Enough is enough. How much longer must we endure the disastrous quagmire in which Australian rugby finds itself after the weekend’s humiliating loss, a loss which – although I haven’t looked this up – I am pretty sure is the biggest defeat in Wallaby history? Even worse, it was to South Africa, a nation which if I recall correctly only began playing rugby in the early 1990s. The facts are clear: the Joe Schmidt experiment has failed and it is time to move on.
If last year taught us anything, it was that keeping a coach around after he has lost a game is a recipe for disaster. Eddie Jones lost a game, and like idiots Rugby Australia continued his employment. How did that work out for you, guys? Exactly.
Schmidt has been given a generous span of four games to prove his worth, and has failed miserably. The humiliating loss to South Africa followed even more humiliating victories over Wales and Georgia in Test matches which proved beyond all shadow of doubt that this is the worst-coached Wallaby team since the last one. The thing that galls one the most is that we know that Australia’s rightful ranking in the world is number one.
I distinctly recall Australia being the best team in the world, in fact, at one point. We won two World Cups, for god’s sake, and yet now we can’t even beat South Africa? It’s a horrific slide, and the only difference between then and now that I can discern is that when Australia won the World Cup, Joe Schmidt was not the coach, and now, .