I agree with everyone, It'd time for Ewan McKenzie to take the helm, as good a coach Jake White is, he isn't an Aussie. The foreign coach experiment just plain didn't work, it's time for an Aussie to bring back the pride in the gold jersey. I bet the All Blacks are glad that Graeme Henry beat Dingo out for the job all those years ago. Deans might be a nice fella but he's way to conservative a coach for the amount of talent he has at hand. I honestly believe that we have the rugby playing talent to at least equal the All-Blacks and beat every other team in the world. Picking players out of their natural position is my pet hate (
in both codes) and has been a giant pin in the wallaby backline balloon since Deans took over. Folau should be fullback to take advantage of his kicking and ability to break the first line of defence. If big Ewan gets the gig, I'd say bring Quade Cooper back to play fly half running off Genia which would reunite arguably the best half combination in the game. For some reason Ewan knows how to get the best out of Quade. I'd play Jesse Mogg at left wing and Digby Ione on the other. The really big problem though is at the breakdown. We really miss Pocock at #7 he's the only flanker within as cooee of Cheatin' Richie McCaw. Hooper and Gill are good young talents but they're not hardened enough yet (
they haven't learned to cheat without being spotted by the ref). You know that things were desperate for them to bring old Georgie Smith back from Japan. He's as old as I am, Jeez I think I may have even played against him
. Once we can win breakdown ball or defend our own in the breakdown and get the ball back to properly placed backs we'd be a far better side.
Even though the forwards were lacklustre on Saturday night, I reckon we've got a good base line up. They were out played by an inspired pack who were on a mission. There wasn't a better forward pack in the world on Saturday night. The passion that they, and the rest of the Lions played with is just what it takes to win games. My old coach at Belmont Shore, Kiwi Bruce Henderson used to tell us to imagine that the opposition had murdered our mothers and raped our sisters and were now out to do the same to our wives and girlfriends. We had to hate them
that much
.. I think Robbie Deans is too much a peace, love and a firm handshake after the game kind of bloke. Old Bruce used to get right up us if he saw any of us smiling and joking with opposition players on the field immediately after a loss. He demanded us to be so shitty we'd literally punch holes in the shed wall. Passion is what wins games.
