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I know what you are saying but at the same time I do not want to see the current board and executive sacrificed as a way of preserving the "system" that has got us here. This is a perhaps once ever opportunity to truly reform Rugby Governance in this country and lets not waste it by becoming...

I'd like to reply for me it would be nobody. Apart from that I really don't care because anybody appointed is working within the system is pretty powerless to effect real change as the other appointed people and crucially as mentioned the NSWRU and QRU block anything that would diminish their...

Different network, and one that I would be willing to give the benefit of the doubt to since it has actually achieved results over a long term and seems to require results in depth. But point taken.

Gee you blokes are hard, this McGahan fella is a home grown Qlder and hasn't even started in his role there and you are death riding him. How about giving him a chance to succeed or not? I mean Stiles is obviously a great bloke but has just had insufficient support structures ...

Again with the NRC as a development pathway. Half a dozen games is a massive development opportunity for coaches and players. And yes I know about the arguments about giving it time to build, we've been over that ground so many times, and I stand by my assessment that even if Australian Rugby...

Its an interesting episode because whilst Spiro has been burnt big time from this, and I do think he should be required under apology to disclose the lying source, there should be consequences to actions, so many were ready to believe the article because the ground is fertile for it. When you...

Pretty small list really - Foxsports commentariate (possibly because they are/have been on the board or have close associations to it) Privileged journalists The executive at 4 Super Clubs .......

I agree but even the best performer needs an outside critique at times to show them an error in their technique or where extra improvement can be made, otherwise even the very elite performer thinks they are doing their best but in reality they can be reinforcing bad habits, and in terms of...

Fatigue makes for bad decisions, especially so when under pressure, not just in the game but externally as well. For me we have seen the Super sides fade out of games badly in the last 20 minutes all year and Moore and other have confirmed that the Wallabies are not fit for purpose.

So there are now reports of Moore saying that the Wallabies just are not fit enough and blaming the Super sides for not preparing the players well enough. Well I know that most here would agree on subjective analysis of games that the Australian sides are not fit. Amazing that two assistant...

Its interesting to see X player getting lambasted for doing or not doing something. Hooper makes a line break (or just gets away from defence I don't give a shit how its characterised) and nobody is within cooee to support before the retreating Scots make the tackle and get over the ball. The...

I might get labelled a conspiracy theorist, but I have seen stranger things proved true but:- I get a very strange sense that the EGM situation was a carefully managed set-up along with the approach of RUPA. I have no information to back this up just my cynicism and the pieces falling...

That's is bullshit. Knuckles always gets a very bad rap about the 2007 RWC. He had essentially zero time to turn the scrum around and a rock solid refereeing perception (well earned) that the scrum was rubbish. He had to overcome a selection and complete training policy from the ground up that...

Do you honestly think they know how to fix it? I don't think they do or can, because they are within and part of the structures and are invested in them. In saying that I do not mean to reduce any culpability I believe they have, since so many have been ring alarm bels for so many years about...

No WTF would I be doing on the M4 coming in from the north? Straight down from top Ryde or even along Silverwater Rd - Parramatta Rd, its easier than getting to the SFS.

As Cyclo has said regardless of what the Vic Gov may have tipped in (and I'm always suspicious of Government "handouts", a very large of that cash would have accrued anyway. No I'm am much more concerned that when you add up the pretty vast sum of money that Rugby has generated since 2002 in...

Honestly Lou75 the MCG is just as poor for Rugby as Homebush, just easier to get to, though for me coming from Country NSW Homebush is easier than the SFS for me.

^^^^ in fairness JON MKI was the architect, Flowers the builder and JON MKII the highly priced consultant who came in inflated the share price, emptied the bank accounts and pissed off the leave old Billy with a shit sandwich dressed up. His problem is he has never told the truth about it and...

All the angst about winning turnovers and gaining possession. How many tests have the Wallabies lost now where they have actually dominated possession and territory? Against the Scots, turnovers won were not the problem. Possession was not the problem. So the whole debate about Hooper and...

With regard to the current stake holders needing to release their strangle hold on the game at the various levels. It is something I totally agree with and there are only two ways out I see 1) the Nuclear MAD strategy - nobody flinches and the whole lot go down the drain. RH believes that WR (World Rugby)...