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I profoundly disagree - these complainants are the QRU's PAYING CUSTOMERS - along with the sponsors, ARU grants (which come largely from general rugby fan viewership or attendance), it is we the paying members that fund the Reds. It takes very little for an organisation to arrange a process of...

Umm, that was not me composing that letter, just btw. I posted this Facebook entry not necessarily to elicit assessments of the QRU's means of dealing with its _paying customers_ grave concerns, but in part to give some additional flavour here as to what many Reds fans I encounter actually...

"I sent this letter to the QRU Chairman, CEO and President on April 4th.... and have still not received a reply despite me following up on several occassions....." https://www.facebook.com/QldReds/posts/10205407205114520

And those 4 wins were all against second tier teams. 1 in SA was pure good fortune when the Cheetahs remarkably missed their easy last kick. The obvious honourable and decent thing RG could and should do is immediately resign 'with much regret'. Instead we have this almost arrogantly...

That's entirely fair. Any objective student of all the Reds' 2H periods this year could see the team's stamina, defensive intensity, attacking focus all gradually fading away, often badly. The team regularly looked less fit than all but the weakest of opponents, and so it was vs the Chiefs and...

It's been poor to very poor for 2 seasons; the utter disgrace is the obviousness of it for long periods and nothing whatsoever has been done about it.

WTF has happened to Harris' kicking? As much as anything his really poor kicking overall lost the Rebels a match that would have and should have sealed the team's confidence going into 2016. On the contrary the fragile end vibe is possibly now one of - 'with Higgers gone, 2016 may be no...

^^^ There's a shit load of pent up anger re QRU conduct in the grassroots. Not to be underestimated or patronised.

QRU CEO in an 'unfortunate skirmish' at Suncorp with junior rugby club official: http://m.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/skirmish-involving-reds-boss-jim-carmichael-mars-will-genia-and-james-horwills-farewell-20150611-ghll0u.html

Clearly consumed by presentations and discreet interactions with the QRU's 'independent' review panel. It deciding the fate of QLD rugby in 2 weeks or so.

Btw: rumours are circulating tonight within the 'best' wine bars of St Leonards that B Pulver is about to release a media statement re the new Wallaby jersey along these lines: "We realised some time into the Robbie Deans period that we can't please all of the fans all of the time so in this...

"Wallabies’ World Cup jersey causes outrage among supporters for awful design" GAGR gains yet more mentions. The vomiting pineapple post heading for legendary status throughout Australia. (EDIT 5:35pm: Also front page of tonight's The Australian emailed headlines bulletin as 'Thats a...

Now you're just rubbing it in. I thought I'd offered you enough ;).

TWAS, not to be too pedantic, but in the Notes to the latest ARU accounts I am sure you'll find that the $8m 'loan' for the Rebels was to 31/12/14 and that nearly $4m cash additional was earmarked to continue into 2015. Assuming a Rebels sale around now, that's going to be say $2m this year...

Amongst many others, there's one simple reason why it's a virtual certainty the Tahs, with a markedly superior attack, will beat the Reds and very probably with a 5-pointer. The D word. The Reds' defence has been appalling all year, especially the outer flanks which the best teams v Reds have...

Plus I would argue part-time kicking and mental skills coaches. In the case of the former if we can get our place kicking consistently into the high 70s/low 80s% the difference to, best case, wins, worse case BPs, can be enormous come round 18. And our kicking from hand needs to go from more...

One of the least commented up aspects of Australian rugby over the last 5 or so years is simply this: The ARU spends remarkably little serious money in promoting and marketing the game in the manner now required to viably compete with other winter sports. Why? - one, the JON II era left the...

Re Reds' 2016 wingers: whatever re DI, but if we want to win a S18 championship, and given the nature of the best teams' backlines today, we will never do that with L Turner and CFS just as much unless his form and confidence improves dramatically. Neither are consistently penetrative and/or...

The SMH likes our work, links to right here: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/australia-rugby/rumoured-wallabies-2015-world-cup-jersey-slammed-online-20150609-ghk7jm.html

I AM SURE that a Kiwi designer is secretly behind this obvious attempt to undermine the calibre of the Wallaby brand in the eyes of the Australian sports-loving public. The ultimate objective though is negative Wallaby on-field performance in RWC 2015. By way of 'jersey undermining'. The...