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I think you'll find the story re AA's leaving is correct.

First, I have zero obligation to please your desire for 'non-tiring' posts. That's not what internet fora are for unless you own your own and command all tonalities and styles from on high. Here, you do not. And, second, to be blunt and in reciprocal gesture, I found your naive or wilful...

No chance that your lofty and typically patronising ('TOCC knows best what will happen to the Reds in 2014 and 2015') admonition will quieten my fire. And the notion that JO'C and potentially KH are 'automagically' as you suggest going to compensate for multiple lost players is naive at best...

If the Reds fall into another pre-2010 heap, the consequences for Aus rugby will be far, far more serious than some uncertain notion of propping up the cash flow haemorrhaging Rebels that might not exist by 2017, their commercial and financial viability is so dubious.

Placid was a C Latham in the making - huge talent, huge potential, and lack of a real 15 has hampered the Reds for some time, and is likely to do so in the future.

Very amusing, but I agree, it does have that mysterious and unknown quality.

........but does Placid rate RG? Very few do.

Rumours re Toua were right. Let's now see re A Anae. Placid a bad loss - huge potential for the Reds, given time. We must keep Sam Greene. Just must.

Strong rumours: yes, to France.

Good points TWAS. But balancing those is that JC has clearly and regularly been briefing the QRU's favourite rugby journalist, Wayne Smith, that in effect RG is here to stay and further that the QRU/coaches are setting about correcting 'deficiencies' within the Reds squad by means of new...

Whatever else posters here may think of Alan Jones outside rugby, he was unquestionably one of Australia's finest rugby coaches and possesses a huge knowledge of, and love for, the game. At last Friday's Churchie annual rugby lunch (where nearly 1,000 people attended btw), he was openly...

After some good insights and posts on this important subject, re the emboldened text above, surely now we are entering the realms of implausibility ;).

Barb, as I mentioned above, all the latest speculative arguments that last night's low crowd numbers at 34,000 were due to 'the economy'. 'high prices', 'later on Bled to come', 'two 2014 SOOs'. etc all fall away when it's realised that never before since Suncorp's redevelopment in 2003 has a...

I am reliably informed that this morning at a Brisbane Club breakfast event B Pulver stated that 'the ARU has sold 30,000 tickets' to Saturday's Test.

I think that is the hard truth - the Wallaby brand has been persistently sullied by RWC debacles, the Deans Dark Years, no Bleds won, and so forth, and the non-rusted-on fans are now happy to cut their investment in attending it. Why do I say this? Well, I've read the multiple other...

Just a vaguely relevant aside: Reds' fans may well remember Freddie M's carving up performance at 10 vs the Reds in the S15 QF vs Sharks @ Suncorp on 21 July 2012. Freddie Converted 3/3, kicked 2/2 penalties and 1/1 drop goals plus steered the then Sharks around very well indeed.......the final...

Why on earth is it OK to budget for a worryingly low (in fact lowest ever in recent times) number and then deeming the outcome just as OK solely as it's 'on budget'? But such an approach would not surprise from 'our ARU'.

Agree. But, if it transpires at 29,000 on Saturday, that's a rolled gold disaster-zone for the ARU both financially and in terms of the general market vibe around rugby. And btw, ARU marketing of this Test here has been virtually non-existent, big mistake. The very lowest crowds at Suncorp...

Link's picked a fine Wallaby team........but please, please keep an eye on the revealed calibre of his whole specialist coaching team.......I promise you his calls in this latter selection, right in and close to him, will prove to be just as important as his playing team as chosen today.

You forgot the other unmissable element: the cunning pursuit of personal income maximisation irrespective of the needs of the community or stake holders he's serving.