FFS!

If it’s not Chapple, it’s Border. If it’s not Border, it’s Ponting. If it’s not Ponting, it’s Smith. Next, it’s going to be this guy. And that isn’t even counting the bowlers!

How about doing what South Africa has been doing and share around some of you endless talent?

Wyllie, forget the Australian team mate. Too many set batsman. Come to lovely New Zealand and be our star batsman in 20 minutes.

Who cares what you think? Look at the scoreboard. Recorded for all time.

No he didn’t. Foley made a decision that decided the game, period.

Even his team mates implored him to kick the ball. How long does it take to kick to touch? Took Foley a full 31 seconds and he still hadn’t kicked the damn ball.

Stop blaming the ref and start blaming the bloke who deliberately tried to win using illegal tactics.

Mason Nixon is a bloke who comments on things he knows nothing about.

Then again, he plays a game no one else in the world knows anything about.

Swain should be suspended for a year. Cynical, and deliberately injured another player with intent.

No room whatsoever in sport for that kind of disgusting behaviour. The man is a meat head.

It also does the All Blacks no favours either. Because instead of everyone asking how the All Blacks blew an 18 point lead, everyone is talking about how Foley stuffed it for Australia.

You mean, if he waits, ANOTHER 2 seconds to bring it to 33 seconds to take a kick to touch?

How many warnings do you think Foley needs? Is he a special needs player? Is he kind of stupid?

The fact Foley refused to take the kick indicated he knew the lineout, the maul, the required phases until the hooter and then the clearance were not guaranteed by any measure.

Even his team mates were imploring him to kick the ball. They saw the writing on the wall. Maybe Foley really is a special kind of stupid?

Lots of whinging by the Australian fans. The reality is, Foley absolutely stuffed it up. Even his teammates could see the writing on the wall and were gesticulating for him to take the damn kick.

31 seconds to take a simply penalty kick to the sideline.

Ref had nothing to do with Australia’s loss. Australia were the ones who ensured a loss.

All this bollocks about being robbed is nothing but speculation. Foley still had to find touch. Australia still had to win the line out. Australia still had to use up a number of phases without stuffing it up. Australia still had to kick the ball into touch after the buzzer.

Justin Marshall asked how NZ fans would have reacted if it was the All Blacks that lost the penalty. They would have absolutely hammered the All Blacks and the bloke responsible for taking the kick.

Australia should think themselves lucky they were still in the game at the end. They should have played the entire second half with no more than 14 men. Swain should have been red carded for his disgusting attack on another player. He deliberately injured Tuapae and should be banned for a year.

A cop from a one horse town will see that every day occurrence in a big city of accelerating through an intersection into traffic as “dangerous driving”. A cop from the big city will see it as normal merging of traffic.

That’s why you don’t put someone who is a ref from a one horse rugby town in charge of a couple of big city rugby teams. You’ll end up with traffic snarled back for miles.

Almost as interesting as the decision to put a ref from a 3rd tier rugby nation in charge of a test between two 1st tier rugby nations.

I do not blame the referee for the loss one bit. The AB’s had a dominant pack and a pathetic fetcher that cost us at the breakdown.

However, the ref missed multiple blatant forward passes and many infringements by Argentina. He only seemed interested in warning one side for repeat infringements, but not once did he warn Argentina when they went on a 4 penalty string defending their line.

What is undeniable is a ref from a third tier rugby nation put in charge of a first tier test match who was clearly out of his depth.

Cody Taylor AND Sam Can’t.

That’s why our dominant forward pack lost the breakdown so badly.

It is Fosters fault. He picks the 4th best 7 in NZ (and that’s generous). He keeps selecting a hooker who couldn’t pull a trick in a brothel much less throw a ball in straight.

If it wasn’t for Jason Ryan, we’d still have a forward pack pushed around the paddock. As it is, his constant selection of Sam Can’t is costing us a ton of ball at the break down.

The best thing Foster could do is ask Cane to step down and put a decent 7 on the field.

With the forward pack Ryan has moulded, it is a disgrace we have a donkey as a fetcher to support them.

Yes, I remember the great Australian Cricket team and when McGrath retired, I thought finally. And then along came Mitchell Johnson, along came Peter Siddel along came Pat Cummings and along came Nathan Lyons.

To top it off, along came Steve Smith, along came Labauschange.

Australia had a small hole after what were some of the greatest players in history retired. But they are the All Blacks of the Cricket world and quickly rose above the Clarke and Watson debacle.

In 2015, the All Blacks saw the retirement of the greatest number 6, their greatest 2/5 and greatest centre and of course, their greatest player of all time retire.

In 2015. I think that was 7 years ago. And here we are, about to have a trophy cabinet that can double as a paper weight. And still we’re selecting some of the most mediocre All Blacks in history.

