An open letter to John Connolly

Greg Growden is a tool.

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“Wallabies coach John Connolly opted, however, to retain the centre pairing of Adam Ashley-Cooper and Stirling Mortlock, and he continued to experiment with Matt Giteau at scrum half.”

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Like you. I have looked over several years at Greg Growden’s views of George Gregan. I have no idea what Gregan is, or has done, to deserve such loathing. Growden has lost any credibility on pretty much any subject because of his fixation.

The only reason Gits is playing at halfback is the influence the Sydney media has.

In particular, look at that muppet, Greg Growden, whose pure hatred of Gregan has driven him to call for his sacking for most of his career. A couple of years ago Greegs should have been dropped for a while but his recent form (last 2 seasons) has been pretty damn good.

Also, the front row for the Wallabies should be the Brumbies front row, as they at least managed to push a couple of opposition scrums around – including shunting the Crusaders if I recall correctly.

It doesn’t matter how good George plays, Sam Cordingly will be the half-back for the world cup. Cordingly followed Connolly all through Europe and only came back to Australia when Connolly got the Wallabies coaching job. I don’t know why (and it would be interesting to speculate)but Cordingly is Connolly’s golden haired boy who can do no wrong.

Agreed on all of what’s been said. The Git at 9? Joke! Sure, he was still good…but at what cost? He should be at 12, he’s the best in the world at 12, only a FOOL would play him elsewhere. Phil Waugh? Was he even on the field? He did exactly nothing for the entire game! Joke! Norton Knight? Joke. Dunning? Joke. The only bright moment for me was hearing the Sydney crowd cheer when they saw Gregan warming up to come on. The Sydney media may have it in for George, but at least the fans know what’s what.

The Brumbies would’ve thrashed these Taffys if we’d played them a couple of weeks ago.

Best….

How are Palu & Lyons rated as our 2 gest No. 8’s ?

I also do believe that Connolly has it in for Brumbies players. The whole reason JP came here was because he was coaching Qld at the time. You can’t tell me that last night’s team was picked on form! Phil Waugh (what is he good for? Absolutely nothing!) played 2 and a bits games or so this season, so you can’t use that as an excuse. Vickermann missed all of Super 14 but played a few club games for Syd Uni-so what? Stephen Moore played for Qld and the less said about them the better and the backup to him was no better. And Fatt Dunning couldn’t even make the starting team for the Waratarts!

Play players in their correct positions and stop stuffing around! If you say you need to experiment then you have no idea what you’re doing so close to the World Cup. The whole point of these games is to get it right with the right players BEFORE getting to the world cup and not stuffing around over there and only just beating Japan and Canada in the pool games. Just because you know have the Wallabies coaching job next year, don’t ruin it for the fans who are expected to fork out hundreds for dud games. Just go back and be Foley’s puppet master in Qld where you belong!