Greetings Rugby lovers as we collect for an additional Friday’s Rugby Information and on the vinegar stroke of Rugby’s check yr and the naming of St Joes first ever Cadbury Wallaby squad, round midday right now.
Earlier than we get began with right now’s literary gold, huge shout out to RAWF who crammed in admirably final Friday whereas as soon as once more I made a whole mockery of our authorized system and was acquitted of all expenses. Thanks RAWF, you probably did your greatest.
Off we go right now with my very own Wallaby squad in ‘Camp Ponderosa’. We are going to replace the official squad, when launched, in: ‘And Lead Us Not Into Frustration’. Preview this weekend SRP remaining with: ‘Who Offers A ……’ See if anybody is listening at RA in: ‘Make A Bloody Determination Already!’ And take us dwelling with a ‘Friday’s Goss’ With Hoss’ so full, so motion packed that Peter Dutton desires it unfold over seven separate areas. State legal guidelines and future funding monies be damned. Good one Dutto.
Camp Ponderosa.
St Joe and his crack staff of assistants will this morning (NSW time) identify their first ever official Wallaby squad to tackle the Gatland Battlers beginning July 06th within the NSW capital of Australia, Sydney. And in a coup for G&GR, the squad will assemble at The Ponderosa for per week of staff bonding, fantastic tuning of play and sport administration and provide copious quantities of unpaid labour as properly. What’s to not like!
A lot anticipation amongst us rugby people as to the ins and outs for the primary squad. Me personally? Effectively I anticipate state combos to function amongst these picked. With that in thoughts, right here’s the Hoss Squad of 38:
Props: 7A’s, The Abattoir, Jimmy Slips, Zane Nonggorr, Matt Gibbon & that Kiwi Queensland man.
Intercourse Employees: The Fez, BIlly Pollard, Jordan Uelese.
Locks: FKA, Rodda, Canham, Ryan Smith, Frost, Amatosero, Will Skelton
Loosies: Liam Wright, Seru Uru, Fraser McReight, Charlie Gamble, Charlie Cale, Sideshow Bob, Rory Scott, Rob Leota
Halves: Joe Dust, The Lip, Commissioner Gordon.
62.50%’s: Ben Donno, Tom Lynagh, Phil Collins
Fairies: Wright, Kellaway, Pietsch, Jock Campbell, Hunter Paisami, Josk Flook, Len Ikitau, Bailey Kunzle, Derby Lancaster, Marika Koroibete,
There’s even murmurs that prop whisperer, Mike Cronn bought his arms on Tupo straight after the Rebs extinction occasion. So it wouldn’t shock to see a a lot sharper, considerably leaner Nella come July sixth. Right here’s hoping. A match and glad Nella is a factor of actual magnificence for our check possibilities this season. Certainly a lot does he imply to Oz rugby and if Nella have been to come back to the Tahs subsequent season and I got here dwelling one evening to seek out him in mattress with Mrs Hoss, I’d tuck him in, get him some heat milk and a biscuit.
Of equal curiosity who’s skipper & vice captain? How does Fraser McReight for Captain & Nic White VC sound?
Who makes your Wallaby 38?
And Lead Us Not Into Frustration.
Will submit the official Wallaby squad right here when identified.
Who provides a ………..
Saturday 22 June 5:05 PM AEST – Blues v Chiefs at Eden Park, Auckland on Stan Sport and the 9 Community
Sure I’m bitter and sure I’ll nonetheless watch it because it guarantees to be a cracking sport. However the place are the Aussie sides? As soon as once more the Reds discuss it up and crash just like the Libs nuclear plant thought first week in. Positive the Brumbies ‘needed to journey’ and a ‘had a six day turnaround’ and all the opposite BS excuses, however right here’s a tip. Win extra common season video games and host a house SF and cease your moaning. Oh that and perhaps catch a farging kickoff each every so often! These shambolic dropped kicks put a line by no matter Wallaby ambitions Lurch and Toole could have had.
After glimpses of enchancment in opposition to the Kiwi sides this yr, as soon as once more our greatest have been miles away from being anyplace close to ok when it mattered most. As soon as once more Australian sides rose to the dizzying heights of mediocrity. As soon as once more now we have no staff within the remaining. And all this with a brand new Nearlies coach, who’s each rugby crafty and really very astute, mendacity in wait.
Perhaps we should always simply play Tonga yearly as a substitute and neglect the Bledisloe?
Fearless Prediction: Each groups have AB after AB after AB throughout their sides. Their is actual measurement within the ahead. Talent, daring and tempo within the backs and it’ll an ideal sport as a impartial fan to look at. While there may be lots of emotion and sentiment for the Chiefs (perhaps trigger they obliterated the Reds), that undersells simply how good the Blues are. They’ll go round you or undergo you and I reckon they are going to be to brutal for the Chiefs on this one. Blues by 12
Make A Bloody Determination Already!
What’s worse than the mistaken resolution? Why no resolution in any respect, that’s what.
It will seem ‘expressions of curiosity’ for the vacant NSW teaching gig closed Tuesday of this week. A number of the names bandied about have taken roles elsewhere with staff favorite, Jason Gilmore heading off to the land of heat beers and rare bathing and one other identify Nathan Gray reportedly accepting a defensive position in Japan. Clearly from a facet who by no means watched the 2016 Wallabies defensive efforts. Bugger me.
If the entire affair of Rebels, Coleman, Rebels, Coleman, No Rebels, No Coleman weren’t so unhappy, it’s be facet splittingly humorous. SURELY with sure outcomes identified months in the past by energy brokers at RA, contingency plans would have been properly underneath approach. SURELY there would have been ‘gaming’ of methods A-C in order that when identified occasions have been publicly confirmed there would have been 1-3 choices on the desk able to roll?
