Greetings rugby lovers, as we collect for one more Friday’s Rugby Information on the vinegar stroke of rugby’s take a look at yr and the naming of St Joe’s first ever Cadbury Wallaby squad, round midday at the moment.
Earlier than we get began with at the moment’s literary gold, massive 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 fees. Thanks RAWF, you probably did your greatest.
Off we go at the moment with my Wallaby squad in ‘Camp Ponderosa’. We’ll replace the official squad, when launched, in ‘And Lead Us Not Into Frustration’. Preview this weekend SRP ultimate with ‘Who Provides A ……’ See if anybody is listening at RA in ‘Make A Bloody Determination Already!’ And take us house with a ‘Friday’s Goss With Hoss’, so full, so motion packed that Peter Dutton needs it unfold over seven disparate places. State legal guidelines and future funding monies be damned. Good one, Dutto.
Camp Ponderosa.
St Joe and his crack staff of assistants will title their first ever official Wallaby squad this morning (NSW time) to tackle the Gatland Battlers beginning on 6 July within the NSW capital of Australia, Sydney. And in a coup for G&GR, the squad will assemble on the Ponderosa for per week of staff bonding, effective tuning of play and sport administration, and provide copious quantities of unpaid labour as effectively. What’s to not like!
A lot anticipation amongst us rugby folks as to the ins and outs for the primary squad. Me personally? Properly I count on state mixtures to characteristic amongst these picked. With that in thoughts, right here’s the Hoss Squad of 38:
Props: 7As, The Abattoir, Jimmy Slips, Zane Nonggorr, Matt Gibbon and 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 Grime, 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, Darby Lancaster, Marika Koroibete,
There’re murmurs that prop whisperer, Mike Cron, bought his palms on Tupou straight after the Rebs extinction occasion. So it wouldn’t shock to see a a lot sharper, considerably leaner Nella come 6 July. Right here’s hoping. A match and glad Nella is a factor of magnificence for our take a look at possibilities this season. Certainly a lot does he imply to Oz rugby if Nella had been to come back to the Tahs subsequent season and I got here house one night time to search 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 and vice captain? How does Fraser McReight for captain and Nic White (vc) sound?
Who makes your Wallaby 38?
And Lead Us Not Into Frustration.
And right here it’s. rugby.com.au has the complete story.
Forwards (21)
Allan Alaalatoa (#896, West Harbour Juniors)
Angus Blyth (uncapped, Casuarina Seaside Rugby Membership)
Charlie Cale (uncapped, Beecroft Junior Rugby Membership)
Matt Faessler (#969, USQ Saints)
Nick Frost (#953, Hornsby Lions)
Langi Gleeson (#960, Harbord Harlequins)
Alex Hodgman (uncapped, Sunnybank Dragons)
Tom Hooper (#964, Bathurst Bulldogs)
Isaac Kailea (uncapped, Harlequin Junior Rugby Membership)
Fraser McReight (#937, Albany Creek Brumbies)
Josh Nasser (uncapped, Easts Rugby (Brisbane))
Zane Nonggorr (#966, Gold Coast Eagles)
Billy Pollard (#958, Lindfield Junior Rugby Membership)
Lukhan Salakaia-Loto (#914, Randwick)
Ryan Smith (uncapped, Caboolture Snakes)
James Slipper (#843, Bond Pirates)
Taniela Tupou (#917, Brothers Rugby (Brisbane))
Rob Valetini (#929, Harlequin Junior Rugby Membership)
Jeremy Williams (uncapped, Wahroonga Tigers)
Harry Wilson (#933, Gunnedah Crimson Devils)
Liam Wright (#928, Easts Rugby (Brisbane))
Backs (17)
Kurtley Beale (#836, Northern Suburbs (Sydney))
Filipo Daugunu (#931, Wests Rugby Membership (Brisbane))
Ben Donaldson (#962, Clovelly Eagles)
David Feliuai (uncapped, Sunnybank Dragons)
Josh Flook (uncapped, Brothers Rugby (Brisbane))
Jake Gordon (#925, Canterbury Juniors)
Len Ikitau (#944, Tuggeranong Vikings)
Andrew Kellaway (#943, Hunters Hill Rugby Membership)
Darby Lancaster (uncapped, Kempsey Cannonballs)
Noah Lolesio (#934, Tuggeranong Vikings)
Tom Lynagh (uncapped, College of Queensland)
Tate McDermott (#936, Flinders Rugby Membership)
Hunter Paisami (#932, Harlequin Junior Rugby Membership)
Dylan Pietsch (uncapped, Leeton Phantoms)
Hamish Stewart (uncapped, Toowoomba Bears)
Nic White (#875, Maitland Blacks)
Tom Wright (#939, Clovelly Eagles)
Unavailable for choice
Recovering from damage
Angus Bell
Harry Johnson-Holmes
Max Jorgensen
Rob Leota
Lachlan Lonergan
David Porecki
Blake Schoupp
Australia Sevens
Corey Toole
Who provides a ………..
