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Plenty of people were walking out at 60 minutes. I have never seen that before - not with 20 still to go. It was genuinely woeful. Every aspect of the game was a total failure, even things that have been strong this season like the scrum and lineout. They just gave up once the yellow cards...

I reckon the editor who came up with the weestain pun was just so stoked with himself that he had to put it on the back page.

I understand Daley was not the strongest scrummager in his early days, but I really don't understand why he still has a reputation as a poor scrummager. He has improved beyond recognition to the extent that the Reds scrum has lost nothing the last couple of years when he is there instead of...

Unfortunately I won't be taking a close look at anybody, because the missus invited a bunch of her friends along and they all baulked at paying for good seats, so I'll be in squinting at the field from well behind the tryline up in the nosebleeds. Last season it was pretty easy to sneak into...

Yes I'm surprised by that too, particularly in the forwards. The props have 12 caps between them. Our starting props have about 250! We should be able to match them in several areas including the scrum and forward play generally, but unfortunately our backline vs their defence is going to be...

We were a VERY different side in 2012 and 2013 though - everyone struggled against us to some extent. Our precipitous fall from grace began in 2014 when RG became head coach. I'm talking more about results in our current form, 2014-16, when both the Highlanders and Chiefs have been strong...

I guess it's possible. Nobody would have picked the Reds to beat the Highlanders earlier in the season. But the Highlanders have struggled with the Reds before, their style of play seems to be less effective against the Reds than against most others. The Chiefs are in a whole different league...

I don't think anybody is disputing that. Duncan P. looks likely to start at 10 this week. Since we're likely to get thrashed anyway this is great news. I think he has more development potential.

Oh don't worry, I intend to watch! I agree with you to an extent, but I do recall McIntyre making several good line breaks and individual runs in the games I saw at Ballymore. It will be interesting to see how he goes anyway.

I'd take Blackadder over MOC any day. He made the finals five years in a row - if you have to resort to "he didn't win a single title!" to put a coach down you're clutching at straws. You could say he had the cattle to work with, but so do the Reds. Maybe not Crusaders quality but when you look...

Thanks FF (Folau Fainga'a). Looks like Gill has finally rediscovered his breakdown mojo from last year. Unfortunately with only two more games to go as a Red... Hopefully it continues, because by God we are going to need it against the Chiefs!

"Jokes aside, I don't see any problem with the panel using his current coaching performance against him, regardless of how he interviews." Absolutely. If the panel AREN'T using his current coaching performance against him, and only going with how he interviews, then this panel will have failed...

The issue is this organisation only last year went through a similar process in the High Performance Review, and made the worst possible call by re-appointing RG, that was clearly and widely proclaimed to be the worst possible call at the time by all and sundry, and was subsequently proven to be...

Yes, it's been the same ongoing themes all season. Morale and effort have definitely improved since RG has gone but the same weaknesses are there - poor and passive defence, committing too many men to attacking rucks, resulting in slow ball and the receivers standing too deep. I crunched the...

Yeah I thought Taefu looked good at 12, and Paia'aua looked much better at 10 than McIntyre, even though he is really a 12 as well. Agree about Taefu's kicking too. The Reds just ran out of gas at 60 minutes, like they have all season. The Stormers game was a prime example, the Blues game...

Well whatever is causing it, they have been competitive for 60 minutes for nearly all games this season, and then the opposition has run away with it in the last 20. Tonight it really looked like a fitness thing, lots of standing around hands on hips, sucking in big ones. They should have had...

And from the look of that shoulder, that might be the last we see of Holmes in red. Sad way to end it if so.

I think the Reds are being exposed for a lack of fitness. As has often happened this season in the last 20 minutes. Definitely some green shoots for them this game, though. They are definitely starting to pull things together, they are just coming from too far behind to catch up this season...

Wow, check out that all-Wallaby second row! ;)

So pretty much a full-strength Brumbies backline, excepting Speight. And against that, of the Reds' 10 backs, only 4 of them have been starting regulars this season (with varying levels of success) and our starting fullback many of us have barely even heard of. God. My heart wants to back...