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I have been wracking my brain over what important tasks McGahan is not going to be responsible for in the Wallabies set up. This is of importance given the ARU's economy drive, so that it can budget for the ' few-non-McGahan-tasks-and-jobs-that-still-must-be-done-around-StLeonards'. It seems...

I honestly don't think Bruce will know the length until he's finished going through each and everyone of Robbie's large body of speeches, and it's the 'after a loss' ones that apparently are the big time consumers and generate the most demands upon Bruce's translation skills.

I've heard a rumour that Bruce is compiling a short leaflet to aid the ARU's new, fan-friendly communication strategies. I think it may be titled: "Explaining Robbie Deans' speeches to the everyday rugby fan: A glossary of terms and phrases."

Love it! And the answer probably is: yes...from what we have seen so far.

Not sure Jnor. The ARU was actively cold-shouldering it, and making little comment but patronizing remarks re 'unlikely to be supported', etc. Why not explore it constructively, especially given that multiple rugby luminaries were positive over it and excited about its potential. And the code...

Select a kicker who doesn't deliver a good success % on Saturday and kiss the game goodbye.

Some added data re Sam (and Tim) Lane: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/rugby-union/desperate-reds-fast-track-lane-to-perth/story-e6frg7o6-1226310702961

Bruce, just to add a note: it's when all the full 'play away' cycles really start to happen for every team and we see who conquers who from that, that, typically, the S15 men are sorted from the S15 boys, so to speak. Last year IIRC the Reds won 3 out of 4 away games and took the points from...

Btw, surely we can agree that Shipps is a better candidate vs Vuna that Deans has been leaking to Growden he'd like to consider for a Wallabies spot. I was incredulous when I read that.

Yeah, it was just a frustrated speculation as to one possible factor, and not a 'total blame'. But there must be some coaching responsibility after 5 rounds where defensive intensity and organisation has often been lacking at great cost, and where consistently sound tackling technique also seems...

Thanks fp. This is just unforgivable, injuries are zero excuse for this appalling set of defensive stats that are significant underpinners of the 61 points we let through. Perhaps you can appreciate from these stats my speculation that Taylor's mind may have wandered to Scotland. Whatever...

Frankly, fellow Reds comrades here, when we think about it all for Rnd 6, near on the biggest planning issue is who's going to kick the fucking ball off the tee now Lance is gone. This match will not, in our wildest dreams, get the Reds so many tries that place kicking is of incidental interest...

Of interest to more than Paarl...;)

Bruce, are you hereby inferring that your life span has been such that you have witnessed the rise and fall of every empire, every dynasty, every leadership fad...? ;)

Re round 6. If we think we might just be good enough to just contain the Force's forwards in broken play, what we MUST have is the best possible backline (and a half-decent place kicker) as that's where they have a high-risk (for them) combination of lack of depth of experience and...

Last post on this from me: There is no double standard at all. My criticism of Jake's fully-declared-by-him 'interest' in the England job, and therefore the real possibility that he'd depart the Brumbies having coached at most only one season, was one of ethics and integrity as to what you...

What we REALLY also should do - and I've said this for years - is a rugby SOO at SFS and Suncorp somewhere in the season. It's just commercial and code-promoting madness that a SOO series has not been somehow developed in Aus rugby. I also believe that the hybrid series or single match that...

We won't know what Murphy's really got or not until he's played 2 or 3 games at this level. All but the most talented and mentally hardened 10s in Aus rugby would have struggled v these 2012 Bulls at Loftus when, as in the Reds' case, the team's forwards were being made lambs to the slaughter...

Hawko, though apropos the Tahs' injury problems and with background the awful list of same you had in late 2011, what I find doubly intriguing is the decision of Tahs' management to sign on two old warriors that everyone has now owned up to carrying very serious underlying and unfixed injuries...

SPF, noted, but please let's not start a run of myths that we had a glorious largely injury free year in 2011, because in truth we had more than a few. As but one example, do you remember Caleb Ralph of all people having to be drafted in v Chiefs away from the Sunshine Coast rugby club scene...