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Some of the Brisbane GPS schools have been playing AFL for 30 years now. You can see the result in the massive ongoing success of the Lions in that time.

Would you say winning a Guinness Premiership and the Pro12 competition as a head coach would show previous proven performance? ;) I can sort of see where they are coming from. Any coach who has made it to the interview stage has to have proven their performance to some extent, else they...

Ask the right question, and put the right weighting on the criteria, and you can end up with whatever result you want out of a process like this.

MOC hasn't been able to have success with a team developed poorly by someone else as part of the continually failing Reds organisation. Blackadder hasn't been able to win a title with all of the organisational excellence, resources and talent the Crusaders have. Who gets the higher mark?

@mediaweekaus Weekend STV #SuperRugby#FoxSports#CHIvCRU 77k #BRUvRED 71k #HURvBLU 51k

Our usual source (@mediaweekaus) seems to have stopped tweeting the super Rugby ratings for some reason. They will be public eventually in the next couple of days. Shute Sheild - 31k

If Cheika's game plan relies on having the players for long enough to develop their fitness to a level that much higher than Super rugby is preparing them for than he needs to change the plan, or get more involved with the super Rugby teams. He will only ever have the direct level of influence...

So is the English Premiership now a better place to prepare for international rugby than Super rugby?

Isn't "not fit enough" just code for "I'm angry and will take it out in the players with a series of sadistic training excersis over days and weeks."? As an aside how great would it be if the GPS data was published by the ARU.

You don't have to watch the whole show. The rating is the total minute-by-minute viewers divided by the number of viewers. Same process for foxtel and FTA (in the capital cities) - oztam contract Neilson to collect the ratings. 3500 households are in the panel for FTA and 1413 households on...

I just assumed it's tactical, once the maul gets going your "least valuable" forward brings it down. Hope you con the ref but if not give up the three and cop the card if it comes (and it should have on the weekend). It happens so often on televised games that any other alternative just seems...

You don't think they are coached to bring them down in that situation?

Not to the ratings agency. Foxtel might do their own research though...... If you are recruited to a Neilson panel (3500 homes across the country) you get a box which hooks up to the TV and samples the audio which gets sent back to the agency and analysed. www.oztam.com.au/theratingsprocess.aspx

They record minute-by-minute. The ratings which are published here are the average for the broadcast but you'll also see peak viewers occasionally. How they do it has changed over the years which is why comparing back in time is difficult.

When does To'omua's contract with Leicester start? Is he going to play all of TRC?

How do you spend $70m (say) on junior development. As is who's actually getting the money at the end of the day? Is there 700 development officers/coaches etc being paid?

Sat night AFL on FTA 512k + Fox 242k = 754k total Sat night NRL in Fox bulldogs v broncos - 270k Sharks v warriors - 261k Knights v dragons - 197k

So would Phipps have been entitled to pick up the ball there? IE was the ruck over?

We have been excellent at getting caught on the wrong side of opposition rucks and collapsing mauls tight in front of the ref, and particularly good at it in goal kicking range.

Who's coaching defending opposition rucks and mauls?