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Directionally, some of the wisest words ever uttered here. The ARU is not competently or correctly structured for the tasks it has to perform in the sporting code and market competitive landscape of Australian pro sport as it's largely been for the last decade and a half. Bankers, lawyers...

Blue - like it or not, the issue of Rebels preservation or otherwise has become not one of fan viability but more likely one of high cost exposure should the ARU have to close them down. Remarkably, as the rugby fan I am, what has leaked out in recent days is that it appears that what the ARU...

And, happily to the far left of shot, are the esteemed guardians of rugby union in this country, Pulver and (then ARU Chairman) Hawker....... .....after another one of those 'high profile global executive searches' four years ago now, Pulver, Hawker's school class mate, school rugby mate...

Good summary BH. May I add to it: IMO, JO'N's (and his then ARU board btw) gravest failing with immensely negative strategic consequences was/is this: His core proposition in establishing an expanded 'national footprint' for rugby (and that led in its assumptions to the establishment of the...

Of course in essence you are right Twolims and the ARU know full well that a inexorable trajectory whereby (a) Super TV viewership continues to decline and (b) Super home crowds continue to decline (and 2017's crowds to date are commercially disastrous if sustained at those levels) and (c)...

You have a talent! These are better than Getty Images'. (Skillfully learnt on the great playing fields of QLD GPS rugby.)

So, we want Reds/QRU Positives.....this is a Positive

Though the antiquated look and feel makes me wonder if he really has the internet vs say a gamma ray connection to GAGR.

@ the torpedo You are looking at those noted players' respective histories differently than I am. I did not in any sense say they had no losing years, I did say they had meaningful experience of winning years and teams at elite levels and I stand by that. I did not at all say 'I wanted Reds'...

Very valid point dru but may at the same time highlight a major issue: the men we have purchased to do just that - bring experience and mature perspectives as to how to win in the end game and close out under pressure - are not for various reasons able to be there in the final 10-15 mins to...

@mst and @TOCC I am sure you both have seen all home S18 crowd figures this year. Force, Reds, Tahs, Rebels, Brums - they are all scarily low, in serious year-on-year decline and if sustained at these levels the numbers are not consistent with any other financial scenario than the requirement...

Agreed, he did say that. But requiring, and presupposing, an excellent game plan to begin with of course.

gel - isn't this a bit of a myth though, with the current team we have in 2017? Higgers, Moore, Smith, Cooper, Douglas, Simmons....etc....these guys have all been in winning teams over time that knew how to close out a game when it was realistically there for that. FFS Moore is Wallaby...

Scoey - since around 2013 or so I'm just waiting for that day - when we play really well and consistently and win, with skill, intensity and flair, a deserved victory over a well-matched team. I can see that my absence from such commentaries has made your heart grow bitterer, not fonder. I...

^^^ (to Scoey) Very amusing. You said more or less the same thing (to me and others) when defending/excusing/justifying RG for years as you did.... until the consensus finally turned and it was 1000% clear he was a total, utter dud. You are driven - and I respect it - by obsessive, blind...

^^^ Good, but nothing ever comes just from First Acts alone. And you of all posters know that. (And let's be honest this was a Cru B team for the first half and even more for the second.) Perhaps I don't look for small mercies enough.

When and if the Reds winning in front of a (really small) home crowd doesn't really matter, and being beaten from behind largely through superior fitness by a Cru B team heavily afflicted by injuries, doesn't really matter then........ 'It was a really good game, so much for the Reds to build on'

For those whom might, or can, or will........go back and compare this game with a Link-coached (and Taylor - defence - and Fowler - strategy - coached) Reds home game in 2010-11. You will see important differences. Actually, relatively, Reds had less team strength overall then vs the Cru of...

Totally. Twolims you make a very good point in that the remarkable deference/over-respect/excuse-making/etc to/for the elite Australian rugby bodies that we find here (until very recently) and throughout many tracts of Australian rugby is a significant part of the problem as a whole, namely...

This is the story of how an obsession with 'volume', 'revenue' and 'big national network' at the expense of determining how to ensure the sporting product actually offered to fans, sponsors viewers was attractive and sustainable is ultimately suicidal...