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"As you know I was CEO of the ARU for about 14 years in total: two terms 1995 – 2004 and 2007 – 2012. In between 2004 – 2007 I was CEO of FFA. So, I have had about 17 years having the privilege of leading 2 significant National Sporting Organisations, both of which have the dual presence of...

Mate my only sport is Rugby. I recognise the scoring system as tennis but that's it. Of no interest...... and an individual sport cannot be compared to a truly team endeavour like Rugby.

What for interests sake?

Eales was a great foil for a more physical lock, he wasn't a physical imposition type of player, maybe that is where it comes from. Indeed when Eales was at his best he was paired with somebody like Garrick Morgan, Tom Bowman etc. We can use the same arguments now about balance in the second...

Sweeping stuff under the carpet isn't sorting it (and neither is paying people out with non-disclosure clauses), there are still police investigations underway are there not?? Anyway we have to hope that game plans execution and basic skills improve because I doubt Australian rugby can survive...

Maybe because Deans never fully developed any game plan with selection to fit eg playing McCalman at 7 and then playing a wide game which he would never make it to the ruck early or even on time. He was about as half baked in terms of selection matching game plan I can ever remember, and then...

Michael I hate to tell you something, but most of the players now in Australia cannot kick the synthetic ball as well as those you wouldn't select could the old leather unit. Few can pass as well as Ella, Lloyd Walker, Lynagh and co. No one in Australia is as feared a defender as Willie O...

I am still trying to thaw out from that. I lived in Armidale NSW when I went to Uni and I can honestly say even sober I was never as cold there as I was in Newcastle that night. In any event the ABs skills don't degrade in the wet like ours do so IMO it will make things even worse. Don't...

Owens is a very good ref IMO and will have very little to nothing to do with the total lack of any chance of a Wallaby win. The only chance they have is if the phantom stomach bug that assaulted the 1995 RWC makes an appearance in a much more virulent form. Shit the way things stand skill wise...

We'll have to agree to disagree on Horan, he had a good short passing game but that was about it in terms of playmaking, it was his direct running lines, combination with Herbert and Little, and marvellous acceleration. The key point I think most miss when talking about most of those whose...

Do you think Horan was a ball player? He remains the best 12 Australia has had IMO even if he is a crap commentator. I certainly don't. What about Grey, I certainly wouldn't rate him a "ball player" even if he did play one test at 10 for the Wallabies IIRC. Finally even when Lynagh played...

Not if the rubbish "two playmaker" plan remains the tactic.

(and also @ Brumby Runner) given the result I have to ask exactly what has Larkham done to warrant a place as backs coach at Wallaby level? A poorly performed Brumbies attack with Lilo and To'omua as halves? It has always struck me as reminiscent of the selection of Martin Johnson as a national...

Does that mean he isn't Wallabies "backline" coach next year or on the EOYT?

Surely Ala'alatoa will be starting THP next year for the Ponies. Biggest question is who the coach will be. I really, really hope for the Wallabies sake its Larkham (and he gets some proper mentoring in the role, especially given he is supposedly already been anointed the successor to Chieka.

I don't know I liked your Senna/Schumacker analogy, my era is more like Prost/Lauder but the same thing.

Inattention is the reason. No changes on last week, I think they went well.

I may be nostalgic but winning outside of the rules is not winning. I do not rate Maradonna or Lance Armstrong as great sportspeople. They were supremely gifted individuals with no ethics. If that is what is required for the Wallabies to win, I'd honestly rather they lose in style within the...

The game has moved on really and referees are taking less and less of the mouth to them or even other players. In any event people who run off their mouth do have a tendency to run off elsewhere as words often lead to action. So if the words are firing up often ill thought actions follow, like...

The Wallabies have absolutely no hope at all of winning or even keeping the margin respectable in this game. It will be their best game of the year if it can even be said they looked like they could have been "in" the game. The team remains totally unbalanced with very little in the way of...