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Noting the Lions are starting to get their act together in the ABs' 22 when they make good breaks and build good 5/7 point opportunities there. All tour they have botched an extraordinary number of those to their considerable cost, often through poor short passing at either the passer's or...

Absolutely 100%+ right.

Whilst I agree much of what you argue for half, IMHO the above would result in too little substantive change as too much of the existing poorly run rugby infrastructure is directly mapped into your new board. Eg, have the State Unions lately proven their ability to run large tracts of the...

One thing I am not 'dreaming' about, rather I am enduring nightmares: The state of the code today in Australia. Unless there is serious reform at the very top of our rugby system, nothing meaningful will change and from which state we are headed into disaster.

Now that you ask, let me deal with this in terms of key qualifications (which is where it all should start, not by naming names first up): 1. First up, I would keep zero persons from the current ARU board. The alignment of this current ARU board with the strategic and operational needs of the...

No doubt the ABs' esteemed historians will determine which rarity is the more accurate in this case. But I hope it's your reference not mine which I must concede notably betrayed a poor grasp of specialogical and Tasmanian history.

Oh, OK, the Lions deserved (sort of) to win but 'they really should not have won 'cause last penalty shouldn't have been given'. I guess the ABs never truly lose, even when scoring less points at the final siren.

Yep, lets be clear - a knowing shoulder hit right into the face/head, shit Watson could have been blinded or suffered severe head injury, rest-of-life affecting. There is NO excuse for that hit. If it'd been Q Cooper in reverse on an AB, he'd need the Australian SAS in numbers with armoured...

Who are you kidding

I mean - how often do we see ABs 2 tries to nil to opposition and lose at home. Rare as a Tassie Devil.

Meant lovingly DP - what would we do without you? I'd cry and go away lonely.

Ummm, kind of, with the key exception that JO'N and M Carroll are given a biased free run to articulate woefully and inaccuately self-serving versions of 'why it isn't all our fault'. That's because B Harris is a notoriously lazy rugby journalist who used to survive by leeching off ARU leaks...

Even worse is the total neglect of and complacency from the ARU re GPS schools rugby. These schools like it or not are THE key feeders for Australian rugby talent and, what is often forgotten, feed large quantities of kids into local junior clubs as well who then play rugby twice on weekends...

What's amazing is how the mainstream media bought hook line and sinker into the ARU's superficial line that the core problem of our Super Rugby set-up was the 'drain' from the Rebels or Force when a much bigger potential financial and related disaster is brewing up nicely in the untouchable...

As I said: an unstoppable death wish.

This is a new turn of sadism upon us all from the QRU. I said above: the QRU is even worse when it's panicking (which by inference I concluded would be a state of Ballymore corporate mind soon forthcoming). Nothing quite prepared me for this, however. There was Reds' team and outcomes...

Ruggo - you say it well. No hype, IMO it's a genuine tragedy to see where we have fallen back to. I would mind much less if it was due to floods, natural disasters, truly bad fortune, etc but this decline is all man-made and, largely, avoidable. And the 2017 home crowd trends are now lower...

S2050 We have been in the 'next year it will be better' cycle since when, late 2012? In truth, the Reds have been on an unaltered path of serious, sustained, unimproved decline since then. Exceptionally poor, and consistently so, QRU decisions re coaching staff have been the major reason...

I think now we are increasingly seeing the hard evidence for what many of us have argued here for some time, namely The ARU, in its inner workings, is and has been for some considerable time, a highly concerning cultural and operational amalgam of: - arrogant, elitist thinking and attitudes...

Out tomorrow IIRC. If you're a Rebels Member, I'm pretty sure you'll get them tomorrow morning by email for all the 2017 RC matches plus BC III in Brisbane in late October.