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Thinker, thanks for some very good, useful analysis above btw. I totally agree with the above highlight from your post. There is more Stiles should show and achieve (and not just in set piece which is by no means all there is to top quality forwards play just as TWAS has noted above). And...

It may not have been confidential in a strict sense. The police and prosecutors would surely have wanted to be able to use such a statement in whole or in part in open court as needed, and only in relatively rare cases would such testimony be formally suppressed by the court.

As others here have predicted.... http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/afl/gold-coast/gold-coast-suns-will-investigate-karmichael-hunt-drug-revelations-20150628-ghzqwq.html

It continues to surprise me how little comment or assessment there has been over what is, managerially speaking, a key consideration in the Tahs performance throughout 2015. Namely: Cheika has for the entire pre-season period and right up until yesterday been appointed to do two highly...

^^^ Well said Sully. The 'review the HPU element' is just being used as a smokescreen to offer the maximum possible protection to RG, and maybe to undermine JC somewhat by his new detractors on the board. The right HPU as to core staffing etc should not be something any RU board micro...

Good point. Jim Tucker in the Courier Mail today made just this point (re a new HC potentially inheriting a bunch of pre-chosen staff) when he reported that the increasingly unfamous 'independent report' that the QRU requires to guide its thinking on the matter of HC, HPU etc, has been further...

"Team performance is 80 or 90 per cent of the marketing in professional sport - that's the truth,"........ Te Puni, CEO, Hurricanes, this week, Wellington

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but, importantly after yesterday's dark speculations (all with fearful consequences) re QC (Quade Cooper)'s injury: From today's Fairfax online rugby sections, P Lutton reports:

I still see that evolving - and numerous QRU insiders inexplicably wanting it to occur - as a real scenario that could emerge. The 'RG was not really at fault, he needed a much enhanced HPU which we failed to give him....now looking forward to a much improved 2016 season backed by a superior...

Totally. What an excruciating facade and laughable process this is. You'd never know (a) this is actually a key job of the CEO and board to do themselves FFS and (b) that they've had all of 2013, 2014, and 2015 to drectly assess RG's HC capabilities. Yet they need more time and more 'outside...

I agree - if true that the Reds have been looking that long with no takers, either (a) the salary etc was sub-market and/or (b) word got around what a mess the whole Reds HPU was is in and with (then) no stable head of S&C etc, so good physios stayed away. I do agree that D Marsh should change...

Perhaps just a tad melodramatic and assured given that no one really knows just how serious or otherwise this 'injury' is? One scenario could well be that he has surgery now and is back fit and ready for the 2016 season, that would not necessarily diminish his 2016 onwards contract value. His...

Haven't the Reds, Rebs, Force 'wider' Wallaby squad members - of which QC (Quade Cooper) was one - been training under Stiles et al at Ballymore from Monday this week? That plan was certainly announced when this squad was announced. If QC (Quade Cooper)'s shoulder was that bad all over again, could he have trained at all...

gel, you may missed the post, but I noted that W Smith in The Aus (who essentially recycles the QRU line on all matters) said that the latest HC-related situation is that 'the report' from Frawley re the HC and HPU matters will now not be voted on during this Thursday's QRU board. Rather...

Absolutely, and I have to say, so far at least, he has to be admired for consummate mouth management in not rising to the QRU's acidic taunts re how much they've supported him for so long etc, and come out with his view. Very hard not to feel defensive and aggrieved when your employer dumps on...

Speaking personally, I'd much rather examine all the potential attributes of rugby team management excellence (such as the role of superior S&C work) that are developable, recruitable, controllable, etc and further can be analysed and transferred vs the random factors of our universe such as...

Re the role of 'luck' with injuries and that of excellent S&C policy and its execution in reducing injury risk, I was reminded of an old business-based saying that I have found remarkably accurate over the years, and I'll offer it up, adapted for this discussion: "The harder I work (at real...

Fuck me, you're tough! I would have thought 2 successive S15 Title wins, then two more years well into the Finals, shows they know a thing or two re squad planning and player management.

Look how impressively well the Chiefs have done just that since 2011, and they've had to contend with all manner of key player losses and so forth.

Just what I hope is an amusing aside: Mid-2009. B Barnes as the Reds' best 10 departs Ballymore for NSW clearly frustrated with the financial and coaching and general direction of the place. Later 2009 - board revolt at the QRU, coach sacked, CEO sacked, all change. Parallels anyone?