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Consider it a case of enthusiasm in the wild.

Slim, cowardice is a very strong term to be using in relation to anyone, including to players. You are quite sure of this, are you? What do you think goes on inside QC (Quade Cooper) when, in attack with the ball, time and time again, he crashes right into multiple big ABs, Boks, etc. and gets brutally...

My RD progress assessment post Saturday: - first, one game may or may not be the beginning of the right, positive trend, but the trend needs to be well-formed before that's clear. The win last Saturday was excellent (more below), but there have been far too many false dawns before this and...

TOCC - I think your starting post was excellent, thanks for taking the trouble to do it and share your well-articulated passions, plus good photos! Not that you fundamentally disagreed, but I do think the Major is right: once Australian rugby gets back to a pattern of one or more S15 teams...

Change your tasteless and degrading alias, whomever you are embittered out there in anonymous land. Matt Rowley has been a stellar, pioneering contributor to the use of 'new media' in not only Australian rugby, but all rugby, such that GAGR is today one of the most respected and best composed...

One of the reasons it's 'the flattest': when the Wallabies have won no BC or 3N for donkeys' years, and after multiple hype barrages this year before the first Samoan Test and then the Wallabies flunk that 'easy' Test big time and then make an absolute pathetic mess of the first Bledisloe game...

Braveheart81: Surely to be spared the: > all-of-80 banality, > ref bashing with limited validity, > imbecilic national bias, > talking over each other, > exceedingly low levels of useful game insight, and, generally, > verbal intrusion without any notable purpose of...

AB RWC squad now named, and squad in Brisbane named (not final 22): http://www.allblacks.com/news/17223/All-Blacks-squad-named-for-2011-Rugby-World-Cup

Yes, it's frustrating MSB. But there's never much joy in blaming the media, they are what they are. The key is not feeding them bad-tasting raw meet before a banquet. Part of the problem here is that, it must be remembered, the ARU has hammered the general media and key Aus rugby journalists...

Why not? Btw, thanks for all your good work and contributions here RGS.

Agree ChargerWA. I am mightily surprised that anyone could argue that place and drop goal kicking success rates are not highly important to Test team outcomes, especially at RWCs. Just consider: Flatley's superb kicking contribution to the RWC Final 2003, and Mortlock's unfortunate last penalty...

Not in the slightest have I 'changed my tune'. In mid-2010 I strongly defended QC (Quade Cooper) in that particular GAGR thread(s) from what then were (a) wholly unsubstantiated and vicious, libellous statements about him (some in that very thread that I actually worried would imperil GAGR legally) and his...

Yes fp. Frankly, I'm even more angry today than on Friday last. The whole JO'C melodrama is a negative front and centre in all today's rugby media, and JOC (James O'Connor)'s action may well unsettle the whole team/selection/positional balance before and during a crucial Test with a 3N and potential pre-WC...

That's not my only concern, but yours is completely justified BJ. QC (Quade Cooper)'s kicking did not improve through 2011's S15. He would occasionally have an excellent game where he'd kick 6/7 or such like (you'd remember one of those), then he'd lapse back to say 3/5 or 2/4 and the cycle of unpredictable...

Ruggo - just to be clear, in no way am I on some sort of 'no R&R' mega-tough line here. Simply that, if this team wants to be truly outstanding and win some major trophies, these kinds of low/no alcohol disciplines as they relate to continuous fitness, diet, etc, do typically come into...

....and it is always thus and always will be thus. Especially in tight matches where both teams deploy equally top quality defence. This is why Australia's negligence in not employing a top flight, full-time kicking coach in Australia (not by fucking video links and fly in and out visits) could...

One more aspect of all this that has nothing to do with JO'C's poor team ethics and responsibilities to his employer, is whether elite athletes should, on fitness grounds, be drinking heavily when they are right in the middle of crucial training and performance periods. Australia has a huge BC...

RS, I defended O'Connor over the Force departure process. Seeing this latest incident, I wish I had not. This non-attendance at a very prominent team function and for which no legitimate excuse has emerged, is a vain insult to all of his team, the Wallaby fans, the ARU, and QANTAS being a major...

Good background from Big Kev's father re: his son's history, why and how he came to rugby (interesting), school days, AFL days, character as a boy, etc...

...and this is the journo that said SBW might be about to be signed to the Tahs, then, next day, wrote up that such a scenario was simply an impossibility.