Australia

Ferdie says...

surprised to see bob dwyer coming out in support of deans today, talking about the 22-nil/zero/nothing-at-all result .

Deans needed to look at what was going wrong and what changes needed to be made, he said. "it just means that New Zealand are a lot better". "It's not the first time, by the way, that New Zealand has been way ahead of the rest of the world."

well said bob!

Posted 05:18 27th August 2012

piriaka says...

It's hard to soar like an eagle when you are working with turkeys - include Cooper in them turkeys!

Posted 00:36 25th August 2012

pierredelot1 says...

Hardly confused Truth Hurts, I don't live there. so I just watch from a distance, listen and observe. Nationalistic sport is not my thing though, but I have reffed and played with a lot of S/H guys and they're not averse to a good whinge.

Posted 09:05 24th August 2012

kiwilad says...

Trinats, hes the worst coach of the Wallabies in history??

for most of his tenure, your propless bunch of windbags have been rated at number 2 in the world.

Trust me old mate when i tell you, you have had far worse ratings than that.

There was a time when the ABs did not eve bother to take the Bledisloe to games, as your lot had no show of winning it...

Posted 05:45 24th August 2012

Trader2 says...

Further on Alan Jones and his lack of credentials as a coach and a commentator. Firstly let us remember that he failed miserably twice in an attempt to enter the NSW Parliament, both seats were as safe as houses for the Libs and Jones managed to lose both times. In 1984 he inherited a Wannabie side with some great established and future stars, Roger Gould, David Campese, Andrew Slack, Michael Lynagh, Matthew Burke, Mark Ella, Nick Farr-Jones, Topo Rodriguez, Tom Lawton Jnr, Andy McIntyre, Steve Williams, Steve Cutler, Simon Poidevin, Steve Tuynman, David Codey, Stan Pilecki, Michael Hawker to name a few. Compare that with the current crop that Dingo has to work with. Blind Freddy could have coached a championship team with those players and Jones had success for the next 3 years. By the time the 1987 WC came around he had managed to alienate just about everyone of those players in one way or another, don't take my word for it just read the bio's by some of those players. Quote from NFJ "it simply did not pay to tale Alan on - publicly or otherwise" inference he was a bully boy, you only need to listen to him on talk back radio to understand that. NFJ again after a disagreement with Jones on how best to defend the blinside from a defensive scrum "I bit my tounge but later assembled the relevant plyers, in my room to discuss the way we would do it come game day, confident Alan wouldn't recognise the difference anyway". Again from NFJ In the 1986 tour of NZ the Wannabies lost the second test and "David Campese had played badly, after the game and while Campo was in the shower Jones told the rest of the team" "Don't be too down, you played without a fullback today". It was the beginning of the end of Jones and the Wannabies WC. This man has no right or qualifications to critizise Deans or any rugby coach, let him stick to talk back, he can bully as much as he likes.

Posted 03:18 24th August 2012

georgesmith says...

@ pierredelot1. Mind you Australia has lot of potential players but its sickening on the part of R. Deans that he is not picking them. In-fact totally ignoring them and undermining the Wallabbies full potential. He just has it all wrong and should do the honourable thing and save face while he still can. Enough is enough, R. Deans must return home.

Posted 21:44 23rd August 2012

PTplayer says...

Deans has actually done an outstanding job given the limitations: lack of a decent pool of players and of a next generation coming up and competing places, e.g., when was the last time Australia won the JWC? From memory it was the 2006 U-19 RWC (i.e. before there was the JWC). Difficult to create a world beating team without a constant supply of new talent and without a propper pack.

Posted 15:04 23rd August 2012

Ramage says...

LOL @georgesmith are you schizofrenic ? Interesting comment can you inform me when Alan Jones was knighted ?

Still the comment from pierredelot1 takes the can. Can just here the replacement words in the old joke. " How do you know the plane is full of ockers? You can still hear the whining when the engines are turned off. " Goodbye whinging poms move over the whinging ockers have taken over.

Whilst it is curtains for Deans it is interesting that the pompous self opinionated idiot Jones is the one to climb onto the bandwagon. Still Alan we have it on good authority, namely Sitaleki Timani, that the Wallabies are not going to be nice the All Blacks on Saturday. This coming from the player who the Herald Sun predicted would terrorise the All Black pack in the opening Bledisloe Cup match. Geez that statement is almost as much a joke as Alan (I'm Brian Smith's mate) Jones.

Posted 13:19 23rd August 2012

tweedledee49 says...

If the reason Canterbury won when he was coach was because of the All Black studded lineup im sure the Wallaby studded lineup he has now should be able to do something similar, Jones...unless...its really not the Coaches fault?

Posted 12:47 23rd August 2012

pierredelot1 says...

So georgesmith, who do you blame next time. Thats the trouble with life these days its always somebodies fault. The real question is have Australia got the players. Well they haven't got the props so the scaffoldings missing before you start building. I've always loved the term whingeing Poms because if ever an expression related to the pot calling the kettle black, whine whine etc.

Posted 11:31 23rd August 2012