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Thanks T for doing that. Very helpful, and highlights the highly varied yet rocky paths ahead to Finals-land.

Yes indeed TOCC! How the best events can overtake the best opinions. Perhaps there will now be new opinions?

Umm, yes. Q.E.D.

ACTC, you are right, that was a momentary over-generalization, my apologies. You are a good and balanced contributor, and I certainly should have said 'some', and not inferred 'all'.

Sorry BR, it frankly just gives a number of us the shits the way you Kiwi fans have a subtly unpleasant habit of coming into these fora, critiquing our players and teams at great length, then when we convincingly beat you, there is zero graciousness and 'well played opposition', rather a bunch...

Is that 'sore' or 'sour' loser. The 'our absent players' excuse, no. 236 in the bag.

Interesting article from the Link on a current hot subject: kicking from hand. Whatever your views, highlights how Link thinks very analytically about most aspects of the game. http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/union-can-get-its-kicks-from-league-20110512-1ejjt.html

AC: I was travelling when you published this thread, and related posts. IMO, it was/is without doubt one of the best constructed and most analytically useful threads I have ever seen on any rugby board, partly as it gets to the heart of leadership calibre in the code, and such is really (IMO)...

This clip sums up the whole thing pretty well, thanks for it! Great to see Hickey and Deans there. It will no doubt be beyond the ARU's imaginative capability to see the huge income and fan-building potential of this exciting innovation. Say 1 or 2 annual Hybrid Code games either in a mode of...

LG: No thanks is too much for your outstanding contributions to these fora, and, more generally, via them, and, no doubt by other means too, your contributions to the passionate art of following rugby in Australia. You have few peers, sir. When I read your posts I often gain a quite unique...

Chief, as a fellow loyalist, I fret too about what Friday night might bring. I have two specific concerns (in addition to general fears of the Blues' calibre): one, the Reds' defence consistency and all-of-80 intensity has been poor since the last home game, and, two, QC (Quade Cooper)'s place kicking has been...

Gem.

Hey, ILTW! That is huge from you mate!

There can be a points tie (now or at the end of all Rounds) for No 2 and No 3 ranking. No 3 is then decided upon via a cascade of 'if this, then that' criteria that starts of with (as I recall) if one (points tied) team has more actual wins than the other, the higher number of actual wins team...

Yes, thanks Reddy!, should have made that clearer; my 'T2' was 'second 2010 Test v England in Sydney'.

Re QC (Quade Cooper): It is transparent and obvious that QC (Quade Cooper) (and Genia) have been at the very heart of almost all of this year's Reds' wins. Let us say we had Barnes back at 10, or Beale say playing for us at 10 (using his recent play at 10 as a guide). Do we truly assess we would have, just for example...

A bit more re QC (Quade Cooper)+Torp (and the 'off day') here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/queensland-playmaker-quade-cooper-has-not-lost-faith-in-the-torpedo-bomb/story-e6frg7o6-1226046537931

Gnostic - I was certainly not arguing that these in-play factors as above weren't affecting QC (Quade Cooper)'s options and stresses. I see him up close every home game, and, this time, right from the get-go, we sensed there was something a bit wearied about him. And btw, this is not an 'apologist' input on my...

OK, there are always risks with any new coach, but wow, IMO the ACTRU, after years of vacillating mediocrity that has taken them nowhere but into the dirt, seem to have found the vision and courage to appoint an unquestionably world-class rugby coach with, seemingly, exactly the right brief from...

Reddy!, I think your concern is valid, on the mental fatigue front. The mental focus and concentration demands this season on QC (Quade Cooper) at 10 have been enormous, just as one example. I was close to the line on Saturday and my group all thought QC (Quade Cooper) was looking a bit more tired and tense than usual. Most...