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Indeed, but as you'd agree I'm sure, a lot of coaching skill and strategies are about how you develop those capabilities, and the type of team culture a coaching group inculcates. If you look at the Reds' 2010 players roster, you wouldn't consider this group anything like exceptional or...

You both make some very good points. Linking some of these back to Gagger's searching questions, it might be argued that Link has evolved an emerging 'sweet spot' for deploying what might be called unexpected multi-mode game plans to undermine ' the dominance' of hitherto superior, or genuinely...

Gagger, an excellent topic, please persist! I'm always delighted to see coaching - and, generally, team leadership and management quality - analysed more fully here as such capabilities are central to rugby excellence in its various forms, just as you highlight. Good inputs from Langthorne...

Groucho, you know more of French rugby than I, but I am told this supposed France cap has, in practice, a great deal in common with a swiss cheese at a shooters' party. And perhaps that cynicism has some merit when you see seemingly credible reports that Toulon is ready to offer SBW c.₤1.2m per...

PB: even for a Reds' fan, that was a fabulous piece of skill, timing and daring! Congrats to him, it stunned the crowd, rightly. Just another event that made the game so exciting, enjoyable, great for the code here, and utterly nerve-racking for every SA and Aus fan.

A very sound observation IMO TBH. May I propose an additional input I know not all will like, but it has to be said: the use of the 'dangling of green and gold jersey' will have a decreasing half-life unless the Wallabies start really winning some serious silverware back, and, optimally, an RWC...

Not simplistic; rather, your argument IMO is absolutely, fundamentally accurate and sound. (Just take League SOO as a broad reference point, 3 games per year only, 60-70,000 per game in SYD, Suncorp 100% packed, plus economically lucrative TV audiences in NSW and QLD.)

Hawko, may I thank you for a considered and really good reply (part quoted above). Many valid points, and great positive suggestions re code income improvement/growth. I would just add: A part of what I do touches on the restructuring of businesses that are sound, but have hit serious...

TBH: We agree on something! This whole concept is extremely dangerous, however I see it as just another case of the (generally) hapless ARU responding to symptoms, not causes, or responding to the nature of its own mediocre performance as strategic code builder. Because at the end of the day...

For me, this is all about the core problem: it has not been good for Aus rugby to have had a situation where only one S14 team has gotten truly near the top of S14 rugby for many years. This is not to discredit the Tahs - at least we have had one credible aspirant to an S14 Finals win, and the...

Good on yer Scotty. Good on yer. Enjoy. I am, about 30,000 others too + the numbers at home. This hyper-enthusiasm for the Reds is totally deserved tonight. Critically though, this is all wonderful for the code in Australia.

Spot on, 100%, Scotty. I have to chuckle though: if you recall, amongst others, it was you and I who had to keep defending him in various mid (and maybe late) 2010 posts; in part, he was viciously attacked by some over the infamous laptop matter (even though they had no real ideas of the actual...

Couldn't agree more; it was simply magnificent fun and pure rolled gold enjoyment to be there. (My 13 yr old son just wanted to come right home and watch it all over again, as did all his rugby-playing mates.) What elite rugby should be like (where possible ;-) ). The contrast with my first...

Respecfully Barbarian, I did not say that (in bold). Whilst it may suit the cut of your more optimistic, love-of-all-Aus-rugby argument to attest that I did, but what I did say is: (a) I don't believe the Force can be considered a success as a sports entity that is truly building the rugby code...

Needless to say FG, I think you make some excellent points. It is a genuinely complex matter though: Gnostic's point re a broad-enough size of the sort of 'feeder system' needed for a strong, high quality Wallabies base is a valid one, just as is Groucho's re the critical need to have genuine...

First, the ARU is pushing private equity into the expansion states as it is quietly but surely running out of spare investment money itself. The QLD disaster recovery program is very expensive up front at least (may be repaid in say 2012-14, let's see), and, as another example, Wallabies' gate...

I do find it interesting that, regarding both KB (Kurtley Beale)'s actual move and now JO'C's speculated upon one, the media management and PR leaks all are designed to create defensive alignment and arse-cover management to avoid unfortunate external conclusions that perhaps, just perhaps, these fine talents...

I've just posted over on The Force 2012, not just the ABC now, Bret Harris has quite a good network: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/james-oconnor-lurching-towards-rebels/story-e6frg7o6-1226039754081

Not just the ABC, Bret Harris now in on the act: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/james-oconnor-lurching-towards-rebels/story-e6frg7o6-1226039754081

TOCC, respectfully, I don't agree with much of that (legal and formal procedures) analysis above, but, OK, let's assume that I do, and the ARU sits there in open space responsible for strategic code development in Australia, yet utterly unable (for formal reasons) to intervene in the managerial...