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I've said this in multiple ways and places here throughout this S15 season: Generally, other than WG and QC (Quade Cooper), the Reds 2013 back line and coherence of attack has gone to pot (e.g., see Reds' ranking today for PF and PD in the S15 charts as but one evidentiary data point). This is not the thread...

Chiefs, as Rank 1, play the lowest ranked qualifier and thus if the Reds and Brums both win next weekend, the Reds will go on to play the Chiefs and the Brums (ranking higher than the Reds) will play the Bulls (as the Bulls must play the highest ranked qualifier). See below for all the...

Isn't this a flawed let-off though? - look how well and successfully the Rebels played in their 2H to win, and how very well the Force played in total. They had less battle-attuned Wallabies returning and the same playing time gap. It was the Wallaby-loaded sides of the Reds, Tahs and Brums...

Unfortunately, I broadly agree re the much worsened ranking position of the Brums. The Reds would never have won in 2011 if they hadn't topped the table at this juncture. The top 2 S15 positions are priceless.

Worse than just blown that top 2 spot, it was a potentially disastrous outcome for the Brums as if the Brums advance over the Cheetahs (and that's far from a foregone conclusion after last night's showing), as the highest ranked qualifier, they'll have to travel to RSA to play a rested Bulls.

That would be disastrous, but not unprecedented. One of the many problems associated with the now-leaked data that Totality Tony was not happy in the Wallaby set-up was that his appointment and role definition (very odd as it was as many of us here commented upon at the time he was announced)...

When I have repeatedly said that the Reds coaching group have neither (a) improved the Reds' attack adequately since 2011 and (b) rebuilt the backs adequately as part of (a) and to remain more than competitive with the top S15 teams that have significantly improved since 2011, the above is an...

You can't surely be serious?! He was deemed fit to play in a crucial home Test series, but now must re-enter re-hab and is thus not fit for a single final S15 game? I always thought his entire 'KB (Kurtley Beale)'s Wallaby recovery' as 'national treasure' was a ludicrous process that in truth did nothing...

Let's face facts: the Reds' attack this entire year (bar the Chiefs match) has been inferior to the Tahs' attack as it evolved mid-season once Cheik got his way with the team. Foley has really grown in capability and confidence, and the Tahs back three will be superior to the Reds, especially...

As Captain or not, somehow I think there'll be an extra spring in QC (Quade Cooper)'s step on Saturday night.

Indeed BH. And as I noted, events almost immediately post JO'N's 2 year extension (granted IIRC in April 2011) highlighted how ridiculous was the notion that JO'N had 'committed' to anything serious with the ARU - in fact he was off intrigued by and being interviewed for other CEO jobs before...

Just like JO'N 'resigned' last year when Hawker announced they both agreed JO'N was so busy with Echo etc and that '..........it is a good idea as agreed with JO'N that now's the time to make a change.......'. A proper voluntary resignation would normally yield a short period of notice. Yet...

Four facts from the media conference: one, under a query, BP confirmed the incident whereby JO'C and KB (Kurtley Beale) failed to catch the team bus for training last week and came instead by taxi; two, also under query, the change now to Link would have occurred irrespective of Test 3 BIL being won or...

If only it was thus. Yes, re a new and exciting national coach. But no to potentially critical contextual factors that may, as but one example, significantly impact that new coach's ability to drive up the Wallaby win-loss ratio. An example: due to the appalling financial extravagance of the...

Yep. And, from the perspective you note BH, the tragedy of Saturday's result was the enormous national showcase for rugby and a fabulous crowd atmosphere etc, and we produced an embarrassingly inept performance little better than that achieved in Marseilles October 2007, and a long way from the...

It was powerfully revealing when, after the 'major governance review' of the ARU's structure was announced, P Cosgrove was asked the obvious question: 'Will there also now be major changes to the composition of the ARU board?'. His answer (paraphrasing): 'No, we have an enormous amount of rugby...

I enjoyed this post-game piece from G North, and an interesting all-Tests stats summary at the end: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-2357958/Lions-beat-Australia-Meeting-James-Bond-blinded-champagne-wonder-Ill-smiling-I-reach-110--GEORGE-NORTH-EXCLUSIVE-COLUMN.html

I'll try hard in the following days to be as charitable to Deans' future as some are here, and I mean that sincerely. But for now, no. Under JO'N Mk II and Deans Mk I huge damage has been done to the commercial and community strength of Australian rugby. These men were paid very large salaries...

What about Robbie's just commenced autobiography, centered upon his time with the Wallabies, provisional title: "My Journey: A Deposit in Belief in the Circumstance"

Gnostic - some kind of special 'advance vision' award to you mate for incepting the Sack Deans thread here.........in June 2010 wasn't it? It was highly controversial at the time, and was routinely closed after raging altercations..........then reopened........then closed again........now a...