Aussie Pro Rugby
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Has Rugby Australia found a new pot of gold or something? How else can they lure players back to Australia? First Matt Toomua, now Luke Jones (although they're not quite in the same category; Jones has only earned 3 test caps)?
Luke Jones to return to Melbourne in 2019; in Wallabies mix for Spring Tour
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Lol now Brett Papworth aka Pappy aka that mouthy fluffybunny who likes to lob grenades at anything that isn't 1980s and 90s club rugby as a development system is spruiking a new structure.
Unsurprisingly, Alan Jones is involved, along with some other old farts who are like minded.
They quoted the current president of RUPA (Tahs hooker Damien Fitzpatrick) as supporting them, which turned out like this:
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They need to work on their press releases. The Papworth letter was very long without much content
So basically they want power to go back to the clubs? Whats the new org they talk about creating? Is this a coup to set up a rival ARU?
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@duluth said in Aussie Rugby in general:
They need to work on their press releases. The Papworth letter was very long without much content
So basically they want power to go back to the clubs? Whats the new org they talk about creating? Is this a coup to set up a rival ARU?
No, it's a bullshit, empty promise of the old guard who think that what worked back in the 90s will be just fine today and into tomorrow.
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Ouch
Analysis: The Wallabies have reached the peak of delusion
Cheika talks of how his team plays attacking rugby and how they throw the ball around. It’s disorganised rugby. It’s dumb rugby. It’s amateur rugby. The Wallabies whip the ball around but are so technically poor in so many areas it’s dysfunctional.
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@machpants said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Ouch
Analysis: The Wallabies have reached the peak of delusion
Cheika talks of how his team plays attacking rugby and how they throw the ball around. It’s disorganised rugby. It’s dumb rugby. It’s amateur rugby. The Wallabies whip the ball around but are so technically poor in so many areas it’s dysfunctional.
Ok so if Temuera Morrison is playing Eddie Jones who will play Krusty in a movie about the wallabies?
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@crucial said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@nta said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Meh. Nothing that isn't known.
I think the point is that it either isn't known by those that count or they are incapable of doing anything about it.
We've learned the hard way (2007) that blaming refs and other factors only gets you so far. At some point you have to be brutally honest about the failings before you can start fixing them. Papering over cracks does not work long term.
There were some fair points in the (harsh) article. At the heart, though, is the point NTA keeps making - Aus does not have a setup that develops proper, test ready rugby players. NZ Cricket suffers from this too. NZ Rugby and Aus Cricket don't - they have the player base and coaching setups to keep on throwing up outstanding players, time after time.
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Just in case you see the name Lukhan Salakaia-Loto in a future Wallabies squad: it's not a new player.
Lukhan Tui has legally changed his name to Lukhan Salakaia-Loto to honour his late stepfather. -
@stargazer said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Just in case you see the name Lukhan Salakaia-Loto in a future Wallabies squad: it's not a new player.
Lukhan Tui has legally changed his name to Lukhan Salakaia-Loto to honour his late stepfather.yes! I can't wait to hear Tim Horan absolutely mangle that
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@stargazer said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Just in case you see the name Lukhan Salakaia-Loto in a future Wallabies squad: it's not a new player.
Lukhan Tui has legally changed his name to Lukhan Salakaia-Loto to honour his late stepfather.yes! I can't wait to hear Tim Horan absolutely mangle that
Loo-can salah-ki-ya-low-toe
I'd put money on that.
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I thought he was already given an ultimatum before the rc ?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12153393
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"don't make us sack you. Because we won't. And we can't afford to. So you'll make us look hopeless. So just win okay, for us all"
Lukhan puts family first, changes last name
