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Perhaps the chaotic and disorganised state of all these threads perfectly mirrors their subject matter, just as they should. ;)

Now, that's a good sight. Posters here might remember I've been singing Greene's _potential_ for some time. So have others. One of the very best elite schoolboys players I have ever seen, at both 10 and 15. Virtually single handedly won a recent GPS rugby comp for Brisbane Grammar's 1st XV.

Yep, if the Oceania qualifying round in November is the first 'must prevail' for our mens' 7s, then we'll need to supplement our 2015 7s team with players right out of Super rugby and whom very likely won't go to the RWC in any capacity. Partly, that's why I suggested Shipperley and Mogg as...

I agree with the spirit of your post: let's at least start some thoughtful experiments with new players or new plans or new combinations or..........the season's gone, time for pro-active renewal after so little else has worked well so far in 2015. However I note that the QRU are now letting...

Maybe before, but the Final game I saw Aus U20s v NZ at Bond U on Saturday, he looked a bit of a myth frankly. Did nothing to really unsettle the defence and the Kiwis had him buttoned up quick smart. Generally, I thought these teams looked just worlds apart; perhaps just as expected. One...

Agree. Could I add, as broad candidates: Shipperley, very good strength out of the tackle and excellent acceleration over 20m....and Mogg, very, very quick runner and slippery, shifts angles to evade defenders fast and well. Plus can we get a kicking coach into the mens 7s who knows how to...

Well, I think the Aus womens' 7s have come from way down low and are a now ranked No 3 in the world, that's not too bad. Perhaps the 'necessity' you mention is the mother of a valuable invention for all our 7s. And, speaking personally, I've recently thought our top womens 7s team played...

^^^ Is it not blindingly clear that, if the QRU change from RG in 2023, it cannot afford yet another 'experiment' in ill-considered risk-taking or 'needs a mentor and will grow into the role' or 'will do better here than before with our better players' or 'ready for the next step up' type of...

VIDEO FLASH! The new partnership of RG and JC is self-announced below. RG reveals the compelling insight that the pattern of all recent losses to the Crusaders is remarkably similar. We should be vastly relieved to know that. Nonetheless, significant progress for the Reds was made in the...

^^^ One other quite serious point re the Knuckles appointment, as it is right through 2016. I have said before: if needed, the QRU should allocate big $s to a coaching change and go about trying to recruit a Dave Rennie or a coach of similar calibre. If a major, long-established RU is...

Surely based upon the very worrying evidence of the 2014/15 World Sevens outcomes for Australia radical changes such as you and others are suggesting are clearly needed, and needed to be planned out now for the November Oceania 7s comp and not in unfolding panic and organisational fatigue in...

Yes, oh yes. It's incredible that after all of 2014's and 2015's appalling w-l outcomes not a single QRU coach, executive or board member has come forward to show even a scintilla of direct accountability and sincere responsibility-taking. The best we have, late in the piece, was Saturday's...

Just say'in: the more we all look at this, and from so many angles, the bigger the whole cluster fuck becomes. Doesn't the fact that, incredibly, there appeared to be confusion amongst all of the team, the TV commentators, and the ref as to who was to be Reds captain after Slipper was gone on...

You make some valid points TWAS. My perspective is not pure black-white on this. What I might add, as something of a side point: there were injury and fatigue-related risks known at the time in 2014 re players playing multiple back-to-back seasons, and thus avoiding an S15 pre-season. And...

The perspective I have on this is different to the many who go back and say something like 'they looked like great signings at the time they were made, so on that basis they were/are good signings for the Reds'. Retrospection can indeed seem to justify many things and actions. But, when the...

Look, these assessments aren't straightforward given varying team conditions, coaching competencies, etc, but surely, for S15 in 2015, it could reasonably be argued that: Horne, Betham, Naiyaravoro, Tomane, and possibly Naivalu, for example have had more consistent impact and winger-type...

For the life of me, I just cannot see that our new 7s coach has improved our team in any meaningful way. We look as 'second tier' or worse today as we have for years. Our squad looks all wrong - lacking anything like enough mobility, pace and consistent skills under pressure. If I was Pulver...

I'll predict one thing: Knuckles arrives tomorrow we are told. if he starts exuding a new energy with the team and hints of new directions and (undefined) changes perhaps to come, we'll see a much better Reds performance v Rebels than v Crusaders. The team needs believable hope, as much as...

^^^ that capitulation must at least in part have been a response to an awful internal environment and/or a serious disengagement with the team's coaches. It just screamed that, did it not.

Yeah good point but the one ingredient you have perhaps missed is that clearly the QRU elite have been leaking that RG would/will be renewed for 2016. There's no way Wayne Smith would have gone out on that recent limb re RG contract extension for 2016 if he hadn't been told that by 'good...