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What massive reform? The report hasn't yet seen the light of day. At least one of the two providing input is just a political apparatchik, the other one I don't know. Governance is usually all about covering your arse when things go wrong, doesn't have much to do with the game we all love. I...

I trust you meant 10 sessions a week. About 10 individual times is what I thought they would have almost reached this year, based on their game displays!

I may have it wrong, but I believe that last season if you wanted to bring an EPS player into the full squad to play you had to apply to the ARU and get their approval (that not being unreasonably witheld to use lawyer-speak).

Fully deserved. Along with Ella, the best Australian 10 I have seen in my lifetime, better than Lynagh and anyone else since.

I wouldn't either, but the minute he even splits a fingernail we are totally and utterly screwed. We must have at least two 10's in the full squad - remember Nucifora and his mates can possibly force us to select someone else from the full squad before we can call up Lane on the grounds that...

I still say that we are woefully short of potential at 10. I know that the rest of the backline was crap last year but I do not want to see Barnes at 10 ever again (I actually want to see him at 15). Given that, having just one injury replacement from the EPS at 10 fills me with horror. What...

There is one squad spot and one EPS spot still open. Am I right in saying that Saifoloi and Volavola are still not contracted to anyone? It would be a huge call but I wouldn't mind seeing them get the last two spots (squad and EPS respectively). I know its said that we need another lock, but we...

This post can be read at least two ways: If I was to go, the Waratahs bloke should replace me. If this is the meaning then the Wallabies S&C guy should be terminated (preferably with extreme prejudice). The Tahs S&C this year was absolutely abysmal! If the Wallabies guy had someone of high...

Given how well McCaw has played in the RC, I don't see any indication that he's on his last legs physically - he has probably been the best player in any team on show. He is still far and away the best player on the planet. So anyone thinking that he is somehow on the steep downhill slope to...

The only way you'd pay for it is if he guarantees to talk rugby only. He was an ex-Uni front rower (which given his body shape and size amazed me).

This is a completely accurate description of what happened with Palmer.

There is just a grain of truth in this statement. Goosen may be a very good attacking 10, but the Boks love him because he kicks well, especially from place kicks. He gets about 90% success rate from anything up to 60 metres at sea level and you can add another 5 metres for altitude.

Yes, our forward pack in 84 was better than good and I'm not suggesting that it wasn't. I still get goosebumps when I think about the pushover try against Wales because that was just about the first time Australia had a dominant pack. Before that occasionally we got parity but we were more...

Of that list only Holmes, Beale and Foley have the potential to run a backline. Foley and Holmes are too inexperienced yet which leaves Beale. I want him at 10 and Barnes at 15 with no other changes to the backline. But I suspect Deans will put Barnes back at 10 because he thinks very...

You are both fortunate and unfortunate to be young, and so haven't seen what was possible. Us old bastards actually saw it and so we know what you can do with a well coached backline. One of the hints is that you saw very few cut-out passes back then. Bob Dwyer talks about not liking the...

Cheika used the A word (in the press conference I think, or maybe the press release). I mentally had to jump and make sure I was hearing correctly. Its a word that has almost disappeared from the rugby lexicon. That mindset that has attack as its first thought is how Waratah rugby at its best...

It doesn't have to be that way. Randwick in the late 70's and early 80's won premierships aplenty with possession stats over the whole season of 40% or less. It helped that they had three Ellas and a Walker but they did then what today would be considered miraculous. Going back further...

At first thought I'd agree but there was so much gossip about Gaffney being blindsided by Foley/Bowen that maybe the god-awful back play was not down to Gaffney. Bowen on the other hand, has to go. He has been backs coach for 2-3 years now and has presided over the worst back skills I have...

Comments like this just reinforce the stereotype that the Tahs only have to turn up to win. Maybe the journo's at SMH think this way (and that's why Growden gets so snarky about round five) but I don't know of any supporter of the Tahs who regularly post on this site have that attitude. We've...

That's a good thought. If Lane is coming then I thought that Saifoloi had missed the boat, but if someone at the Tahs has the same thought as you then both could get a gig. Congratulations to Bruce Ross, who half way through the Super comp, with everything just starting to go downhill...