A look back at highlights of the Wallabies back line play over time including their World Cup victory in 1999 and victory over the British & Irish Lions in 2001 - part 3 of 9 - part 4 here • Wallaby Backline Highl...
They certainly had a really quick backline that played at pace and kept the ball alive, simples innit. They also had one of the best ever number 9 in imho
In 2008, the ARU stopped Rugby from being played at public schools so mostly all the up and coming prospects switched to Rugby League. Now, we’re left with private school boys from NSW and QLD to make up our Wallaby squad 💩
The game structure now is way different from back then...mostly all teams have improved closing the gap with tier 1 nations...Aussie seems to be stagnant while others are catching up or slightly ahead.
This kind of run is hard to do nowadays given that other teams have improved defensively and immensely on structure and how the game is played...everything has its time...Now it's a different era.
I loved these days but would take for granted these victories. Eddie Jones was the last good coach Australian rugby had. (He went on to coach a world cup winning team for Southafrica yet the powers that be here thought letting him go was a smart idea). We then had Robbie Deans come in with no idea of our particular rugby culture & he tried to turn the play style into a traditional european way. Wtf was that moron thinking. South of the equator rugby was and forever should be broken play & open, creative, assault-style rugby, not trench warfare bs in the forwards. Boring as fk. Deans ruined it, Mackenzie tried to clean up the mess. Now we have alot of talent but no gel. Hate to sound like a fleeting fan, but I'll come back to the game when Australia has a solid coaching unit.
