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I’m always surprised when people say they are shocked how poor Lolesio played. I am genuinely shocked when he plays well.
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Harry Wilson is absolutely test standard. The work Wilson does is outstanding. His work rate, link play, breakdown security surpass all the other contenders. His biggest asset is his ability to consistently recycle ball unbelievably quickly. People question his ability to break the line. What they don’t notice is he doesn’t try to as his primary focus. His number 1 goal is to recycle the ball fast. He is normally first hit up and the speed of this recycle sets up the following phases. Someone like Valetini, Leota always tries for the extra metre which may look great but slows down the recycle and the following phases of play. Also can we drop the lineout jumping thing with Wilson. He regularly jumps in long lineouts and I have never seen him lose one thrown to him. Just another myth that people keep regurgitating without fact. The reality is that the Red’s choose to use McReight and Wilson out in the backline for the first phases alot as they are so good at supporting these first phases on an attacking lineout.
Valetini used to be one of my favourite players. His play has stayed one dimensional and his work rate so low that I suggest his chances of making the Wallaby’s is dropping each week. He also did not live up to his potential last world cup or the preceding Test season.
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So typical of rugby reporting. A Tah has one good game and suddenly they are the next coming of Christ.
Do we remember the week before when they got flogged in every aspect of the game?
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So many including Wallaby coaches have thought that Wilson needs to improve his footwork to make another metre or 2. What Wilson brings to the table is very fast ball recycle when he runs it. He sacrifices a metre to create fast ball. Valentini’s greatest weakness is that he sacrifies fast ball for another metre. Both Ireland and the All Blacks don’t care about the metre they care about fast ball. Schmidt will pick Wilson for this fact alone. Slow ball is the enemy of modern rugby, and it is part of the reason why Wallaby coaches have failed so dismally.
Five things we learned: Aussies given early Super Rugby warning, Lolesio's timely reminder
Coker, I 100% agree with your comment. I am a fan of Valetini however he is not anywhere near the skill level of Wilson. Valetini’s season in 2023 was poor and especially in Gold. He is simply not an 8. Wilson is an incredible talent, however, as is so often the case in Australian rugby players are tarnished or glorified beyond reality. Wilson is tarnished by people who simply are spectators of the game rather than experts of the game. Wilson is one of the first Wallaby players who would be picked in an All Black side. So would McReight. All Blacks 100% of the time play a team game. There are no individual All Blacks. Wilson and McReight are the best team players in Australian rugby. Ireland play the same and it is why Schmidt will select both these guys.
Five things we learned: Aussies given early Super Rugby warning, Lolesio's timely reminder
If the Red’s 6,7,8 keeping playing like this they would be putting forward a very strong case for a cohesive Wallaby backrow.
'Tough call': Reds too good for Tahs in cracking Aussie derby, as controversial penalty try, yellow to Jorgo proves telling
Petaia’s situational awareness is far better when he plays on the wing then at 15. My preference is Jock Campbell at 15 locked in for the season. He should be Wallaby 15 come test season as well. From wing, Petaia would still get plenty of opportunity to run the ball from the back field and use his racking boot.
'Tough call': Reds too good for Tahs in cracking Aussie derby, as controversial penalty try, yellow to Jorgo proves telling
McReight is 100% a world class 7. Writing someone off for their size when it is probably only 2-3% off is just silly. Watch how he plays the game rather than have some BS version of what size a player should be.
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A guaranteed contract means a player doesn’t have to keep working hard to retain his Wallaby spot. The Wallabies have suffered with journey men who never get better for the past decade or more. Overseas clubs aren’t offering Wallaby contracts so not sure what you are talking about.
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No players should be signed to long term Wallaby contracts. It tells other players that their chance of playing for the Wallabies is reduced and they should look elsewhere and it tells the contracted player that his spot is semi locked in so he doesn’t really need to keep earning it or developing.
Wallaby spots should be a reward for performance not a deal signed.
Exclusive: Rising Wallabies hardman set to leave Australian rugby in warning sign for RA
Rennie and Dan coached a Wallabies team which is basically as you suggest, Brumbies with a few extra players. They couldn’t win test matches. They could get close but couldn’t win. No one was happy with how it was going, except for Brumbies fans.
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Cheika and Rennie created this issue that finished the Wallabies as a top tier team. Both coaches selected players who proved over and over again, that they just weren’t good enough. I have made the comment several times before: When a player plays poorly in successive matches, and continues to get selected, the player is getting reinforcement that what they are delivering is Wallaby quality rugby. They then fail to work on their game. When the playing group sees that players who don’t perform keep getting selected, the expectation of quality is diminished in everyone. We are now 9 years into a period of diminishing expectation of Wallaby performance by the very players, coaches and staff who pull on the Wallaby colours.
