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tl12: I was at the Reds' Business Breakfast today (btw, 500+ business people, totally sold out, RD and Link there and interviewed on stage, plus Kev, Gits, Rocky, Saia F) and Peter Hynes' brother (whose legal firm sponsored the event) joked to the audience that P Hynes wanted all, and especially...

Interesting that the famous (or infamous) public 'spray' vs every one of the Brumbies players by Rea, the 6am and 9pm runs in the Canberra cold, etc have produced no major transformations for the team's results. Rea sprayed and hit more or less everyone bar the tea lady and, how surprising, bar...

Yes, Gnostic, an interesting piece, and the actual seeming quote from JO'N stating that he'd 'help find a place for Elsom at a franchise...'. Very unusual that the ARU would have to 'help' the Captain of the Wallabies in such a manner, on paper you'd think they'd all, or many, be falling over...

Gee, I complain about rugby journalism in general, but what an unbiased, credit where it's due, applaud the strengths of both sides, look at a balanced set of ref errors that helped either team, video piece that is. It should be studied for objectivity and expert sports analysis in every media...

Good point. I can't help believe kicking from hand in Aus S15 teams can't be improved - how often do we see wayward kicks that fly pin-point into the hands of the opposing FB or other agile back, only for possession to be merely handed over with zero gain and added major risk of a successful...

Brumbies will move into loss from low crowds, injuries, and report that other Aus franchises now in similar position, see: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/brumbies-to-post-loss-on-crowds-injuries-20110602-1fhsv.html

V interesting as I found below that reportedly Byrne was kicking and catching coach for the Wallabies in 1999 and for that year's RWC, very interesting indeed.

Wasn't the Mick Byrne there the ABs' specialist kicking coach for many years, and a tall ex-AFL playing Aussie? (Interesting of course that the ABs have regularly employed full-time specialist kicking and mental skills coaches, we have typically retained neither at a national level.)...

For me, the positive highlight of Brumbies v Stormers was the former's defence under sustained pressure. It was impressive that a team with such recent trauma could ensure the Stormers with their calibre of players only scored one try. Reds seemed drained by the victory v Tahs and it showed v...

Overall, it's hardly surprising that there will be some correlation between crowd figures and TV figures for the same game, and probably for the same team if they win consistently and well, and that these outcomes will bleed through between States over time. For me, as I have noted, by far...

Rr, I think there's much in what you say. For me, in general, there is something 'not built like a rock' in the modality of most top Aus kickers. Crucial kicks are sometimes nailed, sometimes not. It's as though true technical self-confidence - 'I simply know I have the consistent and correct...

Thanks RR. I was surprised that KB (Kurtley Beale) comes out top (when considering convs vs pens balance, Gits' convs % way down over quite a big sample), from rough memory I thought he was missing more. It would be interesting to compare these %s with the S15 results for other top SA and NZ kickers. I can't...

Then let's get Halligan on board full-time for the whole 3N/WC period seems like a sound - maybe essential - proposal.

Remember October 2007, that penalty kick at the death? Oh, the horror returns for me every time I think back to that day. And on Sunday just gone, whilst we (Reds fans) all love QC (Quade Cooper), another off-day with the boot, it nearly cost us the game. Bruce Ross' analysis of RWC results months back...

Jets: IMO, this point would take some specialist TV sports scheduling analyst to really figure out. However, it would seem to me that the possible smaller natural NSW rugby-watching group at 5:30pm Saturday (smaller vs a 7:30pm NSW group) would be fully cross-compensated for by the fact there...

Spikhaza: I know what you are getting at overall and really I enjoy your posts, but I don't agree with this sort of language re fans - 'fair weather supporters that fucked off...' - for fee-paying people whom, once, however long ago, wilfully gave up paying their $s and coming along to games...

Ruggo, 100% (except for mine only 20% re Mooney as I think he had his own flaws). And Link often refers to the positives of the 'top 3' of McCall, Carmichael, himself, as strongly united as to goals and vision, etc and I sense he compares this situation most favourably to his experiences in both...

Gagger, just to note: this applies to our dear Reds as well, of course, and they are just as 'guilty' of 'keeping Stu in the equation', as if QC (Quade Cooper) had merely achieved an average % place kick success rate for the kickable penalties granted the Reds, at that last scrum penalty point against the Cru...

Jnor: one of the aspects of 'the Robbie code' that I particularly enjoy is that, despite the obfuscation, uniquely unclear assessments and stated directions for the team, etc, there is always, always someone out there that considers his most obscure declamations as pearls of (subtly hidden)...