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I have to say playing a 14 man All Blacks ‘composite’ team for 42 minutes and them chasing points in a most un-All Blacks display has certainly turned The Wallabies into a World Class team overnight.
Let’s see next week what we can do against the All Blacks A team in Auckland.
Wallaby gold and 'dumb' All Blacks in a Test for the ages
Warner, Bancroft, Labuschagne, Smith, Patterson, Carey, Payne, Cummins, Pattinson, Starc, Lyon.
Harris is not good enough Test avg 32, Burns seems to be the fall guy.
Khawaja is maybe not ready for the first Test.
Carey scores runs and finds a way, with a brittle batting line-up he may be essential.
The 3 man pace attack will run through England and Hazelwood will find a way back once fully in the swing of bowling again.
Selectors must opt for Siddle over Starc in first Ashes Test
Warner
Bancroft – Harris cannot be justified: 6 tests average of 32….
Smith
Head
Patterson
Carey – he is in our best 6 batsmen right now.
Paine
Cummins
Starc
Hazelwood/Pattinson This game should pick it.
Lyon
Five Ashes spots up for grabs tomorrow
RahRah you are spot on.
Player power not just in Rugby but every sport is killing the joy.
The professional era and the pay cheques these days have skewed the truth.
A coach can only steer the talent available and most of the time it is not the coach choosing the talent, it is everyone from scouts, to selectors, agents and even the sponsors…….
Players who rebel against the coach do not have the balls to look inward at their own failings but all join together to point the blame away from themselves.
I look at players today with very little reverence and to be honest I have noticed most of my kids see nothing in their sporting skills but chase the lifestyle…… its all gone pear shaped 😐
How Australia’s rugby coaching ranks were obliterated
Don,
I do not think Australia possess a No.10 at all.
Foley and Toomua are provincial players at best.
Beale is international quality but at what position? certainly not 10 or 12.
If Quade can put together a good season next year for Melbourne he would be my 10.
Genia is running on old legs and really struggled towards the back-end of games and was often replaced – I think you should NEVER replace for 9/10/12 axis unless injured.
I would actually have a totally new axis of Jake Gordon, Quade Cooper and Reece Hodge.
Hodge is a big unit can just hit the line hard and bend it back and also has a big boot on him.
The rest of the backline would be Kuridrani at 13, Beale and Koroibete on the wings and Folau at Fullback, lur best player should be in his best position.
I like Tom Banks as well for a reserve spot.
Why don’t the Wallabies have a kicking game?
When Australia lose every excuse comes out, it has never changed.
At home it is pitches that so favour Australia – away it is pitches that are unfair and favour the home side.
When we fail with the bat it is T20 cricket and ‘fatigue’
When we fail with the ball see the first point and part 2 of the second……..
We are just crap at the moment and probably will be till we get our house in order….. that means sacking the Board, putting in people that are more concerned for cricketing participation numbers than just profit margin numbers and rebuild the game to where it needs to be……
Don't blame the Big Bash for Australia's batting woes
The trouble for the Wallabies is a total lack of quality.
We still talk about our 2015 WC run, A win against a poor England and at the time our patsy team Wales and then which we should have lost to Scotland except the referee decided to destroy Scotland’s greatest Rugby moment and then we had Argentina a soft WC run.
2016, 2017, 2018 has seen us play to our actual potential, a middling team with no ability to improve.
We need to look at the reality of our situation and play accordingly.
The team has the weakest 9, 10, 12 axis we have had in decades – no direction and very little creativity. Our outside backs with the exception of Folau struggle to put 3 passes together without dropping it.
Maybe we need to just play 10 man rugby – that would be ideal if we had a dominant forward pack, which we do not – Hooper and Pocock are great players but are inflated in that ability because of the lack of quality around them
So – worrying about a kicking game is not where the issue lies – it is every player from 1-15 and all the way back to grassroots where rugby has become the fourth/fifth sport.
Short term, I would buy some Rugby League players, especially centres and a five-eight – they will strengthen the defence and also break the line and hold the ball much better.
Why don’t the Wallabies have a kicking game?
I think that we should have a rethink on how Australia play.
We cannot score more than 300 at best so why not just pick a team that can get 20 wickets as cheap as possible??
Get rid of the deadwood batters who have no technique for Test cricket and stack it with bowlers.
For me out goes: Finch, Harris and Mitchell Marsh.
Let’s pick 2 specialist spinners and 3 pace bowlers and play to our strengths which is bowling.
Let’s pick solid batters at the top and flair batsmen who can try and seize the initiative either when we are solid position to accelerate or if we need runs with the tail….. who in reality are scoring ore than the batters!
My team would be:
Usman Khawaga
Matt Renshaw (always a confusing omission)
Shaun Marsh (just hanging on)
Travis Head (just hanging on and he can trundle a few, terrible fielder though)
Glenn Maxwell (need someone who can take the initiative)
Tim Paine (good enough for 6)
Pat Cummins (good enough for 7)
Mitchell Stark
Nathan Lyon
Mitchell Swepson ( a leg spinner, good age and just toured with the A team)
Josh Hazelwood.
If you added Smith for The Ashes (No Warner ever again and Bancroft is rubbish) then you have a team that could get to the 300 mark and you would fear an attack like that with so much variety.
Another Test selection embarrassment after Australia's Melbourne meltdown
Seriously Cheika is an embarrassment.
Whilst I agree that there was no penalty in the tackle of Kerevi, for Cheika to compare it to Hodge is ridiculous. Patchell clearly had both hands attached to Kerevi’s jumper and was head on, not the best technique but legal where as Hodge had no arms in the tackle at all.
But the way he went on at the press conference and his rudeness towards reporters is insufferable.
Australia are at best the 4/5th best team in the world and all credit to him if he can make them punch above their weight but this constant attacking of everyone and its never his fault or the players fault and he trots out the same conspiracy garbage each time is becoming exhausting.
The Wallabies didn't lose because of Romain Poite, but World Rugby, we do have a problem