All grandioso statements and threats from the Wallaby coach

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More feeble threats and grandioso statements from the Cheika. I guess when you have one of the worst tours, one has a tendency to get into this sort of nonsense.

Clearly Cheika cannot be held totally accountable for the results of this tour and in many ways it’s probably a good outcome for the Wallabies. If they had done well, they would have become even more arrogant (if that is at all possible).

What puzzles me is that, it is world renown that our scrum is our fundamental weakness. Rather than focussing on fixing this, Cheika steps right into the politics and brings Beale back into the game! The backs are still competitive (although not as dominant as during some of the “golden” eras) and if at all Beale makes them worse. Cheika should get his mind out of the politics and focus on coaching, and in particular, the problem in the forwards.

Beale was a total waste of time in both the last games. As I predicted, Cheika made the political decision to fly him (first class no doubt) all the way to UK to play in the team and make a lacklustre contribution. Unfortunately, for the next few years, he is going to be defending his decision, so Beale will be an automatic selection in the team. Otherwise the public will laugh at him (those who are not already) for unnecessarily bringing the game to disrepute and making some of the more fair minded people cringe! That’s the behaviour of a proud, arrogant coach!

It was laughable to see Genia on the bench and Nic “I ve-gotten-two-invisible-balls-under-my-armpits-and-I-will-pick-a-fight-regardless-of-my-size” white on the field. Nick Phipps was just two slow, and was trapped over and over again.

I guess it’s tough to be a coach with a “we are mates” approach and not fill the national side with your mates from the state team you coach. Particularly when you coach the wealthiest Super 15 team and can buy any player you want. So you think you already have the best players!

Cooper has his weaknesses, but I felt the Wallaby backs looked particularly dangerous in attack when he was out there and it was a matter of inches in passes that made the difference between scoring and missing out. Just don’t think Rob pony-tail Horne is fast enough to be a winger and that might have made the difference on that great Folau pass.

I felt that the Wallaby backs still out played what was put against them by the Northern hemisphere teams. The Wallaby teams off-loads were creating havoc in the opposition defence. However, the forwards were out played in pretty much every facet of the game and our kicking game needs to improve significantly.

The English teams tactics were somewhat like their soccer teams - Kick the ball into the box and hopefully one of your attackers will head it in. Similarly, here we had the Gary Owens with the hope that the Wallabies might stuff up and unfortunately we did oblige! Not surprisingly, the English had no intension of playing the game in their half.

There was some criticism of the Wallabies running the ball, but I’m not sure that we should be too harsh on the team on that front. One only scores tries when one has possession of the ball – this is very much an All-Blacks philosophy. We have a pretty good running game and so we should use it! It will always be tough to beat the Northern Hemisphere teams playing their style of rugby.

It’s gonna be a tough 11 months and it will be quite difficult to back the wallabies going all the way at the world cup. There are so many issues to sort out – some of them requiring political will. The leadership, the forwards capabilities and techniques, the lack of talent and a pool and of course the demi-god status we are giving idiots like Beale.

We will simply have to wait and see!

Response to: Kangaroos' 16-12 win over England saves Australia's Four Nations hopes

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The Aussie win-at-all-costs mentality brings another victory! A great team effort one would have to say - that is a Team-Australia effort - which of course included more than the men in Aussie jerseys!!

Anyone who's watched the NRL knows that the referees are totally political beings. Which part of the 4 nations organisation decided that it was a good idea to have Aussie refs?! It must have been the commercial area. Keep the Aussies in the running - MONEY!!

Are the Aussie players embarrassed that they needed the referees help to remain in the competition??. No, the Aussie mentality is quite different, we all know that.

It's no different to cricket or any other sport, we used to like criticising sub-continental umpires for being biased but never noticed ours being even worse. But it helped us win, so it didn't matter - Aussie top order batsmen were never given out LBW and some of the run-out decisions were simply appalling - but all of that never gets into the record books.

In a few weeks time we might be the 4 nations champions. Are we gonna worry about the fact that we got there because the referees cheated?! I'd love to see just one Aussie player come out and say that it really was a try. The typical win-at-all-coast mentality is to simply say, it was a referees decision, we have no say in the matter.

