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Do you have some stats on maul defence and attack? This is an area I expect Mumm and Skelton to be dominant (maul defence) and Carter (attack)

So I won't have to put up with Horan whinging about it being "dewy" as an excuse for the game plan and skill deficiencies? It will be about genuine rain instead.

I have been watching the Shute Shield and have generally enjoyed the rugby. My thoughts on the NRC are very well know so I won't bother reposting them here again. My malaise isn't just the bad Australian results but the manner of them, the backroom rubbish at three out of five franchises, the...

Usually I would, and have since the Super 6 days, which is longer than most on the forums have been alive I suspect. But I find this I just cannot. That is not to say I am supporting the Highlanders, I feel neutral. I just abhor the Larkham game plan. It is little better than the dross that...

Indeed in the short term it would be a increase in costs with an at best modest rise in revenue from TV type deals as we have had. It will be very interesting to see what happens next year. I regard myself as a total rugby fanatic, but by midway of the Super Rugby this year I was only watching...

He's obviously just a very naughty boy...... (No messiah quote can be let past without such a MP (Moana Pasifika) reference) Technically Fischer was a very good forwards coach and the Brumbies in those years you mentioned were well turned out in terms of forwards play. They were deficient in terms of back...

What the stats don't show Forcefan is the structures the sides are playing. With the McQueen like constant recycle game of the Brumbies and the way their forward pods are set up I'm not surprised that Butler is topping the rucks stats. Also need to consider the facts that he has spent a fair...

Kafe is also wrong then. Just from a google search to confirm my memory. http://www.davidcampese.com/coaching-career/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Campese

The execution of basic skills was far better and in Mogg they had a 15 who could get them deep into the opposition half to play to those set piece strengths. Also, and it cannot be understated, with Mowen at 8 they had the competitions leading lineout turnover maker, which made them far more...

If your going to make statements how about some facts. He has held no HC position, in fact not even a formal assistant position. He was an attack consultant for the Sharks a few years back. So there is no basis for comparison. I really do detest this sort of statement on people with no real...

So basically the structure was the same and resulted in the same attacking outcomes. That was the basis for the majority of the hyper critical comment of McIntyre. As for assertions that Paia'aua is a massively better defender than McIntyre, that is a very big assertion on the back of a game...

I wonder if anybody who has been critical of McIntyre this year noticed that with the change of 10 the attack setup was exactly, EXACTLY, the same. 10 metres back from the gain line. Perhaps McIntyre should have been cut some slack for doing what he was told, and it also neatly explains why...

The Brumbies played to the standard they have all year apart from their first outing against the Canes. The Brumbies backline with two Wallaby 10s and 13 in 10,12 and 13 and the current Wallaby attack coach couldn't offer less. The forwards not much better. Really Larkham has been shown up as...

He has said he didn't enjoy it.

Also add in where the Wallabies had their rucks, from flank to flank the ground covered by the Wallabies would have far exceeded that of the Poms even if the possession stats got evened up.

I think most would agree that everyone except the NZ sides have been pretty ordinary for the most part this year. Super Rugby hasn't been real super in 2016, no where near its traditional strength.

That is laughable. I assume you are calling me a parochial Tahs fan. Me who was perhaps the most vehement anti-Tahs management and coaching person this site has seen in the days of Link, Hickey and Foley. To the point the Mods wished I'd just %$#% off. Indeed have a look at my posts about the...

And when I have argued for it at Provincial level people have made similar comments that Super coaches don't have the time in a fast season where the loss of a couple of games can end a season. So is it a situation where nobody says, shit this needs to be addressed and fixes it because it...

How long have I been harping on about specialist coaching and coaching general? I have reluctantly admitted that coaches at Super Level don't have the time to spend on basic skills, but then we have to ask where do the players learn the skills since out of school they are more and more moving...

And perhaps one of the biggest dud ideas, Skelton to 8. 1. In as many posts Skelton is dumped on for being fat and lazy and unfit. 2. Then the suggestion is move him to 8 because the above assertion wouldn't be as noticeable at 8? 3. Those players who have filled in at 8 for the Wallabies have...