LIVE HSBC SVNS Cape Town – day two

It's a culture thing that started with Michael Cheika and has progressively gotten worse.

I have customers who were Wallaby greats and they will also watch offshore streams in order not to listen to the crap.

Now that doesn’t mean it has to be Australia. They have setup a nice tradition (they needed to make it an annual thing and fit into a calendar) by cycling every 12 years, and this seems like a perfect number, but perhaps it could be every 16 years and a new tour being added?

I guess theres no reason they can’t change what the Lions means for them, they could turn it into a fat juciy paycheck instead.

Pundits expressed liking the idea of playing France, and if you made this work without disrupting the cycle I think receiving a tour by France could be fun. They can cancel a 6N nations every now and then for it.

As a nuetral I didn’t think the comms where that bad, Morgan just added at the end for the aussie viewers that they were robbed and their nation should have won. A fair message to send imo.

Morgan has some great insights and then disappoints me with this. I find Horan way more balanced and if he has a dig at a player or ref it is subtle and not aggressive.

That he’s obviously fake/acting the part makes it even worse imo.

World Rugby have made it clear you can not do what Sheehan did, I’m not sure what else they can do in this regard. That message is obviously not clear, as it was another one the ref got wrong, so maybe it will improve now?

So while you raise a really valid concern (and the problem is made worse by Sheehan getting away with it), I think they should easily be able to stamp it out. More an issue for me is that whole area around grounding the ball on the line (like Slippers example), it is what has caused players to dive low, and therefor the defence to get lower, to the point where it doesn’t even look like rugby. Easy solution is to give the line to the defensive team, as in only something needs to be on or behind (rather than everything). That will fix the whole area of bashing in low to get across time after time.

I said in your first article that if Len feels out of position Joseph should just come into 12. Very simple solution and solves the problem of him not getting his hands on the ball all that much.

Worst selection for me was Ben Donaldson, having him on the bench in the weekend cost them the game (most amongst many factors). Everyone hard done by not having a decider this weekend.