Comments on: Turnaround in Wallaby fortunes highlights English inadequacies

By: Don P

Don P — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:42:14 +0000

You’ve had 3 English coaches, I think since, SCW & they’ve ALL failed. And you want to go for another?! Like who?

The ? you really need to ask is; ‘Do you want to win a WC?’. Then you need to find 1 who is going to change your mind set about how you think of & about how the game needs to be played; i.e. 1 who’ll get you to play like Oz did last Sat. 1 who isn’t hung up on perceived dogma about not picking ‘o/seas’ players. Sort out their contracts. Find a way!

They won the breakdown, so get some proper flankers. They won the scrum, so get a scrum (sorry, couldn’t resist that with all the prev stuff about how England have ‘owned’ the Oz scrum since Agincourt). They carved England in midfield (and scored TRIES therein), so get a proper midfield, which can CREATE as well as bosh & defend. Yr line out seemed okish.

Mallet seems an option, but don’t know what he’s been doing for the past few yrs… & he was born here. JJ (no, not that 1, the other 1 from Otago!) seems an innovative idea, although no Int’al exp. Ed Jones? Check him out!

But, watch out that Ritchie (no, not McCaw!) doesn’t get involved. He’s the joker who gave Lancs a 6 yr extn!?! Flaming Nora!

But Lancaster needs to go with his record of FAILURE… despite what Shane Williams, Fitzpatrick & Lynagh say. Unbelievable.

By: kit

kit — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:50:01 +0000

I completely got that but I think we’d have an outside chance for Jones or Ledesma and possibly smith come to that.

By: Egg Chaser

Egg Chaser — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:11:55 +0000

Jake White has put his name forward too.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:38:34 +0000

Just to clarify this is a pie in the sky, dream team, bucket list not an actual shpping list. Most of these are happily contracted elsewhere and i see no reason for them to come here and get sledged by the british media

By: Mr B

Mr B — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:22:01 +0000

Agree with Benjit Deano in 2008 but he’s not pulling up trees at Newcastle, lets face it they haven’t been relegated because:

A. Only one team is relegated from The Premier League.

B. Worcester and London Welsh have been worse than them.

By: Mr B

Mr B — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:20:06 +0000

Todd Blackadder?

By: Benjit

Benjit — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 08:03:34 +0000

Dean was the right choice in 2008, rather than Johno. Not sure he is the force he once was. Plus if that means have John Wells back as the fwds coach, no thanks.

By: Benjit

Benjit — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 08:00:16 +0000

I got the impression that Eddie very much had his tongue in cheek for that whole interview!

By: Benjit

Benjit — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 07:58:23 +0000

Because Lancaster’s one sided rewriting of history would have you believe that he inherited the worst England team ever.

To my mind Johno had a bigger task taking over from Ashton, yet he beat Australia home and away, won a 6n, capped the likes of Lawes, Ashton, Cole, Foden, Corbs, Hartley, B Youngs, Tuilagi…

He was not perfect and like Lancaster he placed too much faith in his support coaches who were not up to scratch.

By: Ben H

Ben H — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 07:44:41 +0000

Jones mentions Deano as a potential, what do people think about that? Reckon that could be a great shout

By: teecee

teecee — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:08:55 +0000

I suppose that is the big fear Harlequin. An outsider looking at the pantomime villain RFU and avoiding us like the plague.

You can well imagine a scenario whereby a really big name S/H coach would not put up with their interference and walk, even if they were paying him shedloads, thus damning us to more mediocrity.

By: Geat

Geat — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:01:50 +0000

Why doesn’t anybody remember that we won it in 2011!?