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Indeed. And there are plenty of early flights Sunday a.m. from NZ and Perth to Sydney. (Btw, the manner by which this whole 'logistics camp' story has leaked out without a clear, clean media announcement and explanation is quite negligent and predictably incompetent. It was a huge invitation...

Just as an aside: I think it would be very interesting to analyse the rate or quantum of stats difference there is when comparing QC (Quade Cooper)'s 'excessive Test errors and brain farts package' (you know what I mean and it's widely referred to in this thread) in his NZ-based Tests vs his non-NZ-based...

As you'll indirectly see from my other comments, I think you've got a good translation of Deans-mind, mid-2013, and the type of risk-reward package that is QC (Quade Cooper) will not figure in Deans' BIL calculus, he will therein replay a version of all that he engendered into the 2012 Wallabies. Deans...

The interesting fact and clear trend Ruggo is that Deans, over numerous years not able to win the ARU-promised Bleds and 3Ns, since roughly mid-2011 and definitely during and since the RWC, came to adopt tactical stances and game plans (where they can just be hazily discerned) that have become...

Whatever the happy words from Reds HQ, a reliance upon Davies would have to rate as a serious concern regarding a Reds victory playing away against a team of the Chiefs' intensity, skill and tactical guile. Davies is mostly a straight-line player whose only asset is, in rugby terms, the most...

And tl12, do you remember us agreeing here in mid-2012 what a shocking turnstile Morahan had often become that year in defence. Morahan is consistently inconsistent and it's something of a random number generator in attempting to know which version of the player we would get each week.

The danger signs for the post-Link Reds are now surely mounting: Stiles and Graham - two coaches with poor track records, and Graham picking 'last mates' instead of seeking world-class scrum and forwards coaching talent with proven records of success with the best teams. One wonders if the QRU...

The hard truth is that since July 2011, the Reds have been in decline, and the appalling standard of lethargic and highly error-strewn play vs the Force just bookended the transition from champions to a team that has lost attention to execution basics and tough self-honesty and analysis as the...

Thanks Jets for your reply. It's a really interesting and IMO relevant discussion as there can be no doubt that the total coaching capability Link assembled in 2010-11 - eg Taylor, McKay, Fowler et al - was a significant factor behind the championship win in 2011. (Btw, although irascible, many...

Well, clearly such a major appointment as that of RG was not solely a Link appointment, McCall and Carmichael would have been actively consulted surely. To answer, yes, I have said since the first moment this very odd (on its objective merits) appointment of RG to take over the Reds from Link...

On that display I honestly cannot say why you and Scott would have 'no such concerns', not even a scintilla of such concern over consistently very poor (especially mid field) Reds' defence. And I'm equally not sure then why Scott A was tweeting re both an individual Reds' players awful defence...

Just to be clear on a factual point: in no way did I say or infer Taylor was 'forced out'.......read please what I did say.......sheesh, no wonder people withdraw from these fora. I simply said that (a) Taylor left the Reds (b) it was announced thereafter that RG would take on defence coaching...

Into this happy picture I must insert an element of concern, and (from me) not for the first time. The Reds' most extraordinary decision of recent years was unquestionably the appointment of Richard Graham as 'Head Coach in Waiting' (although the issue of what is and what will be RG's real...

His problem, unfortunately, is that he doesn't stay in one piece for long periods. So far.

Pulver's biggest priorities - without question - must be: 1. However it's to be done, get demonstrably competent board, business and coaching management resources into each state rugby franchise This is clearly not the case today, and there is only one state - QLD - that has developed a...

A relevant article in today's AFR titled: "Can football's biggest loser find its feet again?" (Not for those in these parts who argue everything's just fine with our code.)

Unfortunately your reassurance as above is not proven by the ARU's particular conduct in this area. Perhaps they seek pride in being the exception that proves your rule. Rather the opposite is the post 2007 ARU rule re Wallabies coach - a relatively mild gesture of support for the national...

Yes, and a totally fucking stupid, unnecessary and reckless commitment - Deans for all of 2013 - to make in January 2013. Blind Freddy can see that, short of 3 totally dominant Wallaby, big wins over the Lions, it would make huge sense to review the national coach's position in July 2013 (just...

Unfortunately most posters by anguish or innocently are missing the fundamental point: over at least the last two years, the ARU has made it perfectly, indeed unyieldingly, clear that it is generally happy with the standards of Deans' coaching and its outcomes. Only recently upon JON's...

Of course there are better times to change national coaches than others. For example, taking the last year or so and looking forward to BIL etc, just after the RWC would have been sensible as a change point, or just after the recent inbound Wales series would likely have been tolerable. But a...