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McGahan proving his considerable skills as Reds defence coach. Experience counts.

If the QRU chose as they did a rookie HC it was _essential_ they chose ACs of proven specialisms and high calibre. Instead these fools did the precise opposite. It was ‘the good ol’ boys of QLD rugby’ picked as ACs and totally irrespective of track record, all over again.

Watching the Reds today does make a mockery of the decision _not to even work with_ QC (Quade Cooper)

^^^^ Noting both Reds tries off close mauls off line out

SW 39 Reds 14 at 55mins

Surely the QRU MUST change the Reds assistant coaches as soon as feasible - this is a disgrace of poor team skills and preparation

Jake White noting Stewart wasted and unsure at 15

Best thing so far is not having to endure Horan and Marto

Lance ‘barely OK’ at 10 I’d reverse he and Stewart for H2 and FFS bring Sorovi on immediately

SW backs and attack 8/10 Ditto Reds 2/10

HT SW 29 Reds 14

Disagree - ref has been fair and consistent and talks well

At 37m SW 26 Reds 14

SWs embarrassing the Reds in attack at 35m

What I for one find remarkable regarding R Castle's CEO-ship of RA to date is how little she seems to be concerned or declamatory about the very serious state of the code in Australia and that some combination of radical, deep, purposeful actions are clearly required to even begin a credible...

https://au.linkedin.com/in/mark-mcbain-887bb953 After coaching the Reds 2001-2........'Builder' Kinda resonates with Link's post rugby life after that sad, sad walk down the Suncorp corridor in October 2014.....'Project Manager....somewhere in Christchurch'.

So what? This is pro rugby where the very core viability of the QRU depends on ensuring that net gate $ income, TV viewership and sponsorship is high enough to every year fund the Reds (and all the rugby layers below) to a proudly competent, win-more-than-you-lose, standard. Do the paying fans...

gel, this little bit of analysis below (buried inside news.com.au on April 29) spoke volumes where mere words may not suffice. Remarkably the lamentable figure of J Tucker used this data to prop up Brad Thorn's HC coaching credentials and wildly speculate that NZ rugby might be out to poach him...

I hope everyone realises that, courtesy of BH81, all but the last line of that statement above was indeed actually issued by SANZAAR today. Yes, really. True. It's bizarre character and peculiar sense of reality detached could not be made up if we tried. Almost as though Marinos was presiding...

Certainly a rational possibility. Like a cripple fight falling haphazardly through a jungle of despair. Tiny shards of light only propelling the quest forward.