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A rugby game isn't a matter of life or death. It's much more important than that.

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Spot on.

Too many judge players on some made up standard in their own minds, not compared to alternatives.

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It’s not naming a player carrying an injury. It’s a player being injured AFTER.

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I highly doubt Mitchell is the hardest worker in the squad.

But that doesn’t change the point you raise. The issues actually seemed to become apparent when he was out injured.

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Weren’t they injured in a game prior to the submission deadline?

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Geez those umbro designers have really outdone themselves with that England jersey.

Take a plain white t-shirt and slap some logos on it. Genius!

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Interesting you only comment about players with a specific heritage…

ANALYSIS: The worst collapse ever? Souths miss finals as Walker powers Chooks to famous win

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I think that posters previous comment and the voice makes it pretty clear why

ANALYSIS: The worst collapse ever? Souths miss finals as Walker powers Chooks to famous win

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Seems odd to mention a player that didn’t even play

ANALYSIS: The worst collapse ever? Souths miss finals as Walker powers Chooks to famous win

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Yeah. You said it’s part of Polynesia so it’s different.

It’s not. It would be like if Samoa were the top nation in the world and they were recruiting Tongan players. Just because they are both part of the same region they are completely different nations.

RWC News: 'Losing three biggest academies' - Eddie's truth bomb for ABs, Poms' 'horrendous' fear

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Australian SR Contracts don’t prevent players from playing for other nations.

They have restrictions on the number of foreign players.

RWC News: 'Losing three biggest academies' - Eddie's truth bomb for ABs, Poms' 'horrendous' fear

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Where did you say that?

Then you go on to say that

😂 😂

RWC News: 'Losing three biggest academies' - Eddie's truth bomb for ABs, Poms' 'horrendous' fear

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Koroibete, Vunivalu and Tupou absolutely. Though the first 2 at least were in Australia and eligible when they came to rugby.

But the remainder of the wallabies that were born OS immigrated with their families aged between 4 and 14, similar to All Blacks like Jerry Collins.

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Players been born or just primarily raised in countries absolutely.

But so what if its part of Polynesia. There are different test rugby nations within the region. Just because its in the same region it doesn’t change the fact that players born, raised and developed in the smaller islands often represent a different nation, New Zealand.

What your saying is akin to saying that since we are both in Oceania, that Aus trying to recruit New Zealander raised players to play for the Wallabies would be different to what some nations are doing.

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How would Anasta have handled it in his day?

He admitted he cracked the sads about being made to play second row at the tigers.

Some of these ex players have artificially inflated views of how tough and resilient they were

'It's called discipline': Anasta defends Cameron Ciraldo amid Bulldogs training saga

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More so the wallabies should. Because to top their pool they needed to defeat teams ranked below them coming into 2023

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I shall see you in Lyon.

After the QF we are in Paris for the remainder but currently don’t have tickets.

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In 2023. Maybe not.

John Eales would probably be like Rob Simmons in today’s game for example.

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It was 12 actually. Vs Italy

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Is it RA though?

Murray has said they never actually approached him. So it sounds like media voices linking him with no basis. Maybe his management.

It’s absolutely an embarrassment if rugby media people are linking Murray to Aus Rugby despite no discussions ever being had. But RA doesn’t control the media.

There’s enough to criticise them for lately without blaming the actions of others on them too,.

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Ikitau definitely the biggest one.

Are you getting to all of the games Oz?

Eddie Jones has broken every World Cup convention - it's a high-risk strategy no-one knows will work

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Havent 3 of the 5 (including the most recent one) losses been by more than 20? I’d hate the see what being far away would be?

Eddie Jones has broken every World Cup convention - it's a high-risk strategy no-one knows will work

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Agreed.

And it’s not that Donaldson isn’t a quality young player. He’s just not that level at test level yet. I believe he’s a year younger than Foley was when he made his test debut. So no reason to think he won’t have a successful test career

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That’s fine. Take out Japan.

In which case disregard the 60% in 2019. Because you’d need to take out Samoa, Fiji, Georgia and Uruguay on the same basis and they account for 40% of the games, and 66% of the wins.

It was 2 wins and 4 losses vs Tier 1 Opposition.

As for during covid – does that change the games? if anything it actually impacted home ground advantage because we were essentially on tour at the same time.

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Yes he did a good job taking Lancaster’s team and getting it to play to it’s potential.

That is what his strength really is.

If you look at the 2019 RWC Final team, it was 5 starting players he brought through. The rest were from the Lancaster era, or earlier. About half of the 23 played vs Aus in 2015.

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The roar seems to nostalgically think that Rennie was about to turn the corner based on a couple of close losses at the end of the year amidst a big inury toll. And maybe he was, we’ll never know. But he had three years and the corner was never turned.

He had 3 years and the goal was to peak in the 4th year…

It’s hard not to think it was equally likely that we would have continued to be unable to string two good games together

The team won 5 in a row in 2021…

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