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It's public domain data that the firm building PU has has massive $ investment, just btw. That's why I asked above: looking at this crap appware, where has the money gone?

Rocky has cynically played the Australian rugby system like a Stradivarius in the last two years. Loyalty to virtually no one, a flop as Wallaby captain that had to be dropped, injuries upon injuries, poor RWC play, lucrative contracts upon contracts, 'in absentia' captain of Tahs but on big...

Just waiting for the soon-coming roll call of excuses for Tahs 2012, version 206a. When it's great to have injuries to mask the inner truth. One day, the revolution will come. Then the Tahs potential will be realized, not before.

PU - what a joke! - where has the alleged $50m of investment in it gone? Agree with Scarfie. GAGR could do it better.

Always amused by the little biases and other colours in NZ coverage of Aus rugby. This re the Reds v Cru game tomorrow ('Cru plot revenge'). Loved the line: '...they only beat us (in the GF) by a try...". That's right, only by a try, but wasn't that enough...

Yes Gnostic, but for me the telling clue in 2011 was the lack of a complete Waratah's coaches change process. Despite years and years of no S1x prize, the Waratahs management was still, despite all this, not resolved to ensure a radical improvement, they sought timid post-Hickey...

Whatever else it is, an efficient chase can't afford to be a rabble and crazy scramble of players just converging from everywhere or back up defensive structures if possession is lost fails and the opposition's attack then progresses all too well. Chasing excellence requires lots of pre planned...

But Scotty these RU's problems had nothing to do with wildly uplifted player salaries; rather it was poor team performance and/or generally poor franchise management overall that got them into near bankruptcies. Which brings me back to my central argument: what is crucial is not salary capping...

As Harris in The Aus rightly argues today, the Aus S15 salary cap is either designed to, or has the real effect of, destroying top Aus S15 champ teams when they emerge 'so the same team doesn't win it too often'. In a country where we struggle to get even one team as S15 champ, this type of...

Boudjellal's last response, the perfect one. No one understands the question, or should.

And so it came to pass, in the beginning there was the player manager's leaking, and the process of Quadeos (Quade-induced chaos) commenced: http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/super-rugby/quade-cooper-tipped-to-leave-queensland-reds/story-e6frf4qu-1226346505114

I like the facts. Just highlighting that, strictly from a Reds' forward journey perspective, a Tahs win is preferable. Bit of a destiny-setting weekend for our Reds 2012.

Just an aside: if the Brums win this game and the Reds lose v Cru, the Reds 2012 chances to head the Aus Conf at the end of the line are reduced to near implausibility. The points gap v Brums then looks very tough for the Reds, the Brums would have to start performing quite poorly for the rest...

fp, would you not agree that, after this many 2012 games, it's clear that the Gaffney/Bowen team-up as backs coaches has been at best highly disappointing, and, at worst, in its poor delivery, the core reason why the Tahs may have another season below their potential and aspiration?

I think Tim's stint as a commentator has amply confirmed that he's best remembered as a fine player.

So amusing it must be said to have a prominently seated pre-season-anointed Captain in the photo who's played, what, less than the equivalent of one game and we're at S15 Rnd 10+. And his injuries were known about pre-season. Never in the history of professional Australian rugby has a player...

Just an addendum: On last night's Rugby Club, McArdle made it _very_ clear that parties from, or associated with, the Force leaked the news re Genia's move directly to FoxSports staff and comms during Saturday, April 28 in Perth, if not before, and prior to any Reds' media release later that...

Not quite this game, but thought this was the best place to post it...

I do know what you mean, but IMO that's a deeply flawed argument. What it does do is implements a socialist/collectivist-like model in a bad overall system and the result is merely this: the cost of the chefs are controlled, the calibre and customer quality of the restaurants are not. The...

Tick. To think that after nurturing Higgers for years, our loyalty and his too, we win an S15, massive $ surplus, and now, via a central nanny-the-RUs scheme and the ARU's row with the RUPA aiming to keep the infamous cap in place, we could lose of player of Higgers' value and calibre, it's just...