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One thing's for certain: We will NEVER get high up into the Super Finals again without a good to very good 10. History shows that overwhelmingly of recent Super rugby. McIntyre class as he is today - and if he and our attack/backs coaching together don't radically improve soon - just kiss that...

People often neglect the high-value sponsorship economics of Hayne. He's a proven sponsorship magnet out of Australia, and maybe elsewhere. Fiji Rugby is not just yet Manchester United, nor has its bank balance. My view is that Fiji Rugby are allowing Hayne in solely for his marketing and...

Just checked the 2009 Reds' home games crowds via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Super_14_season It is so that Reds' 2016 crowds - mostly hovering around the 17k mark - are generally tracking below the Reds' 2009 crowds which mostly hovered around the 19k mark. (2009 being the annus...

So what? The discussion point here was whether posters here had advanced a body of insights and observations that had over multiple times proved more correct and insightful than Aus rugby's 'professional management' and elite coaches. That there have also been failed predictions and so forth...

Weren't there some 'low 20sK' Suncorp crowds earlier in the season? (Btw, I think the Reds are now tracking at home crowd numbers under those of the 2008-9 period...I'll check some time)

Is it now not becoming clear or clearer that McGahan is a myth? Isn't this his third season with the Rebels? Aren't we rightly meant to see 'serious improvements' in a Super side in a coach's Year 2 and a breakthrough to 'really playing well and getting to Finals' in Year 3? Furthermore...

Let me add some more just quickly and randomly recalled equivalents to that above so galumay can consider this matter a bit further: - multiple posters here argued before the BIL series started that JO'C would prove unworthy and loss-contributing as a 10 in the BIL 2013 series - despite...

TSR - I agree re this being a flawed selection from the start. However, I must be alone in not grasping how this failed experiment has been in any way 'commercially successful'. The player in question is/was here for one year. He barely speaks English, so he cannot be a darling of the local...

Like it or not, in the case of the 'professional management and coaches' over sighting Australian rugby many keyboard warriors here have often been proved smarter and more insightful than 'the elite in charge', in fact time and time again. One of the many reasons why this is a place worth...

I honestly don't get why anyone is surprised over this latest debacle of a recruitment that so clearly should never have happened - another cruel offense perpetrated upon Reds fans. Just one offence of a hundred. It's why I deem the Graham era and all that it has entailed not just bad, very...

Mate, I didn't say they'd necessarily win this year, but I would say that some of the Chiefs' 2016 play is extraordinarily good, of very high calibre and terrific to watch. Better even than the heights of their 2012 and 2013 years. The standard of selections, team skills, all-court rugby...

More than most, QC (Quade Cooper) is shown over his years to be a very coach-dependent player. It was only really ever under Link and, importantly, Link's brilliant 2010-11 total coaching group, that QC (Quade Cooper) truly shone bright and consistently so. His particular genius was liberated by both coaching quality and...

Or Dave Rennie. Totally agree with your thinking gel. The QRU and the Reds simply cannot afford - in every sense of the word - another period of sustained coaching experimentation or indulged mediocrity. The sole qualification I would make re a Blackadder is derived from what we painfully...

Well, if 'getting to fourth in the World Series' is deemed satisfactory to you in a year when real Olympics success in 7s could give our fragile code here in Australia a massive, and badly needed, media boost, it's not to me. The ARU has known about the criticality of this 7s year since when...

You're just avoiding the issue disingenuously. No one sane argued against 'using common networks and contacts' to search out competency and skill. Using a known network to find skilled recruits and new persons does not equal 'nepotism' in any sense whatsoever. The 'jobs for the boys' negative...

If we look at the gradually unfolding fate of Australian Super Rugby franchises that consistently shift downwards to appalling win-loss ratios, weak crowds well under an average of 20k per game, and a disillusioned fan base that becomes reflected in jaundiced media coverage, it's a proven recipe...

Well, OK. Maybe not ecstatic but the point is true. But in all seriousness what I have found most heartening and really encouraging this year has been the excellence of both the players in and the performances of the 2016 Reds U20 team. Now there is some class in the making. Or so one hopes...

Of course, that was not my point. My point is/was that, in recent QRU board-appointing and senior-management-appointing conduct, far too much weight has been placed upon 'known rugby mates' and 'QLD club rugby cliques' and 'blokes we like and feel comfortable with' vs seeking out independently...

Why would anyone find that - inferentially or otherwise - encouraging? The very appointment of Herbert as head of 'the QRU rugby department' when he possessed zero experience or track record in handling such an important task and further when it was wholly unclear why such a position was truly...

To date, there is zero evidence that the board of the QRU knows what it's doing. That evidence is to be accrued when we assess its choices for a new CEO and Reds HC. And then, in 2017, how they actually perform. Whilst in the golden glow few years of 2010-12 Link and Carmichael did...