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Lifestream this coming Saturday for 1st XV Churchie (home) v BBC, 2:15pm: http://livestream.com/Churchie-LiveStream/ACGSvBBC

Marto's no exemplar of rugby analysis, but he gets a lot of media coverage up here and people will read and listen to him: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/reds/exwallaby-greg-martin-slams-queensland-reds-over-richard-graham-call-20150818-gj2c7l.html

rt, remember that these days 'Reds Members' by number is not what it used to be. For example, in recent years the number has been massively inflated by the grant of 'You're Now a Reds Member' for school kids and junior players enrolling in various Reds programs and initiatives. This is one...

It does not 'suit my story'. I only reference such things here when I have heard them from parties I know to be reputable adults, close to the whole Reds camp and that I know to be qualified to report objectively. I have heard of this social and professional closeness between Herbert and Graham...

^^^ Though Muglair, don't you think it's possible that in fact Carmichael has been using your infamous ex-coach Hickey as as adviser this last week? You'll recall how Hickey - at that uniquely open and communicative event years back, 'the fan forum' - presented reams of PowerPoint slides and...

Btw - RG and Dan Herbert are personal friends and best buddies. There will be no objectivity and real accountability in this 'new' organisational format. The old boys will be (again) evaluating the old boys.

I have visions of Carmichael, sitting anxiously at home, triple scotch in hand, faced by a small enamelled statue of RG and another of Rod McCall, and barking into his mobile phone - Facebook post by Facebook post as each rolls in - orders to his IT department: 'delete that outrageous slur'...

I think gel a while ago posted a wonderful 2014-dated statement from Carmichael wherein he said something like "we (QRU and RG) will be judged on how well we come out of the gate in the very first game of 2015, just for sure judge us on that". We all know just how well that went. To be a bit...

From Wayne Smith in The Australian a few minutes ago: Laugh, or cry?

Yes, it was the looming bankruptcy in 2009 that changed the CEO, most of the board and, stemming from all that, the HC.

Some actual quotes from Carmichael today (smh.com.au). (A special, enclosed new world has now been built at Ballymore, and much there has a different, altered meaning to that my fellow posters you and I know as our reality.) Reds chief executive Jim Carmichael said he understood it may not be...

+ btw: IIRC the last time RG moved to do Defence Coach-ing as well as HC - as he will again here for 2016 - defence improved somewhat but everything else went to shit.

NB: there is precisely zero new blood being brought into the QRU at a senior level to fix the vast debacles of 2014-15. It is just office moves down the same corridors. The insularity, self-deceit and implied arrogance are beyond breathtaking.

I will do precisely that too, and more.

“We fully understand that the results of the Reds over the last two seasons have been unacceptable, however we feel strongly that Richard is the right man to lead us into the 2016 season under this new structure.” Umm, why is that exactly? I mean, what a joke to think that inserting the old...

St.George Queensland Reds announce new High Performance Structure for 2016 Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) today announced the extension of Richard Graham as St.George Queensland Reds Head Coach for the 2016 Super Rugby season. Graham will work under a new high performance structure that will...

I am hearing that RG is definitely retained as HC.

RR - are you teasing us, or is this what you now know?

Well that is good news; it can only mean one thing, which it seems you are aware of, namely that RG is no longer HC or anywhere near the 2016 coaching team.

Senior Reds players have been summoned to a meeting today with the top QRU brass.