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How sad a statement and state of affairs is this. How could it ever have been allowed to evolve into this. It's totally insane if it is like this. There is nothing more important to player and team development in rugby than top quality generalist and (as appropriate) specialist coaching...

Weathered couch look has always gone done big with Mosman-based CEOs and Chairpersons*. Not sure why. (*Note compliance with new gender neutrality codes also applies to all ARU-related references.)

"Our Receptionist is on stress leave following a 'highly unfortunate recent incident' involving B Papworth, A Jones and a prominent ARU board member that occurred in her immediate vicinity."

'In important meetings with our lawyers.'

A good way for the ARU to go broke, quickly and with suitably little fanfare.

No, but surely the most relevant point is that it keeps you in a state of perpetual miserableness, despair and pessimism re the state of code here, and that is clearly how you like it, perhaps even enjoy it. Plenty of us have politely set out many detailed arguments that you have sought in...

What 'broke them mentally' was a board of QRU directors that had only Link as a positive, lucky, once-off aberration that they had no skill or judgement to even begin to know how to repeat. So post-Link, they were just like they were in most incarnations before Link, namely: hopelessly out of...

I'm so impressed with the Foxtel commentators, they always make original, insightful and unbiased assessments, and never resort to cliches. Highlights Foxtel's obvious commitment to the quality broadcasting of rugby. No wonder, as rumoured, they wanted to preserve 5 Australian Super rugby...

Yes as that one was kicked off by Reds' fans again tonight, and poor reffing handed the Chiefs their win tonight, it was obvious to those who understand reffing and the laws in depth.

That one doesn't count as Nic Stiles and S Moore kicked it off for the Reds. I am only interested in truly original Tahs' excuses.

Just tuned in - what are the 'best of breed' excuses from the usual Tahs' apologists? Please update. 'Greasy conditions'. 'Squad chopping and changing - need time to settle into combinations'. Are these the ones?

Agree but Torp the genesis of this problem lay in Graham's appalling squad planning and in thinking a player like McIntyre (Graham's pet) could legitimately 'take over' from Quade.

Let's now contemplate the unbelievable stupidity of the QRU picking ALL greenhorn coaches in their respective positions at this level.

Jason Gilmore surely cannot see Monday coming as Reds defence coach - the Reds generally v poor defence has not improved one iota since Round 1.

Yes, the great, repetitive, abiding, disaster-inducing myth guiding so much of recent Australian rugby's so-called 'strategy' ............ ............ namely: 'we just need to expand the quantity of players and playing games and have more club players playing with 'elite' players and that...

At last, the dam of overly protective, excuse-making, pussy-footed, lilly-livered Australian rugby opinion-makers is breaking.............. B Cannon openly calls for Pulver to resign (and by inference most of the ARU board) immediately, and says it rather well: Headline: "The ARU executives...

All please read: "Rugby greats call for crisis summit as code lurches into abyss" (Just Google the headline above if you can't access the link below.)...

Thanks, but now feel worse.

^^^^^ Agree BLR. My personal favourite from the above article is this buried gem: So if he is 'providing much of the rugby nous' for the ARU, and the code here is indisputably in a dreadful mess, what does that say about (a) that particularly wonderful brand of Clarke-rugby-nous and (b) the...

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