One achievement: as spewing justified acid at the very complacency, unjustified arrogance and indolence that still exists today in the halls of RA and most of the local RUs. Right.In.Our.Faces.
Can't you see how little has really changed, even today, when we're at fucking death's door? Who exactly in positions of rugby power today is articulating the 'positive suggestions' you want? And where are yours, btw, as you seem to spit and crackle at some of us here.
Has one innovative, radical new change suggestion yet come out of any of the mouths of RA and the local RUs? Just one? Well maybe McLennan's super-hazy SOI idea, maybe that's one. Maybe the possibility - long overdue - of some rule tweaks for 2020 Super Rugby (such as it is). These will fix nothing central and core to our problems though.
Years back (just a few actually) when all that was wrong in these hallowed bodies was sort of cunningly hidden from view and the status-quo-forgiving-and-adoring mainstream rugby media and many, many posters here howled down voices that saw the appalling management and sick cultures in neon lights, then no one spoke out.
Pissing on 'loig' and 'the mungos' was the order of the day then, any critics were 'just negative', yes - that stream of always condescending stuff from most rugby followers, we always sort of knew best vs everybody else and would stay in our lofty towers as an 'elite' code that would surely never risk decline, let alone death. There's plenty of that tone still evident here, remarkably.
No Aust rugby change agent is ever good enough in many of the comments still alive today, remarkably. We approve of: none of them it seems.
We _might_ need some change, but, nonetheless, we want the ideal, elegant, approved change agent to appear that is just hygienically perfect in our respectful opinions for the very gentlemanly job at hand. No, we don't like the 10 Captains, we don't like A Jones, we don't approve of NFJ, we don't like Peter Wiggs, we don't like Papworth, we don't like News Corp. When will Jesus Christ himself return for the job?
Well, FFS, who exactly DO we like to get the change processes going? Do we think it will arrive via some kind of idealised auto-pilot process?
Speaking out strongly in protest and bringing attention to crass and disastrous incompetence does not always require an addendum of beautifully articulated solutions to still be of change-enabling value. Often the anger and real tough observations and truth-telling has to come first and in super load mode to hope to trigger some real change awareness and urgency, and then, when the conditions finally arrive to allow some genuine change, solutions will then start to gestate and hopefully bear fruit.
