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Only one problem with all this: he Link wasn't resigning in early 2012, he didn't leave or even hint he intended to leave the QRU's embrace in fact around this time he re-committed to stay with the QRU through 2014 as a higher-up executive Director of Rugby supervising all of the QRU's rugby...

OK - where is there a scintilla of evidence that Link did not heartily buy-in to the appointment of RG, and thus subsequently quietly tolerated it just being a bad recruitment forced upon him? All of the evidence (that I have ever seen), by dint of both Link's repeated public comments and...

Sorry, I just cannot credibly buy the notion in that early 2012 a new future Reds head coach - RG - was just foisted on Link by QRU board members come what may and without Link's full buy-in and thus all Link's statements quoted above in April 2012 were insincere and, in effect, knowingly...

That FP remains both a very salient question, and something of a mystery (as it's always been). It surely could not have been a proven track record, or such like. I think it's worth quoting a media article announcing RG's joining the Reds from April 2012 (the highlighting is mine). It makes...

Thanks RR. OK, 'a review' and 'having a look at' the HPD. There is an interesting vagueness of intent and scope there, but let's all hope for the best from this process, whatever it is. Btw: I have only seen any mention of this via W Smith's one article as quoted above. There is no official...

Thanks TOCC. It will surely be intriguing to see how this 'overhaul' progresses, who conducts it, when it finishes and what it yields. I would have thought that, given the rich data from the Reds' 2014 and 2015 seasons, the essential analysis could be completed in 15 minutes, with the...

No, not purposely at all RR, and that text you note above, it's in the quoted text above I listed from the full article so I was not hiding it from readers here. I guess I didn't refer to it as it seemed so vague - I mean, is RG in the 'high-performance unit'? I've not seen too much reference to...

Yes Ash, Meehan never seems to get mentioned. He has the backs/attack role/strategy but in 2014 and 2015, there's been zero evidence of any competency from him. (Minor aside: I have it on good authority that late last year Meehan was wondering the Reds' corridors anxiously telling people 'don't...

I am very surprised at the number of suggestions that appear here that have the Reds appointing coaches that have not been in any way proven as head coaches at the top of the Super tree, or higher, or the international equivalent. What has demonstrably worked in improving the fortunes of under...

Well, my eye was drawn to the fact that Carmichael refers to 'the overhaul' looking at potential issues with the Assistant coaches, e.g. in defence and set-piece etc. Markedly, there is no mention of head coach review. And it's not quite clear what the overhaul means in precise terms. Everyone...

BH - I was/am certainly not advocating a rushed approach to appoint the next Reds head coach within this season; in fact, see my various posts today, exactly the opposite. The QRU board must have the patience and objectivity to find a new coach of proven quality and proven results delivered...

I must admit - as a big fan of QC (Quade Cooper) - to feeling a bit sorry for him in March 2015: - he's just seen a guy who's played virtually zero rugby for the Reds fined less than he was in 2012 for his 'offence' of referring to the Wallabies set up as 'toxic', even though in the former case a repeated...

QH - recall that after the disastrous Reds 2014 season, the Carmichael-Graham duo soon turned to the 'explanation' that this was largely due to 'we didn't refresh the squad adequately after the 2011 win'. The next phase was the mini-program to recruit new players allegedly to execute the team...

Good, justified observation S8. CFS has at best stayed static as a player, and it's arguable that he's degraded. But how many Reds players have we seen really develop in terms of skills and general playing capability since 2012? This has been one of my core concerns re the post-2011 Reds...

.....and any new head coach worth his salt will want carte blanche freedom over the choice of all his support coaches, he will surely insist upon no 'forced inheritances'.

Yes, oh yes. I could be wrong but at the game last night observing him from the get-go, I thought his confidence was in shreds. JOC (James O'Connor) should have been developed as a 12, but never was. If not that, and it's likely too late in his career for that, he's a winger only. He's surely not a natural 15...

The sad thing is that, immediately post 2011, the world was the oyster for the QRU in terms the then global desirability of the position of Reds Head Coach. The then Reds were being lauded worldwide for the excitement and dynamism of their play, and it was only onwards and upwards from there...

Indeed, I've heard that first and second hand. I'd be fine with a genuinely temporary solution like Stiles to see the season out, but the QRU MUST adopt a patient, rigorous, independent, international search process to find and assess the best candidate to commence in 2016 or late 2015. They...

With the right monetary incentives, I wonder if Dave Rennie could be poached, or if he considers that if he stays put he'll be a candidate to succeed Hansen. By any account, the job he's done, and is still doing, with the Chiefs is quite outstanding. As one component, the way he's developed so...

Totally, to rush into the over-hasty promotion of an unproven 'insider from Queensland' like Stiles would be to risk yet another head coach failure and debacle and thus irrevocably take Qld rugby back to its darkest days from which another recovery a la 2010-11 would be by no means certain.