Continuing the cricket analogy, axing Beale after a nondescript effort in victory last weekend is like telling David Warner: a duck gets you dropped and 50 keeps you in the team.
The inconsistency would be damaging. In one week, out the next. If you drop a ball, you're out. If you score a good try, you stay in the following week.
But it would be tough to swallow when Barnes, who has hardly ever played fullback, is picked instead.
The pressing question is: does he know what he has to do? Has he been told that by Robbie Deans?
The Wallabies have a tough tour of South Africa and Argentina coming up, a third clash against the All Blacks and then a challenging Spring Tour,Christian Louboutin Lady Lynch 120mm Black.
Beale's swagger took a big blow after Sydney, but I thought he bounced back off the bench in Auckland and then performed solidly in Perth. There was a platform for him to keep building there, but that has been taken away now.
Australian rugby needs Beale in top form - and you don't get that by leaving him out of the team.
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I couldn't see any fitness problems for Beale in Perth, and while it wasn't his best game, I thought he was starting to take some positive options.
Wallabies: B Barnes, D Shipperley, A Ashley-Cooper, P McCabe, D Ioane, Q Cooper, N Phipps; R Samo, M Hooper, D Dennis, N Sharpe (c), K Douglas, B Alexander, T Polota-Nau, B Robinson. Res: S Fainga'a, J Slipper, S Higginbotham, L Gill, B Sheehan, A Fainga'a, K Beale
For a confidence player like Beale, this rollercoaster ride can not be doing him any good.
Even then, however, you need to be careful with attacking, instinctive players. You don't want to turn a flamboyant opening batsman into a medium pace bowler. You have to work with Beale's natural ability and strengthen his mental confidence.
You want him playing with confidence, but to get him confident, he must be given game time.
It really gives you no leeway for an off game. That means when you are on the field, the normal personality traits of a player like Beale are watered down. Instead of thinking, "I am going to counter attack from 80m out", the safe option is taken instead, and that is not Beale's personality as a rugby player.
As long as Deans and selectors have been open and honest about why he has been dropped, and what they want him to do better to stay in the team, then he may know where he stands.
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Kurtley Beale is that struggling batsman, but for the
Pumas: L Amorosino, G Camacho, M Bosch, S Fernandez, H Agulla, J Hernandez, M Landajo; J Lobbe (c), J Leguizamon, J Cabello, P Albacete, M Carizza, J Figallo, E Guinazu, R Roncero. Res: A Creevy,Christian Louboutin You You Sling 85mm Argento, J Orlandi, L Senatore, T Leonardi, N Vergallo, M Rodriguez, J Imhoff
Fair enough if a demotion is down to disciplinary issues, or there is another fullback running around playing better, or a proven alternative like Adam Ashley-Cooper or James O'Connor.
He didn't look happy under the high ball but, again, that is a skill that comes down to confidence.
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