to put it simply, as Jesus has remarked before, the Deans show must end.
his selection policy of capping as many players as possible and calling it blooding is the biggest waste of time since the All Blacks rested all there players before the 07 world cup.
Jesus was the first to call Deans overrated and he wants to say that this weekends game against the barbarians was a fine example of this. Now i know we have three or four weeks against sub par opposition before the real test of the tri-nations but the fact of the matter is, that in deans "putting pride back in the jersey" bullshit, he has infact made it clear anyone who plays super rugby should be dissapointed not to wear a gold jersey at some point.
first lets talk about Matt Hodgson, Mat is 28, he is a converted 7 playing 6 and offers nothing close to what Mumm, Rocky or Kimlin offer in the same position. Yet he now has a free tracksuit and jumper to wear around the house as he was selected to join his Force teammates in the back row of an Australian team heading for embarrasment. Ad to this that Pek Cowen or however you spell his name is likely to scrum against italy at some point after playing about 20 minutes of good super rugby and you have a free jersey for every Australia. Infact if Deans was Prime Minister we would all have probably just got a Wallaby cap and not 950 buckaroos.
then comes his back three selection. firstly he talks up JOC before going with last years failure, AAC. i like AAC but can we have him on the bench, he covers several positions and is a strong runner. his impact on a game would be much better with half an hour to go than it is fromt he first moment.
Drew mitchell & Turner on the wings is my main gripe though. To drop Lote shows just how stupid a coach Deans is. he claimed Turner had a better season at the Tahs but ignored the fact that the room Turner recieved 9/I0 times came from Lote drawing defenders to the other side of the field only to turn the ball back out to turner. Then comes drew, WTF? honestly, the guy played fullback for his own team, a team that managed to win only three games against club teams from which we hope to beat there combined national teams, moron.....
Lote has played 63 tests, for 30 tries.
not really a bad strike rate in terms of things, ad the number of tries he saves a game, plus the number of metres he makes throught he ruck, which quite frankly per game is more than most forwards combined and you have someone of such emence value to australian rugby that to play his "non selection" throught he media is a piece of shit.
UP YOURS DEANS.
how about putting a trophy in the cabinet that wasnt made up the week before.
