Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!
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The official media release:
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@taniwharugby said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Is that what Eddie told them in his interview?
“It is a major coup for Australian Rugby to have the best coach in the world return home to coach the iconic Wallabies and to oversee the Wallaroos program,” McLennan said.
McLennan is on drugs. Incredibly stupid less than a year out from RWC and only makes sense if their focus is RWC 2027 in Australia. I like Eddie Jones alot but he's not the team/culture builder that Rennie was. He's what Aussie's call a shit-stirrer and IMO Rugby Aus will regret this in a couple of seasons time.
Question for the Fern - is Rennie now a legit contender for the AB job? Razor has Super form and longevity but he doesn't have Rennie's international experience at both club & test level.
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With Skelton, Bell, Tupou, Valetini there’s enough for Eddie to work with there. They’ve got the easier half of the RWC draw. Harsh to rug pull Rennie though. I guess the thinking was now or never and Eddie being one of their own swung it. NZRU need to go cap in hand and get Rennie back somewhere asap. Eddie vs Razor next year. Goodness me. Can’t wait.
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@NTA said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@mariner4life said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@taniwharugby said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@hkkiwi guess it depends where the start line is, as others have mentioned, with so many close results last year and the injury toll, Aus were only a few bounces away from a very good season...Eddie usually starts with a lower bar I reckon, making the turnaround seem very good.
if the results are good, then the narrative will be that Eddie rescued the team that lost to Italy.
Large portions of the Australian Rugby fraternity fucking hate the Wallabies being coached by a foreign type, so they'll be hoping that this works.
And if the Wallabies are instantly successful, a lot of the fringe supporters will come back.
It's good for the Wallabies to be coached by an Aussie. TBF none of the Kiwi coaches the Wallabies have had, have worked out.
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@Duluth said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
All Blacks should hire Rennie as defence coach
Bugger off, RA likes employing rejects from other countries, we don't want to start it.
RA wanted Deans after NZR didn't want him, now they want Eddie after Poms don't want him. Mind you we should of known he was buggered when Honest Hamish said in September he was the man to lead Wallabies into next WC, boy if that prick said the earth was round I would get suspicious. -
@Dan54 Rennie has done a deal to go to Japan. He would not go a miss with a role at Super level or in some capacity at least. This also begs the question of whether Scott gets to have some role to play with the Abs this world cup. Not expecting this but not surprised by Jones returning.
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@Duluth you'd like to think that whoever is applying for the AB job (be it Foz, Razor, JJ, assuming Rennie wont) will be talking with him.
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@SBW1 Makes it a little interesting doesn't it for Razor doesn't it? He won't or probably not interested in assistant roles with ABs, but if he misses the nest time job comes up next year, perhaps we now seen the Wallaby job gone, (and no overseas coach should touch them now) and if Poms stick with Bothwick?
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@taniwharugby said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@Duluth you'd like to think that whoever is applying for the AB job (be it Foz, Razor, JJ, assuming Rennie wont) will be talking with him.
Unfortunately will Rennie have to rebuild his reputation again? Geez not many get an international gig after Aussie have dumped you.
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@Dan54 said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Unfortunately will Rennie have to rebuild his reputation again?
dunno, I reckon he has done enough in NZ rugby to serve him well, and from an outside perspective, you can see he has made improvements although Aus Rugby and he werent without thier issues.
NZR seem to love that International experience....
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@Crucial said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@NTA said in Aussie Rugby:
This is peak RA, I might add.
Peak RA would have been Alan Jones, not Eddie Jones. (I did double check).
I stand corrected.
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@Duluth said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
All Blacks should hire Rennie as defence coach
Now if they could work Razor, Rennie & Schmidt into a workable trio ala - Henry, Smith and Hansen? Probably too ambitious but if it could work?
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genuinely laughing at using Eddie's "world cup win percentage" as this amazing thing.
Generally, the big teams lose once a world up. If you win your pool games and lose your quarter, boom! 80% win percentage achieved!
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So RA replace a bloke that lost against Ireland and France (ranked one and two in the world) by three and one points respectively, beat Argentina, Scotland and South Africa at home with a bloke who lost to Ireland by 17, France by 12 and lost to Argentina, Scotland and South Africa..? Have I got that right?
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@mariner4life said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
genuinely laughing at using Eddie's "world cup win percentage" as this amazing thing.
Generally, the big teams lose once a world up. If you win your pool games and lose your quarter, boom! 80% win percentage achieved!
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@taniwharugby said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@Dan54 said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Unfortunately will Rennie have to rebuild his reputation again?
dunno, I reckon he has done enough in NZ rugby to serve him well, and from an outside perspective, you can see he has made improvements although Aus Rugby and he werent without thier issues.
NZR seem to love that International experience....
Yep taniwhai, but Deans seemed to of never really got another gig, and his rep was probably even higher than Rennies?
Eddie Jones appointed Wallabies head coach