No doubt, we will have an article by some former coach or player putting forward some typical dumb logic (as we so often get from them), to explain why it wasn't a try.

Love to see what penalty will be dished out to the ref who knowingly made an incorrect ruling to change the outcome of the game and tournament. I suspect - EL-ZIPPO!!

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CockeyedObserver

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November 03, 2014, 8:54AM

In response to: “We've been dealing with world's most dangerous jihadis for decades”

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"This would present a more unstable and volatile nuclear threat than the Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and China at the height of the Cold War". This statement alone, suggests that this article is written from the perspective of the White-supremacy-Gung-ho-Saxon-crusader "mob" (I guess I should explain myself – most of the phrase is self-explanatory except for, perhaps, the Gung-ho-Saxon part, which I use to refer to nations with predominantly Anglo Saxon stock, in particular the US, GB and Australia, who charge into wars in the most Gung-ho fashion – an “axis” that is struggling to maintain the power structures of old.). It suggests that it was the "Commie bastards" who were creating instability whilst the peace loving '"Angelic capitalists" were the poor victims - awwww didums!

Sure, if an attempt to take 3 billion people out of poverty and breaking the shackles that the white-supremacy-gung-ho-Saxon-crusader "mob" had on the world's trade and economies is considered to be instability, then, it was instability that was justified- a good thing. But I can understand the mob being incapable of understanding or agreeing to that.

Whilst people love to suggest that the middle East has been unstable for aeons, it has been no more unstable than Western-Europe. The instability in it's current form is the result of the mob's interference and intellectually inept decisions, based on a book that is many thousands of years old – Another view that will not be accepted by the mob. The mob do not take responsibility for creating instability, all they have ever wanted was to do good to everyone!!

The Middle-East will continue to be unstable until the "mob" stops interfering and there is an even balance in power between the majority of the region rather than a minority that is funded,armed and propped-up by the "mob". It is not sustainable that a minority remain in control of a region.

Maybe the solution to the area is a single Caliphate lead by a nuclear powered Iran. There will be a level playing field which invariably stops the bullying and abuse that has been inflicted for 400 years by the "mob". Oooops!! What an outrageous suggestion!!! Breaking the shackles of the mob has always been liberating for billions, as was the case with WWII.

Extreme-right-wing-Zionist propaganda!

Cockeyed Observer

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November 24, 2014, 9:28AM

PS: The censorship of Fairfax on their comments was frustrating me. So,  I decided I would return to my own blog – one that I have neglected for awhile. What follows is a comment that was rejected (not surprisingly, I might add) by Fairfax.

So, Anglo saxon parents must be better - at least in Australia

So once again, we decide to to take the one action we know, when we feel some non white Anglo-Saxon kid or parent does something stupid. Stupidity is unashamedly reserved simply for white Anglo Saxons. Yes, for others, it must be a bad upbringing and we need to come to the rescue and whisk them away from their baaaaad parents to the safety of being abused by some catholic clergymen or other white individual. As history shows it works all the time.

OK, it wasn't the smartest thing for a mum to get a young kid to hold a Packard about beheadings and then take a photo! But could it have been just a thoughtless act in a moment of passionate euphoria? No, that would be impossible if it was from an ethic mum. It's gotta be baaaaaad parenting.

Heck, I took my 2 year old son to the anti-war demonstrations in Sydney where there were images of Howard on all fours nosing Bush in a part of his anatomy I need not mention! That sure must be baaaaad parenting cos I ain't white Anglo-Saxon. No, I wouldn't dare suggest there is a double standard nor some good ole Aussie ignorant hysteria. I could have DoCS at my door step anytime!!

Ban Muslims from coming here, says Ross Someone on ABC radio - where on earth did Richard find that clown?!! I gather he used to be a politician gone wrong.

I wonder how many kids were captured and driven to sexual abuse after the totally acceptable behaviour at the Crunulla incident a few years back?!!

Let's get our fingers off the trigger, take a few deep breaths and take the recent Sydney event for what it was - a small minority of people, most of whom went there for a good natured protest but ended up in something that became ugly. I'm still not sure what triggered the violence, but hey, who cares, it was Muslims, so it has gotta be a fault in their religion and culture, doesn't it?! Yes, I suspect there is a hand full of radicals involved and for the well being of the Muslim community as much as any other, we need to identify them. If there were criminal acts involved then lets prosecute as appropriate.

