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Is the apparent divide in the thread because some read the rumours on here and discard them while others hear them through their own trusted networks? As RR says, none of us are in a position to actually know the truth, you just have to weigh up the reliability of your network and consider what...

formerflanker I love you. I dared to dream. Only for a moment though, it is possible that you are at stage 1; denial.

... and rugby will have made it when it is front page on The Age Sadly the first thing to go in a badly run coffee shop is the quality of the coffee .... IS view of the current trending opinion is interesting. If all rumours true then Beale and Link are easier to deal with as the ARU...

It is a real shame I do not have the answers for everything so I pose another question. This is very inconvenient for NSW rugby. Within sniffing distance of financial viability ..... Would they try and top up Beale's contract themselves in the absence of ARU money? I bet they would try...

At the end of the day I suppose this is where it will get to and no one will be the wiser. Won't stop the innuendo, let alone this thread!

I should stay up this late more often, am thinking much more clearly. Just trawling back through some comments on the Dublin 6. Where are we with the culture at the Wallabies? One point of view is that Australians do not like dobbers. Another is that the dobbed in should not be letting...

Just before we get carried away here about sport being a business and players being employees. I always love that with sporting bodies; a sport when we have our hands out and a business when we need to fuck someone over. It is a bit unfair being high and mighty about workplace standards. A lot...

Here is another question for workplace lawyers. There is an assumption at large that Beale accidentally sent the text to Patson. Other readers have pointed to the possible guilt of the Dublin snitch. Technically then aren't Beale and the Dublin snitch equally guilty? If there is a...

If the innuendo is true then missing training and team dinners is the least of the issues. The people running the ARU are very highly paid custodians of a major enterprise. If there are legs to this story I wouldn't pay them to run a coffee shop. The implications of that are huge. Then we are...

Time to bring in Batman, 13 posts gone missing. Looks like the Barbarian isn't the only one humming at this time of night!

Too much conciliation, manipulation and posturing. All of the Wallabies are going to be highly focussed and motivated individuals, aggressive, arrogant and stubborn. That is how they got there. Go and find my posts on the subject at the time if you like but I said then that the whole McKenzie...

Just a quick word of warning to those of you tempted to keep going as only 8 posts to go to #1000. Don't put your beauty sleep at risk because they are still searching for post #5000 on the scholarships thread, last seen somewhere over the Indian Ocean.

While I admire everyone's obsession with the sports pages this situation plays out every couple of months in the business section. I think anyone who thinks anyone in management is going to be pushed out over an airplane argument without starting a much bigger and more lucrative fight is...

Just trying to email my son and summarise this 42 page string to bring him up to date (No worries, took 8 lines!!!) I am really sorry to see KB (Kurtley Beale) go, even more so if there is more fallout for the Waratahs. One player has been notably subdued on the field recently. Will be pretty interested to...

4 months? If someone was really serious they would keep that under wraps at least as long as you would a Grange Hermitage thankyou card. Looks like some GAGRs got their wishes. KB (Kurtley Beale) on his way out on an ironclad charge and the rest swept under some other piece of carpet. Nice work ARU. I won't...

Irrespective of whether she is qualified, her role is expanding too far, her role is blurry etc. I am thinking that it certainly sounds as if she has been asked to accept a lot of responsibility for a wide range of issues. Reportedly because Rob Edgerton was let go as manager due to budget...

Joeleee please note that watching Neighbours last night does not instantly qualify you to contribute to this thread! However I will now wait until tomorrow for the next instalment? Will the long haired inside centre kick poorly, drop the ball or run across field?

I am not sure that the qualifications issue is irrelevant. Georgina Robinson's article refers to the growing disquiet within the team at the expanding but blurry role of Ms P. Annoyingly I cannot find it now but I also thought that in addition there was a report or comment that some players...

Runner should be the Thread Mascot I think. Forrest Gump running back and forth across the country while nothing changes ......

On the subject of the 101-0 drubbing. I immediately think of the total mismatch with forward packs clubbed into submission by bigger boys and backs just running over the top of the opposition. I just looked at the video on this site and it is amazing that the first period of the game is...