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Needless to say, I have a history of MM's discussions with the Reds that varies from that. But let's not go there. Whatever, it's very common for talented young sports guys - with or without agents advising them - to have ebbs and flows about what they should do contractually given various...

Once, long ago. Not any more :) .

Indeed. Lee - may I add another little cross-code anecdote re Mason - when he was a highly successful 10 at Churchie in the QLD GPS comp his team's 15 then was none other than Kalyn Ponga, now considered a sensational young League player headed to the Knights on, reportedly, c.$800k-1m per...

Good on the Tahs, that is not the point here in any way. My point being: the Reds should have fought very, very hard to keep him. I know for certain that they barely fought at all. It was obvious that he and Greene had way more upside than Jake McI. It was also almost as obvious . moreover -...

Looks like QLD's Mack Mason - discarded by the QRU - will play at 10 run-on for the Tahs this weekend: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/waratahs-set-to-name-bolter-mack-mason-at-fiveeighth-for-crusaders-game-20170329-gv9l3k.html RG and our esteemed QRU Rugby Department (run as it...

IMO, in the majority of posts in this thread and within the intense concerns over cuts to the number of Australian Super teams, two fundamental realities are not revealed and debated enough, namely: One, whatever we may think, the truth inside the ARU's head is a rapidly mounting fear that...

Well, the QRU has now itself declared the 2017 Reds as error-filled. I just tried to buy some tickets for Saturday's game vs the 'Canes and was alarmed to see that the entire upper 2 tiers of Suncorp and the single upper tier of the Western stands are 100% blocked out, not being marketed at...

Chill Torp; I was just having a laugh at this 'PR bullshit' which is so often espoused with utter seriousness virtually every week. But, I have to say, I sometimes believe it is said with at least a degree of sincere earnestness as though such an assessment of the pre-game training will...

What you people have clearly not accounted for is S Moore's for-certain declaration later this week that '.......our preparation has been been really excellent all week and the boys have performed really well at training......' The fact that this pre-game statement from virtually any 2017...

M74 top work, I think that is entirely what is occuring here. And remember, the NZRU has stated that 'tough decisions have been taken' which obviously do not directly concern or affect the NZRU. No way would a man like Tew say that publicly if the essence of it, around a new SANZAAR policy...

br, of course the bitter irony foisted upon us fans in all this is that, when Pulver's appointment as CEO was announced in late 2012 by his multi-buddy ARU (then) Chairman Hawker, Hawker stated 'one of the big things we needed in a new CEO was excellent communication skills and we have found...

Yes indeed Twolims but the equally staggering thing is that we have a process that is now 8 months in the doing and the ARU has to come out and say 'nothing whatsoever has been decided'.......even though, notably, the CEO of the NZRU has clearly stated 5 days ago: “Some tough decisions have...

If a person, or an organisation, was an avowed enemy of all things rugby, this remarkably calamitous 'SANZAAR S18 format review process' (which btw commenced a mere 8 months ago in August 2016) would be, is, the Gift that Just Keeps on Giving. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried; it's...

And, to your point, how many Finals had Link ever won when arriving at the Reds? But his accumulated experience as HC at the upper reaches of Super rugby was invaluable. Somehow too coming to a new club liberated the best in him.

You cannot seriously argue that JMcI is/was this team's central problem. Has QC (Quade Cooper) had a stellar 2017, has Moore, has Smith? What about the overall Reds' error rate in this game? Whatever, JMcI was a total pet of Graham's, and was ludicrously over-indulged and over-promoted as the supposed back-up...

The 2017 Reds have not improved one iota since Round 1, and they were arguably better then than now. Given the players at their disposal, by any standard and after 5 Rounds, the 2017 Reds look poorly coached, and the team appears to lack cohesion in most aspects of their play, defensively and...

Really, is it really like this or as bad as some allege? I can say for sure that here in Brisbane there is just a tonne of organised amateur sport going on every weekend. When my girl and boy were (recently) school age, there was incessant _both school and club_ hockey, softball, water polo...

From that other notorious Reds 'rebuilding' year, 2010, by Round 5 of the then Super 14, the Reds had.... ......beaten the Crusaders (R2 - H), the Chiefs (R4 - A), and the Force (R5 - H). Remembering too that was a team that possessed few 'mature and very experienced players' the likes of...

^^^ @QH re the RFU's progress Surely you know by now that we in Australian rugby are 'uniquely unique'! We can learn nothing from any other codes or rugby bodies world wide as, god almighty, we have the AFL and NRL able to just grind us into the red dirt no matter what we do about it. We're...

Totally - a useful revolution in Australian rugby (and that is uncontestably what we need) must commence with an attempt to answer the absoluteky core question you infer or touch on, namely: - what needs to be done to pare back or change our investments and player developing infrastructure to a...