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Yes, at least they are some glimmers of quality in the young 2016 Reds. And glimmers may be just good enough......for now. I guess we are all just desperately searching for small mercies in the face of the catastrophic, deep and long-sustained destruction of our Reds during the Graham era and...

What about the radical notion that, yes, Friend may be wrong, very wrong. After all, it's more a rarity when Australia produces and appoints fine elite rugby coaches (either HCs or specialists), surely we have seen that truth on display routinely over the last decade. It's notable how little...

Correct Reg. There were some wonderfully talented young men in that champion Churchie XV of 2014.

All correct TOCC. The Reds put out feelers when Ponga was playing at 15 at Churchie - where he was nothing short of extraordinarily good (see the YT highlights reel when he was at Churchie, c.600k views by now). The question though is: how competently were those feelers put out in the RG era of...

Confirmation No 36 of three knowns: - the Graham era was not 'bad', it was catastrophic, one the greatest periods of unforced self-destructiveness ever in the history of QLD rugby - his 'co-coach' successors will continue the uber-disaster if one is reappointed as Reds HC, they're not good...

Right. And this is the heart of the matter. As numerous of the above posts rightly note, excellence in elite rugby coaching begets excellence in talent identification, skills development and overall player capability. There can be no disputing this, the evidence is overwhelming. Take 2007-2016...

Some of us discussed this a while back.....but now it's confirmed.....one of the most talented GPS schoolboy 10s many of us have seen for a very long time, Mack Mason, has left the Storm to sign for the Reds. Mason played for Churchie as 10 in 2014 when Churchie won the GPS premiership...

Very much as predicted.....re JOC (James O'Connor). Re Knuckles ....when he joined it was very definitely announced by the QRU that he'd been retained right through the 2016 season...how the QRU could deal in this way with a bloke who stepped into the shit mess to help, and who had prior given so much to QLD...

Great highlights vid of QLD GPS rugby 2015, wonderful advertisement for all that it is and all that we love about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_dpxFeazTQ

Yes RR, I was just about to post the same! Through my Churchie network I had heard he was likely headed back to BNE and Union, but wanted some hard data to confirm same, and this seems to be it. I have even heard Nudgee GPS coaches say that the 2014 Churchie side was 'the best QLD GPS...

One could well argue from these numbers that it was ACGS' excellence in defence that was a very significant factor in them winning the comp and outright.

My typo of course; perhaps I'd been on... Fixed above.

G Henry picks Wallabies for RWC Final. 'Likes what Cheika is doing'. His pick for 9 and 10: Genia and To'omua. "Rugby World Cup: Wallabies catch the eye of former All Black coach Graham Henry" www.news.com.au...

FT BGS 18 ACGS 55

Btw, Chuchie playing their worst game of the season, and they go to 2H with a YC against after a ridiculous number of penalties.

HT BGS 6 ACGS 24

Re BGS rugby. The future positive surely has to be their recruitment of P Mooney as Director of Rugby from this year. This appointment has to be one of the most, if not the most, senior/seasoned/experienced coaches/head-of-program ever appointed in QLD GPS rugby. Mooney has coached the QLD...

I would not normally venture to be a pedant re such things, but given this may be alarm clock setting time for posters getting up in the small hours to view this match, I think the correct Aus East Coast time for it is in fact: >> 1:45am AEST on 24/9, yes?, namely + 9 hrs to UK BST. Edit...

HtC, I too was wondering this but dared not raise it mindful of the fact that it's all volunteer work and who I am to prod for more? Whatever, the NSW GPS writers here are well and truly overpowering us with their contributions on just about everything!

Real pity for him and the team, last game of the season, unshared Premiership on the line too. Doubt BGS will be crying any tears over it though :).