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I have never said Stiles is a 'shit coach', never. What I have said, and I stand by it, is that on objective grounds and in terms of what has of sheer necessity to be rapidly achieved at the Reds to avert another 2009 scenario at Ballymore: - there is only very limited evidence to date to...

It's not wrong to at least somewhat use the analogy of Test and T20 cricket. I recall so vividly the tremendously patronising comments cricket Test players made about T20 when it first started; for R Ponting then - 10+ years ago - it was just a 'hit and a giggle', now he makes big money...

Worth reading: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympics/rio-2016/fiji-win-gold-in-mens-sevens-rugby-at-rio-olympics-20160811-gqqs6j.html

Quoting B Gosper World Rugby CEO in news.com.au: "TV ratings are yet to be finalised but the appeal of Australia’s win, and the women’s Olympic sevens tournament in general, generated the biggest social media traffic for a sevens tournament ever — male or female. Along with a hard-fought...

Cobber - let me come back to this later as out of time now but may I just say as a holding comment that will offend some: IMO pumping $ millions into the Force and yet having only chicken shit $s build a world-class men's 7s team, and so never building one or even getting close, is strategic...

Totally agree as per above post, but much harder if as announced the ARU has already re-appointed the hapless Friend for 2 more years FFS.

L - rugby coaches that achieve precisely fuck-all after a year or more, and if anything additionally yield up deterioration, rarely, very rarely, go on to deliver sustained improvements and performance breakthroughs. Friend has zero track record of demonstrable success in his whole rugby...

It seems not. The biting irony all this is that the only time the modern QRU has successfully rescued itself from a wholly self-inflicted disaster in 2009 was by recruiting talented 'outsiders' as leaders and then letting them hire more talented outsiders to support them and the Reds. That...

There can be no doubt that one of the most crucial elements behind the women's team's massive success was the 'revolutionary' (for our ARU that is) idea to reach out to _all_ the rich veins of athletic talent that our country clearly produces. No matter the school, the social group, the...

Totally. I said well before Rio that Friend had achieved little if anything with the Brumbies, was fired mid-season there, had zero 7s background yet was given the men's 7s HC role, inexplicably. Why was he appointed? And now we have landed - is it 9th? - at the Olympics which is a serious...

Something IMO we should all read..... "Rio Olympics: Tim Walsh produces a coaching masterclass" W Smith The Australian August 10, 2016 Google the headline if you don't subscribe. or here if you do...

Ric seems to have forgotten: Fiji has a women's 7s team that....we beat fair and square.

He simply had no clue what he was/is talking about and, to boot, an extraordinarily ungracious outburst as you say which came across more as, implicitly, 'my achievements in my competitions were far better than this rugby 7s stuff'. As much as I respect hockey as a wonderful sport, I could...

Yeah, what a wonderful clip. Just compare the crowd in that moment with the crowd at our last home game.

Some interesting words from D Herbert re the Stiles choice quoted on today's The Australian: "(Bret Harris) But Stiles’ experience as head coach of Brisbane City, guiding them to back to back titles in the National Rugby Championship in 2014 and 2015, was key to securing the Reds’ job...

100% Scoey. And the fact of the matter is that, over the past decade, other than the Link years of 2010-11, the 'DNA of QLD rugby', at least at elite levels, has hardly been outstanding. That DNA statement is ominous, in the negative. There was a similar verbal vibe re the new QRU CEO's...

TWAS, perhaps accidentally you have left off one crucial element of Rennie's pre-Chiefs period. Namely, for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 he coached the NZ U20s team to championship status every year. That's no mean feat, U20s is a tougher gig than it looks as the young players are in transition...

IMO, the suggested Gilmore move is premature. He should prove himself as say HC of the national U20s first.

Re Stiles and wonderful scrums and line outs. One, having a consistently strong scrum and line out is in no way a free-standing, outcome-determining KPI as to how successful a Super team will be - the Reds' recent seasons prove that decisively. The Reds 2011 season shows that a mediocre scrum...

Of course he has considerable abilities. He's demonstrated them. Quite a successful coaching career in Europe. The first ever Super title for the Waratahs. To a RWC Final within 12 months of being appointed and when the Wallabies were struggling badly when he assumed the HC role there. That...