Rhule's 10 completed tackles don't impress me as he also has 5 missed tackles and still stood off in a number of tackle situations. In short its pointless he gets to run up and maybe harass someone if he cannot be counted on in defending his channel consistently from a ruck or set piece.

That said I don't place all the blame on him. Its starting to seem to me that our holding back is part of our defensive system. I'm on the fence there. It seems counter-intuitive to me but the fact is we are letting in less tries than last year.. I wouldn't now.

Its just disheartening that we don't seem to back ourselves ball in hand. I felt we had the upper hand here for large parts and didn't force it and rather let the Wallabies have a go. Our wingers don't get brought into the game. We then either need to do that or pick wingers who bring something else to our game. Whats the point of picking small sprinters and a sprinter at 13 rather than a distributor/play maker if we only use them to defend and field high balls?