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Yes, and what about the Position Description of this new role - RA's announcement today (see www.rugby.com.au) says this new role is principally re 'off field' Wallaby matters - WTF? How does this role interface with Kafer's national coaching and coach development role? Why in a financially...

I'm still surprised that many posters here continue by implication to impute to RA a rational, objective, considered approach to the matter of selecting the elite coaching resources to manage the Wallabies. Going right back to: the crazy multi-year extension of Deans' contract well pre RWC...

Who knows the 'insider' reasons in any detail, but prima facie Byrne has been the biggest shock and disappointment of the lot relative to his avowed track record and experience with the ABs for many years. And he was praised for years by AB players and management well before he came back to...

I am sincerely delighted to be able to objectively assess something positive regarding the QRU's actions in terms of 2019's Reds coaching appointments. And more importantly that body at long, long last taking possession of the insight and understanding essential to enabling a complete...

Yes, and so long as they also lack courage, leadership, imagination and a genuine interest in the rapidly vaporising rugby fan base.

Yes, we have been cycling new (post 2016) young women's 7s players through the team since that time, very few have proven to be exceptional on a sustained basis. Call me 'harsh' but the objective of a pro sport is to keep winning ongoing tournaments and key match-ups and not merely run an...

An unjustified diversionary from the core point being raised in direct relation to Aust rugby matters (sorry Sully). The issue is not 'bank haters'; the issue is that our RUs have derived significant components of their board leadership base from a cadre or type of senior bank business leaders...

Indeed. Additionally I assume we have collectively noticed the ravenous appetite our typically hapless RA and State RU boards have for ex-bankers (investment and/or retail) in the senior board roles? JO'N, Hawker, Clyne, Davis, Frawley. Anyone following the Hayne Royal Commission into the...

Could not agree more ILTW. Walsh is now really starting to get the mens' team into shape. Team coherence, intensity, consistency, raw skills, last minutes fitness, all improving notably. Way to go, but the latest trending I see is really encouraging. As a long-term and avid supporter of our...

In 2009 my 10 year-old Brisbane-based son went on a rugby tour to NZ to play U11s private school teams there. After one match in Auckland - which our school lost - a tall man of obviously Islander descent but with a Kiwi accent came over to our boys and in a courteous and most helpful manner...

I agree. As I said somewhere above it's entirely possible and plausible that RA will roll out a 'we support MC and his RWC plan and will back him to deliver it' line. The essential problem is that RA lacks the competencies in-depth and essential to the designing and recruiting of elite rugby...

We obviously share different standards and employ different definitions of 'writer' and serious journalists' responsibilities to their readers. Fair enough. She needs fans.

I kind of agree with you however decent, respectable and serious journalism must balance the elites leak receipt factor with some capacity to serve readership with objective analysis and reasoned critique re the subject matter of their coverage. GeoRob principally: - takes the ARU/RA policy...

Just to recall: White 'pissed off early' from the Brumbies /Aust rugby essentially as he believed - rightly or wrongly - that B Pulver misled him regarding the seriousness and candidate equivalence by which we would be assessed for the post-Deans HC of the Wallabies.

That was the explanation conveniently fed to GeoRob by RA who can as always be trusted to 'defend, excuse, or repeat' lines she's been fed by ARU/RA leakers. She is very rarely engaged in any meaningful critique of this body, or M Cheika for that matter. I note that solely as - an alternative...

I think we often forget that any 'new assistants' worth their professional salt would by definition want to make major changes to almost all aspects of Wallaby selection and preparation. If that was not largely true why hire them? Managerially, saying 'we'll keep a chronically underperforming...

Knuckles and R Graham tried that after early declarations of comradeship. Ended in a bitter disaster with Knuckles having to sue the QRU for unpaid fees.

Apropos re what B Dwyer had to say about all this - and why - today: http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2018/11/27/dwyer-calls-for-more-overseas-players See also post # 524 directly above.

They interlace though, to a major degree. The core issue in all the coaching-related discussion we engage in here is not Cheika. The core issue is that it is evident - and has been for some considerable time - that the ARU/RA have not assembled the competence and experience essential to the...

What a shocking development, no doubt a serious loss to the Reds, no one could have picked his failure and quiet departure, what a great surprise to all is this revelation. "We wish him all the best in his future endeavours."