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  1. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    They are working up an offer for Richie McCaw.
  2. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    Come on now, BH. It wouldn't be a RWC year as we have come to know and love them without a serious, genuine, authentic QC (Quade Cooper) drama of major proportions, now would it?
  3. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    "This wonderful stand was commissioned in honour of Dismal Pillock's outstanding effort in composing and orchestrating Richard Graham's 2015 speech to the Reds' Gala Ball and later paying for the emergency facial reconstruction surgery Richard needed later that night after the unfortunate...
  4. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    .......and TWAS when 'Nasser Hate' is mixed together with long-simmering-and-looking-for-new-excuses-to-come-out-again 'Quade Hate', you get a toxically explosive substance that cannot readily be contained with ordinary chemicals.
  5. RedsHappy

    Bledisloe #1 - AUS v NZL, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, August 8th

    (Quick aside: Great to see you back again Langthorne - memories of our times together here doubting Deans as The Master Coach back in 2010. Come è la voce?) 'The Kiwis are beatable'........oh yes.........interesting at the Reds RWC Long Lunch on July 16 Sir Graham Henry pointed out how very...
  6. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    FYI - RG is at this time playing an active, formal role in the selection of Assistant Coaches for QRU-supported NRC teams. Odd that this would be the case if he was slated to depart from any and all Reds coaching roles.
  7. RedsHappy

    Wallaby 31 players for 2015 RWC

    Just to add to your points Wamberal. Aiding our main kickers (and other players who have to kick well from hand) with their skills in kicking from hand is just as important as is place kicking. Subject to game plan and conditions, really good hand kicks in terms of distance, trajectory and...
  8. RedsHappy

    Wallaby 31 players for 2015 RWC

    1. Haha! I've been saying that the Wallabies need a top-notch kicking coach and full-time for the entirety of their season, since 2010. Parallels my long-standing conviction that the completeness and capability of an adequately staffed elite coaching group is as important a variable in elite...
  9. RedsHappy

    Wallaby 31 players for 2015 RWC

    That's one way to look at it, not the way I do though. Let's recall: if KB (Kurtley Beale) had worn the right boots and then had made that kick at the end of BIL 1 @ Suncorp in 2013, it's arguable that we would have won the whole 2013 BIL series. I think I am right in saying that if France had kicked their...
  10. RedsHappy

    Wallaby 31 players for 2015 RWC

    That of course was not my point: my point was to address TWAS' historical post re Wales, and namely that a class kicker (as Harris once indisputably was), even if not a great Test player and Harris was not, can be crucial in Test matches, even against Wales ;).
  11. RedsHappy

    Wallaby 31 players for 2015 RWC

    Unless we're lucky enough to build a genius kicker that needs no technical and mental skills assistance to get to an 80+% level - and they are exceptionally rare - even very good kickers in pressure seasons need the regular support of a seasoned kicking coach, and the better the kicking coach...
  12. RedsHappy

    Wallaby 31 players for 2015 RWC

    Just an aside: In the vague mists of time I seem to recall that one M Harris yielded up a crucial kick for us to win v Wales, was it the Melbourne Test in 2012? And at that time, was it not so that Harris was kicking at a % success level to rival Bourke, Flatley, and, if we really go back...
  13. RedsHappy

    QLD GPS Rugby 2015

    IGS v ACGS FT 27-31
  14. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    I don't know how close you are or aren't TWAS to grass roots rugby, but just, as you seem to here, totally dismiss the issue of how the good men and women who run it for $0 (for themselves) every week perceive the equity and fairness of them being told the ARU is virtually broke, having their...
  15. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    The report had the vibe of genuineness to me and went on to quote the club itself as saying a 'suitable arrangement' had been made to release KD after they had openly stated they would require material compensation to release the player. Again, let's recall the ARU said openly that they would...
  16. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    Indeed. Paying out c.$230,000 as a contract break fee to get KD back when (a) the ARU cannot even begin to fund the grass roots properly and (b) where the ARU said it would never consider paying the equivalent to get QC (Quade Cooper) out of his Toulon contract, is both inexplicable as a policy precedent and...
  17. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    There will only ever be one Dismal Pillock. As the Graham family stand in awe. Preparing their son for pastures new.
  18. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    Totally agree TWAS. And he's had some good talent at this disposal. When I saw the Aus U20s play the Kiwi U20s on the GC this year I can honestly say that I said to myself and others then 'this does not look like a well-coached team at all, it oddly resembles the RG-coached Reds'. I may have...
  19. RedsHappy

    Reds 2016

    100%. Dingo's record by this assessment exceeds RG's, but his w-l % was far superior, so perhaps they are neck-and-neck after all required adjustments.
  20. RedsHappy

    QLD GPS Rugby 2015

    ^^^ + 1. On those rare occasions when the 'Like' button is simply not enough.
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