but why only 2 years?

The more I read, the more I see that this is the coach we need….

Finally!!!

Adults are in the room…. JS is what this country needs right now….. I understand some of the comments about hiring an Aussie as sometimes cultures DON’T transfer (have seen many American companies not understanding markets other than their own), however JS is a KIWI who went to another country and was successful, then went back to his own and continued to add value..

For mine, the guy has PROVEN he can make a difference regardless of the local culture…. SO I will state in writing that I am on board with this decision…. but….

Truthfully, my only query is who’s decision was it to do 2 years… was it JS as he only cares about a Lions tour and that’s the price RA paid for his rugby IP?

Or was it RA as they’ve already been burnt….

Christy (you appear to have access) I’d like to know the answer to THAT and not some spin…..

Finally… there doesn’t appear now to be ANY objection the SR sides can raise against centralization…. RA appear to have gotten their house in order and adults are taking charge at long last…. let’s see whether the SR sides really do care for the game and enroll in reform…..

Yeah something is wrong with the Eagles…. Hurts is aloof and disconnected… Siriani might have lost the locker room as they went 10-1 then lost 5 of 6 last games…I watched the entire game (I’m a mad Cowboys supporter so the Eagles are what Freo/Collingwood is to West Coast ie do love to beat ‘‘em and love to see ‘‘em pummeled) so barracked for Bucs also…
Well, I watched the Cowboys get their butts handed to them…, the only ones who didn’t see it coming were the Cowboys themselves… Kyle Shanahan (49’ers) has a ‘tree’ offence set up that disguises the play and is the reason they’ve knocked us over for two years in the playoffs…. Our defence guru Dan Quinn can’t stop it with his system as we don’t have any big linebackers and so we can’t stop the run. Two of his former assistants use the same system, one at Miami and one at Green Bay…(Adam Stenovich -your offensive coordinator, and your head coach Le Fleur is also a long term friend and colleague of Shanahans)…and we’ve lost both…
VERY frustrating to watch GB’s Aaron Jones run through into the secondary virtually untouched….
49ers this week… should be an epic match. Similar systems, two of the best young QB’s going around… I like Loves accuracy (but he did have a lot of time as our Micah Parsons couldn’t get to him…????) over Purdy… couple of stars on each team.. doubs/Jones vs tittle/mccaffery …… hard to pick….

@Piru – You watching the playoffs?

Well he is apparently pretty quick there…. The times are from games and can involve as little as a 3 yard sprint (before getting tackled 😁 ) but most are actually 1/2 to length of field Touchdown runs…. ie they’ve made a break and gone on to score…

THIS is an indictment on all that is happening in RA and SR pathways….

The guy wasn’t wanted by anyone on Oz…. yet apparently his agent sent his highlights to France and he received multiple offers…. MULTIPLE!!!

No wonder Eddie was rebuffed… he has found a home in a country that actually wanted him and made an effort to show that to him….

(shakes head again)….

Sure……

Rees-Zammit has been clocked at 24.2 mph…
Miami’s Tyreek Hill has been clocked (back in 2016) at 23.24 mph (but only 22.01 mph this season)
Seattle’s DK Metcalf has been clocked (this season just gone) at 22.23 mph
Cincinnati’s Chase Brown has been clocked (this season just gone) at 22.05 mph
Miami’s sensation De’Von Achane (running back just come up from Texas A&M) clocked 21.93 mph this season
Miami’s Raheem Mostert has been clocked this season at 21.62 mph
Cincinnati’s Ja’Marr Chase has been clocked at 21.54 mph
Dallas’ Kavontae Turpin (cult figure ‘turpintime’) punt returner has been clocked this season 21.91 mph

So yeah, Rees-Zammit has the street cred to at least try it out and if I was his age I’d have a crack as what has he got to lose?… as I said above, it will greatly depend on his acceleration time to top speed, his agility and ability to catch at speed…

Val Holmes never got a start…. he only made the practice squad for a few months….

