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Born a Kiwi now have Aus citizenship. Referee for the local Sydney Subbies and with 20+ years in the Army definitely follow the ANZAC. NZ first then Australia against anyone
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With all the complaints about inconsistency and even bias from some supporters and commentators, I thought I’d just go through the process a referee…
The referee occupies a unique position on the field. Tasked with managing the game – and, let’s be fair, without the referee no game…
I’ve seen a lot of comments about high tackles and many people seem unsure of the process of deciding how these need to be…
I saw a post the other day about how much fun it is to take on the job in the middle with all the…
This is a great move for Lolesio and hopefully he can establish himself as others have done when they went to offshore and got to play more games and with, arguably, better coaching. It would be ironic if he stayed for a few years, was able to play for a foreign country and then led that team to a win against the Wallabies. Unlikely but ironic if it occurred.
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What a dumb response. Everything on this site is opinion and none is better or worse than any others, just different. Happy for you to disagree with my opinion because yours is different, but there’s no need to attack me or anyone else just because ours is different, that just demonstrates a poor attitude and probably some deep-seated issues with your mentality and attitude
JOC over Noah? 13 Wallabies named for Australia A vs Tonga, but key Brumby left high and dry
Yeah but Foley? All he seems to know is how to train well and then lose well on the weekend. He offered nothing in any of the games last year that Lolesio and others offered and he caused the loss of the game in Melbourne with his arrogant attitude to the referee.
JOC over Noah? 13 Wallabies named for Australia A vs Tonga, but key Brumby left high and dry
Why are we bringing old players past the end of their career into the A team? Surely this needs to prioritise development players who will be useful in the future. Foley and JOC should not be part of this, maybe JOC as he’s still playing for the Reds, but what apart from a self entitled arrogant attitude and an experience in how to lose is Foley going to bring
JOC over Noah? 13 Wallabies named for Australia A vs Tonga, but key Brumby left high and dry
Vunivalu and Hodge! Boks by 20+
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Yeah that’s true. The Scots are a bit like Ireland in that they rely on open or two players having a good game and if they don’t then the whole team seems to fall apart a bit.
The Drua has shown us the truth about Fijian rugby
Unfortunate result and shows the lack of development by RA over the preceding years. let’s hope the development continues and the ladies continue to improve. Individually some good play especially from Hamilton and Learney and if they’d managed to control the ball more they would have been better. A tough game but it will provide them with some motivation against Canada and USA. Good luck moving forward
'Wasn't the performance we wanted': Black Ferns put 50 on Wallaroos in thumping Pacific Four statement
Absolutely we need got bring Fiji up. TBH I think Scotland would struggle against them now and I expect them to be very dangerous at the RWC. I would not be surprised to see them in the QTR finals
The Drua has shown us the truth about Fijian rugby
A fantastic piece Geoff and I think you’ve absolutely nailed a big issue here. We can develop all the players we want, but of the background coaching and administration isn’t developed to back them up then not a lot will change. The trouble Australia faces is that even if they develop the best coaching academy in the world, where are these coaches going to ply their trade? We still have this absolute disaster of players and coaches having nothing between club and Super rugby that gives them game time to develop the skills they have learnt in an environment where they have other higher skilled players and coaches to go against.
The Wrap: How to fix Australian rugby? It’s all about coaching the coaches
So still all talk. I hope he goes well but he’s got nothing but talk at the moment. I think SA in SA will be hard but will be at Parramatta to see how they go against the FISM – Falkland Island Silver Medalists
Why Eddie banned coaching staff from watching State of Origin, as tensions rise ahead of opening battle with Boks
That’s interesting and does explain a lot. Kirwan is a cock. Great player but an absolute failure as a coach and commentator
Fozzie's Dan Carter moment: All Blacks face crunch call on Barrett ahead of RWC as ghosts of '19 remain
Nick does some great analysis but I do think he picks a position and only looks at things to support that. He doesn’t ever challenge his own views so it all has to be taken with a grain of salt
Fozzie's Dan Carter moment: All Blacks face crunch call on Barrett ahead of RWC as ghosts of '19 remain
That is 100% correct. Which raises questions about him in the AB role
Fozzie's Dan Carter moment: All Blacks face crunch call on Barrett ahead of RWC as ghosts of '19 remain
I find it hard to believe that a good player sudddenly became bad. Blaming him for RTS not understanding rugby is a joke. RTS never demonstrated even in the NPC that he was good enough to play for either the Blues or the ABs. One of the worst decisions ever made by both the Blues and AB coaches. I didn’t say BB looked good in the semi, I said he looked better with a real 2nd 5/8 outside him and he did. The Crusaders forwards blew the Blues off the park so no one in that backline looked good in that game
Fozzie's Dan Carter moment: All Blacks face crunch call on Barrett ahead of RWC as ghosts of '19 remain
And yet never really dominated and Christie was always under pressure
Fozzie's Dan Carter moment: All Blacks face crunch call on Barrett ahead of RWC as ghosts of '19 remain
Barrett’s problem was that he could never shine while Auckland had such a crap back line outside him. RTS was completely underwhelming and didn’t know what he was meant to do, where he was meant to be or when he should move and Reiko still doesn’t know the role of the 13 and couldn’t help with getting RTS in the right place. BB had to cover the deficiencies of these players plus operating behind a pack which was always struggling. The only times he really looked any good were the few times he payed after McDonald woke up and got rid of RTS and had a 2nd 5/8 who knew what he was doing. I’d still have BB as a 10 over DMac who is a much better 15 than he is a 10.
