Just what can we make of a Wallabies training session in Paris with a World Cup-winning All Blacks coach, weeks out from the 2023 tournament?
And, oh Christ!
Someone didn’t commit enough to the breakdown, because right now Wallaby winger Marika Koroibete has broken right through on the right flank – try THREES AND THREES, you bastards, or maybe EIGHTS and THREES! – and is coming straight for us! His arms are like pistons, his thighs like two tree-trunks making a break for it down a hill at impossible speed, as he surges, swerves, andI am the only journalist there, but – not counting the drones – there are four or five cameras on them at all times,...
And what now, Steve? What are these lineout drills they are doing, where the hooker seems to be hurling the ball in at the rate of about four times a minute, as they move up and down the field?Lineouts where the call as to where the ball is going, is made just two seconds before the ball is thrown in,Oh. One reassuringly familiar face is former Wallaby Dan Palmer who is helping out with the forwards – though he is about half the size of the front-row forward he was, and looks svelte and smiley.
With so many moving parts to this massive operation, Eddie feels more like a maker of masterpiece jigsaw puzzles, constantly trying different pieces in different spots, forever trying to fit them together to make the finished design durable and world-class. He is the only one that understands the whole, and if the pieces just don’t fit, he is quick to try others, which is where we are now, with so many older players discarded and younger ones brought in.
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