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There is a magic little note in an Australian article I saw on another thread that says that all staff at the Tahs are on a 20 week termination clause. If this is true then termination costs will not be the major driver when deciding what to do with people.

The problem here is that bad performances by referees do make a huge difference to outcomes. I would cite: Barnes in the 2007 NZ-France match. SA vs Aust at the 2011 world cup. Joubert blowing Baxter out of international rugby when it was clear the problem was the NZ loosehead's hinging. Most...

Jason Allen came across from the Clipsal 500 organisation with apparently excellent history. His Linkdin profile says "A successful senior executive with a clear focus on coaching, change management and ensuring strategy is linked to bottom line results. Extensive cross functional senior...

Based on this year's form Goosen may feel slighted. Is he another Dan Carter? Time will tell. But in addition to all the qualities Blue mentioned, the Cheetahs backline under his control looked slick and dangerous. Name me one other SA province you could say that about. With players like...

You'd think that the number two rugby nation in the world would have good international depth, but we keep telling ourselves that we haven't, which is supposedly why our Super sides are not very successful. It doesn't add up to me. I think we have got massive issues over head coach depth, with...

Chairman is gone but his deputy has not. I suspect that Petersen expects that he should be annointed as the new Chairman because of his years of loyalty to Zemancheff. At a time when he should have been leading the Board putsch to fire Zemancheff he has loyally stuck by him as the best man for...

Yes, but he's an exceptional talent. Think a Dan Carter who can kick at 90% from up to 60 metres out.

It is not nice to make jokes about people with disabilities. Neither is it nice to make jokes about people with coaching disabilities. Some of the more sensitive Tah supporters will find the idea of Jones coaching the Tahs as just too distastful for words. While the Tahs have been diabolical...

This is just GG blowing with the wind. For weeks he's been talking down the Tahs head office (deservedly so) as being in total disarray. Now he talks of sudden disarray as though he doesn't know what he has been writing about for weeks. He's trying to say he's surprised so that he can deny...

At least one more for his deputy.

Cracking game. Says a lot about the Rugby coverage at the SMH that there's still no coverage in their rugby section.

Like just isn't enough. If you put all this on reality TV it'd end up on the cutting floor as "too ludicrous even for this genre". There are really two "its". The train wreck that is the Waratah/Force coaching negotiations and Grumbles horrible gossip/innuendo. Will the Rugby God do two...

I think Deans will choose: 9. Genia, 10. Barnes, 11. Ioane, 12. McCabe, 13. Horne, 14. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), 15. Beale. If he has a 3 backs bench it will be White, Cooper and one of Fainga'a/Mitchell. His press pronouncements suggest it, his super-conservatism and focus on particular players would tell you...

The top four teams are the Sharks, Stormers, Crusaders and Chiefs. Isn't it passing strange that only two of their players make the top 20 in pilfers and none make the top five? From this you could draw a number of conclusions: That the Australian obsession with a pilfering seven doesn't lead...

I really wish I could go to sleep for a few weeks and then wake up and find that it had all been resolved one way or another. This constant speculation by media, obviously fed by the inability of managements to make a decision and stick to it, is a totally negative vibe for the whole game...

Yes. You just have to make sure your airline partner locks up the exit row seats for the flight. There will be a minimum of 6, which should cover all the tall timber.

The only issue with long haul is WA. Providing you can have a good hot shower after the game to ease the aches almost everyone should be able to cope with one hour in a plane, providing that its a couple of hours between game and flight. Injuries are different, but they can be handled as...

True if we translate it to a theoretical world where two objects collide. But there is so much more going on in the tackle situation that such analysis is insufficient to describe what is going on. If a player is taken down with a tackle around the chest it may be a rough approximation, but...

True. If everyone stays fit, someone is going to be seriously disappointed next year. And if McCabe goes to 13 to accomodate one of them then Andrew Smith gets squeezed. The Brumbies have a good looking backs squad. This isn't my favourite squad, just my distillation of the...

So, it looks like we will have for sure: Possibles in red, still hoping in blue Robinson (Kepu as standby), TPN, Fitzpatrick, Ulugia Kepu, Ryan, (Ulugia as standby) Douglas, Stanford, Caldwell S. Timani, Vickerman Dennis, McCutcheon, Hooper, Alcock, Jenkins Palu, L. Timani Hart, McKibben...