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Yes. In the last 15 years NZ rugby has invested in a total, all-in, all levels, rugby system's playing skills, S&C and coaching development program, bottom to top. In Australian rugby over the same period we have invested in and wilfully indulged a tiny elite clique of executives and players...

Can someone help me with this: given the diabolical state of Australian rugby in 2018, in what Australian rugby universe are Twiggy's initiatives and financial capability to invest anything other than something to be celebrated, supported and encouraged? Such a death paradox in many Australian...

That's an excellent viability-of-franchise point in that what is happening as most Aust Super rugby crowds fall to (real not bullshit) average crowd levels of 8,000-10,000 (in stadia that can hold 3-5 times that number), those crowd numbers will barely if at all cover gross ground costs so best...

Anyone here would know I agree with most of that. Side point: if anyone bothers to read the excellent piece in today's AFR re how Catherine Brenner climbed the greasy pole via shameless but cunningly designed Sydney elite networking and smoozing to arrive as Chairperson of the AMP, whilst...

QH - I for one am on record here and elsewhere stating that RA Blunder#201 was to invest vast RA cash in the Rebels and/or Force (with nothing now to show for it btw) when the clear and far lower risk (and higher potential gain) priority was to design a plan to build out a new rugby/Super Rugby...

Was more like 8,000 max I'd say. The QRU is now ensuring that Ticketek's seat sale pattern widely disburses the available seats over all the lower sections of Suncorp so the visual effect is not as awful as the hard numerical truth. If that crowd was actually bunched together there was no way...

Credit where due. Against quality opposition and backs against the wall, the first 50 minutes of that game were of high standard in almost all aspects of Reds' play and one of the best sustained periods of play the Reds have composed since 2011-12. They looked a different team - and differently...

Indisputably. All these chickens have now come home to roost in Australia whilst simultaneously the NZRU's deep investment in continuously building rugby skills competencies from the grass roots up and extended coaching R&D programs across all layers have taken their team capabilities to an...

An HC can bring in all the rugby youth in the world but if he and his coaching team don't have the skill and patience to properly blood and develop them what will surely happen is that wave after wave of them will just fall away, downtrodden, disheartened, 'under performing' and lost. Then the...

B Thorn to his psych coach: 'Mate I've only just mastered the art of the gruff cover-up but now I'm in a state of raw panic and total uncertainty about what to do, who to pick, and what to tell the team. Otherwise, I just hope it works.'

No disrespect to you Sc, but that is another 'designer crowd number' from the QRU. No way was Suncorp just over 25% full. The ',002' is suspicious as well. I'd estimate 8-9,000 max closer to the truth. EDIT: The QRU's last virtual bankruptcy, nadir year was 2009. That year the Reds' very...

P Carozza as Reds Attack AC is just totally, and I mean totally, out of his depth. It was an appalling, super high risk choice in all the circumstances to ever appoint him in any Reds coaching capacity. He had zero relevant and appropriate credentials.

Just to this good point BR, do you note how more or less all the Aust Super HCs are now bit by bit turning to blame their players/teams/highlighting their deficiencies/mistakes rather than taking direct responsibility themselves. This is the new dark omen that _always_ marks a point of further...

What BT badly needs is close contact and support from an experienced rugby HC or (real) senior AC that has had genuine and sustained success in his career over an entire team development cycle. This is just natural and basic when he is a rookie HC at a highly exposed pro level worsened by the...

Interesting http://www.planetrugby.com/news/john-mitchell-criticises-rebels-negative-tactics/

The next likely marker of decline and horror: what awaits as Joe Schmidt’s exceptionally well-coached Ireland arrive here for a 3 go-round? Will the lamentable excuses pulled out after England’s humiliating rout in 2016 require regurgitation all over again?

Minor correction only: it was cast a long time ago, and never corrected, only worsened

^^^^ Sorry if I didn't share the love. I need my head read.

^^^^^^^^ If the QRU had one ounce of sense they would realise that their entire coaching organisation, coaching and player development program, the whole fucking lot, needs a radical, root and branch, complete redesign/rebuild. And that someone of the capability of Graham Henry should be...

I seem to be only one here mentioning the extremely odd choice of the QRU in hiring the failed McGahan as 'mentor and senior assistant' coach to Thorn. What on earth was this all about on any considered, rational grounds given what the 2018 Reds badly needed? Rather it looks like the 'good...