There ought to have been a most well-liked choice, a secondary choice and a ‘break glass in case of emergency’ choice? So Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wasn’t certainly one of these revealed the day after the Rebels season completed?
Simply what value is RA ready to pay for this whole shite combat? We’ve already misplaced Flash Gordon to the worst performing sexual assault 13 in that comp. Whispers abound, rightfully if true, that the shortage of a identified Tahs coach, has meant most Rebs wish to go OS or worse, Queensland. Tahs gamers need out, Rebs gamers are spooked and in the meantime RA sit spherical with a large measurement thump wedged up their collective backsides ticking off days, like I tick off Tim Tams! And there’s nonetheless no motion. It beggars perception.
As a easy particular person, who as soon as recognized as male, however now identifies as primarily drained, I fail to know why contingency plans wouldn’t have seemed one thing like:
- Kevin Foote – is it simply me or is that this a whole ‘no brainer’? Particularly for participant retention.
- Michael Cheika – 2 years solely and with a nominated successor appointed on the identical time
- Jason Gilmore, Scott Wisemantle, Eddie Jones (simply shitting), Stephen Hoiles. Ideally the third particular person could be the nominated successor from Cheik.
However no, right here we sit, late June, no Tahs coach appointed and RA nearly inviting a era of gamers to hunt rugby employment elsewhere.
It’s bloody ridiculous. Sufficient already.
Friday’s Goss’ with Hoss.
Au revoir Monsieur Rodda.
Information breaking final evening that Izack Rodda is returning to France from July 01st to take up a 2 yr cope with second division facet Provence, alongside Flanders Hannigan. It’s been reported that RA and Rodda had some backwards and forwards attempting to maintain the large man right here, however in the end a number of cash for second tier rugby, in a good to middling a part of the world too I’d add, received out.
Appears an affordable industrial resolution by all. Rodda can’t be blamed for pursuing the Euro, neither can RA for not splashing buckets of money. If Rodda have been a automotive would you pay high greenback for one thing that sometimes runs properly, however most of the time is within the storage damaged? I wouldn’t.
The Razor Gang
Ut sims thut Razor and his teaching gang have been busy throughout the dutch. stuff.co.nz has extra.
Large Willy impresses French.
And why wouldn’t it! Perpetual trophy and titles winner, Large Will Skelton is thru to one more semi remaining this weekend, when La Rochelle tackle Toulouse subsequent within the semi-final of the High 14. A win right here would see La Rochelle Rochelle make the ultimate and an opportunity to win back-back titles within the High 14.
The Eagle has Landed?
A member of the craparazzi famous the quiet return on one Quade Cooper into Brisbane final week as a certain signal of a Wallaby spot. After I identified his Japanese season had ended and he had household and family members dwelling within the banana territories, the realized gent swore at me, put his dentures again in and toddled again out to surrounding hills and his moonshine distillery.
NFL? Not Farging Seemingly.
It appears our personal Jordan of Nazareth Petaia is eager to emulate Jarryd Haines Louis Rees-Zammit by having a crack at Gridiron, or because it’s identified in French, ‘watching le paint dry’, NFL.
Props to the child for dreaming huge, however when was the final time he might string collectively 4-5 union video games in a row once more? Simply saying. planetrugby.com has extra.
Siya Fatty.
Life coach and Racing 92 president Jacky Lorenzetti, doesn’t miss when he challenges Siya Kolesi’s girth and match affect right here at planetrugby.com
Hooper re-signs with RA
Virtually an ideal headline for us all, however alas, it’s solely Tom Hooper re-signing with RA till the top of 2025. I do like this younger fella, however he has dropped down the gold pecking order this yr.
Tahriffic Efficiency.
The Tahs have celebrated their wood spoon successful yr for the lads by naming Mad Canine Swinton their gamers participant of 2024. It have to be stated that the large unit had a really sturdy yr in an in any other case lack lustre staff.
In brighter information the all conquering, undefeated Tahs SRW women additionally named their greatest with barnstorming lock Atasi Lafai getting the nod by one vote total to Leilani Nathan (132-131).
Congrats to each Swinton and Lafai.
Make Up Your McMind!
Retired, not retired and now not an entrant for Scottish father of the yr Stewart Hogg, has determined it greatest if he was positioned on a separate land mass than that of his estranged spouse and signed with French staff Montpellier.
Hogg joins Spanish Police cell taser goal, Billy Vunipola on the membership and I’m nearly salivating on the potential movies and tales to come back from the pair subsequent season.
Regulation Bender Returns.
Jaco Johan resumes his worldwide teaching profession once more this weekend when The Catholics tackle The Tom Jones XXIII at dwelling within the politically steady surrounds of far southern Holland. You’ll be able to catch the motion on STAN
- Sat. twenty second June South Africa v Wales. 10.50pm protection. 11.00pm kick-off.
Hodor no extra
Wrapping up todays Goss, the ageless warhorse Sam ‘Hodor” Whitelock calls time on his skilled taking part in profession when he runs out for the travelling ingesting and typically rugby rugby taking part in facet, the Baa-Baa’s this weekend. The facet coincidentally shares it’s identify with NZ’s # 2 high watched grownup leisure movie, simply behind the Kiwi 50 Shades of Gray, ‘The Silence of The Lambs’.
I’ve hated how Hodor and his AB sides have floor us into the filth for over 20 years now, however I can’t assist however admire the person. His humility and skill to play arduous, however nonetheless be a superb man on and off the paddock is to be revered. Only a disgrace he was born within the mistaken nation I suppose.
- Solar. twenty third June. Fiji v Barbarians. 2.05am on STAN
Till we meet once more. Go St Joe.
Hoss-out.
