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Thanks for your guidance, but in fact GG has been right on a few things over the years, in amongst much guff and erroneous gossip. In some ways I occasionally prefer him to much of the utterly bland, soulless, lazy rehashing of PR material and cap-doffing corporate lines we get from many other...

Chook was a very controversial fellow! But he's very smart in many dimensions of rugby and rugby strategy and team psychology. I'm in no way surprised that M Foley picked him up in some capacity for the Force. I stand by my view of 2012 that once the successful coaching group of Link, Tatsy...

@ Ash + Growden this week reported 'a very high profile' Reds player exploring a possible transfer to the Tahs due to dissatisfaction with Reds' 'team officials'. This is an inevitable by-product of the coaching train wreck occurring within the 2014 Reds. The better, prouder players start to...

Ash has referred to the key issue above, and I have on other occasions here: Whilst the choosing of RG was a quite extraordinarily opaque and unexplained process, it was the clear handiwork of the QRU's most senior corporate players, namely Link, Jim Carmichael and Rod McCall. For the latter...

There's not a single Reds' 2014 coach - Head or Assistant or S&C - that is showing team improvement vs 2013 within their respective area of responsibility.

Question for the Reds' archivists: Have we gone back to 2009's lows, or is it more like 2007's lows?

But I'll await this week's chapter of excuses and indulgences for RG, I'm collecting them for posterity. Could it be '....but Link left him with a crap roster.....and he deserves time to fix it....'?

The relentless over-promotion, over-use and over-indulgence of the so-called 'brilliant young X-factor Wallabies' of JO'C, KB (Kurtley Beale) and QC (Quade Cooper) by the ARU in the Deans period should not be overlooked in the various forms of opprobrium that's been heaped upon these three players at different times for...

^^ Side note: I thought one of the most admirable and encouraging (as to his honesty and team leadership) public statements Cheika made was when he himself took responsibility for not focussing enough as HC on coaching the Tahs' set pieces in relation to recent important Tahs games. Took a good...

^^ In fact it was officially press released that RG started with the Reds in September 2012, so from that year's pre-season onwards. A very long running-in period until Round 1 S15 2014 by any stretch. The article below that affirms the above start date also clearly quotes RG as saying that...

Worthy fuel for the coaching debate: I wonder who the 'Reds mate' could have been? http://www.theroar.com.au/2014/04/30/waratahs-and-reds-its-the-coachs-fault/

I'm expecting the Reds to win this match. There will surely be a point when the better core of the team just super-exerts in anger and despair to prove that the best of the 'once were champions' Reds are not dead, and that good place combines with a bit of extra luck, the crucial last pass...

^^ great point

I get all your points TWAS. But I do think 'mass hysteria' if RG was soon sacked seriously exaggerates the whole scenario. Most Reds members I know are already highly disillusioned with RG and hold him more than partly responsible for 2014's major decline in Reds performance. I think many of...

Just btw: the 2014 Reds have played 9 games not 7. W-l % is thus 33% which (according to The Australian) is near RG's overall aggregate S15 w-l % record of 32%.

TWAS, good point and you could well be correct. However, the very recent emanations from the QRU Chair and CEO do seem unambiguously of the order that RG is here to stay, come what may in terms of 2014's results. If they were bets-hedging I think the tone would be 'supportive' and 'transition...

I think he could well be. Though personally at a pinch I'd rather see L Fisher as Forwards and Setpiece Coach for the Wallabies. And btw: the credit to J White for the Brums dramatic revival increases twofold when we see how successful his two appointed key assistant coaches are when promoted...

I have noticed throughout this season that some posters here seem to have inadvertently forgotten just how the QRU recovered from a very recent de facto bankruptcy in 2009 and then rapidly built a membership and average game attendance base of 30,000+ persons. Here's how it happened: 1. Late...

The new notion from the QRU's senior officers that the central problem of the 2014 Reds is an inability to follow RG's excellently crafted game plans is so laughable and factually unsupported that frankly it's beneath contempt. A diagnosis more compliant with some factual evidence is that the...

OK, now the response of The Reds Establishment is becoming clearer. I have pasted in the whole article below as not everyone here subscribes to The Australian online or otherwise. This article and all it reveals is important. The problem is clearly with the Reds players not being quite good...