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Very interesting that the viewership gap between a match involving no Aus teams and one involving two is, comparatively, so low.

Very good points TOCC. But I'm not sure you need to worry too much re Knuckles being 'the solution', or even being intended to be. I think there's at least a strong possibility that he's there principally to find a way for the QRU board to get itself out of the appalling mess it's created for...

Yep, his life plus he knows well so many of the current players and cares about them. He knows the inside. If anyone needs validation of the deep problems infecting the whole team's morale and their viewpoints on the debacle we're enduring, look no further than Hynes' public comments.

Yeah, just an updated version. The current cynicism of the players as to what's gone on under RG and JC knows no bounds, so they'll probably all just shrug their shoulders and, with resignation and sadness over the whole mess it's become, depart for home.

One day, long into the future and far away, there will come a day when a single Kiwi rugby fan has a single nice and positive word to say about our Quade. It will come about when a 70 yr-old HRH R McCaw decrees: 'it came to me as an inspiration in my dreams, and on this day I ask my nation to...

One thing's for sure re Knuckles' involvement: he's a very pro-active type of person (like him as a coach or not) and I'd guarantee he'll work hard to reassure those players worried about the supremely poor coaching and equally awful culture that 'I'll fix it, you should stay in QLD mate.'...

Could the heart of the matter simply be that Chek should never have been so tempted as to take on both the 2015 Tahs and the 2015 Wallabies? That coupling had 'very high risk that neither will be done optimally' written all over it. Very rarely can an intensely focussed, passionate leader -...

"Probable Dynasty of the Wooden Spoons", now that is wonderful, though black, it's still gold.

Aus poor kicking this year - by and large - may come to haunt us at RWC time when excellence in gaining 3-pointers, place and drop, can be the make or break. We tend to think kicking is a ''nice to have" not a complete, absolute essential in the rugby skill kit. Even though under our noses are...

Absolutely. But if we read the media release carefully, it just might be the case that Knuckles is being sent in to do this timid, lost board's ultimate dirty work for them. 'Our highly experienced coaching consultant, after intensive reviews of the team's needs and capabilities, has...

The reckless, idiotic, in-denial stubbornness of the QRU board. It's beyond belief that Graham was not sacked many matches ago; that's he's apparently being renewed for 2016 is an act of profound institutional masochism. One senses now: near-catastrophe for the QRU, in all respects, will be the...

When you have a coach blaming his players in the open like this (and thus directly excusing himself), you know that the gold standard of institutional and coaching rottenness has been reached.

Re L Gill - strong, public rumours (see The Australian) are circulating that he may soon announce a move to the Rebels - and who could blame him. Chronically bad coaching and endless team losses can negatively impact the careers of excellent players.

Was great to see D Shipperley and M Harris perform so well tonight.....'the rejected ones'....in Melbourne.

Cue to TWAS....

What on earth will the QRU Excuses Think-Tank (whose only job all week is to generate them) come up with now? Is there anything left? After the S&C group vaporised, could the ETT be next?

The Theory of Correlations: In the week or so when the QRU leak to their sycophantic 'pals of QLD' journos (they only leak these days, nothing direct) that Graham will be reappointed for 2016, we are absolutely decimated vs the Cru.

Amazing we had posters here telling us this match was a credible opportunity for us to upset the Cru. Sadly, they don't as yet (after 12 matches) understand the deep motivational problems inside our squad induced by an appallingly incompetent head coach and general coaching group, let alone...

As an aside, seeing that terrific vid reminds me: the style of attack the Reds were deploying then, and successfully so, depended in significant part upon genuinely fast wingers in Ioane and Davies. We remember Diggers but tend to forget what a key contribution was often made by the raw pace...

Given that the ARU has a 1,000+ reasons to be grateful to GPS rugby in NSW and QLD for producing a vast number of its players, it's simply laughable how little they do to build on it and promote it. And the standard of rugby is remarkably high for 16-18 yr olds. The folllowing from the schools...