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Interesting that Genia is indicating that the months-long uncertainty over his stay-or-go negotiations impacted his form: http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/rugby-gold/weight-lifted-as-will-genia-opts-to-stay-with-queensland-reds/story-fn8t7efs-1226343103194 If we look at the RG transfer...

Killer post. From the heart. Long may you run.

What a contrast in the test and demonstration of superior character in two 'imported' players: Delve: commitment, genuineness, humility, leadership, intense hard work, routine skill, top example to _all_ players, real contributor Cipriani: casualness of attitude, vanity-driven life style...

Frankly, I struggle to see why the Force have it so much more difficult with 'poor local player catchment so we must have stars' than does the ACT RU, with an even smaller 'local' population and much less affluent local sponsorship and fan base than is accessible in Perth. Yet the Brums seem...

Just a side note re Genia as of April 2012: I think a number of posters here would agree that perhaps the best thing that could happen to/for WG would be for him to take all the June Tests period off and we work with another 9 for that period (which would have its own benefits in pursuit of new...

Well, was RG the man for the plan if you say that was the plan? Key background facts re Link and White: they both had pedigrees of demonstrated achievement, White's more impressive = RWC, but Link had gotten the Tahs into finals and GFs. They were men who'd led and managed whole teams over good...

70% agree Cyclo, but, with hindsight it's perhaps the Reds/QRU that have handled the matter the most skilfully in that they have bagged the Genia re-signing with no more $s offered and thus at a $ evel they believe is economically responsible. The Force seem to be behaving in an almost...

Rather, a little light humour was in order, or so I thought...

Jim Carmichael now going to the Force to repair traumatized team?

Whoa. According to the latest fm Bret Harris in The Australian, Genia now having second thoughts, reconsidering leaving, 'heart not in it' etc. The merry-go-round of Aus rugby 'stars' continues its dance.

And they have forwards arguably as good (overall) as the Reds' 2011 ones. But, as noted elsewhere, the mystery missing ingredient in all this emerging cake is the crucial self-raising flour: the 2013 Force coach. Whatever is argued anywhere, I am convinced that Mooney then Link and McKay were...

I will just offer up a question that might have some speculative relevance one future day. Assuming the Genia (and maybe other Reds players) defection discussions have been active with the Force for some time, the question may arise as to the degree to which RG was a participant in them with a...

To me the most mystifying component of the Genia shift is this: Genia is a smart fellow, he'd know the history of the Force, he'd know the criticality of who's to be the next coach there, he'd know that just another Force Mk IV string of star pearls model without coaching excellence of the right...

Haha. Everyone else is 'theorising' but here is a post that 'knows for absolute certain': it's just, solely, only, always, money. Just no doubt about that.

FFS, at no time did I say the RG factor was THE reason Genia is moving. I argued that it may have been a clear contributory factor, and I stand by the notion that the entire RG process has been destabilizing for the current team and will continue to be. Gagger would not have posted his 'straw...

Good points all Scotty. And, rightly or wrongly, so many of the Force's money-driven east-to-west recruitments have turned into de facto dust for the Force as the team as a whole was not well coached or formed enough as a complete unit to ever get into the S14/5 finals, let alone a GF. They...

I said at the time: too much attention was being paid to the impact upon the Force of RG's decision, and not enough to the potential impact to perceptions and stability within the 2012 Reds' establishment. I saw numerous impacts that might arise: - the senior Reds players were not consulted re...

I found this article interesting, discovered over breakfast this morning in Auckland. How to radically rebuild a team that had under performed. Shows how often totally new approaches, coaches, and player purges are essential (amongst other things of course): Rugby: Inside the Chiefs'...

Agree. If we have fit replacements he should be dropped completely for a couple of games...or have far more effective learning sessions with the coaches.

Always hard to interpret the excellent aspects of your side's win when the opposition was so astoundingly poor as last night's Blues. They were worse last night than they were against the Rebels, is that possible? Bar say Nonu's tackling, what was there to compliment, even if you went looking...