Aussie Pro Rugby
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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 😉
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AR looking to piss up against the wall, all their hard earned RWC and Lions cash. Dunno where they're going to find ten million ATM, that's like a quarter of their TV deal
Wallaby backs pursuit of Suaalii after reports of $10 million mega-deal
Rugby Australia should chase Sydney Roosters flyer Joesph Suaalii if it will help them win a World Cup, current Wallaby Jed Holloway says.
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@Machpants said in Aussie Rugby:
AR looking to piss up against the wall, all their hard earned RWC and Lions cash. Dunno where they're going to find ten million ATM, that's like a quarter of their TV deal
Wallaby backs pursuit of Suaalii after reports of $10 million mega-deal
Rugby Australia should chase Sydney Roosters flyer Joesph Suaalii if it will help them win a World Cup, current Wallaby Jed Holloway says.
Where have we read this script before?
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@antipodean said in Aussie Rugby:
Where have we read this script before?
There's your problem. It is NRL finals time and they're prepping their post-season bullshit parade.
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@Stargazer well we had to do something - all our locks are basically goneskis.
Coleman seems to know what he's doing, but with a bunch of hybrid second/back rowers in our stocks it promises to be an interesting Waratahs 2023 season.
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Rennie confirms Hooper absence for rest of Rugby Championship
Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has confirmed Michael Hooper will not return for the rest of the Rugby Championship.
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@Machpants said in Aussie Rugby:
@NTA Looks epic. I guess the new stadium in Chch will be
similarsmaller
Fixed.
Hopefully they get a roof.
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@Unite said in Aussie Rugby:
New stadium looks great!
My mate went to the state house rugby match there on Friday night and said the viewing experience is so much better now. He said it's now like Parra where you get a good view no matter where you're sitting.
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Waratahs bolster lock stocks with signings of Taleni Seu, Zac Von Appen and Zane Marolt
