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Yeah. But what's that song: 'It Didn't Have To Be This Way'.

Actually, it's due to chronic underinvestment in skills coaching right up and down the chain in Australian rugby for 10-15 years now. As a code, you have zero strategy to build and keep building competitive playing quality in depth, you will ultimately pay big time, you will pay exactly as per...

I don't normal criticise TMOs etc but IMO Italy should have been granted that first try - the 'just touching' finger the TMO saw I thought was actually an illusion, it was set off the ball when the left foot was in touch. Game was much closer than the final score line.

What will be the excuses for the Wallaby coaching group this time? Brisbane a bit too hot?

Yes. And when we reflect on that world of the Orange Emus and their local ways and feelings and, still, immense commitment to their rugby, we also observe the selection criteria - real or implied - for ARU board appointments. The board that should span in its duties all levels and layers of...

Noted. There will always be outliers.

Having said for so many, what the many felt http://www.theroar.com.au/2017/06/23/jack-quigley-blasted-wallabies-facebook-michael-cheika-responded/

[WARNING TO MODS - THIS IS ONLY VERY TANGENTIALLY A COACHING-RELATED POST - IT IS MOSTLY RE SELECTIONS VS ITALY SO WILL I HOPE GIVE ME BONUS LIKES UNDER AVATAR PLEASE AS I DEARLY WANT 5,000 ASAP.) Hang on a minute. We heard pre this series of June Tests from Chek that this was the time to...

Yeah, though he still knocks 'em over. (Btw and sorry to deflect, but has anyone _ever_ seen a place kicking style and ball-off-boot curvature that looks like a big miss and yet beautifully, weirdly curves back in like that of JT's?)

Yes, and apparently Chek's invitation to J Thurston around 11pm last night to come on over (just for a day) and take on the place kicking duties v Italy has been unceremoniously rebuffed.

The echoes from, and perhaps ghost of, R Deans in his most baffling selections days, returns.

So, you are pleased to make such corrections, no problem. So, you and Twolims seriously argue by inference that EJ (Eddie Jones) has made no crucial, meaningful and sustained improvements to this 'best ever' England squad and that his 2016-17 record of 1 Test loss is something Lancaster (had he continued)...

^^^^ RE WESTS rugby club as referenced above. Just confirmed: that land is owned by the Brisbane City Council and rented to Wests. So it can be done in this modality as I suspected. And btw, that land/rugby ground is tightly surrounded by residential areas. Have a look (scroll down the...

Dru - as you rightly indicated, it's not correct to infer or argue that 'not owning the land' somehow intrinsically prohibits imaginative and modernising-oriented sporting and related facilities. Moreover and in general there are many property developments where the land owner grants a...

The latest I rec'd - 'rugby fun in the sun' and mentioning a 24 deg forecast here for Saturday - was like something out of the 1970s from the Ballymore days.

^^^ I don't think Wests (Brisbane) Rugby Club owned the land under their terrific new development for the Club, did they? (See link above.)

Deans was at that level.

Mate there's much that's strange and inexplicable about their conduct. Whether it's that or not, only time may tell.

Thanks p.Tah. If that heart-felt piece is not exceptionally and authentically revealing re what's gone wrong with rugby here in the last decade or so, then nothing is. The culture of patronising, self-regarding elitism like a dark poison eating away at the code's entrails.

Wayne Smith in today's The Australian online has this to say from the recent EGM (my emphasis): "There was criticism of the ARU for its lacklustre, underwhelming presentation to the emergency general meeting and all indications are that it is not that the ARU has a plan to disperse the money...