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On June 1, 2013 the identical game at Suncorp gained a crowd of 31,504. The decline in just two years is huge. The numbers tell the story better than anything else could: the Graham era is threatening the commercial viability of the QRU.

Gill off to the Rebels? Btw: does anyone think Liam Gill would be tempted to go to the Rebels as he very clearly is - making a huge loss to the Reds - if our coaching and thus chronic losing-ness was not a major factor in that? Read the player's own words, very revealing...

Geez, that's very harsh on Greene - 'here's the reason he wasn't used before'. He was there for all of 9 minutes and the Reds did not have large periods within that of attacking ball. Very, very few young players on debut wouldn't have some nerves and swerves to start with. QC (Quade Cooper) in his very...

Ruggo post # 237: + 1. A few additional comments: > If KH is not a 13, what is he then? If he was on $75k pa, that's one thing, for someone on c. $700k pa, that's another. We can hope for more, but it's going to have to start blossoming soon. After how many Tahs games did IF start really...

Be fucking smart for once in 3 years. Just keep one of them. Keep Knuckles for all (or most) of 2016 whilst a proper, considered and patient search is conducted for RG's long overdue replacement. This is the beauty of the whole Knuckles scenario: it permits a sound way to commence the...

Too right. And half the problem in interpreting accurately the Reds win being that the Rebels have been wildly over-hyped in recent weeks, especially in the mainstream media. The team just may have started to join in, and in doing so sowed the seeds of self-destruction that was a factor in the...

If there is a more irrational, ill-considered and totally stupid KPI for renewing Graham or sacking him than 'we'll keep Graham if the team win most (or enough) games in the next five', then I can't think of one. In others words, a long historical track record of poor results over two or more...

From Ian Payten in today's News Corp. online publications, the truth is starting to prevail and be communicated, and those of us that told of this before were, sadly, not exaggerating: "PLAYERS SEEING RED SENIOR Queensland Reds players held a meeting with chief executive Jim Carmichael on...

I guess the big, and valid, question is: are these 'new and young' signings 'stars' or, based upon their displayed rugby skills to date, credibly S18 stars of the future? Of these signees below in your list, for me at least it's only Kuridrani, Talakai, and Frisby that have shone enough so...

Meanwhile, for the fans and players alike, we just have this excruciating charade, however long it lasts.

Rebels about to be sold back into private hands: http://www.afr.com/business/sport/m...um-led-by-sports-entrepreneur-20150513-gh0kcm

Rebels about to be sold back into private hands: http://www.afr.com/business/sport/melbourne-rebels-rugby-union-team-to-go-to-consortium-led-by-sports-entrepreneur-20150513-gh0kcm

Mate, not buying into it at all! Just thought (a) Knuckles so obviously making key selection policy changes already (hardly a compliment to RG's judgement) and then (b) clearly saying RG would be reviewed after 5 games, and nothing more. I totally agree - it's a mess of diffusion of...

Rather interesting radio interview with Knuckles. He's certainly got fresh views on selections. Have a listen: "After 5 weeks the board will decide whether Richard will go forward (into 2016)". Big change of QRU tone after the leaks of weeks back that "he'll be renewed for 2016"...

I'm not going to argue now about whether the ARU $s provided to the Rebels are 'good investing' or not. That's a moderately complex subject and in part the truth of it all rests in the immediate future years for that team. The Force (for example) had really good crowds in their early years and a...

Surely you can't have forgotten Sam Lane in that mix? ;)

What today's media release re Friday's Reds team said about Greene: "Sam (Greene) is another who was involved in the NRC. On the back of that and his desire to get better, his performances have improved this season. I have received plenty of positive feedback on Sam from our numerous scouts...

You know I assume he's back in Brisbane next year as Head of Rugby for Brisbane Grammar School.

That is doubly good point. Yes, we can admire much of the way the Rebels are fighting and playing. But, too, the darker and deeper business truth is that the ARU has pumped in excess of $8m+ of above-normal special support funds into the Rebels as this franchise's losses have been so severe...

Well, not really. As I posted some weeks back, the ARU ran out the 'Deans just needs a much better support structure' after the RWC 2011 whilst JO'N's and Deans' love affair was still intact despite mounting evidence that Deans had conclusively failed to meet the ARU's and Wallaby fans'...