Amid scenes of jubilation after England's storming 39-28 victory over Australia at Brisbane, there was Glen Ella, in England gear, hugging every one around him. Glen Ella, the former Wallaby?
Ella is England's skills coach. Successful skills coach. Note the skills behind George Ford's long pass to Marland Yarde who then ran in a crucial try. And Ford's neat chip-kick to gift winger Jack Nowell for the last try of the Test.
George Smith, another former Wallaby, provided his expertise for England's ruck game. Note how England created more turnovers and penalties from the rucks than the overwhelmed Wallabies. The six successful penalties kicked by Owen Farrell were the decisive factor in England's victory. 
Enter now Eddie Jones, a former Wallabies coach but now England's coach. Jones spooked Michael Cheika with his talk of "Bodyline" rugby. Cheika selected a six-two split of forwards and backs on his reserve bench to counter this threat of physical intimidation. There was no winger in the reserves to replace Rob Horne when he went off injured in the 28th minute. The Wallabies ran 802 metres to the 412m by England during the Test. But they lacked a finisher on the wing to capitalise on all the break-outs. During the first 15 minutes, though, when Horne was on the field, the Wallabies scored two tries and played their best ensemble rugby in years.
Ella has expressed an interest in coaching at the international level. Stephen Larkham, the Wallabies backs coach, is also the coach of the Brumbies. Surely the Wallabies should have a full-time backs/skills coach. Ella, perhaps? And how about re-establishing a smart high-performance unit to give detailed information about tactics, refereeing styles (the Wallabies failed to read referee Romain Poite), and team selection to Cheika? Michael Hawker dismantled this unit when he became chairman of the Australian Rugby Union. As a result of this decision, Australian rugby lost David Nucifora, the head of the unit.
Nucifora is now the high-performance guru for the Irish Rugby Union. Newsflash: Ireland defeated South Africa 26-20 at Cape Town at the weekend. This was Ireland's first Test win in South Africa. They played with 14 men for an hour. They read the Springboks like a book. At one point, playing with 13 men for 10 minutes, Ireland scored more points than the Springboks.
The All Blacks were the only team out of the Big Three (Australia, South Africa, New Zealand) to win their Test at the weekend. With only 20 minutes of play left, Wales were leading the All Blacks. The All Blacks coaching staff were smart about throwing on their reserves. These reserves turned the tide in the final quarter. The point here is that the right reserves were primed to play well.
This coaching clarity has a formidable foundation, Team All Blacks. When the All Blacks squad was announced, the New Zealand Rugby Union also listed their management team: Steve Hansen, head coach/selector; Ian Foster, assistant head coach/selector; Grant Fox, selector; Darren Shand, manager, business and operations; Gilbert Enoka, manager, leadership; Mike Cron, assistant coach, forwards; Wayne Smith, assistant coach, defence; Dr Nic Gill, strength and conditioning coach; Jason Healy, performance analysis manager; Jamie Hamilton, performance analyst; Dr Tony Page, doctor; Peter Gallagher, physiotherapist; George Duncan, manual therapist; Katrina Darry, nutritionist; Bianca Thiel, team service manager; Joe Locke, media manager; Kevin "Chalky" Carr, logistics manager.
The ARU did not provide a list like this when the Wallabies squad was announced. Does the ARU even have a similar Team Wallabies list?
Rod Macqueen was the most successful of all the Wallabies coaches. He was guided by this principle from Sun Tzu: "The battle is won before it is fought." For Melbourne, Cheika has selected his World Cup front row. Scott Sio is dropped after being given a yellow card for scrumming offences at Brisbane. Sean McMahon, a bruising runner, replaces the injured David Pocock, a poacher, at No.8. There will be a winger, Luke Morahan, on the reserves bench.
This team would have been useful at Brisbane. But will England's Australian coaches create a different battle plan at Melbourne than they did for Brisbane?