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@Sandbox re: male CEO in thongs…
If said questions were alone raising doubts about the quality of his performance? Yes. Ad hominem is non-gender specific in application.
Cheika and Australian Rugby Union's triumphs should be praised, not dismissed
Unity in the face of mercenary self-interest by players who are rewarded with selection in the national team? James O’Connor was the best our nation could offer?!
Unity amongst the rugby public when the seditious fish-and-chip wrapping masquerading as our only national broadsheet garners support by using our beautiful game as a vehicle for agitating public divisiveness over religion?
Unity when the No 9 has played 30 Tests too many and takes two steps sideways to pass the ball from the ground thereby sabotaging a backline without a playmaker and unable to catch the ball reliably?
Unity in the face of no apparent change in leadership culture or personnel year in, year out whilst inane corporate speak gushes from these gormless wannabes?
Unity in accepting sub-standard rugby from blokes whose full time job it is to value the pigskin like their own newborn? They are paid to play full time. Now return to my opening paragraph.
I will stand united with you and do the fingerpointing whilst you rally those who will stand for ‘a solution’.
What did you in fact have in mind for ‘a solution’ given we have all the other constituent parts sorted?
Australian rugby needs to stand united
With respect, the conclusion is errant nonsense. I suppose such was inevitable given the false premises, assertions and lack of coherent reasoning from the headline onward.
“Triumphs”? The Wallabies are ranked 7. One win against the ABs proved to be an enjoyable aberration.
“Gritty”? Having 60% possession and repeatedly gifting the ball to an opposition whose game plan relied on the Wallabies making simple mistakes is not gritty. England’s defence was gritty. Six Nations rugby in the mud with torrential rain is gritty. To be fair, the Wales contest was tense and tight. The Wallabies lost.
Running rugby is an ideal made possible only if players can pass, catch and know how and when to kick the ball. England made as many metres kicking the ball as the Wallabies did running with it. Gritty? 17-16 down and lose 40-16 – gritty?
Alan Border in the late 80s was gritty. Boonie was gritty. Gritty losing?
Underperforming recidivists in schoolboy errors are not to be celebrated. Nepotism in selection policy from schoolboy representative level upward is not good enough. Apologists for blokes paid $100K and more to lose because opponents rely on turnovers is Rugby Australia and Waratahs usual propaganda served up as post-match reflection.
What really matters is evidence of selection based on merit and form, players with requisite skills for an elite level, and fielding a national team that includes at least a player who can read a game. Just one.
That fellow lovers of the game continue to refer to the Folau dispute at all let alone ss a factor relevant to the Wallabies woeful World Cup 2019 campaign is an embarrassment. Do you reckon the ABs, Boks or Poms would be ranked 7 if a winger or fullback had been punted 6 months ago?
Shouting yourself in the foot for three years is not gritty. Rule 303 should have been enforced well before this inevitable debacle.
Cheika and Australian Rugby Union's triumphs should be praised, not dismissed
@Greysy 1:03pm
Agreed. And there’s a bloke involved at a senior administrative level – Clown, Clod, Clune, or some such – who has mastered the role of Invisible Man. A Big Bird snuffalupagus? He is Exhibit A for the case that Castle’s gender is irrelevant.
Cheika and Australian Rugby Union's triumphs should be praised, not dismissed