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My thoughts on this latest comedy from RA. 1) Larkham is getting lambasted and scapegoated because he was promoted too early and has no lower tier results or even significant experience to make his appointment to a top job remotely deserved. 2) The deep cynic in me actually has a sneaking...

I don't think they are conflicting at all. As for the Italy test, Italy are ranked outside the top 10 at present are they not. The actual performance and even potential of that side are so far below the Wallabies (as is the player payments schedule) any performance against them must been...

One thing that must be said, is that the current 60 cap rule is allowing the favoured ones like AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) to walk back in whether or not they are actually deserving of a place. They are walking back in not only to a Wallabies jersey but also a Super spot, removing the development opportunity for up...

Coaching comments - as I said above the systems are an utter failure. As the comments today by Eddie Jones have highlighted again, the systems off the pitch are even worse, and I would go further to say they are corrupt. The arguments about lack of funding for grass roots is fundamental to...

1) Owen "No Arms" Farrell has walked free of sanction for shoulder charges in his last three tests. The Rodda "tackle" was a penalty and a yellow card and there a penalty try. No ifs or buts. Three of said tackles in three weeks, he should now be suspended. Apart from this glaring error I...

Well you certainly aren't Nostradamus, you aren't even able to learn from past events of similar nature. Just like when you posted this exact same thing to me when Hickey/Foley and then Foley came to the predictable end to be replaced by Cheika. You derisive condescension, just like when it...

@ Jimmy - ^^^^ Its actually part of the complete incompetence of Cheika and Co that he continues to be selected at 8, Pocock is NOT George Smith, he has no real running or linking game, he is the best fetching 7 in Australia, followed by (not in Australia Gill and McMahon). Hooper is not and...

Beale's biggest contribution to Australian Rugby was done from his mobile phone and he offers nothing extraordinary onfield but sideways runs, loops passes, direct offloads to the opposition, constant chip kicks to nobody or long kicks also to nobody and weak defence. If Foley deserves to be...

I have been absent because I just can't be bothered anymore. I watched half of the AB game in Japan, and the performance was utter crap, unprofessional you could call it in the absolute lack of skill execution, but that has been an ongoing theme since they outperformed in 2015, and part of a...

Just listened to the Podcast "Asleep at the Wheel" and in the light of THE Letter about the club association from Papworth and the comments from Barbar and Co it has to be said, the reason there are so many "mushroom" and thought bubbles popping up all over and little rebellions is not just the...

If a training session (in sport or anywhere else) is a shambles it generally comes back to the planning of the session and the control of the presenter/trainer. The long passes thing is exactly what I said about Beale's passing on the goal line, it was obviously a trained tactic and the whole...

Chieka's lineout issues predate his Wallabies time. At the Tahs he got by in 2014 on a career best year by a couple of players and it all fell to bits when he made no succession planning and gave no real importance/time to the Lineout in 2015. Then Gibson was addled with the flawed squad in...

Mowen is the best lineout backrower Australia has produced in the last decade bar none. In losing teams he topped the Super Rugby comp for lineout steals two years running, even when at the Tahs and he wasn't a starter he was by far the best.

A bit like ASIC/APRA "investigations" into the banks, now proved by the Royal C. - yeah they do a lot. Fee collectors and nothing more.

I agree unfortunately, but holy shit I want a contract like that and the ability to sign my mates and favourites to excessively long deals for beyond market value and not have to meet any performance metrics of any kind. At least he is comfortable with the "improvement" the team made (???)...

To start with I wouldn't have bothered to stay up or get up for this game, but a good dose of the man flu has seen me unable to lie down without coughing up a lung, so I found my self sitting through yet another abysmal Wallabies effort. The real disappointing aspect of the Wallabies under...

Funny how you are all about respectful debate but don't hesitate to call the bloke a peanut. You are a hypocrite. And Fatprop too Post #8872. Both of you. You cannot take the moral high ground while you use abuse yourselves. My first post on this matter was that the bloke should indeed have...

Genuine attempts on my life on 5 occasions, Upwards of 200 deceased persons when I finished in that profession, hospitalised from serious assaults, broken bones, permanent damage to head (on going concussive symptoms from multiple concussions including one that left me unconscious for 30...

Nice way to try and close down the debate. Do you work for a living. Can you choose not to go to work for the next 3 months ('til Reds preseason) and still have the funds to pay for your accommodation and food? If so you are on the dole or employed in some fashion completely remote from 99% of...

LOL - yes silly to pick fights like that. In all seriousness though imagine if it was security or Police handling a bloke by the throat like that, regardless of motivation that behaviour is as bad or worse than the verbal attack. That is a failure of the security at the venue as is this whole...