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THE penny has not yet dropped with James O'Connor so being dropped is the right medicine to turn around his poor habits.
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New coach Ewen McKenzie has forcefully taken the opportunity to make him realise that he must change otherwise he will not play for the Wallabies.
Reward his discipline, punish his lack of it.
Sometimes hitting rock bottom allows players to rebound. The Perth airport incident is rock bottom for O'Connor and he's feeling that sting by being dumped from the tour to South Africa and Argentina.
On top of this has been the lack of growth in his play. He makes an odd contribution in Test matches but when was the last time we were talking about James O'Connor like we do about All Blacks ace Israel Dagg.
The reason O'Connor has hit this point is that his anti-performance behaviour kept being rewarded. It's as simple as that.
Players are mostly creatures of habit. They do the things on and off the field that are being rewarded by winning, on a team basis, and individually by accolades, contracts and selection.
O'Connor came onto the Wallabies scene in 2008 as the new, young star in town…brash, talented and good looking.
More importantly, he was a very good player who could help make the Wallabies beat the Kiwis again. However, he lacked personal discipline.
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His misdemeanours were not punished. It culminated at Perth airport where his lack of personal discipline was evident.
His coaches have all said he will learn in time. "He's only a kid" has been the refrain but the kid is now 23 and has not learnt.
I remember picking a young Matt Giteau out of club rugby for the 2002 Wallabies tour of Argentina and Europe.
When we arrived in Buenos Aires, he was off to get his eyebrows groomed with stripes.
The team culture of the Wallabies at that time was strong. Knowing that I would disapprove, the team manager and a senior player grabbed Gits and reformed his brows.
He was at the start of a long international career of 92 caps and is now one of the best club players in Europe.
Teams in Australian rugby today tend not to have strong senior leadership groups and are also loathe to pull fellow players into line. As a result, many gifted players are lacking personal and team discipline.
It is hard to see O'Connor, at 33, being one of the best players in the world like Giteau when, at 23, only one of the five franchises in Australia wants him.
O'Connor's behaviour has been punished. New behaviours must be learnt and an environment created that allows his talent to flourish into performance.
Matt Henjak was another wayward spirit. For him the penny did not drop until the late 2000s playing in France for Toulon. It started in 2005 when he was sent home from a Wallabies tour of South Africa for rowdy non-winning behaviour on a Wednesday night before a Test.
Missing Tests is a punishment O'Connor will understand.
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