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rsea, I respect your point of view. But I do think you've - indirectly - made my main point for me.

Excellent points, and similar via other posters. I can remember the 2006 Suncorp victory over the Boks vividly. I am sure the crowd intensity and vocal support (at least at Suncorp) was stronger for Oz a few years back than it recently has been. I think there are a number of reasons IMO: -...

rsea, given the subject matter of the thread, I thought a (key) player's view re atmosphere would be useful. I think QC (Quade Cooper) told it like he sees it, I don't think he was being just so PC about it. (This also relates a bit to the thread re Suncorp: Why Is It So? that discusses the reasons Suncorp has...

Daz, I always enjoy and (mostly ;-)) respect your posts, so can I answer via the numbers added above: 1. Mate, only a few weeks back you posted (paraphrasing, in the context of our debate re RD etc): '...I do expect to see silverware this year and I'll be upset if we don't get any...'. That's...

Quote from QC (Quade Cooper) re Suncorp's atmosphere: (Courier-Mail, July 26) "....For local favourite Quade Cooper, the energising feeling behind Australia's 11-2 win-loss record at the (Suncorp) ground since 2003 is simple. "The great atmosphere almost on top of you and the crowd getting into it...

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/TriNations/Jake-wants-his-Bok-job-back-20100725

The point? Looking back, I remain infuriated over elements of poor leadership shown by the ARU in that crucial post-2003 period. RugbyReg's thoughtful post highlighting the kind of fan/viewer high point we had then, and how IMO (perhaps not his) that key moment was wasted, stimulated my few...

Please read my post again. I said nothing at all above specifically about the then Wallaby coaches per se, in the referenced period of 2003 to 2006-7 I mentioned. I said the ARU, in its leadership role, should have done more about a range of things post that RWC 2003 (fans and viewers) high...

One noteworthy aspect of this lineage could be that of the 2006 to 2007 Wallaby-Boks reversal of fortunes, which has added interest given RWC 2011. 2006 was a bad year for the Boks, the low point of which must have been Suncorp. 15 months later: RWC! For the Wallabies, Suncorp in victory terms...

Excellent pick up, and general point you made. That post-2003 period right through, what, 2006-7?, were the great periods of poor strategic leadership by the ARU IMO, in terms of both failing to deepen the game's penetration of its core markets, failing to initiate the right investments to...

And recall what happened at Wembley Arena in the UK...

I support fp, he made some great, tough-thinking points unhindered by the typical cloying Aus rugby patriotism that takes every little glimmer of goodness and recycles into premature praise before it's really deserved. Why should we be 'kinder'? Do we feel we are operating here at GAGR a...

Gnostic, why do you say this? Are you saying that the right attitude, even with losses, will carry forward to better wins later? You and I agree on most things. Partly I ask above as I am not inclined to be so 'generous', if that's the word. I think it's perfectly reasonable that we should now...

(I still prefer Radicals, Fanboys and Gonads for these purposes...I will keep trying...I was hoping Scarf, ever the good wit, would intrude and issue the definitive nomenclature to offset Gagger's desire to besmirch the poor Radicals with late night text editing, 'fixes', flattering language for...

It has to be of some use to compare these three performances by the Wallabies, all at the some ground, under two different coaches, with overlapping but different Wallaby teams. Video highlights from the 2006 and 2009 games are here on GAGR. How have the Wallabies evolved since 2006 (or...

I had a good chat with QC (Quade Cooper) in a semi-social context a few weeks back and just a btw, he was very complimentary and positive about Link's role in supporting him, encouraging and coaching him. (That is not meant to infer he was not positive about others around his career, he just singled out Link...

There is obviously a fault with the fishing emoticon tonight, it's vanished here.

That's a bloody good point Naza. Whatever Div's oddities, GG has appalled me going on and on and on about Div, in a kind of cheap and patronising manner attempting to extract pleasure and reader engagement from just mocking and degrading someone in mass print. And surely, once is enough. No, not...

Ditto. But I soon became convinced it must in fact be an ARU Media Release that had mistakenly arrived at GAGR unfiltered (perhaps following RugbyReg's visit there this week), by some kind of electronic tag error. It perfectly contains the entire ARU catalogue of 'morale raising strategies in...

But what really riles me is the hypocrisy to treat non-Aus parties like this with fire and heavy acid, and yet typically from this hapless panel treat our coaches and the ARU with 'may we offer up one or two timid words of advice, all the time respecting that you are doing you best, etc, etc'...