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You raise it yourself in the original article! What are you talking about?
Alan Jones to coach my favourite Wallaby team
Racism much? He quit because if Jones. He said it. If you have evidence if any other reason, please share it with us.
Alan Jones to coach my favourite Wallaby team
Ha ha ha ha.
It’s all political. What are you talking about.
Alan Jones to coach my favourite Wallaby team
You mean white, upper middle class males? They run the world (incl and especially rugby) so let’s diminish their voice for the good of the game.
Case in point: the population centre of Sydney is west of Parra. Yet no rugby team, very little rugby development beyond GPS schools recruiting. Why? The game is run in the east.
Our failure since 2003 is because we have ceded western Sydney to RL. Look how the old white, rich males have fvcked up our great game.
Give someone else a voice please.
Alan Jones to coach my favourite Wallaby team
Rubbish. It’s easy … Don’t be an asshat and the gig is yours if you are good enough. I’m 57m and even I get it.
Alan Jones to coach my favourite Wallaby team
Extremely good coach and a single minded workaholic. Plucked Cutler and Williams to win lineouts. Topo for scrums. Lawton for his size.
But ending Ella’s career is unforgivable. He tormented Campese rather than foster his talent. His radio gig affected our ’87 RWC performance and his right wing views are unconscionable.
That in mind, Rod McQueen transformed the role of coach to more of a CEO with a structure around him to implement his vision (Jones had Alec Evans). This he did much better than Jones.
Eras are different, players and styles are different but performance says it all.
McQueen for me. Jones can rot.
Alan Jones to coach my favourite Wallaby team
So why mention Argentina and South Africa. You are a joker if you seriously expect anyone to believe you.
Bravo, Mathieu: Why Bledisloe ref made the right call for the sake of the game. Others must follow his lead
I was getting more than a little angered by this “article” until I read the name of the author “Joker In The Pack”. It was then I realised it was satire.
Otherwise, how could someone say “it was the right decision, taken at a time when its impact would be really felt” and actually mean it?
Twice in this match alone the ABs took longer than the allowable time to kick conversions. The right decision would have been to cancel the conversion attempt. The impact of an earlier decision would have been keenly felt for the remainder of the game: The players would know the ref meant business and would result in less time wasting.
Yet, on reading the “article” one would think the Wallabies were pulling back on the reins of the galloping ABs who only wanted to race on and give the crowd their money’s worth. Nasty Aussies.
“Time wasting has become an art-form” and “high time that some referee made a statement”? This is a game where the rules are determined and set by the home-nations-dominated World Rugby, where League and AFL are not serious competitors to audiences and participants. The adherence to complicated, pedantic and punitive adjudication doesn’t rest with the players. In fact, the antipodean teams want faster flowing action, less stop-start matches. It is one of the reasons they’re losing the hearts and minds of the rugby-code viewing public. The time for referees to make a statement is when the laws are being proposed in Dublin (or early in a match).
The “journalist’s” supporting evidence included disrespectful speech, throwing the ball away, laughing in the ref’s face (?). I am aware these are not positive actions by the players involved, but I’m not sure how any of it slows the game. Perhaps the “journalist” can enlighten us. In an “article” about slowing down play, “Foley quickly converted the try without waiting for the TMO to say anything” should be praised. Shouldn’t it?
Wallabies developed “injuries” which seemed to disappear. A tactic rather than a legitimate physical problem. I’d be very interested in knowing the facts the “journalist” relied to determine these were not injuries has the joker intimated.
All in all, 2/10 for journalism, 7/10 for satire.
Bravo, Mathieu: Why Bledisloe ref made the right call for the sake of the game. Others must follow his lead
This headline either means a subbie doesn’t know the game, or Tim’s not the expert he claims to be.
BTW why does he dislike Nathan Cleary?
The inevitable 2021 Storm premiership proves Craig Bellamy should be NRL's next CEO
I saw Harris in the QANTAS lounge a year or two ago and told him without doubt the greatest ball I’ve ever seen. Better than Warney’s to Gatting. Gatting didn’t know what to expect and wasn’t prepared. But Cook (opener of the decade) had seen a whole 1st Innings of Harris and still looked hapless.
The Roar's picks for the top 5 balls of the 2010s
“The Greek international …”
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Luke, Lachlan and Lewis: If NRL clubs can't find 7s, it’s because they created a lost generation of halfbacks