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Just in case this article has not been posted yet.........and its related Twitter thread is interesting as well..........the article title in the link is a good summary...

BTW: Has anyone noticed that the Ticketek seat map for ticket sales for this Test looks very much like the ARU is only marketing around 50-60% of Suncorp's seats? Vast tracts of this seat map have for weeks been grayed out as 'unavailable'. No way is there that many overseas or group sales being...

I very much agree that something radical and soon needs to be done with the coaching resources under MC. I still have faith in Cheika, I believe he possesses the rugby intelligence, grit, intellectual honesty, motivational skills and overall personal character to succeed as a national HC...

It doesn't floor me - there are many very capable rugby skills technicians and analysts in the overall Australian rugby systems that are neglected and woefully under-utilised. An excellent example is Stu Lierich of Brisbane. An exceptional kicking and catching skills coach, gets consulting...

The best of CC:

dru, the most ludicrous aspect of all this was the media feed the ARU put out around 6 weeks or so ago that 'Larkham has to - over time - make up his mind between HC of the Brums and full-time Assistant Coach at the Wallabies'. As if this guy was a proven star coach and just has the rugby...

......and more so ILTW, Friend as HC will get them nowhere in terms of the big time. The men's 7s team under Friend will be like our national U20s team under Thompson: irregularity, inconsistency, ordinary skills, few improving players, no obvious game plans or wise tactics, very occasional...

Can someone please tell me: precisely what value is Larkham adding as Attack Coach, where do we see his craft usefully applied in the last 5 Tests we've played?

100%. An amusing piece from Fitzsimons along similar lines and I join him in increasingly detesting the soft PC use of the word 'disappointing'...

^^^ .....and Ticketek are selling Sydney 7s February 2017 tickets from today (need password........should I list it here?........or PM me) that includes Women's 7s Finals on the Saturday and/or Women's First Round on the Friday as they are combined events.....tickets are going quite fast...

^^^ .......and the 2016/7 Women's Rugby 7s tournament schedule also announced with one additional location still to be named: http://www.worldrugby.org/womens-sevens-series/news/185507

The hard facts re the financial state of Australian rugby are gradually sinking in and 'going mainstream' vs the many lone observations we have been making here - with grave concern - for some years whilst the traditional rugby media lived in a world of denial and thoughtless optimism...

Not sure but Rugby360 were advocating perhaps an immediate part-time role for someone like N Sharpe and that makes sense to me, much more sense than in effect having no one. By and large, I think I am right that line-out was a volatile weakness even in the 2014 Tahs' performances, it seems to...

Interesting that on Foxtel's Rugby360 last night the consensus was that the Wallabies badly needed a line-out coach with specialist line-out experience. They said Ledesma had been filling that role and if so, not adequately when we look at the line out's performance. Always good to have...

RUBBISH ........sorry torp as your heart is in the right place and you're a fresh and honest thinker, I see that via your comments and posts. Over many years here torp I have proposed many solutions, indeed many at virtually every level of the code. Not that it matters - the only one of mine...

Wrong I'm afraid. They the Rebels are still receiving substantial ARU $ms per annum (on a diminishing basis over this and IIRC the next 3 years) as part of the sale of Rebels to a private consortium. In a very real sense the ARU - after investing vast sums in the Rebels - paid and will...

'How to fix the Wallabies'..... There's a masterful piece of rugby analysis here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/analysis-wallaby-kicking-woes/#disqus_thread Then follow that with a good look at the 2 videos that the Comments poster H Bomb has added under his alias under that blog essay...

Our national ego and cultural pride were both heavily made, and are today still, heavily defined by global sporting success, we all know that. Let's not kid ourselves, we'll hate being relegated to an also-ran, 'pretty average', Olympics nation. But now the Brits have taken over the...

In contrast, do we think Tim Walsh will get a $50 Coles voucher from the ARU board?

Is it so perplexing? - we had a pretty good run-up campaign pre the RWC, an extended period for the team to gel - we played Wales who we have consistently beaten for years now and not a well-coached team - we played an England that was also, certainly in that period, not well coached and...