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A truly sad and painful read, but typical of so many mainstream commentaries today re Australian rugby: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/brumbies/australian-rugby-shows-how-far-its-fallen-with-shocker-quarterfinal-crowd-in-canberra-20170722-gxgldb.html

Could this prospect of Clyne imminently resigning 'if I don't get my way' be the best reason yet advanced for 5 Australian Super Rugby teams to remain?

The real question thus is: what plan of excellence is or is not being created to address the looming financial disaster for Australian rugby if these crowd trends continue? (And we know the QRU and NSWRU lie about their crowd numbers so the real commercial position/trend line is worse than it...

For the assessed commercial viability of Australian rugby, that number is scary cubed.

If you can't run your prime source of external cash flow competently and efficiently for its providers, WTF else can't you run.

.......and btw......Stiles' whole pro background is one of being a Forwards Coach. One would have thought the above very poor heavily-forwards-related stats would have been an area that he personally would have coached in a superior manner given his specialist background. However, as I have...

Is this, from Dean Mumm and quoted today by Iain Payten in news.com.au online sources, perhaps the most revealing emanation all weekend from the Tahs and their coaches (my emphasis): Mumm said the Waratahs’ “consistently poor” defence was a symptom of a need for the Waratahs to cut ties with...

Ben Darwin: 'Proudly Coached by Wamberal'

Indeed. It's almost a profile descriptor of: 'never to be seen again'. Although if The Twiggy emerges with major financial support for the Force I sense BP will emerge from his bunker to declare: 'The ARU's brilliant Culling Program - which was only ever intended to provoke offers like The...

And there's so much more to play for.

QH, the problem with this whole emerging 'the players are also at serious fault, they must take responsibility for their poor skills and attitudes and perhaps invest in their own skills-fixing outside the team' etc theory is that it singularly fails to deal with the obvious fact that teams that...

Mate, I am absolutely fine with pages and pages of discussion re our elite players as individuals, who should be selected where and when, etc. I just believe that 'selections' are not in any way the solution to our core Wallabies problems as at 2017 that are, for example, the difference...

Twiggy's a class act in every sense + a great revelation (to me at least) that he supports/enjoys rugby so avidly. Worth reading, he's now added more words than post game: http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/07/15/11/35/force-waratahs-forrest

^^^^ Foxtel numbers now tending to show that Super Foxtel numbers overall are being propped up by a deep core of Aus-based Kiwi rugby fans, which makes sense.

240 pages after this weekend.

Dan - many thanks for sending that one through! An absolute cracker that I might even feature at the beginning the Reds section.

Mate yes of course. But my problem at the moment with its distribution is that the much larger physical size/weight (than I planned on earlier in the rugby season) is driving the Aus Post shipping costs through the roof. So the list price may have to rise steeply. So I'm worried that only the...

Oh dear. You've been seduced - although I hope not - into The Great Wallabies Player Selections Myth. Our Wallabies-level problem is not essentially about 'really hard selections dilemmas and new vs old players and so on' at all. Our problem is that we have a Wallaby HC whom is a very good...

Reds' fans wil be bursting with a new enthusiasm for next season to know that Totality Tony is definitely heading to the Reds for 2018 to 'assist as an ally' our 'high-potential' existing HC Stiles. This today from that astute and insightful rugby journo, Jim Tucker in all news.com.au online...

Dan - that from Chek was one of my personal favourites - 'my Wallabies are underperforming due to the Super sides' poor S&C regimes' - of recent times, in fact it competes very closely with Gibson's best-ever entry into the Australian Rugby Excuses Dictionary, namely 'I completely mis-assessed...