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Have to say that I am genuinely enthused by this coaching team.

The most honest appraisal I have seen. Well done on the sensitive Thorn topic. All and all I'm pretty pumped this year.

Hey WOB. I see it and I hear you. It still doesn't work for Australia. Doesnt actually meet pretty much any of the issues i have suggested are key. I admire NZ rugby admin, greatly. But it is time for Australia to depart. If it works slightly, then NZ can evaluate the importance of Australia...

WOB I don’t think anyone is suggesting that NZRU are not doing well here. The concern is that in spite this the arrangements are a very poor outcome for Australia. A TT may well be pie in the sky for NZ under circumstances where they do not suffer the consequences. For Australia it is a slow...

Does not answer my query. I'd really like to hear how Super is viable and sustainable for Australia.

Yep. Some rugby nous in a key area of RA. It's good all the way.

Which is where someone like Stewart comes in. It is completely possible though it does lead to a game plan that is more "programmed" than having a 10 who can read the game and arrange the team around him to react to it. You do what you have to do, I just hope that there is some thinking here...

First the onus is on the Super advocates to prove it is a viable sustainable plan. For Australian rugby.

Could not agree more.

Catch 22. For any chance at sustainable income we need either: a) a more supportive arrangement agreed by Super partners - no forthcoming, in fact going completely the opposite direction; or b) a comp better suited to Australian broadcast ie: i A national footprint ii regular games in prime time...

NO. But there is a lot of chat ^^^ that our 10 stocks are fine. Honest, right now, hogwash. They might build during the season but we are not in solid shape here and now. The real issue isn't about bringing in an international, it's about our ability to build 10s. The example here is...

You presume a bluff. We have been well pushed into this situation (and pushed ourselves) based on Aus having nothing important to offer. So each negotiation we detune what what we have thinking that hell, we're still with the Kiwis. Time to split was a couple of years ago. It isn't too late.

I think Deans would have been a very good AB coach.

RA had to do the obvious here. I'm not sure that they are due credits, but they would have deserved disapprobation had they not taken the actions they have. IT is getting very much closer to us not being able to afford to do anything other than go it alone when we have zero sway as you say.

Reds/QRU have been streaming QPR. Schoolboys could be more than that, but doesn’t have to be.

There we go, for me completely unexpected, but the only thing I like here.

ofc they do. Look I'm watching from the outside, but a return of JON with the media goose Kearns? And the Kearns Fox contacts? Take over by the blazer brigade that is watching, not the blazer brigade that is in and doing nothing. Same smell, different shit.

All these things are obvious and a response to performance over the last few years. That doesnt make me comfortable, but the time to support Clyne was at least 12 months ago. I could not. Not one cell in my body. I find myself, slowly coming on board the Castle wagon. But things have been dire...

Sometimes Derp you are proper funny. ;-)

No, most of the best Sav Blanc in the world is Kiwi. A good reason to try another grape. Though I quite like sancere. Doesn’t match the Marlborough versions but has a certain low-brow something.