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Apart from perhaps some marginal improvements in the scrum and QC (Quade Cooper)'s place kicking, can anyone say that they can this season see evidence of ANY area of team improvement within the Reds' Assistant Coaches' defined responsibility areas when compared to the Reds of 2013? Defence (that's RG)...

@RugbyReg If the above from GG is even half true, it's very concerning. Not wrt the potential sacking of RG - that is essential surely - but what is required IMO is (a) a sound Interim Coach that at least has the players' respect (and none of RG's hapless 'made in QLD and recruited by the...

I'm pleased that amongst our typically supine, elite-flattering Aus rugby media, Jim Tucker is getting rightly stuck in to the unfolding disaster that is the 2014 Reds...

What has me speechless in disbelief is the ever-deteriorating standards in team and individual player defence - that's essentially why we are losing genuinely close games like Saturday's. Many of the defensive lapses are simply inexcusably poor in either attitude, technique or agility to foresee...

General comment linked to this one: that there are so many Reds players so obviously down on confidence, conviction, skills and intensity - let alone the many general morale issues prominent within the team - is potentially a bad scene for Link and the 2014 Wallabies. Makes it much harder for...

Just an FYI re comparative Reds' crowd levels and what they might imply for 2015's QRU membership, derived $ income levels and Fox viewership levels given the Reds are now losing routinely at Suncorp and are today bottom of the S15 table: 1 June 2013, Suncorp, Reds bt Rebels 33-20. Crowd: 31...

Agree, and I know for a fact btw that many journos, rugby officials, players, club managers, and quite senior rugby executives and coaches read GAGR and other rugby blogs. The quality, passion and knowledge to be found here at GAGR and say in the Roar comments threads far exceeds what can be...

To the credit of T McGahan, there are a good number of Rebels players that are steadily improving their skills and self-confidence and on field commitment this year. Sadly, that cannot be convincingly said of the 2014 Reds. That type of improvement in numerous players, almost independent of...

I told you so. Amongst a few others of the same persuasion.

The truly extraordinary new data point this week was from the QRU CEO in telling The Australian that, principally, calm was what was needed, RG would be staying and was 'signed on for a number of years' and further inferred there was little need for major change in the Reds' rugby department...

Really, OK. But what I said above was widely reported in April 2012 as true, e.g. this from Bret Harris in The Australian on April 20, 2012: At the very least as I recall it was also then reported that White was 'giving advice' to RG re his potential appointment as Head Coach. If indeed he...

Though TWAS - IIRC hasn't Davies had recent repetitive issues with ball security and retention in good attacking positions? You may recall that RG recently noted - rightly or wrongly - in commenting upon Davies being benched that he 'has some issues we want him to work on'.

@TWAS If RG knew what to do to improve key aspects of the 2014 Reds it would have happened by now. He doesn't, and that he doesn't could never be more obvious than in the Cru match after the team had already largely fallen apart during the NZ matches. This is one of many reasons why the QRU...

Before the vs Cru game RG stated clearly that working on all matters defence pre that game was a major priority after the multiple defensive debacles in NZ. Then the Cru put on 57 points - routinely, our defence was appalling. Can there be a better, more severe marker of just how serious are...

I think you'll find on a further check the author was: Rajiv Maharaj

Yes, and he should never have been involved in the HC negotiations or HC selection process once RG was in the frame in any way as, with him as QRU board member and RG's agent, there's a massive, obvious conflict of interest. Every sane set of good principles for board conduct and governance...

S2050, you may recall I took a similarly hopeful line for a Reds win driven by 'pride, passion and despair' vs the Blues. I really thought a 'senior players firing up to revive the long lost 'best of the Reds' ' type recovery was probable, it just had to happen didn't it? With the awful train...

QRU CEO 'absolutely unequivocally' supports RG as coach, citing 'injuries and list' issues. And in terms of team matters, presumably future ones, he's addressing 'the deficiencies' identified. All on wrt an offer to J'OC apparently, or so reported. And categorically, definitely 'the team is...

I'm on record that (a) should the QRU decide to replace RG it cannot afford another major error on the HC front and so must conduct a patient, thorough, well - researched global search via a top sports head hunter and (b) so as to do this openly, accordingly the QRU should sack RG forthwith and...

This subject could be extensively argued over, but I am sure of one thing. If and when the QRU don't bite the bullet this year on RG and instead reappoint him for 2015 (the recent QRU leaks to The Australian on the subject strongly support this possibility) the public rationale will be...