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I mean, this is the nub. Who the hell would want to read a book about Danny Cipriani? Seriously?

RWC News: Star claims Eddie was 'like a horny teenager' asking about his sex life, Andy Farrell's epic ABs rant

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I was as excited as anyone about those 5, but in hindsight maybe they weren’t as dominant as we remember. Game 1 was a last second penalty away from going the other way. Game 2 was good. Games 3 & 4 were against an Arg team that had also lost their previous 4 games by an average of 25 points, and Game 5 was Japan.

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

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I’m not sure personally that I’m happy with 3 years of mediocrity geared up to maybe win the RWC in the 4th if the planets all happen to align. People will blame Cheika but Rennie inherited a team that won 60% of its games the year before, they weren’t a complete basket case. In his first 17 games, Rennie had 8 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses (5 of those against NZ). It feels like he was actually going downhill by 2022 to me (and yes, I know that isn’t fair because of the injuries).
The team won 5 in a row in 2021…
Sure. I could point out that:
1. During covid
2. 4 at home, then Japan away
3. We then lost 5 of our next 6
4. After that, we never again won 2 in a row

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

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You certainly wouldn’t put your kid’s pocket money on the wallabies right now. But even with the mess a semi-final is maybe a 30% chance. And once you’re there you just never know. Would be the very definition of smash and grab.

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

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I don’t think you can trade out a player who carries an injury in – unless they get a different injury.

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

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Took longer than usual to shoot the messenger in this one.

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

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Yeah he inherited a mess, let’s not reinvent history.

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

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I certainly get the logic for a complete change of approach. 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. It’s hard not to think it was equally likely that we would have continued to be unable to string two good games together and would have been a 50% chance of getting bundled out in the quarters ie not much better off than we are now.
I don’t say this as a particular indictment on Rennie, I don’t think there’s any coach in the world good enough to get consistent success out of the wallabies. Not until the underlying structural issues are addressed.

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

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This is exactly right. If we lose to Georgia people will be shocked but they shouldn’t be, because Georgia is about the level we are playing at right now. Any of those first 3 games could conceivably go either way.

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

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Didn’t see a problem with that. It was shoulder as much as hip and thought the contact was initiated while the French player was still on the ground.

Enjoy the opportunity, debutants – I’m not sure how many more there will be as Wallabies enter must-win mode

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What did you think was 50/50 about the try? The offside?

Enjoy the opportunity, debutants – I’m not sure how many more there will be as Wallabies enter must-win mode

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Don’t they have 2 weeks between Portugal and the QF? Assuming they make the QF….

Enjoy the opportunity, debutants – I’m not sure how many more there will be as Wallabies enter must-win mode

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I haven’t had time to watch it yet, encouraging to hear he wasn’t awful. I’d hope he had been practising an awful lot over the last few weeks too….

Studs and duds: Eddie's 'wrongheaded' selections, Carter '100 percent a concern', 'weapon' fires at last

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Agree, although the goalkicking woes surely have to cause him concern. Hard to imagine it won’t cost us a game at some point.

Studs and duds: Eddie's 'wrongheaded' selections, Carter '100 percent a concern', 'weapon' fires at last

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Yep so he has until the end of today France time to finalise the team.

Studs and duds: Eddie's 'wrongheaded' selections, Carter '100 percent a concern', 'weapon' fires at last

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Closing date for teams lists is 28/08 so he can still make changes today regardless of injury.

Studs and duds: Eddie's 'wrongheaded' selections, Carter '100 percent a concern', 'weapon' fires at last

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Anticipating the roar dumpster fire if Eddie brings in Foley at the last minute.

Studs and duds: Eddie's 'wrongheaded' selections, Carter '100 percent a concern', 'weapon' fires at last

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Not allowed to criticize Eddie? Have you not read the roar for the last month? There’s been nothing else.

Studs and duds: Eddie's 'wrongheaded' selections, Carter '100 percent a concern', 'weapon' fires at last

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Yeah I’m not sure blaming the thrower and then saying the steals were because the wallabies kept throwing to Hooper at the front makes much sense. If the other team are just lifting in front of your 2 jumper and you keep throwing to him then it ain’t the thrower’s fault….

Studs and duds: Eddie's 'wrongheaded' selections, Carter '100 percent a concern', 'weapon' fires at last

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True. My argument is just that you can’t really draw conclusions between Australia & Fiji based on rankings given the huge disparity in quality of opposition.

RWC News: Fiji win sends Wallabies to all time low, grisly Lomax verdict, Boks star's positive drug test

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Fiji will be hard. I still think we would have beaten the teams they beat and they would have lost to the teams we lost to, so feel like the rankings need to be taken with a grain of salt.

RWC News: Fiji win sends Wallabies to all time low, grisly Lomax verdict, Boks star's positive drug test

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Here’s the problem with the rankings. Fiji have beaten Samoa, Tonga and Japan this year, and now England. Their only game against a top 7 opponent was a loss to France.
The wallabies have played 4 teams in the top 6. Do you really think they wouldn’t have beaten Tonga, Samoa and Japan is they’d played them. And probably England given the mess they are.
The rankings reward Fiji for playing weaker teams. If you want to go up the rankings, just avoid playing anyone good.

RWC News: Fiji win sends Wallabies to all time low, grisly Lomax verdict, Boks star's positive drug test

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Instead of attacking the author, why not just make your counter argument?

Who caught Eddie's eye? Swinton, Pietsch star in 'underwhelming' Aus A win over RWC rivals Portugal

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Do better yourself then. It’s easier to tear down than do something constructive though, isn’t it?

Who caught Eddie's eye? Swinton, Pietsch star in 'underwhelming' Aus A win over RWC rivals Portugal

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Christy is fine. I’m sick of the moaning. Bunch of entitled cry babies.

Who caught Eddie's eye? Swinton, Pietsch star in 'underwhelming' Aus A win over RWC rivals Portugal

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