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Hey densamer, what clock do you fancy mate? 12 noon Christchurch time is 10am Bris time. Would hate you to miss tickets as I reckon they'll fly out the door from 9am (Bris time) July 6.

So Slim293, do I take you are coming up to Brisbane to support your chosen team, the Cru? If so, please be sure to identify yourself, and take out the applicable insurances (for your family's sake).

Link: it appears that the Reds retain no specialist (place and from hand) kicking coach. If so, why not? And what player in the current squad is the back-up kicker to QC (Quade Cooper)?

A small-ish enough price to enable rugby glory, matty_k? Virgin is (as of this hour) around $280 return SYD<>BNE out July 9, back July 10. You can always pay it off over time...

DEAR TAHS, BRUMBIES, REBELS, FORCE FANS! AUSTRALIAN RUGBY NEEDS YOU! ** THERE COULD BE NO SIGHT WORSE THAN LARGE TRACTS OF SUNCORP STADIUM FILLED WITH CRUSADERS' FANS ON JULY 9 YELLING IN AN ACCENT NOT COMPATIBLE WITH SUNCORP'S ACOUSTIC DESIGN. THERE MUST BE NO FOREIGN SOUNDS ON THIS GREAT...

Love that! (And isn't this line getting a bit sickenly overworked in the media?)

Just a minor footnote to the above: if you haven't been there for the 48,000 last Cru game crowd or last Saturday's 45,000 Blues game, you can't fully appreciate the intensity of the Suncorp crowd roars of support (and booing at disagreeable ref's decisions) for the Reds. It is phenomenal...

QRU Membership have indicated that, in this eventuality, they will issue you a new plastic Members' card (which you need to enter the gate this Saturday, Ticketek enables the cards that have acquired Finals' tickets this way), and on that will be your unique bar code number per individual...

rsea - assume you know that, if you are buying Finals tickets in the Reds' Members period currently open, it's not the Rugby ID you need to buy Finals tickets on Ticketek, but the unique 6 digit number just to the upper left hand corner of your Member's card's bar code and just above the upper...

Yes...pure poetry from the rugby gods, mere mortals could not have made this.

Groucho, Ruckin Good Stats' deeper analysis of the Carter v Cruden kicking success this year is quite fascinating, in part as it calibrates to degree of difficulty as well as to absolute success or otherwise. Also interesting is G Henry's obvious focus upon kicking success as a basis for back up...

Yes in principle, but what of the Reds players that in effect had a good break before only recently returning from injury and thus no risk of burn-out as would apply to Genia, Copper, etc.? I am thinking of Robinson, Davies, Slipper (if fit), etc...

Swarley, as a general thrust as you have it above, GO REDS!, I agree with you (except re Aus as 'reigning champs v NZ', we won one dead rubber, offshore exhibition match v ABs in 2010, with Dan C out for half of it, and Donald helpfully doing-a-Donald-under-pressure, but I digress. What was...

If one accepts that Deans in 2010 achieved outstanding results and had thus and then clearly arrived at the 'optimal' Wallabies squad for 2011 and the RWC, then strict 'replication' is indeed a rational direction for 2011. I am not of that view as a Wallabies fan, so I consider some 'innovation'...

Barb, I apologise, I didn't realise you were such an authority as to be able to designate players - comparing say a 2011 Davies and a 2011 Mitchell - as 'clearly inferior'. I must do better next time in recognising such obvious truths. Your recent blog essay on Wallaby selection dilemmas and...

Just btw, I would argue that Davies' defence is now better than Mitchell's. Mitchell has had serious defensive lapses (two v England 2010 that led to tries come to mind, and why he was temporarily dropped by Deans). Rod is very near the complete Test-ready package in all aspects of his play IMO...

3 Horwill (for leadership throughout and consistently intense and skilful breakdown work at crucial moments...how anyone could assess that Horwill is now not the right Captain for Australia in the RWC surprises me...it took Elsom nearly 2 years from early 2009 to be back to be playing quite...

Slim293: Fair points indeed. And I have openly congratulated the ACTRU for, at last, having the guts to appoint what we all hope will be a breakthrough, world-class coach in White when they could so easily have gone timid again and opted for some unproven, non-threatening second ranker. This is...

Indeed daz, you can take issue with it, but I believe it is factually based and correct. Aside from the Reds' - a make-over phoenix arisen from the ashes of a virtual RU collapse - which established RU in Australia has measurably been able to properly grow its business and crowd base over the...

Very astute assessment, and largely correct IMO Groucho. And explains this: the only RU that has modelled up and delivered a strong 'business revival and new strategic plan for growth' that actually is showing real results is manifestly the Reds, and here's the thing, that solely occurred...