But taking kids from their families?!! Let's calm down, take it ezy n have another VB, mate!!!

Ah! . . . the circus continues!!

Context: I don’t quite recall the context of this one, but it appears to have been during the Gillard years, sometime in Winter (The winter ball was on the 27th June in 2012), where a Labor Party legislation relating to asylum seekers was defeated in the upper house – possibly the Malaysia proposal. I suspect the Greens would have been insisting that all refugee centres were on the mainland (one of their good looking chics must have shed a tear or two for the camera) and the Libs, true to form, would just vote “No” regardless!

The Government makes compromises, the Libs say the only word they know for everything  - "NO" -  isn't that what mummy taught her to say?! . . . and of course the Greens are on another planet smokin' some environmentally friendly substance.

Crocodile tears from the Greens (was n't that good?!! Greens - environment – crocodiles, Get it?!!) and maybe from a few others but guess what - it's our way or the Highway ..  and now that the performance to the cameras is over, it’s off to the Mid Winter Ball!! or had they already been?!! Don't we expect so much from our politicians these days?!

So the upper house interferes again! Did someone say there were too many politicians? Well, there's a solution right there!!

I love the Greens . . . all care no accountability. To think I voted for them once! In my defence, it wasn't 'cos I thought they were good (though they probably have the best looking members of parliament. . . ooops that's probably politically incorrect in so many ways!!), it was just that I didn't want to vote for the others. I learned my lesson real quick, the next elections were invalid votes. I guess you need someone to balance out the Pauline Hanson party!! One day we might have a green policy that is realistic.

Ok, let me divulge my true colours - I have always had views to the left of centre and used to vote Labour. But I now live in what is probably the safest Liberal seat, so my vote is irrelevant.

And so the boats will keep sinking. Most Aussies don't care, really - "they're bloomin' terrorists or some coloured skins" are the not? "We don't want them on our shores"! "Let it be someone else's problem, rather than them taking our jobs and crowding up Australia (that's funny)"!

Hear, hear, let's keep the charade goin'!!!

An apology to Sadako

My son was taken to see the play "Sadako and the Thousand Cranes" yesterday. I had vaguely heard about it before, but while talking to him about it, I could not stop my mind from wandering about this atrocity.

How is it that we make such a fuss about apologies by nations on various scales but the most horrific of atrocities to mankind has never been the subject of this discussion? How is it that we are able to justify this in our minds and not think there is an apology due? It is the most horrific war crime ever.

This true story, in it's simplicity, is a reflection of the beauty of the culture that produced it. One that we have been unable to fully appreciate due to our successful efforts to demonise it.

It was wonderful to observe my son grapple with a complex set of emotions that were taking over him that he didn't fully understand. He said he hated America!! - a temporary feeling, I'm sure.

 

Well, Sadako I unreservedly apologise to you and the very many other beautiful children, women and men of your people, who represent one of the most exquisite cultures in our world. I hope your dad’s story and your magical response resonate in our minds forever.

Hi all!!

this is my very first BLOG entry. So now I am officially a “blogger”!

Someone please red card that boof head Gallen! Cos the refs did not have the ooomph to do it yesterday.

NSW obviously went to the game wanting to bash-up it's opposition not win the game. You appoint a boof head as skipper and then take a team of thugs with names of feathered animals on to the field - what do you expect. Was anyone surprised that the thug was involved in two of the incidents of thuggery on the field (His feathered friend, not Gallen)?!!!

As for the refs, when are they going to take control of the game. Gallon should have been red carded for his total disrespect for the game the spectators let alone the referees and suspended for 4 weeks preventing him from taking any further part in the series. He should be given the rule book and told to get someone to read it for him and explain the fact that there are rules and the meaning of them. I hope the totally NSW biased beaurocracy has the decency to do that.

I was watching the game with my 10 year old and was appalled at the language and gestures being used by both him and Robby Farrer. Fortunately he plays a different code of the game where such loutish behaviour will not be tollerated.

One bit of advise to the coach - get rid of the louts and get some intelligence in the team. That is the only way NSW will win the game. We have the better players, we just let politics get in the way.