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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 694683" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Shades of RWC2011.</p><p></p><p>If the ARU spent more of their hard earned cash developing props instead of buying expensive, flashy rugby-league backs like Israel Folau, they would be a lot better off. They have known about their shortcomings in the front row ever since Al Baxter was found out and systematically demolished by England at Twickenham in 2005 when Baxter was yellow-carded for deliberately collapsing the scrum, and again in the 2007 World Cup quarter-final in Marseille when Andrew Sheridan just owned him. The All Blacks showed him up again in 2010 when Robbie Dean used his shepherd's crook to whip him out of the contest before Joubert binned him. So its several years later, going into the 2015 World Cup, and Australian rugby has still not addressed this issue seriously. </p><p></p><p>It is an often repeated adage that the Game of Rugby Union starts up front. It always has, and likely always will. If the ARU is waiting for World Rugby to change the Laws to make props less important, they are going to be waiting for a very long time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 694683, member: 20605"] Shades of RWC2011. If the ARU spent more of their hard earned cash developing props instead of buying expensive, flashy rugby-league backs like Israel Folau, they would be a lot better off. They have known about their shortcomings in the front row ever since Al Baxter was found out and systematically demolished by England at Twickenham in 2005 when Baxter was yellow-carded for deliberately collapsing the scrum, and again in the 2007 World Cup quarter-final in Marseille when Andrew Sheridan just owned him. The All Blacks showed him up again in 2010 when Robbie Dean used his shepherd's crook to whip him out of the contest before Joubert binned him. So its several years later, going into the 2015 World Cup, and Australian rugby has still not addressed this issue seriously. It is an often repeated adage that the Game of Rugby Union starts up front. It always has, and likely always will. If the ARU is waiting for World Rugby to change the Laws to make props less important, they are going to be waiting for a very long time. [/QUOTE]
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