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Interesting that Link declares Lane 'still in the frame' for Friday, and good to see AW-H back playing Premier Grade...

Lest this thread and those like it becomes a dirge of spiralling despair, why don't we turn to: why is it so, and what must be done to make it much less so. (And no, rugby on FTA TV is not going to happen without much more success by our S15 and Wallaby teams, and, no, there's not going to be a...

Innovative thinking re the marketing of the game in Australian rugby: I thought that capability was now extinct. Good on HSBC and the other RU bodies for this program. What will be interesting is to see how well this program is promoted in Sydney media pre 29/4, so that it's not merely a...

Talk's cheap. Their defense is somewhat better than in 2011, little else is. Hill maybe sinking now.

The inestimable value of a outstanding place kicker in rugby - take a 100 bows Mr Taylor.

Coaching Score for 2012, out of 10: JW: 8 DH: 3

Sounds like a very sensible list of specialists, and specialist positions. Delighted that Meyer is wise enough not to be tempted by the nomenclature for such assistant coaches as beloved by our Robble and Nucifora who have pioneered terms such a 'skills coach' and 'coaching co-ordinator' and...

They are wamberal many things we don't know, so how can I argue with you. But I personally agree with Cote that it's certainly debatable as to whether any professional sporting code should be paying for journalists (that are themselves paid to write about that code) to write stories about...

What I find staggering Cote is how the ARU has now declaimed the need for Wallaby squad cost cuts, the lowering of its $ grants to franchises, etc, yet can somehow contemplate affording for Georgina Robinson of the SMH to go on an all expenses paid trip to PNG to write pieces like this and cover...

WJ, I must have heard over 100 various explanations as to why the Reds' team success built in 2010 and then broke through in 2011, but yours that this had nothing to do with the new management troika there from late 2009 but was instead principally due to the Force's poaching of earlier years...

TBH, there's much merit in what you say, but we have to supplement this analysis IMO with the observation that, strategically speaking, there is no point creating a variegated set of franchises all over Australia if you don't also create an integrated and competent overall code and particular...

Yes indeedee, but the introverted, narrow-minded elitism that permitted - and encouraged - that schism, still, in the silent shadows and at the edges, haunts the modern Australian rugby system today.

Some of Eddie's comments confirm him as the Peter Beattie of rugby - the media tart, where's there's a journo and a mic, there's Eddie. Please let's not restart the lazy and convenient myths that the issues of 'weak Australian franchises' is simply all about 'the paucity of good players' and...

Meyer probably also recognises that with the newly extended S15 (and the fatigue factors and incremental injuries that brings), the June Tests, and the new 4N, SA will need a bigger dedicated playing squad than ever before. Plus, someone of his intensity and ambition will want SA to get right...

SA laying down 3 separate planning camps up until early May for June Tests, 31 players in camp 1: Heyneke names planning camp squad 12 April 2012, 14:06 SuperSport.com Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer has named a group of players that will be attending the first planning camp in Pretoria next...

Whatever else re the merits of Gerrard at this or that level, Brumbieman I could not agree more re the pleasure of sighting an Australian back that can kick - under attacking pressure - an intelligent length to a intelligent target point on the field all in a manner that aids smart offensive...

Now this is contemporary class, an emblem as to how the game should be advertised to the audiences out there today. There's as much chance of the ARU and QANTAS/Castrol etc building an ad for 2012 Australian rugby like this as there is to see a Wallaby XV selected upon demonstrable fitness and...

The acid test of course will be if we do just OK-mediocre-poor this year in the S15, what the membership numbers/ave game turnout will be in 2013.

Yeah Gnostic, that 'link from Link' is very relevant to this discussion re the issues associated with pulling players into a top level squad that have not trained with that squad continuously. These issues would apply - to varying degrees - if the new ARU plan is to have a fully contracted 'A'...

Interesting. So RD and the ARU are now going to pioneer an innovative experiment in the social engineering of teams. Daring and bold as ever, they will attempt to disprove the longstanding belief that radically different and unequal means of engaging, remunerating and giving security to people...