He can go with Powell & Radford taking over

Speak to some Aussies. They all think he is the best coach they have ever had. We would be mad to let him go but it won't be our decision, he is held in such hi esteem he will do what he wants.
We have just come so close to winning a trophy down under !! He can't of done a bad job ! Regardless of what we think team selection he has done the job and done it well

Are you his son,there are some similarities lol.

WB had 2 selection issues that led to our defeat...Gale and Bateman.
Could we have done better with Williams and Ratchford?...

I think we could, and with such a tight margin at the end, we'd could have had the edge. Perhaps WB took the percentage option and not to make a significant team alteration before the final.

Perhaps then the error lies in the group stages or further back by not playing enough friendly games pre tournament to measure the options.

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I think the issue was with the quality of our backs. If you look at The Aussie back line they were more powerful, had more skill and were fitter and faster. Would Williams and Ratchford have improved us in attack, undoubtedly yes. Would they have improved us defensively, absolutely not. I think that lay with the decisions made by WB to put Bateman in the Centres. He wanted to sure up the defence and keep the score low. He achieved this in spades, we just couldn't take advantage of the few opportunities that we made.

Agreed, for me if currie had played more games last season I think he would have played over Bateman. I'm not going to moan about the Bateman selection as frustrating as it was going forward because he did a job for us in an unfamiliar position.

We don't produce enough backs to be competitive going forward, decision making in the key positions cost us most but it's not a quick fix. We need some quality centres and halfbacks in superleague, wingers and fullback options are OK Hooker are OK as well but again decision making is miles behind the aussies game.

We need backs of the quality we used to have. eg.) Scofield, Gregory, Davies, Gleeson, Newlove, Connolly, Edwards, Offiah. Their modern day equivalents and the current pack would make us formidable.

Mind you I bet the Aussies are saying the same. eg.) Meninga, Daley, ET, Stirling, Langer, Lewis ...

Please explain the similarity between Johnkendal and a severely handicapped child?

Regards

King james

If this is humour it's in poor taste.

I agree it is in very poor taste having just done a little research

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