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“18 off feet”
He clearly was.
He must have said it numerous times when explaining to disappointed players. Nayacalevu was offered his own personal explanation more than once, and Raynal even made Farrell re-take his touch kick so he could try again, but your captain churlishly continued to walk away from him. Can only imagine the indignation if Farrell had done that, but no, not a peep from anyone. I’m surprised you’re also confused.
'He froze': Raynal leaves Fiji skipper fuming at 'unconscious bias' but coach delivers classy response to key calls
This could be more one of those ‘can you afford not to’ moments. But more prohibitable would likely be convincing someone like him that he has a capable board to work with (tough one right now) and a collective will for real change over self interest. Even tougher call.
The three contenders to take over the Wallabies if Eddie Jones walks
I’ll put it out there now, if you could persuade him to break a commitment to join Racing 92 (this is not a man who breaks commitments easily, if at all) and to take up a national coaches role again (can think of a number of reasons why he wouldn’t, all of them past or present members of the RFU), then you could do a lot worse than recruit Stuart Lancaster.
This guys understands pathways intimately, having worked in them successfully in England and used them to build his own national squad that went onto an unbeaten 18 game run. Australia needs this IP desperately. Perhaps more importantly, he’s also worked within and up close and personal with the Irish ecosystem that has been so world beating successful. Again, invaluable IP.
May be not head coach. But as a Director of Rugby, he’d potentially be far more important to a Wallaby revival.
And besides, it would be good to continue the tradition of losing the best English coaching talent to the competition.
The three contenders to take over the Wallabies if Eddie Jones walks
Don’t mean to come across snotty Cannonball, but to draw a line directly from one RWC to another, with no reference to specific circumstance and everything in between misses, well, everything.
For example, the side that crashed out in 2019 was in good health, evidenced by immediately following up with a world record equalling 18 game unbeaten run, simply because a new coach who still had some credibility at that time, came in and reminded them they were a good squad.
The legacy of that same coach’s regime after seven years in charge, despite an unprecedented supply of highly successful RWC U21 sides, was the two worst ever 6N finishes, and an ageing team that has been flattered by the easiest pool it has ever enjoyed. And that’s only really scratching the surface.
Hope I did better?
REPORT: Eddie Jones to quit Wallabies and join Japan as head coach
If that’s a genuine question it’s not only massively simplistic, it’s also totally ignoring context, some of which you could at least work out for yourself.
REPORT: Eddie Jones to quit Wallabies and join Japan as head coach
Sorry, total nonsense Bush. I’ve put this straight a number of times before and won’t do it again, but you demonstrate zero knowledge of Lancaster’s background prior to taking the top job, the quality of the squad he’d assembled, the pipeline in place, and the smarting nature of a very good team that had just gone through a major debacle. Seven years of the absolute control he insisted upon later, he’s left the national side in a lower place than I can remember in decades.
REPORT: Eddie Jones to quit Wallabies and join Japan as head coach
Such an easy ‘like’!
SPIRO ZAVOS: Eddie Jones' coaching flaw is his belief that rugby is the same game as league
Again, another fair comment.
‘Robbed’: Fiji seal dramatic, controversial win over Georgia to hammer another nail into the Wallabies' coffin
Better. And just the way we like it!
The one thing that unites World Cup players and fans - you gotta fight for your right to party
Still not sure maths is your strong point.
The one thing that unites World Cup players and fans - you gotta fight for your right to party
Well, I’m guessing there’s at least 15 blokes that won’t be Harry.
The one thing that unites World Cup players and fans - you gotta fight for your right to party
Cliff, by the same token, be careful. Reporting a third-party opinion that there is ‘some doubt on several of the accusations’ and the fact that he reportedly acted like a nice guy in front of some others (wow) is the other side of the same coin. You might think you’re adding balance, but you’re actually just part of the problem you complain about.
COMMENT: Kumbaya to chaos - if RA's boss is throwing in the towel so early, what exactly are we doing in France?
Not a duo chap. And if you’re happy to have him as your coach, that’s on you. And your lone stone.
COMPLETE RWC teams week 3: Eddie makes three changes, Wales skipper misses out, Farrell back for England
Let’s stop the first bit of nonsense. It’s the worst-kept secret in rugby that Nienabar is the monkey to the organ grinder. And then the second. Erasmus has been gaming the system ever since his dishonest and cynical video nasty. And it would be very easy to argue that not one of his recent ‘innovations’ has actually improved the game as a contest.
CheaterBok would be much closer.
COMPLETE RWC teams week 3: Eddie makes three changes, Wales skipper misses out, Farrell back for England
Don’t think they cope well with the ‘favourite’ tag Harry. Not used to it. And to make matters worse for them, they were given a man advantage!
