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Loving this too and fro. :D I am south of the border and I've spoken to the Great Phantom himself, even in person, for real, you know off web, when people are actually in the same room and you know interact, with actual voices. I know it was him and not a holograph because the beer...

Oh FFS - try to get past the victimhood mentality of WA Rugby and actually see the realities. Has WA Rugby been a net contributor to Australian Rugby? They have received $0 in bailout cash yet are in a "partnership" with the ARU which can be read as ARU speak for bailout. The chip on the...

Great post mate. My ire is roused when I consider how much money the ARU have "pissed up the Wall" (Bill Pulver, yes, Pissed up the wall), in fundamental mismanagement issues over the past few years. Even if I immediately accept the ARU's current funding imperatives and systems they wasted...

I'm glad there's no compulsion to agree because it just doesn't stack up to my mind, and I've not seen any statistics to suggest the statement about most forward injuries being due to repetitious strains or "trauma. I would say all injuries are the result of trauma as that is the definition of...

I would be looking at the execution of that session and the coaching control of it, not the idea. The ABs have had wrestling coaches and they have been a feature in NRL teams as well IIRC. There is no more inherent danger in a Judo session than a weights session, if properly coached and...

USARugger hence my comment on their advantages of geography and population. I'd say that the FA Cup, Euro Cup etc are as big a competition for winter sporting dollars as is possible. The only difference is that they have no other full contact winter sport, but I take your point, I would argue...

The RFU was flush beforehand because they have a thriving domestic competition with a lot of support that translates into huge viewer numbers for their top end "product", hence their revenue stream. You could say they are top down only in that they generate their revenue at the top, but their...

That is the thing, we have a top down model with insufficient investment in key points to make the model even a possibly viable. I'd also say that if the ARU wants to run a top down model they have to be much wiser with the spend, bailing out teams, paying out coaches and staff, all these things...

Don't disregard coaching development as a major role. His input may be with the other coaches as much as the players. A critique and different viewpoint is always a good thing.

Indeed, and as my initial post schooling profession was in the sciences I retain that fondness for data and analysis of it. As you say the sample size is too small to make a reliable judgement, but that is just another reason why he shouldn't be in any position at the highest level at this...

Eddie is a good example of a bloke who has learnt from the very hard lessons he was taught at Wallaby and Reds levels. Remember in 2003 he disregarded the scrum (with some pretty logical reasoning if flawed). Move forward to his time with SA and Japan and it is easy to see his has learnt big...

Maybe I didn't make myself clear. When I employ somebody I want their aspirations to be firmly fixed in the present, to do their job as it is now. If they have success in that position, then they can start thinking about that next move up. If they are even aspiring to be upwardly mobile before...

Not its not a big pool, that's surely the point, when that pool is filled with pretty poor product and when has three years (two of which he has spent being a Wallabies assistant) been enough to get one appointed as the Heir apparent? FFS makes the Reds board appointment of Richard Graham a...

I might be a bit strange but I actually like people to do the job they are in, and master it before they start looking and dreaming about their next promotion.

Amirite - the data suggests the longer Larkham is coaching a side the worse the attack becomes. That's a pretty big call considering the Brumbies upside attack stats come when the side was playing the Jake White brand of Rugby. Since then it has been a constant downward trajectory. As I said...

Through out the Patston/Beale matter he sat there like a pimple on an arse contributing nothing of substance to either job. He continues to do the same whenever questions on selection, behaviour, tactics basically anything that requires more comment than a fan boy blind support comment. As I...

Why? This is a problem I've always had with Eales, Gregan and Horan having both commentary jobs and board/selection jobs. They have a total inability to be critical. Indeed Eales despite the numerous previously listed failures has never made a single critical comment in his role as a...

I used to have all the channels and two boxes. I now have one unit and only have the Sports and whatever other crap I have to keep so I can have Rugby. It only gets turned on now so I can watch the Rugby. Since I had NBN installed my kids just watch their YouTube rubbish and Netflix/Stan etc...

I generally don't have much time for Spiro's rants and this one is pretty much the same, excepting what I am beginning to think. Larkham may well take command is the Wallabies fail again on the EOYT. Spiro however makes some big clangers, "The silence suggests to me that the ARU board is out...

I don't know if I should be insulted to be thought of a multi-user troll or horrified that my secret is out that I regularly hold converstaions with myself which I lose as well. Those who know me here know that my multiple personalities only have one login.