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You only need to look to Eddie Jones to see what difference a change in coach and a change in context/environment/attitude/culture or whatever it was can bring. I am excited by the prospects of the Reds next year. In the forward pack there is some pretty reasonable depth. Good props, two very...

Yeah- no offense meant to the bloke- I just think his presence has blocked the pathway of players (Scott Sio or Cameron Orr maybe?) who could have developed into more than what he has.

Considering it is his debut season, I like those numbers on Scoble. It'll be an interesting battle between him, Roach, Ready and Hanson when Moore hangs up his boots. Exciting to have so many good prospects- not to mention Siliva Siliva and a few others. I wonder how Damien Fitzpatrick will go...

He definitely makes the top 10 of rugby types who have inexplicably retained their position for a significant stretch. He'll never shade Richard Graham to top the list though.

Except those looking for an easy target to mock? ;)

It would just be nice to have a handful of home games in our first set- what did we have 2 in the first 6 games? That is a good year- last year it was something like 1 in the first 5. All Oz or NZ teams that have to travel from RSA to Argentina in consecutive weeks should have a bye...

Thought I might try resurrecting this old chestnut. So the Spirit will be without the following forwards: Tet Faulkner, van Wyk, Coleman (probably), Hodgson, Cottrell, McCalman and several others are/might be leaving (Charles, Alcock, Richie Arnold). Looks like there will be a few rookie Force...

One thing that is important to me is that the new coach continues to recruit from local ranks. We have some competent Super Rugby players coming through. I was furious to hear the Force tried to recruit Moses Sorovi from QLD, who wasn't amazing when I saw him for the U20s, when we have local...

Assaulted a coach? I didn't say anything like that. I said I assumed they had a professional difference of opinion and he said he no longer wanted to work with him. We'll have to agree to disagree re character assassination and defamation. Saying you think someone is prickly is neither, in my...

Mayhap. But aside from calling him prickly, which I think is a fair call, how have I assassinated his character? I made no value judgment on the conflict between coach and player. People are allowed to disagree on issues and I'm sure we've all worked with someone we can't stand and relate to...

If I was a betting man, I'd guess Genia. He almost left for the Force during 2012 and then something changed. He has at times (blow up at Kafe?) shown that he can be very prickly. He is also one of only a few players at the Reds that was irreplaceable (along with Quade, Ioane and Horwill). I am...

Even the Force fans have given up on those. :)

Pretty happy WA gave a good account against the Vics. They should be our yard stick.

We are going to get so badly minced. Our set piece looks less promising than the Titanic. If we stay within 40 it'll be a win. Dead serious.

First time in almost 10 years that the Force have made the back page of the paper. Progress!

I think this is a story that needs to be told and why not do it now? I have always admired the way that Richie McCaw and Nelson Mandela came together to bring hope to a nation struggling with the political in-fighting of post-Apartheid South Africa.

Anyone know what the score is?

I am talking output not throughput. I wouldn't hold any Force claim to the likes of Pocock, James O'Connor, etc- we didn't produce them just as you didnt produce any of those guys except apparently Walton (not a ringing endorsement)

Giteau I'll give you. But to say the Force benefited from Henjak is a long bow to draw. :)

I am really impressed with how Victoria's age grade kids perform. It is dawn on the horizon of the current state of Australian rugby where there is not enough talent for the 5 super rugby teams.