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See the "Rumour: Deans could be gone" thread about half way down the threads page.

Timani is one of only two players to win their position last Saturday night (Ioane was the other, Hooper played well but McCaw was better). If he continues to improve at the current rate, then he will be pressing to start over Horwill. [Note: Before you go into apoplexy, I said he needs to keep...

Thanks for that Swat. I just couldn't figure it out.

If he's such a great coach, take him at the Rebels. He's got great rapport with Kurtley and JOC (James O'Connor), doesn't mind a drinking culture, could be the next stage in the Rebels Super progress. We supporters at the Tahs don't want him.

You might be serious but you are a Force supporter. Every other Australian franchise but the Tahs would welcome Deans appointment. No game plan, lousy selections, no taking responsibility for errors, poor use of the bench, no idea about first phase forward work - Tahs will end up with the...

Oh dear. I've got to stop taking myself so seriously.

I am just trying to look at his qualifications. He has never been a successful coach, the year he won the Super comp he was coach in name only. His career at the Blues and then the U-20's was abominable. Nevertheless he is the High Performance Director and got appointed to do the WC review...

I think that there are five possible/likely candidates with enough gravitas to be considered: Link: Would be the favourite but given his competence and straight talking he won't get JON's vote. Still possible. Nucifora: Incompetent coach but very good politician when dealing with those above...

Louden's done his time as an assistant coach, he deserves a head coach role based on his performance.

It is a total insult to invite someone to an interview and to tell them in advance that they already had someone else as a preferred candidate. I employed a lot of people over the years and sometimes I had a feeling that someone in the interview process was not going to make it but I NEVER ONCE...

I think it was good, especially the way the forwards dominated us, but I didn't think it was anything too special. We tried hard enough and stopped it being a rout, but we were not really in the game, even in the first 20. Most teams, like Ireland in the 3rd test would have capitulated and had...

At Eden Park we lost the collisions. Almost every damn one of them. Until we address this issue all of the rest is meaningless chatter. If we ever got to a ruck on time, our clean-outs were ineffective. After half an hour I was fully expecting a turn-over at every ruck. I think we kicked so...

Be careful. Owens displays a lot of the "random penalty generator" characteristics of our beloved Bryce.

Scott, I assume you've got a day job, when do you get to sleep? Thanks for your work, I always learn.

3. Timani 2. Hooper 1. Moore

Well, its Saturday now and no news. Maybe the announcement is being held over till Monday so as not to distract from the Bledisloe, though given my pessimism some distraction could have been useful.

Watch the game again (I know that this is a big ask) and count how many times the NZ jumper reached over into the middle of the channel to take the ball. I counted two. Most NZ ball was secured by the jumper leaping vertically to take it above his head. While its very common to see this...

Of the fifteen that started, only Sharpe, Genia and Ioane were as good as their opposites. Every other player we started was beaten by his opposite and some of the NZ players did not play well. That is just too many bad players for it to be a player performance issue. By all means drop...

Lots of discussion about locks on here without a lot of consideration about what they do and how they're selected. Most teams run with a tight head lock and a loose head lock. The THL is tasked with locking for the tight head and being an absolute scrummaging beast. He is also the lock who is...