George Smith with his most recent John Eales Medal
Interesting broadcast from Australia’s ABC Grandstand Sport, in which ex-Wallaby coach Eddie Jones, now coach of the epically-named Suntory Sungoliaths, talks about Dingo Deans and why George Smith isn’t at the World Cup … and if he soon will be. Continue reading
Quite a lot of centres didn’t make their various countries’ cuts, so the Mole split them up. Yesterday’s selection were nominally inside centres/second five-eighths, while today’s are [outside] centres. I think it’s fair to say that most of the best ones are at the World Cup, but there’s a few interesting ones who have been left behind … Continue reading
Stirling Mortlock and George Smith Catch Up
A lot of Australian fans are hell-bent on blaming Robbie Deans on absolutely everything that goes wrong for the Wallabies: heโs the head-coach, and a Kiwi head coach at that. The Mole just doesnโt subscribe to that. Deans is a good coach. However, he does have some blind spots. Continue reading
Digging Like a Demented Mole 