COMMENT: Eddie must be axed if he can't beat Wales - or the game will be in deep trouble in Australia
Always been a fan of Fordy Mz. Such an honest player, and such a shame he arrived in Farrell’s shadow. If he’d been left to bloom as a first-choice 10 running the show years ago, I honestly think he could have been England’s Sexton by now. Still very capable, but a talent undeveloped for me.
Not convinced about an upward trend for England yet. Good sides can play ugly and win. They’re still a good side. Bad sides can play badly and win – but when they meet a good side, they’re exposed as fundamentally poor. A lot for Borthwick and his team to put right.
COMMENT: Eddie must be axed if he can't beat Wales - or the game will be in deep trouble in Australia
You have your ‘told you so’ moment Harry. Remember reading and agreeing with that article wholeheartedly at the time, and it’s aged well.
I also remember when England first hired Eddie, how many Australian fans offered a buyer beware notice. Many, not all, seemed quite sanguine at his return. I tried to return the favour, but unfortunately here is again, promising jam tomorrow and shouting at clouds again.
Massive game against Wales coming up. He’ll have both versions of the post-match presser already written for a win or loss, and both will fundamentally be the same. Misunderstood or validated, either way, a visionary. Mate.
COMMENT: Eddie must be axed if he can't beat Wales - or the game will be in deep trouble in Australia
Well, it matters on a number of fronts.
It matters because of all the cash Eddie has swallowed up from a union strapped for it, as he builds his retirement on a jam tomorrow pipe dream.
It matters because of all the backroom staff he will (and has already) burn, some never to return, others wasting their talent.
It matters because he is already following the same model he did in England, relegating and promoting players on his own personal whim, some of whom will be lost to Australian rugby needlessly.
This is not a zero-sum game.
COMMENT: Eddie must be axed if he can't beat Wales - or the game will be in deep trouble in Australia
Solid no.
'Eddie got found out': Jones in spotlight as 'ferocious' Fiji leave Wallabies RWC hopes hanging by thread in 69 year first
I’ll answer that. Don’t forget the team also earned twice as many kickable penalties as George dropped. I’d take Faz or Marcus to ping most if not all of those also. It would still be a decent win.
SPIRO ZAVOS: Skelton a force of nature, All Blacks' strategic error that has put their World Cup in peril
Reminded of the Tyson quote ‘everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth’. Even the very best sides can suffer this at times.
SPIRO ZAVOS: Skelton a force of nature, All Blacks' strategic error that has put their World Cup in peril
More than one way to attack a team pm. But no, overall the attack is still very much a work in progress.
SPIRO ZAVOS: Skelton a force of nature, All Blacks' strategic error that has put their World Cup in peril
Yep, and a few other things. Said to a doubting mate pre game all England needed to win was a 10% uplift in effort across the park, for the full 80, which should be a non negotiable – couldn’t believe how lacklustre they’d been.
Suddenly line speed reappeared and everything started to look different. The script had Argentina favourites, and an extra man seemed too much good fortune. But when an excellent and aggresive D discouraged them from exploiting the spaces out wide they should have been finding all game, they trundled back through the forwards, and met a re energised English pack. Knocked them off script, they never found another one, and the errors crept in. I reckon that platform allowed Ford the promise of field position and confidence to accumulate his kicks.
Ford gets the plaudits, and rightly so. Never seem him play a better International. But that was a team win.
SPIRO ZAVOS: Skelton a force of nature, All Blacks' strategic error that has put their World Cup in peril
No it wasn’t
'Officiating killed us': Fiji fury over 'grotesque' refereeing as Semi Radradra fumble lets Wales off hook
Wow Tony. Increasingly never a man to avoid an English pile on, here you go again.
‘Simon Rawailui had every right to blow up about the officiating’ is your spin, and simply not evidenced by the game. Or by some of the more even handed posters on here you fail to ignite. You even have a go again later in your piece, citing no less than two Wallaby’s as proof positive, who’s disappointments and sympathies could easily be guessed at.
And the cherry is the clip you chose and your own particular condemnation without any knowledge. Of course you could just have easily seen two blokes surrounded by a mob, forced to fight their corner, but that’s not your narrative, is it mate?
The Fiji game, in it’s own way, was as enthralling and hard fought as any quarter final played at the weekend, and I suspect every English fan, as happy as the win as they might be, also felt great respect and disappointment for the losers. As indeed was expressed by some of the players at the final whistle.
You on the other hand use the word classless, and sometimes really let yourself down in that respect.
Good, the Bad, the Eddie: Bok hails AB for 'best display I've ever seen', Kolbe confounds, 'classless' Rieko claim