Mark Robertson should be sacked after the coaching selection debacle in 2015 where he allowed himself to be left with the last two men standing……and he chose B!

BTW: WI were a one generation pony. They had plenty of talent come through afterwards, but they lacked the top two inches and brutal determination the Viv Richards team had. Brian Lara was perhaps the greatest waste of talent I have ever seen. 500 in a first class innings and 400 in a test innings. He should have rivaled the Don, instead, he barely rivals Stephen Fleming.

Bit harsh on Lara, but he did have the same “I’ve done my job” mediocre attitude that Fleming had.

Codie Taylor is a joke. How the hell he has remained in the top echelon of rugby for 5 minute yet alone years is as mysterious as the selection of Foster in the first place.

Same Cane isn’t even a joke. His performance isn’t even funny for the opposition. He’s as much an embarrassment as Foster continuing to select him. An absolute clear cut case of hiring his old mate. If he had a modicum of self respect, he’d step down.

I cannot recall any team so dominant in the forwards blow a test match like that. The difference? Our securing the ball at the breakdown (Sam Cant) and the replacement front row, particularly Taylor.

All he had to do was throw the ball in straight and the AB’s would have had a great chance for a rolling maul try. He couldn’t do that and he couldn’t do that in his previous lineout either……AGAIN.

Cody Taylor couldn’t throw up straight if he was given a ruler.

What no one is pointing out is that Foster also presided over our first ever loss to Argentina in 2020 as well.

He has presided over our first home loss to Ireland. He presided over our first series loss to Ireland. He has presided over our first ever 3 losses in a row at home. And next week, he will preside over our first series loss to Argentina.

Scotland and Wales will be chomping at the bit for our end of year tour.

Look after the Bledisloe Australia. We’ll be wanting it back in 2024 after this disaster ends.

Rennie being the top dog. 👍

The stigma of the player revolt lies with him and the ARU.

I said it at the time. No player is bigger than the team. Snuff out the insidious player power and look after the team.

Those who think they are bigger than the game could go wherever they wanted and find out that people who run their clubs as a business don’t put up with that player power bollocks.

That was Links fault. He let the players take control. Australia has never recovered.

You are absolutely right. Sack the individual to protect the team.

No, he didn’t need anyone to propagate all his nonsense. Australia were desperate for a saviour after the Link debacle.

Ironically, had the hired Chekia instead of Link, Australia would probably be in a far better place right now.

Link poisoned the team whereas Chekia would have been able to instill some Australianism into the team Deans built…..before being sacked because he couldn’t beat the All Blacks.

My point is, he was putting his hat in the Wallaby coaching ring, not because he was a coach (he was a businessman), but because he was an Australian who loved Australian rugby and wanted to make it great again. It was all BS.

I don’t mind coaches going offshore to coach lesser nations. The higher the quality of the international scene, the better games of rugby we get and the higher the international status of rugby.

Good on Chekia for doing great things for Argentina. But the cock and bull story of his MARGA dream was just that.

That’s the problem with Havilli. He is capable of a great performance, but almost never delivers.

I remember the last game of 1994 by beleaguered coach Laurie Mains. His selections and performances were appalling for 2 and a half years. This was the man who dropped the great Zinzan Brooke.

Down at half time against Australia in Mehrtens’ first test, Laurie Mains said to the team “I’m out of idea’s. Just go out there and have some fun”. They did and they blew Australia off the park.

The difference was, Andrew Mehrtens was freed from Lauire Mains’s game plan. Laurie took that player game plan to the 1995 RWC and made it to the final before his very sick team lost to a South African team destined to win.

A coach bereft of ideas finding zen from a last throw of the dice.

Do we let Foster take the Mains path?

I think keep Foster and sack Robertson. A CEO so bad, he makes Mark Robertson the player look like Michael Jones.

You are partly right. No one will care in Argentina that they just spanked the Wallabies. They are just the Wallabies after all.

Fortunately for you, no one in Australia will care their national rugby team has just been spanked by a soccer mad nation either. They are too busy watching a game nobody else in the world plays.

And which Australia still can’t win against the only country in the world (Ireland) willing to put out a team to play an international match with.

I remember the claim around Chekia when he first vied for the Wallabies job.
Apparently he was a self made millionaire who loved Australian rugby. He wasn’t doing it for the money, he didn’t need the money. He was doing it to Make Australian Rugby Great Again. It was almost like a Donald Trump campaign.
But unlike Donald Trump, Chekia drew his salary and made plenty. Also unlike Donald Trump, he didn’t try and get his job back to complete his unfinished MARGA business once ousted by a bunch of ingrates ignorant of his master MARGA plan.
No, the great Chekia decided he loved Australian rugby so much, he went and coached Argentina to make Argentinian rugby great. Argentina or Australia, its still MARGA to him.
Just don’t tell the Australia Rugby loving Chekia there’s a difference.