I am sick and tired of writing these articles I can tell you, my shoe is worn out from sinking the slipper into the Wallabies. I will not get stuck into the coaching staff as I did not knife Eddy Jones too much for the same reason. Australia simply is not producing World Class Rugby players anymore, there are serious structural problems in our player base that were recognised 10 years ago and we are now paying the price for. The ARU are desperately trying to correct the problem but it is too little too late.

For a National Sport to be a world leader you have to have the sport functioning at optimum levels from the National Administration all the way down to a suburban Under 7 team running around on a Saturday morning. You honestly can’t say that about Australian Rugby, ask anyone at any level of Rugby and they will tell you of the difficulties and problems they are facing in day to day operations. These problems are as varied as funding, recruitment of players, volunteers, coaches and officials, lack of sponsors, no profile and so and so on the list goes on.

For the exact opposite of this scenario just look over the ditch to what is happening in New Zealand. The number one team in the world is firing on all cylinders; they are doing everything right on and off the field. The National Provincial Championship is a model competition, the All Blacks play in it, it has a huge profile and attracts a worldwide TV Audience. Contrast this to the Australian experience where you never see Wallabies playing at club level, for some reason they believe going to Coff’s Harbour for 3 months is better then getting out and playing week in and week out. You will hear excuses like the club competition is too weak and the Wallaby players have limited the matches they can play under their contracts. What a joke the Brisbane competition used to be very strong until the QRU started to allow the Wallabies to opt out of club commitments.

What better way to learn your trade then come up against hardened international player’s week in, week out. Australian players outside the Super 14 just don’t get this experience anymore, the Wallabies disappear to Coff’s Harbour, the All Blacks slog it out in the NPC. I know which system works better as this is the system I played in, Wallabies had to return to club football and this enhanced the competitions and made them a higher standard.

Sorry folks but to the tune of Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry it will be No World Cup No Cry for Wallaby supporters in 2007. Make sure you follow my tips for the World Cup next year, I did really well in 2003. I have not done too badly on this tour; I picked the Wallabies to win narrowly against Italy. Against Ireland I tipped the Irish to win by 7-10 points they won by 16 eventually. This weekend the Wallabies will win by 10 points against Scotland.

Look to the left my new song is up titled No World Cup No Cry. (go to photo page for pics of the event) We cut the song last Friday with those two Kava snakes Soni Nuku and John Cheer. Hope you enjoy the Snake Song already on the website, it was written in homage to Coff’s Harbour’s very own Stormin Norman, otherwise known as the King Cobra. The poor form of the Wallabies is evoking some passionate responses; Shane of Mt Druitt told me that he would love to get hold of a couple of Wallaby forwards and toughen them up a bit. I think we all would Shane because at the moment they exhibit all the power of a Pavlova falling off the top shelf in cake shop.