Alan Jones on the state of rugby in Australia 

Bang on Alan Jones. In all aspects of what he spoke of in this talk, very truly spoken.

THANK YOU ALAN. JONES. TRUTH. 👍

Thank you for sharing your time and energy! The Platform has the best guests! ~an American in Korea 🇰🇷

a treat to listen to someone who knows his stuff, and speaks without a forked tongue

Spot on, Mr Jones! The most accurate assessment of the problems with world rugby that I have heard in years 👍

ALAN. JONES. IS. SPOT. ON. 2022. 👍

Great interview from Alan Jones, nice to hear a new perspective.

100%. A well respected former AB coach recently told me something similar - we are run by people that don't understand rugby - how to win rugby and what it takes to develop rugby. He'd never say it publicly.

Make Alan Jones CEO of Rugby 🏉 Australia 🇦🇺!Get him and Eddie Jones on!

Great insight from Allan Jones ! Love his views and passion would we have an Aussie coach the ABs ? Not not in a million years! 👍

Wise words thanks Mr Jones and has a few points here. The last 15 years has seen rugby in Australia advance to the rear. When will rugby arrive and wake up.

RIGHT. ON. ALLEN. JONES. 👍

That was gold bravo 👏

Someone had to say that about the timing of this game. Sad that we put this as a mid-week fixture

NRL’s biggest games are always mid week. A clash in Sept means RU Australia did not book it early enough. RU in Australia, as usual AJ is exciting but narrow in knowledge. Private schools as a continued basis to seed RU was a disaster! Those schools deliberately expanded winter sports out of demand for choice, AND greatest number of serious injuries were at school level, because of poor rules about strength, technique and weight.

Mid week test matches are great !

Thanks Allan smart mate👍

Love Alan and he's gotta be controversial but not with him on general disparaging of the refs and administrators. The time the ball is in play is way more now, certainly more than the 80s. Edit: ok now listened to the end and go along with everything he said LOL. How good were the 1980s and 90s Wallabies!

Flicked between the Union test match and the League finals last week. Wallabies packed down a scrum, so flicked over to NRL, watched 2 attacking, fast sets of six . Flicked back and they're still repacking the same scrum. Gotta agree with AJ HERE, If Union wants to make back ground in Oz.

Well said...

Look some of what he says is right. But on tactics in today's game they have evolved.

he Nailed it on Tate McDermot....WTF....why isn't he playing...??

AL is hero love everything aussie

I agree the game needs to be more like the AB’s blueprint of years gone by as that was entertaining.Unfortunately now it’s all about muscling the opposition which is very tedious and boring and as was said gives refs no option but to stop start the game.As an England supporter I’d love to see us play the free flowing ball in hand game but I think with EJ at the helm that won’t happen. I think world rugby is in a board room in Ireland now if I’m not mistaken?

Great man Alan Jones. No bull💩!

Jones saying perhaps the ref will win it was Nostradamus like

I couldn’t fathom why 2 tests this year were played in Adelaide and now Melbourne tonight, I even said that to my other kiwi mate last week, why is it going up against the NRL finals tonight. Rugby is dying in Australia because they continue not to play in Rugby heartlands of Australia IE ACT, NSW or Qld, or even WA with the biggest expats from South Africa, England and NZ would’ve been a better choice.

As AJ said. He didn't know who was going to win, maybe the ref? Will look like the ref did with that last minute performance...

On a Thursday night just because of AFL and NRL games which no one outside of Australia care about.

Quite right Allen Jones, refs actively talk to the TMO while the game is in progress ?

I disagree with his take on decisions in the game 'coming from London'. I like a dig at the English as much as the next man but that's how it worked 50 years ago and not now, World Rugby are based in Dublin and the refereeing boss is French. The issue is that unions are too disorganised and self serving, World Rugby actually work for them, the unions vote on any major issues so they can push anything through if they get consensus. A great example is Super Rugby after Covid, NZR declare unilaterally what the competition is, Australia disagree and SA aren't spoken to. The are not working together. Some will say "ah but the NH will block this and that" but that also isn't true, they don't vote as a bloc and they don't all play the same style. Smaller countries like Ireland, Wales and Scotland struggle to get the same number of huge units that England, SA and France can get. They should work together but are too dysfunctional right now.

French referee tonight. He loves penalizes and cards. This could be horrendous. How fuckin boring is rugby with 4 minute scrums.

Good point on running - pick and drive is garbage killing the sport

No wonder he is not on sky anymore ,,i note that Hooper and Hodge not in the team and we were more than competitive for a change

Next year its in Melbourne again 😂

WELL SPOKEN ALAN JONES...WHY MELBOURNE?, THIS TIME OF YEAR AND SO THE NEXT QUESTION, WHY ON A THURSDAY NIGHT ANSWER ....WEAKARSE WRU DECISIONS ONCE AGAIN.....AT THE SAKE OF THE FANS AND SPECTATORS

Dont normally agree with alan. He has some points'

Peter File Jones

Rugby 🏉run by the people who love money 💰but don't know jack about the game. They make rule that doesn't make any sense.

Have to agree with Alan Jones Rennie is Playing people out of position and as he has said Tate McDermott not getting even in the 23 team so not getting any experience playing international playing time We lost the last game because of Nick White due to he's belligerent behaviour and he's pick Jake Gordon to start telling the journalist in a interview that he played a good game against the Boks ( that is absolutely B S ) IAM beginning to believe that Rennie has no idea what he's doing Recce Hodge is on the bench when he should be starting at fullback Andrew Kellerway is starting fullback and should be on the wing where he is more effective Jordan Patia should be playing 12 or 13 where he's running skills can be used to a better advantage In conclusion if we keep this coach through to the RWC I garente we will not get to the quarter finals And we will get a good slapping from N Z today Post game interviews are always the same conversation to many penalties we weren't at the breakdown quick enough we didn't take our opportunity when we had them ( hello that's why you are coaching them to make those improvements ) And another thing Hoops is not playing I believe that there has been a falling out with the game plan and the coaching selections it has to be something other than Hoops being mentally exhausted Anyway where ever you are have a good day

What is Alan Jones on about - huge turnout full house , strong viewership … but right on with refereeing what a fiasco Referees ruined the result

Sport died of Wokeness and Knee taking.

I've never seen a rugby game in 60 yrs..

There is nothing wrong with a thursday game. Alan Jones is a joke.

Melbourne loves Rugby the game was sold out, Rugby Union is loved in Melbourne. Five of the Wallabies are friggin Victorian?? Alan Jones..who cares nobody listens, he’s right nobody listens to what he says anyway. There’s great rugby infrastructure right across Melbourne. There’s plenty of great AFL players that would switch to rugby. Come to Melbourne Alan there’s rugby grounds everywhere. Don’t listen to this out of touch Dinosaur.

Why did you give this guy even an ounce of oxygen. What a national disgrace Alan Jones is.

And look at Aus rugby now .totally stiffed