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Doesn't the fact that after (allegedly) not less that two 'rigorous global searches for experienced, senior rugby coaches' (one in Graham's time, one at the end of his time) and that the resulting 'findings' have been: - renew Graham as HC - promote Stiles as HC - promote Thorn as HC...

Watch it and cry like a baby Reds vs Chiefs highlights May 2012 (note who played 10 that day, btw)

Just ask a simple, base question: In what rugby - or any sporting - universe is taking a total rookie Super HC and adding to him ACs that either have zero track record at coaching at that level, or have an utterly failed track record in coaching at that level, anything other than totally...

Which form of argument is more defensible over time: one, the notion that a code's administration has little responsibility for that code's survival and prosperity as that code is simply destined for declining marginality vs the greater attraction of other competing codes OR two, a highly paid...

Seriously the Reds’ defence is a disgrace

Senior Assistant Coach Totality Tony McGahan’s defensive design is showing promise

Key visual challenge tonight: contrast and compare this Reds 2018 performance with the one the Reds of May 2012 put on to beat the Chiefs decisively at Suncorp (remember, the night Richard Kahui injured his shoulder, was it not?). Which team will have improved more? How has the relative skills...

The $17m 'cash' is significantly due to a one-off Govt grant for a glossy new HQ in Sydney. It will depart the ARU's bank account with a scary regularity and trend. What people often forget is this: the appallingly low crowd figures that the State RUs are getting for their home Super matches...

Very revealing that the appalling ethical and business judgement conduct of the upper elites of the major banks etc is emanating from the very echelons and types that the ARU and State RUs have salivated to source for their boards and Chairman roles. Just look at the ARU history in this area...

It'll most likely be a lapse into bankruptcy and this could occur as early as late 2019. It's totally clear that Australian rugby cannot cure or correct itself as any leadership honest or capable enough to do so is nowhere to be found in the elite entities of the code. Alternatively, it could...

Word's getting out https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/04/20/thorns-new-direction-reds-look-eerily-similar-old-bad-reds/

Thanks Lindo, top post from someone whom, should the rugby lights ever be turned off in this country, will be last person to leave the room such is your devotion to and love for our code. Executive summary re many of your telling points that are all well validated by facts: the QRU in its...

Good post. Your data backs the anecdotal and intuitive sense that the Reds' attack - holistically and in its component pieces - is poorly coached, poorly organised and incoherent in any form of consistent execution. Actually, since J McKay left the Reds as attack coach the above can be said of...

Only a few weeks back Reds Senior Assistant Coach McGahan - designated as responsible for Reds' defence - stated that the team's defence skills and capability would be far superior this year than last. After 7 Round games in 2018, I see very little evidence of this claim in reality. And it...

If correct - not suggesting you're wrong - that is beyond belief. And as an already very wealthy man, Pulver, as a 'devoted rugby man', should have declined even the consideration of receiving an 'incentive bonus' given what a disastrous year was 2017 for Australian rugby in virtually every...

The remarkable thing (or one of them) regarding this bizarre appointment of McGahan to the Reds was how poorly it was declared as justified and on what basis justified (in terms of the manifest needs of the Reds post the various preceding coaching and team results crises). They would have been...

Declared as 'due to the pressure or requirements of ongoing business commitments'. Yeah, right.

And what appalling ethics, deceitful lack of transparency and a shocklngly low attention to genuinely good board governance are betrayed by these sly and until now hidden ARU payments to Rebels directors who incurred local debts they themselves were not willing or capable of repaying. Did I...

Perfectly paralleling the fact that the ARU/RA board has for years now preferenced 'high profile Sydney business people' and ex-Wallabies as board members over persons with outstanding records in some form of core sports administration and development. Whilst our Wallaby, Super, grass roots...

For 2018 I approached the new Thorn coaching group era with considerable caution and trepidation for the reasons I have long stated. I did not then and do not now believe the QRU leopard has changed its spots, it's just coated itself with a new round of wash-off spray paint. And Torp I have...