzie.

I think Makenzie leaving means Beale will stay... I think it means Izzy won't go immediately either.

Maybe, but then he might well think "not much to lose, plenty to gain" if for no other reason than the rugby public will have lower expectations of him given the circumstances in which he got the job and the limited time to prepare for the WC. It's far from a hopeless cause, the Wallabies actually looked the goods last night. And he would inherit a squad with a core of Tahs players who he knows well, and a playing style that could win it. If I was him, and I wanted the job at some stage sooner or later, I would take up the offer now.

Agree Mac, if Cheika wants a challenge then there is no greater one than this gig. Does he want all the BS that accompanies it ??? I would be surprised if he took it on with such a dysfunctional administration to deal with, not much different to the Tahs I guess. I hope he does for the sake of Australian Rugby. The team needs a cultural overhaul. Hard to know if he can succeed with the same cattle Dingo and Link had.

I said last week that the death knell for Ewen was when two of the leadership group spoke out in KBs favour without categorically rejecting his behaviour in the first instance. The assination of Ewen (and any future coach) will continue to be linked to the players' sense of entitlement. Until they grow up as a player group and get unflinchingly behind the coach and support staff, the "organisation" will never maximize its potential. McKenzie's exit last night was tragic for Australian rugby. Th events driving him to that decision were brutal. To Ewen and Di, Australian Rugby owes you both a huge apology! How this team misses a Stephen Moore or a Richie McCaw type leader! So guys (as in the Wallabies), start making the most of what you have, not the most of what you think you need. You need to put yourselves last and adopt the selfless qualities demonstrated by Ewen and by too few of you. A parting "shonky" award to the Journos that played a massive part in this saga, including the influencing of many opinions basd on conjecture, bias and self serving interests. You are slithering on the bottom and should all apply for a job with a weekend tabloid newspaper in the UK! Good luck to the next coach. Beware the hidden power within a playing group that lacks leadership and the right culture, the source of all things toxic.

Cheika's a smart guy. I'm not sure he'd want the job. It seems like a lot to lose and little to gain. An abject failure here would make it hard for them to put him on after the RWC. I suspect Cheika is next in line, but I'm just not sure he'd want it.

Doesnt matter who coaches them if the backroom isnt fixed up first.

That would mean Beale gets to keep wearing the Wallabies jersey.....

What next for this cheap and at time comical soap opera? A rift in the squad between those pro and anti-Ewen, something to once again dominate the headlines over the EOYT? Seems as if it's 'anything but rugby' lately Beale drunk, again, dancing on a table screaming 'I won' ? because this has been a 'victory' for the dickheads, hasn't it? Why bother with a coach at all, just let player power run its course. Shameful, again.

Whoever gets the coaching gig needs to be given at least 3 year contract to build up a squad capable of winning the Bledisloe as I think next year's World Cup is unrealistic. We have to think long term it took Henry and Woodward two gos to win a World cup. I would go with Cheika over White purely because he has had the most recent success. Cheika passion, old school approach and no BS communication style connects with Aussies. He would attract union fans and other codes fans back to the game.

I imagine there would have to be quite a change at ARU HQ for Cheika to consider the position. Or atleast a significant promise of impending change. The guy coaches for the love of it. He doesn't need the money. Getting caught up in the politics that have plagued the ARU for years would seem like more trouble than it is worth.