You would be surprised…. seriously there are quite a few in the college system and coming up into the NFL.

In 2021, of the 130 College schools, 56 of them had Aussie punters…. 6 of the top 10 were Aussies…

We are also having an effect on the game as to how to set up for 4th down as the Aussie punters are harder to read (the direction the ball is going from how it is kicked, and the type of trajectory aussies can get)…

Some of them have… Adam Gotsis from melbourne started out by playing grid iron for the Monash Warriors, played for Australia at the world championships and got drafted straight into Georgia Tech….From there he got drafted into the NFL by Denver and is now seeing out his career at Jacksonville….

They actually prefer the players to come over in their early 20’s as they have already got some professional training in them, have already experienced the pressure of high level games and aren’t as likely to get homesick….

Jordan Malaita from Sydney (rugby league as a junior) is playing as left Tackle (VERY tough position) with the Philly Eagles… watched him play last night against Tampa Bay… he’s on a $64million 4 year contract at present…
Daniel Faalele from Melbourne (rugby player as a junior) is playing for the Baltimore Ravens ( the top seed in the AFC and Superbowl favorites) and is also a left tackle… he was scouted while playing rugby by the University of Hawaaii and attended a camp in the US run by Jim Harbaugh (the coach of college champions Michigan this year just a couple of weeks ago) and was drafted in 2022 after a few years in college ball…
Patrick Murtaugh from the Gold Coast is a tight end with Detroit (practice squad I think)
Adam Gotsis is also from melbourne (coming to the end of his career as a defensive end)
And there’s obviously the punters…. (eg Lou hedley the scaffolder from Mandurah with Saints)

You’d be surprised at how many Aussies are playing both at NFL and college level already… the College teams know all about ProKick, an Australian pipeline for Aussie Rules players and they actually seek them out when they need a punter….

Yup… He’s actually faster than quite a few as far as speed is concerned, even running backs… the issue will be how quickly he gets up to that over the 1st yards, what his step is like, ability to sprint again from a sharp direction change and ability to stop on a dime and take a catch, THEN his ability to catch (usually over his head), take a pack mark and drag his feet as he falls like a tree….

LOL… not much to learn but hey… the $$$ are there….

If I was as fast as he is and as young as he is then I’d be absolutely having a go too…
He would be looking to try out as a wide receiver or special teams return, which means he’d need to be both agile and fast with an ability to step a shoulder charge or break an arm tackle…. (they don’t know how to tackle…) he’s already faster than Tyreek Hill, the Miami Dolphins WR who’s on around $26 MILLION per year… or Seattle Seahawks WR DK Metcalf who’s also on $26m, buut they are at the top of their game so that’s the goal…
Either way absolutely have a crack lad… (FYI lots of aussie rules players are kickers and the odd player such as Jordan Mailata the rugby league player has made it)
not sure how he’d go as a running back in traffic but his rugby skills would stand him in good stead there….

I think both points are valid…. what amazes me is the faith some people place in social media… I have a realtor friend who all over his ‘online presence’, waffles all about his ‘reach’ and it gets him exactly ZERO sales… yet he’s addicted to it…

As to the editorial policy, an article I submitted around the time of ‘the messiah’ coming on board that didn’t gel with the right thinking didn’t get published… as opposed to the ‘scoops’ trotted out regularly… but I get it… the more controversy and content, the more clicks…. (and a lot of people don’t run as many add blockers as I do lol)….

It’s an interesting coincidence I’ve seen on other forums and particularly newspaper comments…. new members suddenly joining and piling on to the subject with vitriol…. then nothing… who says social media isn’t being ‘gamed’?