Eddie picked his team with the weight of numbers tipping in favour of new, younger players who don’t carry that baggage of diminished expectation. The test match against Fiji un-balanced that weighting when Slipper and White started due to injury, instead of Tupou/Pone and Tate.
There is no doubt that the older players who have earned most of their caps over the past 9 years are simply not good enough. I don’t think it is terminal for Australian rugby though, as a new culture and expectation of performance can be created in a new youthful Wallaby team. That won’t happen at this WC. It will happen in the next test match season as Jones continues to clean out the losers.
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Maybe the Quade info is planted to flush out the leak.
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His experience of losing more tests than he has won? I think Hooper’s experience is not what we want passed on to the current and future Wallabies.
Exclusive: Quade, Hooper to miss World Cup selection as Jorgensen rockets into squad
Probably best to wait until the culture is a winning one. The current/past culture is a losing one. As the old ‘losers’ are squeezed out by young hungry players the culture will change and will be worth exposing the teens to.
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Ikitau has made very bad decisions in both his test matches this season. I would have dropped him for those poor decisions if he hadn’t been injured.
'Must do your head in': Quade's error and Tate's indecision crucial as All Blacks duo bring the pain yet again
I would like to see White not get any more stamps in his passport. He is the number one fail for the Wallabies. We have no chance with White on the field.
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I don’t think he got beaten once today.
'Must do your head in': Quade's error and Tate's indecision crucial as All Blacks duo bring the pain yet again
Agree Aiden. I don’t recall the TMO being called into the game either.
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mrl, what nonsense. The forward subs and Nic White lost us the game. The forwards were owned as soon as they came on. We were leading at that point.
'Must do your head in': Quade's error and Tate's indecision crucial as All Blacks duo bring the pain yet again
No way should Scott Sio ever be brought back. Far out Harry. How could you even suggest such a thing. Sio hasn’t been good for 5 years and even then he was only servicable. Fassler is the future. BPA is the past.
'Must do your head in': Quade's error and Tate's indecision crucial as All Blacks duo bring the pain yet again
Once again the Australian commentary on the game looks to the back for the loss rather than the forwards who were completely picked apart the moment the subs came on. I have always been a strong supporter of Slipper but he is part of the losing mentality that has dogged the wallabies for the last 5+ years. Taking McReight off for Leota was a big mistake. Leota may be big but he is not good. If you had to bring him on you had to take Hooper off. Hooper was good though and I would have kept the loosies on for the whole game. This should be a settled starting loose forward combination from now on.
Nic White has been shown up for his part in the losses over the past seasons. He has never been any good and the contrast between McDermott and White couldn’t have been more stark. White needs to be dropped out of the team. I am not sure there is a more predictable player in world rugby than Nic White.
I would not change the starting backline at all. This is our best backline without a doubt.
Farmasili and Bell were excellent. As was Fassler when he came on.
The big difference for the Wallabies was the change in the guard. The new hungry young players out number the old journey men that only have losing in their history.
I just hope that Eddie persists with the young hungry guys and leaves the likes of Michael Hooper, Slipper, White etc out of the squad. These guys have had their time, they constantly failed, never improved and it is time to move on.
Oh, and Petaia is a way better 13 than Ikitau.
'Must do your head in': Quade's error and Tate's indecision crucial as All Blacks duo bring the pain yet again
There is only one DMac but Jock offers a lot as a specialist FB. A lot more than Tom Wright.
Vision as important as selection after physical and mental battering - and it could mean following France's '19 RWC path
But we can tell Tom Wright is just not good enough. And that is not his potential as 15 at international level, that is the actual result. I disagree that you can tell Jock is not good enough. I rate him as the best 15 in Australian SR. But we don’t know if Jock is good enough because he has never been given a decent shot. Sticking with the same old failed players over and over again creates performances that we saw on the weekend.
Vision as important as selection after physical and mental battering - and it could mean following France's '19 RWC path
Brumbies suffer under pressure because they lack leadership on the field. When they can play their game they are fine but when they are forced to get control back they crumble. Lolesio is an individual and not a leader who controls/leads the team around and why I have repeatedly said he is not a good 10. He just does his individual part. Valetini is plain lazy and is often just hanging around the ruck rather than being ready to run the ball which is surely his primary role. Swain is more interested in being aggressive than effective. Tom Wright has one of the lowest rugby IQ’s in Oz SR teams so they can not count on him to make a difference when they are under pressure because he will almost always make the wrong decision. When you have weaknesses like these in key positions and senior players you can only do well when the game is going your way.
Brumbies 'systematically taken apart by the Blues' in 'non-contest' as Larkham's men cop huge reality check