Aussie Pro Rugby
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Failed high-performance and mixed messages: Wallabies' playmaker crisis laid bare
Quade Cooper's Achilles injury appears to be the one problem the Wallabies have no answer for as the Rugby World Cup creeps ever closer and coach Dave Rennie again looks to the past for a solution at No. 10.
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@KiwiMurph I'm not sure how "Lolesio's development has been further clouded by the recall of Foley" - he's second year pro in all reality, and development doesn't happen at Test level against the World Champions.
Do I agree with Foley coming back in? No - it's fucking weird, TBH.
Instead [Lolesio] finds himself unsure whether he has the genuine backing of a Wallabies coaching staff
I'm fairly sure they've given every player a list of work-ons. Lolesio gets another season of pro rugby and he improves. Hardly like he's been chucked to the sharks and left to sink or swim.
too a high performance unit that didn't do its job between the last two World Cups.
Yes there's that but this was always going to happen when the underlying systems are so narrow and blinkered. "High Performance Rugby Unit" here is a way of saying "wait for the next combination of superstars to align".
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Aussie Rugby update:
Friday - wife leaves for girl's weekend.
Saturday - drop my daughter at her dance lesson and head over to Boronia Park to watch some first division Subbies. A guy on the Subbies Board and I get along like a house on fire and his third grade get up against a fancied Woollahra Colleagues side.
From there I get over to Holroyd Park to watch the Fourth Division finals (I'm the Board rep for that division). Can only stay 20 minutes as dance lessons finish shortly thereafter. Drop some of my club's old jerseys for one of the Merrylands boys to send back to Samoa.
Race back to do dance pickup, watch more games on the streaming service we have for Subbies.
BTW If anyone wants a free code to see some park footy let me know. Have a few spare and they'd love the viewership numbers 😉
Sunday: get up early, throw my refs gear in the car and head over to Concord to do my bit at the Sydney women's 7s (also on NSW rugby.tv). Scheduled for 4 games. Two refs didn't show up at 1pm so reffed a couple more. Glorious day in the sun chasing women half my age and younger 😉
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WE'RE IN THE BIG SHOW BABY!!!
Club won their semi final, have gone from losing 5 of the first 7 games to making the grand final
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Tawera Kerr-Barlow: Former All Black available to play for Wallabies
La Rochelle and ex-All Blacks scrum-half Tawera Kerr-Barlow has made himself available to switch countries and represent Australia at Test level.
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@Daffy-Jaffy hah....Foley et Al get a recall...
TKB: Shit yeah I'll have some of that
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Aussie Rugby:
La Rochelle and ex-All Blacks scrum-half Tawera Kerr-Barlow has made himself available to switch countries and represent Australia at Test level.
Too many Chiefs
Oh snap, this is a Wallabies thread….
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@Daffy-Jaffy Dead to me.
Typical B/S Planet Rugby article though, both his parents are Kiwis.
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Thrush relishing coaching transition
After announcing his retirement at the closing of this year’s Super Rugby Pacific campaign, former Western Force lock Jeremy Thrush #179 has wasted no time in diving into the next chapter of his career.
The former All Black #1120 is working as a coach within the Western Force Fortescue Academy alongside the likes of Greg Holmes #196, Richard Kahui #199, and Academy Head Coach Dylan Parsons under the guidance of Academy General Manager Chris Goodman.
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@Machpants it asks some fairly good questions. My takeaways:
Rennie isn't getting questioned because it clearly isn't Rennie dropping the ball, doing stupid cleanouts, or dropping high balls. The team that scored an 85th minute try for a BP last week was utterly absent in the return fixture. Can't see that being Rennie's fault, except in light of picking flakes like Wright or Petaia whose rocks-or-diamonds approach is basically expected.
The Wallabies not being on the ground in the leadup to a game in a non-rugby city is utterly fucking appalling, and the blame for that lies squarely with Rugby Australia. HQ at Moore Park is populated with corporates who have little touch with the game so it is hardly surprising.
Campo is Campo - the Roar article is right about that. His article on WWOS is a bullet-point summary of whatever was in his brain at the time. He makes some good points, but some of it is throwaway crap like "Playing against the world champions, we've got to look after the ball and just do the simple things right. You can't be erratic and win a Test match."
High Performance in this country is rapidly becoming a case of "who is left?" We've spent so long sticking to the same old pathways that we've forgotten a key rule of business: if you're not moving forward, you're going backward. Everything is eroding because the wrong decisions have been made with the right money. Junior clubs are disconnected from schools are disconnected from senior clubs and everyone is too busy protecting their own little patch to pull together. The whole game suffers as a result.
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@NTA said in Aussie Rugby:
Last regular season game saw us miss finals by a few wins in both Grades, so we didn't really deserve to be there. Got to build depth for next season.
BTW that last game a couple of weeks back was our memorial day for one of our guys who passed away a couple of years back. Got a lot of Maori boys at our club and this was the pre-game haka in his memory:
They were going to do something more local to Ihaka's iwi (Tika Tonu I think) but went with Ka Mate as more people knew it.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Aussie Rugby:
WE'RE IN THE BIG SHOW BABY!!!
Club won their semi final, have gone from losing 5 of the first 7 games to making the grand final
...we lost, had a great day standing in the sun watching 5 games of rugby back to back and there is a crew that are still at the pub at 4pm on the monday after (3rd finished their final at 12:30 on sat)
i was umming about coming back next year as has been tough fielding a team each week...but those beautiful bastards thanked me on sat night and begged me to come back...just when you think you're out
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@Kiwiwomble you're NEVER out. Unless you move cities 😉
