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Eddie needs professional help. Somebody needs to actually sit down with Eddie and make him see how unstable and erratic his behaviour has been. Anyone that has been around rugby knows that he has always had these traits, but this was next level. Discarding anybody who challenged him; player, coach or manager.
The public never heard how bad morale in the World Cup camp got with players coming home early injured or not. It was a sad day when we got him back and a good day when he was pushed back out the door still running his mouth trying to justify the behaviour.
He is like one of those wind up toys that no matter many times you bash it with a hammer; you can’t kill it.
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Two things that are very hard to coach in sport are 1/ speed 2/ the creation of time and space. I always thought Jack Debreczeni looked like he had plenty of the latter. It’s no surprise to see him excelling over there. He has taken some time to adjust to the extra physicality of Super Rugby but there aren’t too many that haven’t. I would like to think we could get him back here sooner rather than later and as a more complete player he is challenging for Wallaby squads. For the last 25 years the NPC has been a finishing school for future Wallabies. It makes sense it’s a completely different environment and more intense and better standard of rugby but more importantly the better one on one coaching. The list is quiet long but to name a few Ben Darwin, Bill Young, Rod Moore etc. Steve Devine ended up being capped extensively as an All Black after going over to NPC because he could se no way through the halfback pecking order. If I was in charge of Rugby in Australia or RA has they have rebranded themselves. I would be concentrating on developing players centrally like Ireland have been doing for a while. The disconnection between unions/states is still too large.
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There in lies the beauty of rugby and how subjective it is. If you pick Skelton to play a certain role who do you pick him with.? There is an Irish winger who just made a World Cup team of the tournament that was not getting a look in at the Brumbies let alone Wallabies.
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