Australia

ruckingkiwi says...

Stephen Moore said that Deans gave them specific instructions not to kick the ball away. Incompetent fools.

Posted 01:38 27th August 2012

mew2000 says...

I actually think robbie should go.... Not because he is a bad coach but because the players that are there arn't listening... The aussies rave about Ewen M and his work done with the reds last year but before that his efforts with the warrtahs was boring and worse than robbie's record.... Imagine if England had picked up robbie deans , he has got he skills to get them where they should be ..

. Problem with aussie is depth ! Those 2 extra teams are killing the aussie class , not enough players or systems for them to compete with nz or Sa ie: Itm cup or currie cup. Ewen M had such a good season with the reds last years because he had little to no injuries and especially didn't have to travel like the crusaders...

Posted 23:50 26th August 2012

BDAUSSIE says...

tough to rate cooper when Dean puts him out there and tells him and barnes to boot all the ball away. Deans is an incompetent fool. he must go now

Posted 13:52 26th August 2012

cuw3100 says...

@ life2lifeless ; "Hilarious comment regarding Genia! ''Not exactly the greatest example to be provided by the new Wallabies skipper'' "

am not a mind reader but methinks the PR editor was implying the blatant foul that got WG a yellow card resulting in 10 minutes on ice. to the credit of OZ only 3 points were scored in this period. remember in the recent series Wales lost a guy and OZ profited.

"Yet McCaw, who is the greatest cheat in the sport's history never gets criticised on this site despite his continuous and blatant infringements game after game??

obviously planet rugby celebrates cheating when committed by the victorious captain and chastises when the losing captain attempts it"

you are wrong on two accounts.

1. there is plenty of people who call McCaw a cheat and so many other things on this site regularly even without relevence sometimes :)

2. PR editor or someone good with historical stats will be able to tell you how many times RM has been sent off for continuous "cheating".

The issue with WG was bening sent off, not cheating. In case you missed look at a recording of 1st test match; Pocok got penalized for this so called "cheating" which led to the last minute 3 points that denied OZ a losing bonus point. In this match RM was penalised for "cheating" too but was not off the park.

What is comes down to is knowing how to play to the whistle and adapting to each and every referees style of officiating.

Posted 10:42 26th August 2012

life2lifele55 says...

Hilarious comment regarding Genia! ''Not exactly the greatest example to be provided by the new Wallabies skipper''

Yet McCaw, who is the greatest cheat in the sport's history never gets criticised on this site despite his continuous and blatant infringements game after game??

obviously planet rugby celebrates cheating when committed by the victorious captain and chastises when the losing captain attempts it

Posted 06:35 26th August 2012

cuw3100 says...

MHO: It seems the knives are out for RD (or they have been for some time and now being positioned for the kill.)

A major concer may also be the lack of quality centers in a country used to the likes of Little, Horan, Ella, et al. Bully for RD as a certain Matt G played well for Toulon scoring 2 tries :)

Why not put D Ioane at center, as he seems to be one of the few form players in this OZ lineup. I Recall that JP Pietersen was put at center in the S15, when he showed good form in the wing and continued to show a good workrate. Simillarly during the RWC Kahui a natural center, was put on wing as he was in form and did well for MIB.

Am not well versed on OZ players but Dave Dennis seems to be out of his depth at this level at the moment. Also by playing SH at 8 the pack seems to be suffering as in the 2 matches so far it has not worked. Injury to Palu seems to be a major blow which is compounded by not playing Samo at 8 and SH at 6.

Interestingly the loss of Pocok was not felt to the extent it was publicized ; both MH and LG were adequate if not brilliant. To me however the biggest loss maybe that of Horwill, which has made RD play NS at 2nd row. Again RD, why not give a young guy like Rob Symmons a chance; after all there is nothing to loose now but all to gain as NS is nearing sell by date (if not past it).

Many people seem to think that Will G is the best scrum half in the world. I beg to differ and say he is the form scrum half this year. There was a time when SA had the in form guy and before ABs too has one. The reason i say this is mainly the OZ crowd seem to expect magic from Genia forgetting that he is one of 15 on the park. The man can do so much but cant carry a team on his back no matter how good he is.

Posted 05:47 26th August 2012

Ferdie says...

Dafydd29 - agree with you maybe a 3. the oz stats site credits q cooper with making nine kicks and running 3 (three!) forward metres. yes he ran more than that with ball in hand, but according to them most of it was cross-field. His opposite carter ran 67, kicked 6.

Posted 02:41 26th August 2012

scrumpoacher says...

Who has the highest rate of chilhood obesity in the world? Australia. Think we could get some decent props? Scrum still rubbish I thought

Posted 00:55 26th August 2012

georgesmith says...

M.Hooper was outstanding! He forced two clean mistakes off the great R. McCaw and overall simply very good. Really great performance by young M. Hooper and he even stole a few opposition balls unlike the over-rated D. Pocock last week. This is the same young player who was not given a chance to play last week even when selfish captain D. Pocock continued playing while being injured and didn¿t offer 100 per- cent. Why couldn¿t R. Deans play M.Hooper last week especially when D. Pocock got injured? I think R. Deans doesn¿t want the Wallabies to win and is in it to make easy dollars. Surely national loyality means something to him and he wouldn¿t want New Zealand to lose.

Interesting issue when the hopeless coach put L.Gill, a specialist open-side flanker at blinside with M.Hooper at no.7. Why didn¿t he consider such a move last week when maybe M. Hooper could have replaced D. Dennis? At least, M.Hooper and L.Gill can play together in one team, who needs D. Pocock.

M. Hooper 7/10, N.Sharpe 0/10, D. Dennis 0/10, S.Moore 0/10, R. Horne 1/10, AA. Cooper 1/10, Q. Cooper 1/10

Posted 20:03 25th August 2012

melkdave says...

@jomsey2

Still delusional i see,on the last 2 wallabies performances my dead granny could beat them ,never mind the bokke,and i wont be surprised if the pumas beat them either.Australia are really bad atm no joke.

Posted 15:28 25th August 2012