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Point taken Cyclo, we don't know for sure, but from the 'in the know' mainline journos who knowingly trade analytical integrity for the 'access' to ARU coaches, minders and players, this model of 'win X of Y current games' etc re RD's survival seems to routinely flow, even though the X and Y...

Well, if that's your choice of the ARU's 'approach' to decision making re Deans as of now, if anything it's more outrageous and lacking in integrity than the one I posited above. That of course was what was commonly said in late 2009 and 2011 respectively before Link and J White assumed their...

If there is any coach-stays-or-sacked decision making more utterly stupid than that based upon 'if we win the next game or two' assessment criteria, I don't what it is or how to describe it. Yet to add disastrous misjudgement to fours years of pre-existing folly, this seems to be precisely the...

FWIW, Taps has consistently played better at 12 than 13 for the Reds and in that setting he's said himself that he's a better 12 than 13.

I was in section 311 right behind those posts and your Dad's assessment is quite correct. All around me thought Aus would align for the obvious drop goal tactic to win the match but to me it looked as though they either never seriously considered it, or were overcome with indecision over it...

"Right all along": too fucking right mate. And good on you. I wanted to highlight above that the dimensions of this thread's discussion were in some ways too limited: yes, 'inclusive vs dictatorial' is a legitimate dimension, but equally important is simply the calibre and full structure of...

Scarfie: You posts above are excellent, and represent the discussion that urgently needs to be had re the obvious deficiencies in the contemporary Wallaby back line performance. To echo Jets' and your points: Link has absolutely made it plain on many occasions that I've heard him in small...

(My highlights above). WJ, we're indebted to you for digging this 2006 piece up. Here we are 6 years later, JO'N's now been at the ARU for roughly 12 years in two lots. It's clear from the above that in this piece JO'N was out to undermine Flowers and pitch for his own imminent return as ARU...

That's a good suggestion actually as the recent GAGR blog essay re KN by the anonymous 'leftarmspinner' was an appalling jumble of unsupported bile, pure speculation and conjecture, bereft of any verified facts, negative at every turn in that no consideration was given to the possibility that...

I did not even attempt to 'paint him as the only protagonist'. But, please, let's all get one thing very clear, a CEO FFS is a CEO, he or she usually gains the highest prestige and the highest salary and individually has the highest responsibility for leadership of calibre, ethics and, of...

Gaggs, I have no reason to doubt what you say above. But the words and their meaning if true should utterly appall every lover of the game. Frankly, if true, it disgusts me. And that has nothing whatsoever to do with liking Link or not. The job of a community sports code-leading CEO should...

I can't vouch for your Googling WJ, but if perhaps you were able to spend more time on it you would have found at least 2 recent articles wherein W Smith in the The Australian drew his readers' attention to the fact that (as he tells it and paraphrasing) '...eyebrows and concerns in high...

I did, and you said above in this thread, plain as night and day, no qualification, no doubt (my highlights below), as though established fact: Now, lower down this thread and here, you start to quote '3 journos' (one of whom btw was just quoting 'the Sydney media', so just gossip within...

Your passion-to-consistency ratio is creaking WJ. Over in the JO'N thread you argue that, essentially, hard factual proof must be produced to confirm any real operating or focus or time dilution problem wrt JON's 'dual roles' with the ARU as CEO and Echo as Chairman. Yet here, GG's wholly...

The serious point wrt these 'discussions' as JO'N had with Man City re its then CEO position there is surely this: they occurred, by JO'N's own admission (after heavy media leaks), in 2011 only a few months after the ARU board and JO'N had agreed how important it was that the ARU secured JO'N's...

Most grateful to you for that mention of the latest Knight artlcle today: http://www.smh.com.au/business/lahey-to-take-seat-on-echo-board-20121001-26vi8.html For anyone naive enough (wantonly or otherwise) to argue that JO'N's role at Echo is just a few trivial extra hours a week that would...

As a Aus rugby fan, one cannot let the delicious irony of the above highlights (mine) pass. Here we have two very reputable business writers effectively commenting upon what they hear of JON's attitudes to boards he's 'inherited'. I wonder what this tightly compressed comment - assuming a...

If you sincerely think WJ that's what I am saying above then either: - you are not wanting to understand what I am saying OR - you are further practicing your long-deployed capacity - indeed enjoyment - of doing as you endlessly did for the Tahs, Tahs' coaches, Tahs' business leaders, and...

The notion being promulgated by some here that it is acceptable and indeed typical for well-governed boards of directors to permit highly-paid CEOs to undertake active Chairman roles outside their core duties in companies undergoing substantial change and turbulence is totally incorrect. It...

As a Churchie parent, I can only agree. It was an unconvincing win by any standards. Worse was that Churchie are again repeating its obvious flaw in structured defense - our backs rarely align properly or quickly against fast attack out wide and compound that with poor individual defense. This...