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The question is surely: relative to whom, and where are the better alternatives to KB (Kurtley Beale) deep in the reserves as you say Barb? There may be: not many. I think your team pick is logical and objective but, unfortunately, what does stand out to me is just how few really outstanding players - in...

No, I don't think 'promised' as such but he did note the benefits that accrue to the 6N from it gaining the widest possible exposure, etc.

Just btw: the CEO of the 6N has strongly denied such a decision re dedicated PayTV has been made and further comments that submissions for the next set of 6N media rights have not even been made yet, let alone final decisions being taken. I'm sorry this article is paywalled, but it's all in...

Now all that I agree with - if Alred is still actively involved, does anyone know? To your point I just cannot fathom why Campbell is being consistently picked as lead place kicker. Last night there was a scoreline period when it looked as though Campbell's wayward boot may end up...

Agree. Eg, Link, Cheika, Rennie, White (almost got there)

Really so? Why then did J Sexton and G Ford recently retain him as kicking coach? (As an aside, he's also quite highly regarded in golf swing coaching btw, has coached amongst others Molinari in this area of the game.)

Well, who TF knows '..........what ideal HC got passed up.........' but that's no argument to the point. Where, more usefully perhaps to the point, is there evidence the QRU even cared to look carefully? Now you may have a point in terms of 'little/no money' etc. This is exactly what...

Correct. The past 15 or so years record for the QRU at pro level is one of appalling mismanagement in virtually every important aspect. Its processes for choosing HCs and the choices made - bar Link, now well proven by look-back as the outlier, the fortuitous exception - have been woeful, the...

You will I think recall the past controversy when Deans used BvS as kicking coach but typically by Skype alone.

To be credible as a Finals team the 2020 Reds have to beat teams ranked above them. The Aust Conf in 2020 bar the Brumbies (our only well-coached team) is seriously weak and the test of any sound Aust team is in beating higher ranked teams outside the local Conference.

We seem to have all fallen into or for some kind of rugby lullaby that says that having a "young and talented team" is intrinsically A Good Thing that will somehow go into a special astrological circuit of the moon and inexorably come out a top pro team.......one day, just be patient. No. Pro...

What about H Stewart then? And where is the evidence that Alred is having an impact on these crucial aspects of top level pro rugby? Or are we indirectly back to the pathetic QRU sop ‘this is a young developing team (like it has repetitively been at an excuses-for-mediocrity level at the Reds...

Hahaha - you know that for a fact do you - or just don’t want to recognise the incompetence of anointing Campbell - even the most generous interpretation is that he’s ‘high risk kicker learning on the job and thus could easily lose the team games with missed kicking points’.

Let’s be honest / choice of Campbell as Reds’ lead kicker is a coaching indictment, extraordinarily poor judgement when you have JO’C there with better technique, far deeper experience and a reasonable history of clutch kicking. I still don’t get the Thorn love and adoration here and never...

Great points and facts mst. To me it's mostly a plus sum game for sports assuming they have the business and technology nous to optimise for their code the mixed use of FTA, Pay TV, IP-based OTT sub services as you reference. There is audience overlap of course amongst these delivery...

An aside as it was discussed above: The 6N Comp owners are in fact aggregating all their media rights to the 'autumn internationals' and other related 6N matches and this is quite a significant development: "The member unions of the Six Nations rugby union tournament have agreed to pool...

IMO, and as I have been saying here more or less since 2012, what we have had before in RA, NSWRU, QRU etc, and have in them now, is way more 'dangerous' in its obvious current trajectory than the prospect of somehow financially and commercially partnering with one of the world's most successful...

FTA TV, as you imply, world-wide lives today on live sports, reality TV and live news. And well-run FTA-based TV business still make excellent margins and pay reasonable dividends. The idea you often see here that, as a class, they are about to die any minute is vastly exaggerated, almost...

Yeah mst I think it's an exciting and potentially viable thing for RA (and many sports) to be doing, at least conceptually in today's market spaces and demographies. You create direct, interactive links with your customers, you offer them real-time alternatives in how they view, engage with and...

A Btw: If CVC execute as is rumoured and take a 14% stake in the 6N Comp for GBP300m, that values 100% of the comp at no less than GBP 2.14Bn (assuming that is all paid for existing shares, it's higher if it's for new shares and the money stays in), a good size number. Remember, the 6N runs a...