The Flayed Blooper Delusion

What is it with the mythical creatures in this sport? You saplings just can't repel the siren sound. But alas Master Tzu has come to beguile you. Cooper is doing nothing different than what we have already seen over the years. He loves those little flip passes and likes to join in the attack out wide. All novel contributions, but it has never worked in a real test where space and time are not given easily. On Saturday all I saw was Welsh defenders stand-off the attackers and allow them to come upon them rather than seize the initiative and close them down. Under Peter De Villiers we saw how devastating the Australians can be if given time and space; in fact, we were the only stooge nation at that time to gift them these things! Samoa, England, New Zealand, South Africa (Meyer), Argentina (at full tilt), France and even Scotland and Italy have shown the Aussies up in general. Quade Cooper cannot live in a real test, end of story, end of discussion. This is before we consider his shocking defensive capabilities which Deans try so hard to conceal. But, as is often the way, we let time turn another page in the tragic epic that is Failed Flyhalves.