I have made the comments many times . Where is Mike Harris .
If he was kicking we would have won. He was the best kicker Australia has ever had and still has the highest record for Super rugby consecutive non missed kicks at Goal .
He saved Australia many times in the past with his kicking but politics came in the way and had got dumped by the Australian coaches starting from Mackenzie forward as the thought he was not Aussie enough . Can we bring him back from Europe ?
Why don’t we all write to ARU and ask to see if they can consider Mike Harris again as have been proven tonight , games are not won by tries only .

I have made the comments many times . Where is Mike Harris .
If he was kicking we would have won. He was the best kicker Australia has ever had and still has the highest record for Super rugby consecutive non missed kicks at Goal .
He saved Australia many times in the past with his kicking but politics came in the way and had got dumped by the Australian coaches starting from Mackenzie forward as the thought he was not Aussie enough . Can we bring him back from Europe ?

I have made the comments many times . Where is Mike Harris .
If he was kicking we would have won. He was the best kicker Australia has ever had and still has the highest record for Super rugby consecutive non missed kicks at Goal .
He saved Australia many times in the past with his kicking but politics came in the way and had got dumped by the Australian coaches starting from Mackenzie forward as the thought he was not Aussie enough . Can we bring him back from Europe ?

I have made the comments many times . Where is Mike Harris .
If he was kicking we would have won. He was the best kicker Australia has ever had and still has the highest record for Super rugby consecutive non missed kicks at Goal .
He saved Australia many times in the past with his kicking but politics came in the way and had got dumped by the Australian coaches starting from Mackenzie forward as the thought he was not Aussie enough . Can we bring him back from Europe ?

A lot of people have mentioned that had Folley kicked those goals that he missed and the WALLABIES scored the disallowed try , the moral of the boys would have lifted and may be things would have changed in the way they played . I must remind everyone here though that it has been years and years since we have had a good goal kicker . It was during Michael Harris and Lelifano’s time when we scored all penalties and conversations and we were wining more games then . But the current and previous coach of WALLABIES don’t think that goals are important any more hence the reason why we lost the Lions test and also against England and many more tests because we missed all kickable shots at goal .
I noticed some people say Michael Harris is in France so we can’t use him , yet why can’t we bring him to play for the WALLABIES when we will be there in Europe? We brought in Genia and Cooper from Europe yet we don’t bring Harris?Is it because WALLABIES management think conversions , drop goals or penalty kicks are not needed any more ? Are they trying to turn union to league?
Why is Michael Harris is not in the team ? Is because he is not Aussie enough the same way Jake White was treated ?

A lot of people have mentioned that had Folley kicked those goals that he missed and the WALLABIES scored the disallowed try , the moral of the boys would have lifted and may things would have changed in the way they played . I must remind everyone here though that it has been years and years since we have a good goal kicker . It was during Michael Harris and Lelifano’s time when we scored all penalties and conversations and we were wining more games then . But the current and previous coach of WALLABIES don’t think that goals are not impoertant any more hence the reason why we lost the Lions test and England and many more test because we missed all kickable shots at goal .
I noticed some people say Michael Harris is France so we can’t use him , yet why can’t we bring him to play for the WALLABIES when we will be there in Europe? Is it because WALLABIES management think conversions , drop goals or penalty kicks are not needed any more ? Are they trying to turn union to league?
Why is Michael Harris is not in the team ? Is because he is not Aussie enough the same way Jake White was treated ?

If you have watched how Dan Carter played,one would think he was not the most skillful 10 in the world as his not able to do the fancy type of footworks that Christian Cullen use to be able to do but that did not meant that he should not have been in the All Blacks team a theory you are trying to put forward here.Carter single handedly won games for the AB because of his super boots which justified his selection and what the coached did was put more skillful players out side him and the same could be done with Mike Haris,but NO our coaches are too dumb to find this out.
I mean you are trying to say that Cooper or Beale who have played more games for Wallabies than Haris has skills Haris doesn’t have? Really ? Skills such as always passing the ball forward ! Knocking the ball forward,Missing an easy shot at goal! I think you might have been watching a different game to theones I have watched.Just pick any games in the past where Cooper and Beale played in and see the mistakes your so called skillful players poses and you will see that really they should have been only good enogh to play second division football.We are never going to produce a winning Wallabies team if we keep having this kind of players which the results have showed all this years and our coach needs to be sacked and the job be given to the best the candidate from anywhere around the world and not limmited to Ausies only as we just dont have the depth at the moment.I am sure Jack white would be loving his guts out now given the way he was treated by ARU.
I am sure Deans might want to give it a go for the second time.At least he was able to beat the All Blacks with his bunch of school kid boys unlike the curent coach who has inherited players with 20 or 30 test experience and even with veterans from Europe with results that no Wallabies fan is happy about.

