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Those with moderately long memories may recall - with pain and sorrow aforethought - that White, sitting on the QRU board in 2012, was positively instrumental in bringing Richard Graham to the Reds as HC in 2012. Not only was this to prove one the greatest failures of competent rugby...

Could it possibly be that the QRU letting Peter Ryan go - a highly rated defence coach - was a serious mistake.....if winning matters, that is.

Game 2 Brumbies v Rebels on Foxtel: 49,000

Ummm, can we perhaps have some sources quoted that aren’t the notoriously bitter - and notoriously biased - direct decades-long competitors to News Corp in all things? Anyone who thinks Nine/Fairfax and News Corp write fairly and objectively about each other is.....a little out of date, or...

Ok, so sorry, I’ll be clearer for you Hypocrisy Intellectual Inconsistency Wilful blindness By avoidance, effectively neglecting the greater sins that matter more

Then QH, in terms of the manifest biases you talk of here, what about the massive, repetitive, almost-daily 2020-dated hatchet job that Nine/SMH did on Greenberg's CEO position all pre the fraught and steamy post COVID NRL media rights renegotiations. And - what a surprise - Greenberg soon...

Somewhat deeper data below re Foxtel and the FFA media rights talks breakdown as have been reported in AFR (and referenced here for potential indirect relevance to Foxtel and Super Rugby 2021+): - Foxtel pulled archive footage of FFA-related video material not through some kind of negotiating...

Talk about The Ultimate Mark of Qld-er Dishonour

Can you believe it, pls clap as you read the statement of a (very occasional) optimist..... If both the Reds and Tahs stay on the playing trajectory they established early in 2020, the Reds should win this and well. The 2020 Reds were often playing the best they have in years (well, not...

Respectfully Sully I can't agree with that type of happy complacency when 3 very fine young Reds players want out, and went out. Tell that to the QRU's solvency-checkers when virtually every year since 2013 Reds' crowds and Foxtel numbers have consistently and badly declined. We now have...

Thanks John S. I did listen to it. Clarke emanates a genuineness and sincerity that resonates. An honest bloke loving the game and working hard for it. However, it has to win the prize for the softest, gentlest, "let's leave all the hard questions for later" type of CEO interview. The vibe and...

There is no element at all via which Raelene 'got herself'?

100% and if anything it's the paucity of the coaching development pathways that is the even bigger problem. The jury is well and truly in - rugby is a code whose playing standards and player skill development are deeply reliant on competent coaching both technical and in terms of holistic team...

dru, they have always known Australia 'has requirements'. NZRU knows that it and RA are strategically and commercially co-dependent and that is the key driver here. A new TT pro rugby comp with Aust intimately involved is massively in NZRU's interests. I know and respect the many adherents...

In quoting GeoRob, you perhaps omitted one rather important qualifying paragraph: And knowing of your vehement distaste for all things Murdochian, I look forward to you posting your typically blunt and no doubt principled communication with the CEO of the Brumbies advising him in the...

Side note: Rodda has signed with Lyon

Rodda signed to Lyon

Yes, in a way, OK. But, too, an element of 2015 was also in subtle ways a complex version of fool's gold for MC and RA in that (a) if we look closely, he had some top grade luck on his side in that RWC 2015 campaign, England an absolute mediocre mess, Wales - no improvement, and Scotland was...

Agree mate, just different flavours remain available (as of today).

He unarguably did some very good work whilst at the Tahs. No doubt. Results. That proved to be his level stop. Wallabies HC was a promotion too far, after the tragedy of Link walking away. Not only that, it's clear his ego then enlarged further and his domineering 'my way or the highway' MO...