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Just as an fyi, from rugbyweek.com 15 September 2010:

Cyclo, I much prefer Sharpe to a returning Elsom, in any event as you say. However - and this is NOT a parochial assessment - I think due consideration should be given to two additional factors in a WC year, namely: Horwill (2011) and Genia (2010) are now accumulating an impressive record in...

Barb, I could be in error, but I am sure I recall JON saying last year that Bled #4 offshore Aus & NZ was to be no longer, and the format would thus return to a 3 game comp. If so, and one in Aus is always to be in SYD-ANZ, then BNE, MEL would 'share' the second local game every second year when...

Bruce, you just get better mate! Seriously though, it cannot be so. That a deal that basically reflects the status quo merely as to a stadium choice in Sydney for BC games, just increases same to a greater annual regularity, is a 'major announcement on the future of rugby in Australia'? This...

Thanks RDJ. Gee, isn't it good to see a gesture of cross-code respect from someone of MM's stature in AFL. And his enjoyment of the Reds' fortitude and guts. Winning with an admirable mode of play is the great crowd-builder of all football codes.

Bruce, like me, you would have loved the rich symbolism of the ARU having to postpone - on short notice no less, and without explanation - its own 'major' announcement on 'the future of rugby in Australia'. For an ironic indulgence, it just couldn't get any better than this.

May I offer a quick general reflection upon reviewing both the Tahs and Crus post Rnd 10 injury status: could it be so that come the end of the S15, with then only a short period to the RWC, all the SH countries will rue the day they agreed to extend the SuperRugby season by so many games in a...

Could it be a real breakthrough: this group will announce that it will actually take responsibility, and accept accountability, on a measurable basis, for achieving some top level results for the endlessly patient Australian rugby fans?

TOCC and Spectator: I suspect - don't you - that something is going to have have to give selections-wise for this team to keep it up through R18 and gain the points needed to ensure at best top 2 or at worst top 6. TOCC, isn't this roughly the point (relatively) that in 2010 started to catch up...

Gnostic: whatever the team-love factors that provoke inevitable reactions, your post here was an excellent, thought-stimualting piece IMO, and, whilst you are provocative as we all know (and love ;-) ), you obviously think a great deal about the game, its leaders, the players, and the basis for...

Go Reddy! Just out of interest, when was the last time the Wallabies maintained a 7-game winning streak?

Just a btw, listing positives. A huge positive - for the code in this country - was the 36,000+ attendance (and all the related passion and drama on show to them). Easter weekend, lots of Brisbane-ites typically depart for the Coasts. This is a massive shift from say S14 Reds 2007. If we don't...

IMO, Bruce is a terrific poster who combines wit, perfect spelling, punctuation and grammar, with insight and great knowledge of the game. Furthermore, he has the impressive ingredient of the intellectual courage to challenge the extant rugby elite, managers, coaches and the like. Anyone looking...

Essentially, amongst other factors no doubt, isn't the biggest truth here that the Reds have, for 7 years, not been able to master the Tahs' forwards, period. And for a long time in this stretch, the Reds' forwards mastered not very much over any team, in any event. On April 23 we'll know if...

IMO, a very interesting, factual article by Link re his Reds coaching staff. And a Part 2 to come. (Btw, he makes no mention of kicking coach (a Reds' soft spot from QC (Quade Cooper) if they really want to make the big time), nor of the QRU wrestling coach.) Those of you who will know of my conviction...

Or: getting-very-confident-about-Saturday-night mode....if you're from up this way, that is.

I'm confused Reg. What positions do you want them in?

Ham, I did have that fantasy, but like a few others, it was just toooo private to share, at least to start the thread.

I have noticed our heavy focus upon selection choices for the coming 2011 Wallabies, and thus the team composition look-forward for the RWC. OK, selection is king in most domains, no argument. But as I looked back over the Wallabies' actual delivered goods over the 2008-10 period, I yearned in...

Bruce, you are class mate, love your posts, thanks for contributing. Keeping to topic here, are you saying that you have concluded that de facto the Tahs' 2011 actually have no coaches' strategy or, related, all-of-80 game plans as such, rather the approach adopted is one of 'selection is...