I donyt think you have been watching Rugby for long time.Didnt you remeber the time when wallabies were on the verge of loosing to Wales and the very last second Haris came in and scored the wining from the corner.Pressure was on him and he calmly slot that goal in.When interviewed,Haris mentioned that he has been practise kicking from childhoo,no wonder he is that accurate.Not the kind of kickers we have ,like Cooper whonly get to practise kicking when he was selected in the Wallabies.If Coaches gave Mike, more playing time he would have the best First 5/8 we had and who knows may all the trophies would have bben in our cup boards.Remember when Morney Steyn fisrt don the Spring Boks jersy and they said he was not up to international standards and yet he went on and somtimes single handed won the games for the boks for the next 18 games on the trot.
The problem we have here is that we think that players like,Cooper,Beale,Folley are intertantional standards and we give tons of oppporttuinity to them and where did it get us.A big loosing streak.Haris was not trained or born here where we dont have competion for Kickers as the depth of game is shallow here.He was born and trained in NZ and to be best in NZ you have to practise and practise until you become the best against all competion which is what Haris had done before moving over,hence why we will never have better kickers here because we dont train our kids to be good kickers from young and ther is just no competion or bench mark to try and strive for.
I hope you get the point of why our curent kickers are not good or consistentlynot good like kickers from NZ or England and SA.
So why cant we swallow our pride and bring Haris back to boot us to victory or is it he not Ausie enough for us like we treated Jack White.

Well it might be true that we dont want to criticise our current First 5/8 the issue here he is not accurate enough or consistent enough in th ekicking department just ike Beale.you may remember games in which Beale,Cooper or Foley missed easy shots at Goal which could have sealed the game for us.Remember the time when Reds won the super 12.It was because at that time Mike Harris was so accurate with his boots that he broke the record for having the most conseccutive succesful shots at goal in the world.Then politics came in and Haris was relegated to the bench as the Reds prefered tries to goals from the boot and basically led Mike Haris to jump ship.That Philosphy crept into the Wallabies and as a result we will in this postion for a long long time.Remeber the timhen Grant Fox,Michael Lyna,Naas Botha,Hugo Porta graced the field,no body complained not the team that scored more tries and hasa clean sheet of no atemps at goal.
Its fine to score tries and the fans love it but teams now days spends a lot of time practise tackiling and they can do it 80 minutes as what we see the English and the current Boks team did so there is no way where you will just run through then and they will tackle you to score a try.So this means the Wallabies have to start thinking of winning at all cost not just entertain the crowds.If entertaining the crowds have been working why do you think Rugby is becoming less of importance now and stadiums are half filled when the Wallabies play? The answer lies in that the fans dont want to watch a loosing team.
So Why can we bring Mike Harris back or train more sharp shooters awhile still have a running rugby style?
A known factor why the Fiji sevens team is the best rugby scoring machine and a they winning formula is that they will practice their kicking for hours and hours as they dont want to rely on tries alone as their weapon to winning games yet one would think they would not need goals at all to win games as they could almost score try tries when ever they want.
So to solve our problem,we have to go back to the Michael Lynah years where Goals are important.When we rae wining by 20 or 30 marging then we can experiment with the fancy backline moves to produce tries because if we fail to score a try ,we will still win the game.
So coach has to be made known this point and also the selectors.May be through this kind of forum,we may be able to influence the one thinking thats ruining Australian rugby right now.

SOS – Mike Harris
Where is Mike Harris these days ? The reason why Wallabies are loosing and will keep loosing is that we don’t have a sharp shooter like Steyn in the current team.
We had Mike Haris during Deans time but apperantly the Aussie coach and selection thinks his not ausie enough .
Pathetic .
Look at all the big teams in the world gave a good kicker but the Wallabies management think we can win games with tries only . Yeah good luck with that .
We could have won the series with the Lions , England and a few more games had we had Haris there . He was the best sharp shooter we had but there are to many politics in the selection of the team .
Can we all urge the selectors and coach to bring Haris back if we are to win any more games .