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I remember so well RR when you were one of the first here to justifiably back in, what, 2014, highlight how brilliantly the Aust 7s women's team was playing and the dazzlingly skilful style of 7s rugby there were then producing. And you were totally correct; your comments presaged the Olympic...

Brilliant post. The calibre of system-wide rugby coaching is simply fundamental to maintaining the market share of rugby in any given mature market for pro sports. There are many intrinsic reasons why coaching calibre matters so profoundly to successful pro rugby outcomes, and surely they are...

(Promising this will be my last......): You are distorting again, and your goal posts in this debate are highly mobile, and you're now adding patronising comments to try and bolster your arguments. That is wholly irrelevant to this particular discussion, who the other theoretical NED...

You keep saying this, the 'unlimited EJ (Eddie Jones) budget', in an oblique defence of what RA does or does not do re its investment here in national coaching resources. But do you know this for a fact? Or is it just your own speculation?

As it's likely I am 'one of the other two', and as you insist on wilful distortion to keep scoring attack points, I will make my final comments on this: - I did NOT say these NED ARU/RA appointments were solely PC - though I did and do think there was undoubtedly was an element of that - I...

.........and there are also here, thankfully, thoughtful posters who didn’t agree with many of Cheika’s (and/or RA’s) policies, decisions, selections, way of behaving in public, in the first place and said so here well before various mediocrities and later disasters unfolded. In fact, they often...

One of the serious quirks associated with RA’s still not fully explained* decision to appoint a ‘Director of Rugby’ (at no doubt considerable $ cost) is that of which HC candidates of high calibre would be willing to have that position hovering over them and then having to report to that...

^^^^ Apparently the latest is: Rennie has told UK media he’s not signed a contract with RA.........but ‘he’s definitely interested’ in the Wallaby HC position.

Utter rubbish, if objectively addressing the points raised in any way matters here. Needless to say - that is absolutely not what either myself or Lost said. Distort and obfuscate as much as you want, but over time, actual results obtained highlight any board’s appropriateness to the task and...

'The financial services industry' of which C Clyne, R Davis and the immediate past Chair of the QRU are all stalwarts. Let me just say, in terms of ethics, competencies, good governance, this is not an industry that has recently covered itself in glory.

Oh dear. I think you have missed the point entirely in a flurry of frenzied upsetedness. The point is not one regarding 'not good enough' - by some abstract and absolutist criteria of innate worthiness as a directors - and this point was not even debated. I for one never argued 'not good...

This is a very astute observation and one of Australian rugby’s legacy and ongoing problems. Nothing against these women or women on boards of all types and sizes (do I really have to say that, I suppose so). These were principally Pulveresque appointments and the criteria were clear: PC...

A 55 should certainly know a 55

It will. But IMO England have overall the more complete squad, a superior kicking game, and better technique and well-controlled intensity at the breakdown. I think England will win the GF vs SA And, post the Cricket WC 2019, accordingly Australian sports coaches will rival the value of our...

Haha. But what was the text space ratio between that one line And what was contained in all the many, many more following lines describing ‘We were shit’ Is it not an old truth in rugby Really, really powerful teams that do virtually everything better than the crushed opposition always...

Yeah, maybe, just, but it’s more unbalanced than you say It’s simply that I see so many Kiwi fans find a 1,000 subtle but nonetheless identifiable ways to be sore losers And pretend they’re being gracious re the opposition but........ PS: I love and always have the peerless Pillock, but...

Can’t it ever be said by a NZ fan We have a good side But the opposition had a better side and simply played much better and were coached much better The NZ ‘explanation’ always has to be.... We lost ‘cause we were shit There’s another universe out there where a country can assemble a...

If true that Rennie appointed to Wallabies, why oh fucking why did RA not wait until the RWC was over, keep their powder dry and assess options then. And pay whatever it took (yes, I mean that, the stakes for Aust rugby are simply massive) to get the very best possible HC from those available...

Rennie v Jones Very amusing

The point you seem to evade (and that I was indirectly getting at, however tangentially) is the decisive role getting the Wallabies to the RWC 2015 GF played in Cheika's standing, bargaining power, and contract engagement process with the then ARU (along with his then much-elevated HC...