RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji
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@NTA Interesting to hear one of the journos at the press conference ask Eddie if Kellaway is a chance to play against Wales. I'm sure I am not the only one puzzled at why he isn't in the starting XV when you see who Jones does select in the back three.
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@Bovidae said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
@NTA Interesting to hear one of the journos at the press conference ask Eddie if Kellaway is a chance to play against Wales. I'm sure I am not the only one puzzled at why he isn't in the starting XV when you see who Jones does select in the back three.
Hope Eddie selects the same team
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@Bovidae said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
@NTA Interesting to hear one of the journos at the press conference ask Eddie if Kellaway is a chance to play against Wales. I'm sure I am not the only one puzzled at why he isn't in the starting XV when you see who Jones does select in the back three.
Fucking weird eh?
It'll be interesting to see if Gordon gets another run after getting yanked with 30 to go. If he doesn't, Eddie will get accused of not taking a pick n stick approach.
If that happened, he could at least shoehorn in another Randwick player in Kellaway, moving Donaldson to 10.
Personally think we should start IFL with Donaldson in that case.
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Keep up the good work fellas @mariner4life @NTA ...
Wallabies v Fiji - the Kiwi Perspective
The Fern's FNQ Correspondent shares his neutralish thoughts on Fiji's victory over Straya.
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@booboo said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
Keep up the good work fellas @mariner4life @NTA ...
Wallabies v Fiji - the Kiwi Perspective
The Fern's FNQ Correspondent shares his neutralish thoughts on Fiji's victory over Straya.
a few people over at GAGR will read that and join the dots.I'm more diplomatic over there about people like Petaia because otherwise all the Queenslanders immolate
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@mariner4life said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
Their young 10 they've chucked in teh deep end Eddie towed, and will now probably never play again
Gordon is super talented.. I can't believe how bad they've mishandled him
They were asking a lot by making him ten this year, but you could make an argument that he was ready. However, the only ten in the squad? A ten in side that lacks other kicking options? Crazy
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How Fiji left the Wallabies shell-shocked and issued a World Cup warning
Australia lost all the pure power contests that the game has to offer against Fiji in Saint-Etienne, and that was all she wrote.
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@Duluth said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
@mariner4life said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
Their young 10 they've chucked in teh deep end Eddie towed, and will now probably never play again
Gordon is super talented.. I can't believe how bad they've mishandled him
They were asking a lot by making him ten this year, but you could make an argument that he was ready. However, the only ten in the squad? A ten in side that lacks other kicking options? Crazy
and they took no old head to help him manage it. Foley or Cooper, even if you didn't intend to play them much, would have been huge for his confidence and to help him navigate it.
But no, you take only him, and as soon as it gets tough, you tow him? appalling man management (from the outside)
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@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
USA Rugby emphatically agrees
I'd back us to turn it around quicker than them. The USA is a basket case.
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@mariner4life said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
and they took no old head to help him manage it. Foley or Cooper, even if you didn't intend to play them much, would have been huge for his confidence and to help him navigate it.
I'm sure plenty of people would disagree, but I would've had JOC standing next to him at 12
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i still think the guy at 12 is awesome so can't agree. JOC probably just needed to show something this year to get picked, unfortunately he really didn't
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@Duluth said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
@mariner4life said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
and they took no old head to help him manage it. Foley or Cooper, even if you didn't intend to play them much, would have been huge for his confidence and to help him navigate it.
I'm sure plenty of people would disagree, but I would've had JOC standing next to him at 12
That isn't a bad call - and let's face it: 2023 Kerevi is a shadow of the pre-injury version so no great loss.
There are other issues we have. At THP we're fucked - AAA, Tupou, and Pone all injured. Any nation missing its top 3 tight heads would be feeling it. But those are injuries, not selection issues, of which we have many.
Eddie's pursuit of a longer term plan for 2025 and 2027 is basically ignoring our paper-thin depth. He could have taken the older heads to France, got similar results, then cleaned house at the end of this year if he wanted.
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@NTA said in RWC Week 2: Australia v Fiji:
Eddie's pursuit of a longer term plan for 2025 and 2027 is basically ignoring our paper-thin depth. He could have taken the older heads to France, got similar results, then cleaned house at the end of this year if he wanted.
However, on that point, I've never ever EVER seen a senior exec come into an organisation and not set fire to something.
Even if it was all working fine. Got to make a statement, and all the old farts probably loved it.
The same old farts who think we shouldn't have Super Rugby and that Club Rugby was good enough in their day...
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Side note: I was at a rugby piston wristed gibbon's lunch a few weeks back.
Andrew Blades (RWC1999 winning prop) was a speaker. He did not hold back on Eddie during his time involved in the game, particularly as an assistant coach.
Another who had worked under Eddie was sitting at my table and had very little to say about him that was good.
You've really got to wonder why Rennie was booted.
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the "this RWC means nothing it's all about 2025 and 2027" ignores the fact that this country loooves Aussies against the World
Miss the QFs and have the Super sides still sucking and there might not be any Aussie fans by 2025 -
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I have some sympathy for the idea of a cleanout
Maybe there's players who are too comfortable with being losers? Maybe there's other negative culture shit they need to get rid of?
However you can't go into a cup with one 10. You have to have at least one exception to the cull
