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Odd. They didn’t “have him for dinner” when the Reds played the Cru
Deans be brutal, Genia be realistic
Oh and by the way, David, the fact that you actually suggest Mitchell returns to the starting line up in that side reveals you as a truly someone with absolutely no idea.
Deans be brutal, Genia be realistic
Hey should he walk? He gets paid a million bucks a year, fails and nothing happens except a conga line of suckholes queue up to make excuses for him.
Deans be brutal, Genia be realistic
You are effing joking, right? Are there are no lengths that people will go to make excuses for Deans? He selected them, he coaches them. Why shouldn’t he be accountable?
Deans be brutal, Genia be realistic
Leaving out Cooper was incompetent but it wasn’t as bad as playing McCalman at 7 (or anywhere, anytime for that matter) against Ireland
Watching Wallabies is like deja vu
The replies to this comment are fair, but this comment crosses the line. Have a think; would you actually say this to someone in real life? Are you playing the ball, or the man? This is a forum for shared insight, analysis and discussion, not trolling. There are a million other places on the web you can do this. Please think before you post. Thanks, Roar Mods.
Watching Wallabies is like deja vu
Except, that’s not what I said. Maybe I wasn’t particularly clear.
If there are two coaches with similar ability then the one with more positive passion about the task will have a better ability to create the winning edge.
Additionally, I think Robbie Deans would be a better coach of NZ than he is of Australia since his passions will be aroused by the task at hand.
And I believe the same goes for Mickey Arthur and SA. Tim Nielsen is not as good a coach as Arthur, but that is because he’s not in the same league as Arthur.
The Wallabies are playing the champs of world rugby. Bring on Quade!
I have a big problem, no so much with a foreigner coaching but a foreigner who hasn’t done the hard yards, progressing thourgh the ranks coaching in Australia.
The three main issues are:
1. Parachuting someone in who doesn’t have grassroots experience in Australian rugby means that they don’t have a true understanding of the idiosyncracies of Australian rugby. They apply solutions based on experience in their home country and will have subconcious prejudices.
2. I don’t believe that anyone but an Australian (or naturalised Australian) can possibly have the passion for the job. At test level, the winning edge is provided by the heart, not the mind.
3. Burgeoning Australian coaches may not continue to develop their career if they know that they can be leapfrogged by someone from outside the ranks.
In the end, the ABs and Boks wouldn’t consider it, so why should the Wallabies?
The Wallabies are playing the champs of world rugby. Bring on Quade!
They don’t ask tough questions, it’s easier to just regurgitate suck job ARU press releases
Pocock to have surgery, Genia to lead Wallabies
Of course Hooper will get picked, he was handed a guaranteed 15 tests when he signed with the Tahs
Pocock to have surgery, Genia to lead Wallabies
Spiro
I agree that changes are needed but we didn’t need Saturday night to prove that.
Where were you, Growden etc last week when the worst, most undeserving team I’ve ever seen selected to call themselves the Wallabies was put together by Deans and co?
Australian rugby is going nowhere because we have a coach who, amongst a litany of monstrous bungling, picks on ‘potential’ and ‘reputation’, not form and, worse, excluded a brilliant playmaker because of a personal disagreement; and you, a rugby journalist, said absolutely nothing.
The Wallabies are playing the champs of world rugby. Bring on Quade!
Honestly, who the hell are you? A time who bigs themselves with a self appraising pseudonym is automatically an absolute spanner gripper.
Fair dinkum, just go away
Wallabies second rate - changes needed
Mate, you might be a king play maker but it’d not with a rugby ball
Australian rugby is in such dire straights because of utter tools like you
Wallabies second rate - changes needed
What’s second rate is sports “journalists” like you, David, who spend weeks on end writing sycophantic articles about Deans and his team of Waratahs, then turn around and have the audacity to declare that they’re second rate AFTER they lose in a manner that only a hanger-on rugby fan couldn’t have foreseen.
For the sake of Australian rugby, we need journalists who are prepared to be honestly critical when something is so obviously wrong like it is.
Grow a pair.
Wallabies second rate - changes needed
Why should Mitchell be in the side?? What has he done to deserve selection??
This is the sort of NSW centric favouritist nonsense from the media that gets me riled. There is zero chance his name would be mentioned if he played for anyone but the Tahs.
Shipperly or Cummins should be well ahead in any calculation. End of story.
Wallabies second rate - changes needed
Goodbye Robbie
Don’t let the door hit your backside on the way out
Wallabies vs All Blacks: Bledisloe Cup live scores, blog
Must be a relief for Barnes to know he could change horses to the Waratahs, get completely dominated by Cooper and still get handed a Wallabies 10 jumper.
Wallabies vs All Blacks: Bledisloe Cup live scores, blog
Best of luck to the Waratahs. It’s a tough ask to play the ABs when only selecting from one provincial side.
Wallabies vs All Blacks: Bledisloe Cup live scores, blog
Ben McCalman at 7 against Ireland was a masterstroke…
Marshall praises Wallabies coach Deans
Aw, how sweet? Good onya, Mrs Deans! Little Robbie must be relieved that he still has the support of his mother.
How can the Wallabies beat the All Blacks on Saturday?
While we are on the subject of inconsistency in selections, I’d like Deans to explain why he didn’t take a spare openside in the RWC squad, why he failed to use the opportunity provided by Palu’s injury to correct the problem in time for the Ireland test and why he sneered at those who criticised this failure, saying that having a backup openside was not longer critical to the chances of a team embarking on a mission of winning a tournament.
Now, suddenly, we have a situation where there are not only three opensides in the squad but two in the team.
What, exactly, has changed between September 2011 and now that has resulted in such a complete reversal of attitude?
It absolutely amazes me that no rugby journalist has picked up on this and run with it. The lack of a backup for Pocock at the RWC was an absolute indictment on the incompetence of Deans and the selectors, and resulted in the ridiculous situation where Ben McCalman was thrust into a #7 jersey against one of international rugby’s best back rows.
Hansen gives Deans a selection ribbing
When Deans gets sacked, and he will, and when McKenzie becomes coach and begins selecting players on ability, instilling skills and a good work ethic, which results in Australia winning and winning well, every single “pundit” on this site should fall on their swords.
Robbie Deans and Wallabies must beat Springboks at Perth