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All good points GCO, but the notion that hiring JO'C - whose performances for the Force and Rebels in recent years were far from highly consistent or typically outstanding - is somehow 'a big fix' or even a big part of a fix for the far deeper 2014 Reds' problems is utterly laughable.

Of all the intriguing defences of RG I am slowly cataloguing after his appalling w-l% ratio with the Force and now ditto at the Reds (where he's been in various capacities since September 2012), this new one is a novel variant. Let's assume the now famous alleged 'team truth meeting' initiated...

When I reflect on this thread I think we may have forgotten just how convincingly the Cru dismantled and overran the Reds in 2013's S15 QF. A fine Cru performance, but just as much a lamentably weak and disjointed Reds one. Graham has been a disaster for the Reds, no question, but the evidence...

Jim Tucker, Courier Mail game report: "Four years of blood, sweat and tears to rebuild the Reds so they would never again endure the shame of conceding 50 points at their fortress unravelled in an inept 20 minutes on Sunday." This, the saddest part of all.

A central problem with seriously poor coaching is that gradually many of the players' own confidence and skills deterioate as there's no united ethic, game plan, tactical coherence etc and, further and importantly, few individual players are being properly critiqued and helped to skills or...

@ Gnostic On the evidence of the Reds' 2014 attack, Meehan surely would have to qualify on outcomes evident over 11 games as the worst Super attack coach in this year's S15.

Many of us here since early 2012 have advanced all manner of constructive solutions and suggestions as to what's needed within the QRU's senior processes re attaining and appointing the right Head Coach for the Reds, for example: - ensure an objective, competently resourced QRU Board and...

This is the deeper potential appalling consequence of the RG hiring decision in early 2012. The Wallabies chances of major success will be further diminished as the effective elite payer pool with confidence and self-belief will be reduced just when we needed the very opposite with a new coach...

Please let's not go so wilfully blind to the multiple self-inflicted deficiencies within the post 2011 Reds set-up that we start using 'the salary cap' as the new excuse and key explaining variable for the downhill path our Reds have been on since that year. That doesn't bear close scrutiny when...

It's looking like 30,000+, we hope. 48,000 in 2011 at a similar Rounds stage of S15 v Cru. Big point you make Pfitzy. The Reds/QRU under Carmichael have done an outstanding job with the rebuilding of rugby's QLD participation rate, and in particular the Reds' fan base. That's a major reason...

If what was speculated in the above article actually transpires, and based upon the resulting outcomes come Sunday, it will intriguing to assess if this is/was 'RG thinking laterally' and finding productive new solutions, or more a Deans-like adventure into reckless changes such as playing key...

Well, oh well........some radical suggestions popping out of the woodwork now......perhaps Simmons to 6, maybe M Gunn (Ex Churchie GPS, Easts Premiers team last year, U20s) on the bench, see...

Just a recollection of things past: 28 May 2011, S15 Round 15, Reds v Crusaders, Suncorp, final score 17-16, tries to B Tapuai, W Genia and for Cru B Ward. QC (Quade Cooper) kicked 3/6 and D Carter 4/4. Ref: S Dickinson. Crowd: 48,301

It could be - but the QRU is clearly briefing one of its friendliest journos writing for a national paper that, in essence, 'RG is here to stay'. Aside from today's piece, we recently had Wayne Smith saying that 'the QRU will let RG rebuild the team' and moreover 'the players will just have to...

Re the current gossip and allegations re 'disgruntled' Reds players. One thing that I would allude to is that the QRU's clear here-and-now PR strategy of defending RG and stressing his tenure's safe on the grounds that it's understood many Reds players are 'under performing' (and that this...

I genuinely get your argument TWAS but I'd also argue that such an improvement, if it occurs, should be rated somewhat cautiously as these games henceforth are now effectively Reds' dead rubbers, 'playing for pride' style games vs games that can gain a Finals berth. It would be great for Reds...

Good calls Reg. Somewhat depends on how big the typically big Kiwi contingent will be - the weaker the Reds appear the bigger it may be!. Both locals of course, and weekend package fly-ins from NZ that have gotten much cheaper with the recently strong NZ$.

Let's also recall the mauling we rec'd in last year's QF v Cru away. All of the 2013 Reds' then accumulating weaknesses were gruesomely shown up in one horror show of an 80 minute movie. The Cru will be highly motivated to take 'revenge' for the 2011 S15 Final at Suncorp and turn us Reds' fans...

Just a btw: it's likely that many Wallaby Reds and/or potential Reds Wallabies will enter the imminent Wallaby season with their playing confidence badly shot. Unless this factor can be compensated for by equal or better and confidence-filled replacements from our other S15 sources, this...

Posters here may recall my prediction that, in direct parallel with RG's credibility decline and the QRU's defensive anxiety and self-protection levels, we'd start to see journos friendly to the QRU elite compose pieces that were effectively far more critical of 'under performing Reds' players'...