Fozzie's Dan Carter moment: All Blacks face crunch call on Barrett ahead of RWC as ghosts of '19 remain
I agree with that. The Chiefs played pretty poorly and made a lot of dumb mistakes. If the Chiefs were the best they would have won. They didn’t because they made so many mistakes and lacked discipline at crucial times.
Rugby's obsession with rewarding staid and mundane over creative and spectacular exposed in key GF moments
But the thing is it doesn’t make rugby better because it doesn’t address the core issues. Sure it might paper over some of the cracks but it won’t fix it
Super Rugby can be fixed. Here's how
Mate the alignment of rugby would take Australia being knocked out of the RWC pool in the home RWC, and even then there’ll be muppets saying it’s because of super rugby not the lack of pathways. far too many egotistical myopic idiots in positions of power in club rugby for this ever too occur
Super Rugby can be fixed. Here's how
While I agree 100% with the no try after DMac’s off side play I am 100% in agreement with you on the maul. It is the only play in the game where the laws don’t allow for fair competition and I agree is a blight on the way rugby is played. That and the stupid caterpillar where apparently a ball with less than half of it being covered is still in a ruck. I personally think the law should change to the off side being where the ball is and so players can come in from the side to target the ball carrier, however the NH needed the maul to counter SH rucking and it is not going away any time soon.
Rugby's obsession with rewarding staid and mundane over creative and spectacular exposed in key GF moments
Oh look! Another solution that fails to address the real issue in Australia which is the lack of a pathway from club to Super level that provides players, coaches, referees and administrators with the skills needed to play at the highest level. The reason Australian teams struggle is because so many of the players can’t pass accurately – continually behind our above the players head forcing them to stop and catch before continuing the play. Can’t kick accurately off both feet, make dumb decisions on the field, can’t tackle accurately and lack coherence in both attack and defence. Sure some players might come to Australia but that’ll just make the pathways even more crowded and push even more players to other codes. NZ won’t take many players because they actually have the pathways to develop their own and don’t need a poorly skilled Australian to drag their team down.
Super Rugby can be fixed. Here's how
FFS. What a load of rubbish. So three or four more players who’ll need 4 years to learn the game and with nothing but Super rugby to play games to learn in it’ll both ensure Australian SRP teams continue to struggle and keep real rugby players away from the game. What a dumb idea.
Bombshell or bunkum? Eddie makes brazen prediction of 'big name' NRL defections
Thanks Geoff. That was a huge game with both teams giving it everything. Chiefs discipline cost them the game and for me the only real questioning call was the forward pass. Interestingly none of the replays showed it out of the hand which is where it actually counts. I like the YC with TMO to adjudicate whether it changes and not sure how that wasn’t, but at least it kept the critics off the “referee ruined the match” chant. 100% on sanctioning coaches. Those comments were very poor and while I understand a frustrated coach, that is not good enough.
The Wrap: Epic Super Rugby Final delivers a double win for the All Blacks
The comment Brett made earlier in the week about developing our coaches is spot on. The trouble is even if we take a great club coach and train him up, he has nowhere to actually cement those skills except at a Super Franchise as an assistant coach. If RA is adamant that spending millions on league players rather than establishing a tier between club and Super rugby, then these coaches also need to go offshore to learn their trade. The problem is they are usually older and with families and so that’s not such an easy proposition.
Exclusive: Lolesio set to sign World Cup joker deal in France after Wallabies shunning