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1. When objectively since late 2012 have they (the Reds) been 'going consistently well and showing serious, sustained improvement'? When - again objectively - has the QRU demonstrated a series of sound actions that show the appalling trends of 2013-2017 will be addressed in a serious and...

On any objective grounds and after many Super Rounds, there are few credible signs of any net improvement of Thorn's Reds over Stiles'. Well into the 2018 Super comp, we are second bottom on the Australian table. We are losing games badly. Our attack is poor and the 'greatly improved...

New Super HCs can typically be assessed as to hard improvements in team performance clearly made by Super rounds 5-6. This was true of White, Link, Cheika in their first years with new assignments in Super Rugby. They all made serious team improvements in most team and key player skills areas...

Crowd c. 8,000? That’s the marker that matters, the marker that defines how recent QRU boards have and are, one after another, progressively through ineptness, incompetence, institutional nepotism and wholly unjustified self-centred arrogance comprehensively destroying rugby in one of the only...

The only issue that matters today and that will matter from February 2018 and will determine whether Thorn and his team of ACs succeeds or fails (and ditto the interminably hapless QRU) is this: Can the 2018 Reds consistency beat Kiwi Super 18 teams? There is nothing else to really worry about -...

dru, I mostly agree your point but I think it was in 2010-12 a combination of luck and the way a cleansing (as it can be) crisis invokes an emergency (ie 'we were on the edge of bankruptcy') of great anxiety coupled with a willingness and a palpable need to urgently try a very different path...

Could this pattern not now be termed 'statistically significant'.

What much of this debate re replacing Stiles neglects is the increasingly perilous financial and cash flow situation of the QRU in late 2017. Income and crowd levels have been seriously declining for two years now and one more appallingly bad season like 2017's - after all the hype and promise...

Essentially, because the level and rate of our forwards' skills improvement is way too low over extended periods of time. The way to judge coaching is principally in this area. From a a baseline of (keeping it simple) 100 units of skill and relevant KPIs, who is that new, updated baseline say 12...

Dear all: Is is not becoming blindingly obvious the M Cheika's Wallaby coaching group requires a top-grade Forwards Coach to oversight all aspects of forwards play and set-pieces generally? And to guide the whole coaching group on forwards' selections and related individual player development...

Lord knows: http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/rugby/laurie-fisher-says-aru-must-redress-development-systems-if-australia-is-to-return-to-summit/news-story/2486e460e9a4858e951d1b3c426ecb7c

....and everything that comes from it: insularity, 'the nepotism of chosen types', in-breded organisational cultures, lack of openness to change-threatening innovation, inter-board back scratching and favouritism, elitist attitudes, geographic prejudices that relate to social backgrounds as...

Ballymore has been possessed by madness (of many and varied kinds) since that day in April 2012 when R Graham was announced as Reds HC-to-be. There is zero evidence that sanity has returned to the bunkers of Ballymore from that day to this.

Media reports continue tonight that Stiles will soon be booted and replaced for 2018 with: Thorn (HC), McGahan (Snr Asst Coach), Mooney (AC). You know it makes sense.

No, but a number of of us have been saying _for years here_ that the situation was just this dire (as is today admitted by the ARU) and that accordingly the ARU was headed for a likely bankruptcy given the obvious decrementing trends within both Super Rugby and Wallaby rugby and the blindingly...

I've now read the whole court case ruling. Summary: (a) The QRU's high-level administration of items such as contracts, employment matters etc with someone of Connolly's remuneration level etc was simply dreadful and both McCall and Carmicheal come out particularly badly in this regard (b)...

How the fuck did the QRU let it come to this - one of the greats of QLD rugby's coaching history had to go to a court to get paid after stepping in (in all good faith no doubt) on a crisis/emergency basis to deal with the ultra-hapless R Graham and the ensuing debacles on-field. Perhaps they...

No doubt about that.

That BH is my abiding perspective. Over-blaming today's elite coaches and players for poor skills standards and game outcomes is as misplaced and illusory as blaming climate change solely on Co2 emitters installed within the last 6 months. This sad, almost tragic, condition of Australian rugby...

Fixed that up for you.