Re: Bye Bye Mitchell

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:18:23 +1300, "Mr Scebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>"Col" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:52:27 +1300, "Mr Scebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
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>> >"Rodger Donaldson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> >> On 2 Dec 2003 09:57:36 -0800, Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> >> >There is no right answer here. Don't play you best players in the
>> >> >early game and they go into the big games rusty. Play them and they
>> >> >can get injered. The team that won the WC played there first team most
>> >> >games of the pool. (only one where they didn't),
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>> >> The right answer would have been to call up an experienced center from
>> >> New Zealand once you decide you're no longer playing Carter and Umaga.
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>> >Just as a matter of interest, who would that "experienced centre" be? The
>> >only two who i could think of would be Rico Gear or Mark Robinson.
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>> One of whom was under an injury cloud too .
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>I believe they both were - but it's always much easier for the armchair
>critics to select their sides.

Of course it is. We're not distracted from the job at hand by groupie
skanks, life coaches and spats and sulks with members of the team. Any
fool could see that switching Muliana and Macdonald would have shored
up the centres and even an idiot like you must now be able to see that
subbing off Thorne after the first ten minutes when he failed to rally
the troops after the 14 point score turnaround was the right thing to
do.