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Ooooooooook TOCC here are some key points;
1) His man management skills were fine, the problem was that his gameplans were too technical. A perfect example was that set piece from the scrum, where every back was in a line behind one another, directly behind the scrum. As the ball came out of the scrum each player went their own way and the defence had no bloody idea what was going on!
When it came off it resulted in a try, but too many times they'd either forget or just plain old not understand the plan because they were getting too complicated.
2) MacQueen only coached the ponies for 2 years, it was 4 years later that the ponies won the S12. Now by that logic does it mean if aus win the RWC next year it's because of Connolly?!???
The style of play from MacQueen to Jones was in no way similar. MacQueen always played with the tight five, Jones played with the breakdown and inside backs. So to say MacQueen had anything to do with those ponies titles is just delusional!
3) Huxley wasn't at that point in his career. And I think you're taking that the wrong way aswell. Look at Dingo Deans, dropped Sharpe and said he wasn't good enough in the tight and now he's one of the best locks in the comp because he has moved in.
Barnes should sort out his own game before he starts telling people where to go!
4) 2007 with the reds, as far as I am concerned there is no such thing as a title in the first year when you're coming off what the reds had. They would've had 50+ put on them in Afrikaa no matter who the coach was. It's all in the context mate.
5) *pepsimax facepalm*
Why on Earth would you say S12 performance should dictate how a national coach does at test level? Waugh never really performed at the international level, he just wasn't quick enough even though he has the skills. Baxter was rubbish until last year. Dunning was rubbish at international level. There are so many Blackadder's in the aus S12 teams that it's not even worth talking about!
The wallabies under Eddie Jones primarily sucked because of the scrum, when Darwin snapped his spine, that was the last good scrummager aus had for about 3 years. You had Dunning/Baxter sucking it up on one side and Young on the other trying to descretely bring it down without conceding a penalty.
Australia still doesn't have a scrum school, or a provincial championship and they are the main reasons it took so long after all the players left in 01 & 03. What's worse is that people actually expected what happened in 99/01 even though the ARU was sucking money away from grassroots and buying leaguies. Jones even publicly stated he didn't want Rogers in the squad but he was pressured by the HPU.
6) I believe the honour of worst percentage goes to Connolly, I also think Eddie Jones has a higher winning home % than Dingo Deans!
edit> I don't know why you'd smite a bloke just for telling the truth!