Re: Bye Bye Mitchell

"Greig Blanchett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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"
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> >> >"Rodger Donaldson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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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),
> >> >>
> >> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> >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.
> >>
> >>
> >> One of whom was under an injury cloud too .
> >
> >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.
Agreed - the centres were already in the squad. The 2nd fives were the
problem (as we now hear) - what would have been the problem with getting
Tuitupo over there? Umaga was obviously not in the picture - only would
have taken 48 hours. He may have shred up the defence a little?

Cheers, aMtt