Saturday 22 June 5:05 PM AEST – Blues v Chiefs at Eden Park, Auckland
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 speak it up and crash just like the Libs nuclear plant thought first week in. Certain 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 get a house SF and cease your moaning. Oh that, and perhaps catch a farging kickoff each every now and then! These shambolic dropped kicks put a line by way of no matter Wallaby ambitions Lurch and Toole might’ve had.
After glimpses of enchancment towards the Kiwi sides this yr, as soon as once more our greatest had been miles away from being wherever close to adequate 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 ultimate. And all this with a brand new Nearlies coach, who’s each rugby crafty and really, very astute, mendacity in wait.
Possibly we should always simply play Tonga yearly as an alternative and neglect the Bledisloe?
Fearless Prediction: Each groups have AB after AB after AB throughout their sides. There’s actual dimension in each ahead packs mixed with talent, daring and tempo within the backs. It’ll an amazing sport as a impartial fan to observe. Whereas there’s loads 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 improper determination? Why no determination in any respect, that’s what.
It will seem expressions of curiosity for the vacant NSW teaching gig closed Tuesday 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. One other title, Nathan Gray, reportedly accepting a defensive function in Japan, clearly from a facet that by no means watched the 2016 Wallabies’ defensive efforts. Bugger me.
If the entire tawdry affair of Rebels, Coleman, Rebels, Coleman, No Rebels, No Coleman weren’t so unhappy it’d be facet splittingly humorous. SURELY with sure outcomes recognized months in the past by energy brokers at RA, contingency plans would’ve been effectively beneath means. SURELY there would’ve been gaming of methods A-C in order that when recognized occasions had been publicly confirmed there would’ve been 1-3 choices on the desk able to roll? There ought to’ve been a most well-liked choice, a secondary choice and a break glass in case of emergency choice? So Whisky 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 shit struggle? 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 recognized 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 dimension thump wedged up their collective clackers ticking off days, like I tick off Tim Tams! And there’s nonetheless no motion. It beggars perception.
As a easy individual, who as soon as recognized as male, however now identifies as primarily drained, I fail to grasp why contingency plans wouldn’t have regarded 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 Wisemantel, Eddie Jones (simply shitting) or Stephen Hoiles. Ideally the third individual could be the nominated successor from Cheik.
However no, right here we sit in 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 night time that Izack Rodda is returning to France from 1 July to take up a two yr cope with second division facet, Provence, alongside Flanders Hanigan. It’s been reported that RA and Rodda had some forwards and backwards attempting to maintain the large man right here, however in the end plenty of cash for second tier rugby, in a good to middling a part of the world too I would add, gained out.
Appears an inexpensive industrial determination by all. Rodda can’t be blamed for pursuing the euro; neither can RA for not splashing buckets of money. If Rodda had been a automobile would you pay prime greenback for one thing that sometimes runs effectively, however as a rule 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.
Massive Willy impresses French.
And why wouldn’t it? Perpetual trophy and titles winner, Massive Will Skelton is thru to one more semi-final this weekend when La Rochelle tackle Toulouse 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-to-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. Once I identified his Japanese season had ended and he had household and family members dwelling in bananaland, the discovered gent swore at me, put his dentures again in and toddled again out to the encircling hills and his moonshine distillery.
NFL? Not Farging Doubtless.
It appears our personal Jordan of Nazareth Petaia is eager to emulate Jarryd Hayne Louis Rees-Zammit by having a crack at gridiron, or because it’s recognized in French, watching le paint dry, NFL. Props to the child for dreaming massive, however when was the final time he might string collectively 4-5 rugby video games in a row? 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 impression right here at planetrugby.com
Hooper re-signs with RA.
Nearly an amazing 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 picket spoon profitable yr (for the lads) by naming Mad Canine Swinton their gamers’ participant of 2024. It have to be mentioned that the large unit had a really sturdy yr in an in any other case lacklustre staff.
In brighter information the all-conquering, undefeated Tahs SRW girls additionally named their greatest with barnstorming lock Atasi Lafai getting the nod by one vote 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 situated 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 salivating on the attainable movies and tales to come back from the pair subsequent season.
Regulation Bender Returns.
Jaco Johan resumes his worldwide teaching profession this weekend when the Catholics tackle the Tom Jones XXIII at house within the politically steady surrounds of far southern Holland. You may catch the motion on STAN.
NEWSFLASH: Transferred to Twickenham because the South African police have run out of ammo.
- Sat. twenty second June South Africa v Wales. 10.50pm protection. 11.00pm kick-off.
Hodor no extra.
Wrapping up at the moment’s 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 generally rugby taking part in) facet, the BaaBaas, this weekend. The facet coincidentally shares its title with NZ’s # 2 prime watched grownup leisure movie, simply behind the Kiwi 50 Shades of Gray, ‘Silence of the Lambs’.
I’ve hated how Hodor and his AB sides have floor us into the dust for over 20 years now, however I can’t assist however admire the person. His humility and skill to play laborious, however nonetheless be a superb man on and off the paddock is to be revered. Only a disgrace he was born within the improper nation, I suppose.
- Solar. twenty third June. Fiji v Barbarians. 2.05am on STAN
Till we meet once more. Go St Joe.
Hoss-out.