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I think it was the link regarding the interview with Steve Anderson and his views on the Australian Rugby Landscape

I assume the easy first step would be to bring Razor into McKellar’s spot when he goes to Qld.

You can start a rumour by saying ‘there’s a rumour….’, right?

I think your last paragraph is important. To my eyes Vunivalu certainly needs to lift his game. But I didn’t feel like he was running the right lines for the Reds. Whether that is his fault, a fault of the attack strategy or a bit of both I have no idea - but he was often in the middle of the...

Represented Fiji at Test level and 7s. That’s pretty outstanding for a Prop.

You’d hope they all are. you’d assume one thing Thorn has brought to the Reds is some high expectations with regards to work ethic at training. Flook’s emergence pushed Daugunu down the pecking order a bit. Will be interesting to see where he stands now.

I know very little about his background - but I wonder if it is largely because the expanded decision making he is now asked to do is only a relatively new thing. I imagine for a long time he was just expected to carry hard and crunch people. Playmaking isn’t natural - but he’s still had plenty...

I just think his decision making lets him down. But I thought he was generally excellent for the Reds last year. I know that wasn’t the consensus. I remember calls on here for him to be benched. I never understood why. He overplayed his hand occasionally and missed a few tackles but I thought...

Fair enough - also happy to be redirected. Hoping to see Lynagh again: liked what I saw last year. Keen to see how he has kicked in. The other big points of interest to me are Petaia & Campbell (which I assume we won’t see), whether Daugunu can get back to the sparkling form he first showed and...

Fair enough. I stand corrected. Although to my recollection he has made far more references to Bennett than Deans - but can’t argue with Thorn’s own words.

I kinda get it. I certainly didn’t mean to trigger the re-examination of Quade’s career when I posted a facetious remark about Quade v Foley last week. But, having said that, it’s off season - does it really matter. If you don’t want to read it, scroll past it. There are plenty of conversations...

Thorn played for the All Blacks but he also played for Qld State of Origin and the Kangaroos. I don’t know how many see him as a Kiwi and, in any case, I don’t think Qlders really care. Border, Chappel, Inglis, Lam, Latham, Graham Lowe. All born elsewhere. All ironed on Qlders in the eyes of...

As far as I can tell from various stories Wright & O’Connor good to go. Nasser still in recovery I believe.

Yeah - but my point is that they are all shit. If your point is that he is most shit, okay. In the last 2 yrs Brumbies have the best record of 3 from 11 don’t they? Maybe 4 from 11. We’re splitting hairs.

Only if it’s on Facebook. In which case, of course, I assume it to be indisputable fact.

Like every other current Australian coach. But yes, he does need to rectify this or I think it likely that the Reds will decide it is time to move on.

Meh - if you are suggesting that you have already predetermined that any failure you will blame on Thorn and any success you will attribute to Heenan & Blake than it says far more about you then it does Thorn. As for your claims about Thorn’s standing with the group - I’ve learnt long ago to...

When Thorn started out it was clear his strategy would take 3-4 yrs to really yield results. Half way through last year the Reds were near the top of the table having lost one game to the Brumbies. Yes - they then had a poor run home and it wasn’t just about the injuries - but they were...

Can’t agree with this enough Fatprop. Australian teams need to lift their standards.