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Just re declining Fox S15 viewership numbers: Look, this is a comparatively small factor I grant, but I really believe a factor in this decline has to do with Fox's lack of change and serious refresh of the truly hapless Fox S15 commentators with their often heavily biassed and idiotic...

Agree absolutely. + let's not forget 'the next layer' under the HC and the major impact that can have. There can be no question that one of Link's best moves in late 2009/early 2010 was to upgrade the whole Reds' coaching team: Taylor, Evans, Fowler, McKay, Marsh etc. The whole team clicked in...

Worse than aesthetically terrible TWAS - which it truly is and defines bad, thoughtless design in almost every aspect - it looks as though, on the last assessment stage, the whole thing was presented to the ARU's Cost Management and Avoiding Bankruptcy Committee and they insisted the final...

Just a little blast from the past, which adds some history and context re what viewers liked to watch (at one stage, anyway), and what's happened since. The data below is from www.news.com.au May 31, 2011 re the Fox viewership for the pre-finals stage of the Reds S15 in mid-2011. How long has...

A mild exaggeration perhaps? I for one now have many rugby-loving QLders in my rugby circles that are totally and utterly exasperated with QRU board's obvious bias and delusional conduct in supporting RG for far longer than he deserved based upon results (and the type of those results) and...

If only it was 'mediocrity' - rather, it's closer to 'guaranteed disaster'. The truth is Graham is the symptom not the true cause. The QRU board chose him, because he was to them a charming, beloved ex-QLDer rugby mate that they, in all their lack of genuine modern rugby insight, thought would...

Oh, please! I am 'not having it both ways' and there IS a right way to sack anybody, including a HC. All the personal facets you note re RG are, like it or not, merely part and parcel of professional life as and when you choose a path of being a professional sports manager or coach. RG...

gel, I guess that's perhaps where we diverge on this subject. Let's first recall that the 2014 fanfare that the QRU mounted re KH's signing - partly to pacify fans very disappointed with the RG 2014 season - did not in any way include the rider that 'KH will need a full 2015 season on rugby L...

That could be so BB. J Carmichael told the media the review would look at just about everything to do with the Reds future development as a team and to include development pathways into the Reds, etc, etc. As I have posted already, that's when I recoiled and thought; 'how the hell will they...

As good a theory as any! However TWAS, if true, and the players have been leaked to that RG will go and yet the review's there to do as you say, it's a pretty appalling way to treat RG at a human/employee level. Might be the 1 time in a '000 that I feel sorry for him.

Let's hope that they know RG is out. But, if so, wtf is the 'independent review that will report by June 30' all about?

If you think what I have said or argued is wrong - then rebut it. There's new data gradually emerging re KH (his injuries aside). What we are getting is more and more on-field performances by KH allowing us to make tentative assessments of his real value to the Reds relative to his very high $...

Not totally. KH's increasing injury proneness was well known at the Suns. There are already pieces emerging in today's media suggesting he's incurred another injury in Perth and may not be fit for the Chiefs match. (To which I'd add that I'm yet to see anything in his play to date that even...

Yeah BB. The Reds HC needs a 'Coaching Consultant' after a mere 3+ years with the Reds and 2 years as HC. And the QRU board needs an 'independent review panel' to help them do a job of sorting out who should be HC even though this is one of the central jobs they are appointed to do themselves...

I really, really hope the Matt O'Connor new rumours are unfounded. If true, we could be just more or less repeating the inexplicable rush-job we did - with such disastrous consequences - re picking RG in early 2012 after no considered and thorough search process for a new Reds HC was...

TWAS, yes, maybe, sort of. But surely you would agree that, as a matter of modern, good board governance, no board member should have placed themselves in a position whereby they 'are too close' to any key employee or associate of their organisation such that they 'cannot objectively assess...

The unfortunate fact S2050 is that if the QRU board had concluded as above - and as you and I would consider as overwhelmingly the right deduction after RG's 3+ year period with the Reds - there would be no need for any 'review'.

A new theory emerges re the QRU's 'independent review panel's' reason for existence in addition to those I advanced in post #652 above, namely that from Bret Harris is today's The Australian, and to quote (with emphasis added): "The Reds last week appointed an independent committee to review...

Assuming, that is, that in fact they want to.

Look, I honestly didn't want to incite a micro-argument here re cost budgets and such like for this 'review'. Rather my point was and is: - the whole rushed basis for this urgent and fast review, and why the QRU board itself obviously felt not capable of deciding upon these central matters...