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You're right ILTW. These stats particularly: they derive from a tiny number of games, some teams have played a third less games than others so far, and the large cluster of team results around the high eighties as a % outcome highlights no real performance differentiation that's meaningful at...

We've known we need a 'real' 15 (for general reference think Latham, Dagg and Mogg when on song) since 2012, and IMO we've done a poor job at addressing that need right up to 2014. If we knew the question, surely, on current viewing, the answer is clearly not Toua. Toua is a light, impressively...

Like and dislike all your latest Reds assessments BH - 'like' meaning I think they're insightful, accurate and fair, 'dislike' in that they're painfully true and a number of your identified shortcomings in our team are quite obvious, could have been fixed throughout 2013, but, on 2014's...

Two points to this: (a) your apparently detailed 'research' is essentially a personal contention of yours re why the whole, or large parts of, that 2012 Stormers game Reds crowd came to the game. For a crowd size that big, short of some detailed professional market research, that is mere...

Instead of searching for a rushed put-down and lots of piecemeal arguments for it, please read the post carefully that you refer to and then dismiss. Should you care to read it carefully, you will see clearly that is has nothing whatsoever to do with any of the observations you make in...

A very valid point re total $ membership income you raise Reg, I get it, and thanks. It's a very valid counter to a 'seats taken at entry' stat. I was trying just to look at little bits of data, and I did say they may mean little in isolation. But was it so that at 2012's and '13's season's...

Hmmm. '.......notoriously take a while to build....6:40 KO....'. 3 March 2012: 6:40pm: Reds v Force: (rounded): 34,000 23 February 2013: 6:40pm: Reds v Tahs: 36,000

1. I'm sorry, but tackles missed is not at all an adequate proxy for total defensive standards observed holistically. Aspects of skill such as fast defensive alignment, defensive structures recovery post-breakdown, offensive tackling that stalls or tires opposition attack, speed to and...

Just a small coda to my post above re Reds' crowd levels. I've tracked the Suncorp crowds for the first home game of each year against non-Aus S15 competition (as Aus competition does typically increase crowd numbers, esp vs the Tahs and Brums): 2012 v Stormers (rounded): 32,000 2013 v...

Much in what you say BR. What is truly mystifying is how the Reds' best attribute in 2013 - namely defence, apparently that year coached specifically by RG - can have deteriorated so alarmingly to almost Rebels' 2012-3 standards in early 2014. Logically, you'd think that especially given RG as...

....and, countering my Beau-love, I just do not get Harris at 12. Back up place kicker may be, and he does the occasional good thing, but his kicking from hand is always inconsistent in timing and placement, at best, just like his passing that can be woefully weak and misdirected, he rarely...

I'd like to know everyone's views on which 2014 Reds' games will be the real markers for how we're likely to stand at the end of the season. My choices (other than v Brums and Tahs already played): Sharks, Rebels home and away, Crusaders, Blues, Highlanders (much improved this year), and Brums...

I tell you who I thought was great in both attitude and outcomes, and great to seeing him being that: Beau! Looked back to his 2011 best.

What must be said is that the crowd around me generally loved the spectacle of all the tries and end-to-end play. Affirmed some elements of why there was 28,000 people there, which is and remains a huge positive for the QRU. But that number is rooted in 2010-11's legacy; if we commence a road...

....and I await the howls from my friends in the Red Mist Brigade, but, on the evidence to date this year, the Reds are definitively not looking like a well-coached, well-trained team with excellent composure and skill development of the kind essential to win an S15 title. Instead, they are...

The fundamental point again so plainly revealed via this game is that there's very little in the Reds - team wise and individually - that is genuinely improving on anything they built so admirably by July 2011. And there's much that's regressing, Genia and the forwards in general are prime...

CFS' skills in the last 10-15 metres near the line are exceptional and getting better; those when he's called to initiate and act fast and then his first 10 metres, I think somewhat less so. To this point in his development, anyway.

Too right. In examining the subtle but marked competitive decline of the Reds since July 2011, one of the biggest factors is that, relative to the major improvements the Tahs, Rebels (part of 2013 and just wow in 2014), and Brums have made in the skill, intensity, offensive-defence tackling and...

FFS, the Tahs by any standard have played stunningly good, exciting and lethally effective attacking rugby these two first rounds. It's been a joy to consume as a viewer or for any thoughtful fan of the game. Just as was watching the Reds play for most of 2010 and 2011, and in a small handful of...

Needless to say, I disagree. I have absolutely nothing to 'get over' thanks very much. The notion that mature debate on these types of threads requires fundamental Reds supporters like me to '........get behind the team and just be excited.......' is one of the premises re rugby commentary...