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Reds fans: can there be any doubt: Sorovi/Stewart > Lucas/Lance By a factor of > 3

I've learnt how to do this editing stuff from mst. Such clever stuff too.

I get the parochial fervour and 'amusing' homespun blog editing, but surely you aren't serious on any level where facts matter. Why do we think we have a situation where the Brumbies, Reds, etc home crowds are now at disastrous levels? Who precisely has made it that way? Will it be corrected...

It's the short-sighted, irrational and clueless refusal of the Brumbies in this case that's outrageous. Certainly confirms that, as many of us have long suspected, somewhere not long after RWC 2003 Australian rugby was self-contaminated with a death wish of a type that accelerates...

Michael - thanks so much for sharing that. Perhaps the best rugby-related article I've read this year. Very moving and in many ways a wonderful advertisement for the code. What for me is certain is that Lancaster would represent a far better bet as Wallaby HC than the 'quietly anointed as next...

I would hope with what, 4 wins from 12 games (and with those 4 wins markedly biassed to the early season), B Thorn might have thought it was a good time to 'advance forward the plan'.....if indeed it was 'the plan'.

It would seem that - at last - B Thorn has realised that the Lucas and Lance combo offers neither success, nor development, nor longevity (in that Lance will soon be gone). Better late than never.

7:30pm tonight AEST.

It is TOTALLY reasonable to consider. FFS - is it not blindingly obvious that if the Wallabies suffer another June home Test 'full humiliation' series like 2016's v England and, in a different way, elements of 2017's debacle June Test series, fan support for and income from the Wallabies in...

This is a good piece https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/05/30/what-will-ireland-bring-to-australia-in-june/

Thanks TSR for a full reply: 1. I sincerely think you mistake 'negativity' (as an implied, vaguely pejorative term in this context) and legitimate critique when made. Or, by casting legitimate critique as always 'negativity', there is a tone of 'something intrinsically quite bad' about...

Bar the scrum, to me it's absolutely evident that, whatever they're doing, the Tahs' coaches are doing a far better job from Round 1 through to Round 15 than the Reds' coaches at: - improving the coherence, shape and execution consistency of the Tahs' attack - lowering the Tahs' unforced...

Rightly or wrongly there are vast tracts of good tickets still there for this match and prima facie it looks like the QRU is only offering for sale around 30 or so % of the stadium (to keep staffing and operating costs down no doubt). The Kiwi component will be much lower and as there are many...

From where and how they began the season, the 2018 Tahs have the 2nd best rate of improvement in the comp, behind the Jaguares. IMO, they are side that could _potentially_ win the comp if they get a home game in the finals round.

Why not? I try to pay my good critics the respect they deserve even when trenchantly disagreeing.

One by one in response (my numbering inserted above): 1. Maybe, but the overwhelming majority of what has gone wrong with the code in QLD and nationally comes from systemic managerial failure, incompetence, unjustified arrogance and self-satisfied insularity in the ARU and State RUs. The...

Apparently, they now have. W Smith is quoting the crowd number (btw, as though indisputable) at 11,729. That would have Suncorp at 22.3% full. Anyone there and/or whom saw the TV shots would know: Suncorp was far, far less that 1/5th occupied last night.

We might think the Reds are 'improving with many good young players' but FFS the aim of being in Super Rugby is to, at the very least, credibly aim to get into the Finals. The expectations of many Reds posters here have now fallen so low we are semi-satisfied with little crumbs of isolated...

^^^^ Agree re Real Crowd (vs Fake News QRU Con Job Crowd) around 6-7,000 max.

Reds PD at -113 now 2nd worst in the comp.