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Although a good article and well-researched, the essential truth of it has been pointed out many times here by a number of us, and long before this type of analysis has caught on as important. (For a long time the ARU forelock tuggers posting here flatly refused to see it all for what it was and...

Haha - it could easily be one of 50 or so posters here couldn't it. Btw: shows the power reach of FB. Are we ranting in the wrong place? We who reside principally here at GAGR remain 'truly niche'.

^^^^ Just complementing the post above and adding a bit to it, what a total joke of a process this 'EGM charade' has turned into. http://www.espn.com.au/rugby/story/_/id/19669076/aru-chief-bill-pulver-resign-tuesday-egm-necessary Pulver knows full well no one in that EGM room - let alone all...

Love or hate him, some interesting comments from Paul Cully in tonight's SMH Online: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/robotic-wallabies-left-behind-in-last-decade-20170617-gwtaxx.html

Re FF (Folau Fainga'a)'s analysis above........ ...........and Cheika thinks he doesn't need a dedicated, specialised Wallaby forwards coach. 'I know my shit, I'm happy just to do that job myself' seems to be his call on this issue.

The other unforgivable aspect of markedly low ARU competence in all this is that the announced 'anointing' of Larkham as the next Wallaby HC has occurred with zero process to rigorously conduct an open, advertised global search for alternative Wallaby HC candidates of the required calibre and...

Are the famous lyrics of 'The Boxer' apt?

Bravo. The Australian rugby system is as sick as a parrot. Has been for a decade or more. It's just that the evidence and symptoms are becoming more and more obvious. And the consequences more and more serious for the entire viability of the code here. Blaming players is a deceit.

I assure you, you'd hear exactly the same sort of comments, pervasively so, up here in Brisbane.

Funny this: the vast majority of posts here are laments of one kind or another re individual players and selections and who would be a better pick at position x or y or whatever. Or too many Tahs. Or replace the 8, or the 6. Or, from the HC himself, 'what isn't everyone as passionate as Hooper'...

I wonder what the damage to Sydney Wallaby/rugby fans' motivational longevity with sequential home losses to England and then Scotland. On top of all the other Super fuck-ups and the Waratahs a long, long way off 2014's glories.

Scots' rate of improvement over last 2 years in playing, player development and coaching > Australia's over the same period. And what's the population difference between the 2 nations, 18m or so?

Clyne declares: - BP certainly not resigning - no need to have him do so - board support him - in effect, ARU knows best what's right and wrong for the code See...

Btw: UK media reporting that general ticket demand for the forthcoming Womens RWC far higher than anticipated.

Subject to 2017's final Test FTA viewership and crowd numbers once BC III is finished in October - and the early trend for both out of the Fiji match is very poor - I'd suggest the risk is that no other FTA station will be interested to replace TEN.

It's been reported in the Rebels' thread but worth also noting in this one: - sources report to The Australian that the Rebels have definitely now commenced robust formal legal proceedings against the ARU for 'millions' of $s in damages over the 'cut or cull' assertion made vs the Rebels and...

Yes Gnostic. Rugby in the US is developing well. The Yanks are clearly not as yet deterred by the code's litany of vastly complicated rules that some argue is the core reason for the decline of the code here. Funny about that - these terrible complexities are not deterring the code's...

Thank you for replying. I appreciate that your intensely held conviction derives from anecdotes from your immediate circle of friends and contacts. I offered you evidence from a far broader base of incontestable factual data, all quite or very recent. Your argument - 'the problem with...

Yes daz and the same is happening in Brisbane - there is just zero promotion and marketing for Tests, even BC ones. And this in a 'heartland'.

USA v Ireland Test the weekend just gone was I think around 23,000 btw.