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TSR - I am not being disingenuous, I honestly have no idea why you ascertain so strongly that comments and assessments I make here are directed at you, consciously or otherwise. Not that you need to me to say this, but they are not. You as a poster TSR, my immediate sense when I see your name...

I'm still desparately keen to hear from the ARU: - why, oh why, is Larkham the 'anointed' next Wallaby HC and - why are the Brumbies immune from a 'candidate to be culled' Aus Super team? Good, plain, rational and fact-based explanations will suffice. Will they ever come?

Of course Cyclo I did not contemplate in making these remarks re in-depth ref performance analysis that people would have the time or inclination to do as I set forth above. Rather that, if one was truly concerned re ref bias, seriously poor reffing by X ref etc, this methodology was the only...

Good, revealing analysis Thinker, thanks. It strikes me that there is small bevy of Reds fans that now accept, and are largely OK with, a 2017 combination of 'valiant losses + trying harder + QC (Quade Cooper)-is-better-than-JMcC + a bit more flair in attack = I'm OK with that and it's better'. This is the...

As Scott Allen used to show so compellingly in his long-ago excellent game analyses, the crucial pieces of objectivity required in these types of 'ref got X and Y wrong or was biased against Team A' analyses if they are to be valid vs excuses-making by one side, are: - the observer concerned...

Ref had nothing to do with the Reds loss - this is just the new detritus of Aus rugby's deep demoralisation that ref-blaming upon a close loss has become the default virus of an ill body. Reds lost fair and square as they failed to correct obvious, chronic, repetitive past deficiencies. And the...

After the lopsided penalty count - a major problem for the Reds for years - silly box kicks and so much more that's obviously wrong in composure, skills etc - how can the apologists continue on and on with the notion that Stiles and his coaching group have the requisite capabilities as coaches...

There's much in what you say ILTW. I'm sure most of the ARU board members, when hand-wringing over a good red, conceive of the 'challenges we have at the ARU' as largely a consequence of outside factors 'over which we have no control' such 'the intense competitive strength of NRL and AFL, and...

Bravo! Love to see a Cyclo firing right out of the gate! Fire on comrade!

....IS....got a great Friday arvo laugh out of that.

I am sorry, but I do not think there was/is a shred of well-considered logic behind your notion of 'Stiles deserves........' line of argument as you put and expanded it. I consider that inferred perspective is excessively indulgent and overly generous given past evidence of such performance...

No foe like an old foe :). My record on this and other matters is clear: I said at the time re 2015's pompously titled QRU/ARU 'in depth review of the QRU's HPU etc' that the whole process was laughable and inept (RG was reappointed soon after this 'review'), and I said that when Stiles was...

The men in white coats

Saw that - but really it was speculation in those pages, not established fact by any means. Btw: is it not beyond belief that the ARU, like an angry child, could waste time in these circumstances arguing about whether to meet RugbyWA in Sydney or Perth. FFS - what about the staff and players'...

Contained within that inevitably depressing piece is the interesting tidbit that there is a notably declining reference from any quarter to any talk of the Rebels being culled. This - cull the Force, path of least complexity and resistance - was just set-up all along.

Very amusing 'Stiles deserves' - and the QRU's fragile finances, badly declining crowds, anxious sponsors and all that is required for the QRU to avert yet another ARU bail-out, that can just wait through 2019 for Stiles and his 'development program' to possibly bear fruit can it? I sometimes...

The members staying at home on game night obviously did have some kind of turnstile at their front gates as apparently they got included in 'crowd' numbers.

The mystery of the Tahs declared 'crowd numbers' is helpfully being unravelled by Payto and Pando tonight, and I post the telling extract below from their News Corp article (my added emphasis). (Let me say at the top: I strongly suspect the identical 'unfortunate difficulty' in the QRU's similar...

Sick culture, sick system, sick modus operandi.

Good points br. Noting as well that crowd levels over the season and ditto viewership numbers on Foxtel are leading indicators positively or negatively for down-the-line Super team sponsorship (a) interest as a whole in even bidding for a sponsorship and (b) sponsorship $ offer levels as...