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The general perception is that there is substantially more kicking in Rugby than in League, how does this fallacy get addressed. I believe casual observers object to scrums being reset repeatedly because it's boring,they are not bothered whether the clock has stopped or not.

Good points, but unfortunately, perception is reality. No idea how you can change perceptions

Yeah, cos all the criticism of late is unwarranted.....

He's still got plenty of mongrel. He deadset flogged a few guys last night

They do, but they reckon the best rating game last year was rats v parra. How does that work?

It frustrates the hell out of me,as its natural to want to watch the best game each week. Normally I despise quotas, but I actually support every team getting at least one TV game. It's literally 4 games out of a season. I can live with that.

I agree with your observations on players form. But Cheika does have his favourites, it's unlikely he will drop Izzy completely.

Most refs look harder at the defending team, he appeared to be doing that tonight. Or I think he was, it was hard to tell, cos the Reds refused to make the Tahs the defend ping team at all in 2nd 1/2,until after the bell.

So many unforced errors... And this game demonstrates that stats mean fuck all. Reds win turnovers 20-10, which suggests that they were dominant at the breakdown. In fact, they were terrorised at the thought of winning, so they kicked it away at every opportunity..... Quoting former Qld great...

Only if you're wearing a blue shirt :)

Dave, everyone knows at TG its pies from the canteen, or Chinese inside if the 3rds have turned it up........

The ARU is predominantly made up of successful business people with good intentions, vacancies are filled by like minded people that are known to them. Any talk of reforms would just be rebuffed, as they don't see themselves as failures, and in any case how could anyone less successful in life...

That's a fair point, although with the Force it was an anyone but Foley scenario. My observation from afar was that Graham was more of a consensus guy,and if so, then his assistants also have to bear responsibility for the mess.

^^^its not really a reset when the no 2 gets promoted. They needed fresh blood in the joint to turn the culture around. How can the no 2 do a 180 on how some things were done/tolerated in the previous couple of years.

Very frustrating to listen to him. Instead of asking for details, when told about ARU lawyers being adversarial, He turns Sauer volume down and goes into a ridiculous rant. In fairness to the ARU, what are they going to say? We made a stupid decision with little thought to the consequences, and...

^^^ yep, that's certainly a much bigger issue. Effectively they have admitted to inflating the crowd numbers for every game for years. Most games the members might be 1/2 full. I understand that members/corporates take up over 15,000 seats.

Don't think staff entrance has a turnstile...

The ARU only values those that they pay. Everyone else has to be self sustainable. What's the old saying They know the cost of everything,but the value of nothing.

Rugby Administrators are making a late charge :)

That side would beat most SS teams.....