Desi,

You can lay the blame on your rise in rugby union on the NZRFU when in about late 60's or early 70's SA got booted out of International Rugby and we had no else to play so sent masses of Provincial teams to Aussie as well as the AB's. I personally had 3 trips. Aussie now certainly has excellent administration I'll give you that. Over recent times our problem has been the NZRFU, not the selector-coaches who are as good as any and better than most, they can only work with what they are given. There is another problem with our football, and in both codes, they are both chock full of Polynesian players who lack the mental toughness required. Check out the Warriors when they had Campion, Death, and a couple of other hard-headed Aussies whos names slip me....they rose to the top...look where they are now with no hard-heads....the talk now is they are going after more hard-headed Aussies.

Lauaki, the raw talent is there I suppose but not a hell of a lot between the ears as yet....if it develops he could be a good one.

Go and pull out some more weeds mate.