I for one would come back to watching the Wallabies if Schmidt was appointed… an actual ADULT in the room….

hmmm… or… perhaps he can offer insight and actual EXPERIENCE of the process in what works and doesn’t work re the alignment of centralization… you know, been there DONE that?

hey billy….

the ‘platinum’ club or whatever it was called at the time (I’m getting old) had a whole section at Subi Oval that we were placed in… we were paying quite a bit for the seats and yes I contacted the Force about changing seats, but if you looked up where we were all placed it wasn’t any better…. I’m sure many force fans have not so fond memories of Subi…. so yes we persisted until we’d had enough….

RE the Wallabies in Perth at the time, well I named one in the article and you can look up the others if you must….

No, back then there was no after match function for the ‘platinum’ club or whatever it was called… In fact part of my article was removed and it related to the fact that one day the Force emailed all of the members advertising a corporate box with prime seats, meet the players, food and drinks at a price significantly cheaper than what we were already paying, (without any after match functions or meeting the players) so yes… it surprised us too…

And re the TMO…. the on field umpire IS the TMO…. he only reviews if there is a challenge and even challenges are limited….

Aaah Sheek… the saying goes ‘the great unwashed’ always get it right… but I agree with you… 2013 I was aghast the night Rudd conned Australia…. but sure enough Australia fixed it…

Even with the Voice, (and I know I run the risk of my comment being deleted again) and opening up a firestorm… but the truth is SOME of us remember and know why ATSIC is no longer and the debacle of the West Aussie cultural heritage laws being scrapped was, in my view ‘a bullet dodged’…..

Unfortunately (unlike a referendum or politics) with sport we don’t get a say…. we don’t get to do majority rules in any way…. but I guess that’s the sport of it eh?

No problems…
Here’s food for thought for WR… a game that takes 3 HOURS to play… is stop start… has multiple refs… NO TMO… gets 26 MILLION viewers (on one game) on a weekly basis… and the last superbowl got 115 MILLION (yes that’s outrageous)….1….1…5…. MILLION viewers….
Even a college game gets over 100,000 people turning up the night BEFORE the game to practice cheering and have a party (tail gating…)…..
WR has a lot it could learn…..

Yeah mate I can’t say I’m on the same page with your argument.

Obviously World Rugby don’t have control of the TMO interjecting on a specific match and in my view they’ve got a policy that they’ve lost control of. Just like the Wallabies are finding out, there are consequences for your decisions….
Other sports such as NFL have MORE refs on the field per game and the level of scrutiny is so high, yet there are games where there are no penalties at all. IF there is a penalty (sometimes plenty), the refs have a conflab, make a call and the ump announces the decision. If the coach doesn’t like it, he lodges a protest, the UMP reviews the replay and his decision is final.

There is great drama in the yellow flags flying onto the field from one of the refs or a red one from a coach. No TMO and the game itself is the spectacle, not a bunch of numpties sitting in front of a bank of screens. Some games there’s yellows all over the place but usually it’s just a loss of field position and reset of play. If one player is costing his team he usually gets hooked pretty quick by his coach.
I say all this as watching the final all I could think of was how sad that we got subjected to self important officials in their bunker making ‘important’ decisions. Don’t get me wrong, in my view the red card happened so fast he had no time to react but he was high from the start so the decision is right. But as to the overall involvement of the TMO in the game? It’s truly ludicrous.

And THAT is the showpiece of rugby? Do they wonder why the engagement by the fans AND casual viewers is waning?

In my view, I reckon there’d be some very quiet conversations about how to prevent the spectacle of these officials having such a prime role… so I guess I disagree with your argument. Cheers

My goodness…. where do I start?

My job would be compromised?

“I’m only coaching to this World Cup. I’ve signed, but as I’ve made the mistake before, I’ve stayed too long. So we win the World Cup it will be time to go. If we lose the World Cup it will be time to go.”

Is that because he was only here until the cup? Or until he had japan sorted? or is it an inconvenient truth?

The ‘load of rubbish’ is what he’s now sprouting…. talk about revising the ‘narrative’…..

Old Eddie is positioning himself as a ‘victim’ because other forces are at play…. the guy is absolutely delusional…