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TQ: I didn't greatly enjoy it either, but we Reds' fans have our crosses to bear. Let me make a point though: the notion that because we choose to sit in QLD and support the Reds (btw, I have only lived in Brisbane for 5 years, post Sydney, my original 'home town'), that we somehow now, after...

Am I the boy who kicked the hornet's nest (can I borrow and bend that book title?)...TBH, as you know there's a lot more to assessing the viability of a franchise than its capacity, five years later, to export a handful of players to other States. (BTW, nowhere in my argument did I attack WA...

Wasn't Gagger planning a trip to Sydney this year?

Sorry, but I absolutely do blame the ARU for the (ultimate state of) the QRU's serious, damn near catastrophic, failings to mid-2009. The ARU has core governance over the code's welfare in our country - just read their Annual Reports if you don't agree. The ARU opens new States (a la Rebels) and...

All relevant points enforcer, but the hard facts are that, niche fan-love notwithstanding, the Force is a failure, a flop, at a business, code-building, and playing success level. Yes, it has absorbed some excellent imported players, but it has not evolved beyond that. And appointing Graham as...

Mission accomplished Scotty (and notable others) - I have had enough of the increasingly snide and close to 'personal' material above - I shall depart GAGR for a (good) period. As Scarf has rightly said, we do not want tedium, and one thing the Admins know about me, I have supported GAGR (and...

Langthorne - yes, that is Barbarian's assessment. However, I must say that I consider it one of the most bizarre 'ideological' (his word) standpoints on such a matter that I have ever encountered. Ultimately, all paid leaders are responsible for some form of outcome, over time. They are...

TOCC, I believe that indeed AE was on the Reds' coaching staff in 2010 as I am sure I've heard and seen Link and QRU others expressing their high regard for his contribution to the major strides the Reds forwards made this year. (Btw, for what it's worth, I have repeatedly argued that AE...

Aren't they all - Deansie, Nucie, Blakey, Williamsey, one big happy coachie family now, united in all things? Robbie was the one quoted today declaiming how valuable these matches were etc and chatting about the result. Whatever, I guess for the Deans' believers it will be extremely good...

You need to feel it like we feel it:'(

Yeah, but we are in a small, actively disliked minority. We have applied for grants, and have undertaken a bit of counselling, but we're not sure if we can fight alone any more, even though the supply of available ammunition - witness today's match in Ireland - becomes more and more plentiful by...

Scarf. Astutely, and IMO, rightly noted, negatively so. Something is quite wrong with this team's internal management and guidance to its players. Not strongly suggesting to them that these sort of global tweets are just bad judgement and poor PR for the Wallabies after a shocking loss today...

Bullrush, although it can go to extremes, one of the many attributes I admire about NZ rugby is just this very point: the broad stakeholders of the game really hold your elites (NZRU, all key coaches, top players) accountable for results, and directly responsible for results of the highest...

Like to endorse that Richo. I thought Munster were outstanding, in virtually all facets of play. Wonderful, relentless intensity (especially from the forwards), super teamwork, good vision, quick grasp and exploitation of Australia's weaknesses, mentally and physically consistent for all of 80...

Ruggo - thank you sincerely for this courteous post; if we all dealt with each other this way, life would be good! IMO, you should not miss out on LG's work though, do read when you can, as IMO he's a rare treasure of the code and I for one have learnt hugely from reading him. Very amusing too...

No, not a 'magic bullet' at all, but a very important ingredient when we clearly have had problems in this crucial skills area. Why did Gits call for his old kicking coach after England 2 Sydney I wonder (and, amusingly, there some kind of odd debate with the ARU as to who would pay same)? Why...

<numbers above added by respondent> ILTW: Just right of the posts I'm afraid. You have egregiously distorted virtually every point I made, then attacked the distortion, and then thrown in an unnecessarily aggressive undertone. We went through this process once before, the Cooper-in-court...

Hey - great to see The Noosa International Sevens! http://www.noosainternationalsevens.com.au/ TOCC/Gagger - I know this is Reds-spawned, but this is a kind of very rough example of the potential for innovative, maybe even locally franchised 7s teams/groups to emerge that could be quickly...

I actually think we may be guilty of asking too much - in a 'show me' dimension - from these midweekers. These teams are 'artificial' in a sense, a tricky combination of rust (some v deep rust through major injury), totally untrialled combinations, selectors beady-eyed over every move...

Groucho, IMO, re the Italy game, I would much rather we appoint a radical, fresh team fm the midweek squad and main XV (and perhaps with some major positional experimentation with say KB (Kurtley Beale) at 10 for one game only) with high opportunity for discovering new abilities and talents, and then we (maybe)...