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Ron Walden (29)
Another suggestion......Mattt Giteau? I bet he would have some grisly bits to dish up.
The Podslam..some ideas
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Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
Nick Farr-Jones Chairman NSWRU
Discuss Waratah turmoil, SRU relationship, $1m Balmain Competition, Relationship with Waratah Inc, ABC coverage of Shute Shield, Plans for growth in the West, Plans for 2013/14,
He spoke well in the Radio Sport NZ piece someone posted in the QC (Quade Cooper) telling it like it is thread.
Discuss Waratah turmoil, SRU relationship, $1m Balmain Competition, Relationship with Waratah Inc, ABC coverage of Shute Shield, Plans for growth in the West, Plans for 2013/14,
He spoke well in the Radio Sport NZ piece someone posted in the QC (Quade Cooper) telling it like it is thread.
Asked him and he said yes to a couple of weeks' time. We'll see....
Sent him one weeks ago (true)
RedsHappy
Tony Shaw (54)
That's a good suggestion actually as the recent GAGR blog essay re KN by the anonymous 'leftarmspinner' was an appalling jumble of unsupported bile, pure speculation and conjecture, bereft of any verified facts, negative at every turn in that no consideration was given to the possibility that KN's player clients may have decided themselves which options they wished to pursue vs the asserted-as-fact notion that KN more or less dominated their every decision, etc.
The piece was just denunciation and vilification of KN. I won't make it here, but there's at least a moderate and rational argument that KN has done a fine job with SBW's interests (from SBW's perspective vs that of rugby purists) when his recent progression, playing in a RWC etc., is considered. The argued notion that QC (Quade Cooper)'s non-signing of an ARU contract was unquestionably all KN's manipulative puppeteer doing is pure conjecture and I have it on good authority that that delay is far more complicated than this simplistic picture asserts (again stated by leftarm as absolute fact).
GAGR should absolutely give KN (and/or QC (Quade Cooper)/SBW) a right of reply to that essay as it was borderline defamatory and made far worse by its courage-less anonymity.
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Peter Sullivan (51)
No Podslam this week?
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Stan Wickham (3)
I'd love to hear from Grumbles. Or some other rugby journalist about the ethics and habits of rugby journalism and what goes on behind the scenes. I know you guys at GaGR can shed some light on this as well but to hear it from a person that has been covering rugby from a time when we were moderately successful would be a good listen.
I'd also be interested to hear from Nasser. I don't like your chances though. He does seem to be the man behind the scenes as he doesn't often (if at all?) front the media. Has he stepped forward to take any pressure off Quade? I don't think so. They may ultimately be Quade's decisions but I'm sure he hasn't come up with them all by himself. I would have thought a manager's job is to also manage the image of his clients. He doesn't seem to be doing an all too valiant job re QC (Quade Cooper). Whether he'd be willing to answer these types of questions on a podcast would be interesting but I fear ultimately illusionary.
RedsHappy you write:
Courage-less anonymity "RedsHappy"?
I'd also be interested to hear from Nasser. I don't like your chances though. He does seem to be the man behind the scenes as he doesn't often (if at all?) front the media. Has he stepped forward to take any pressure off Quade? I don't think so. They may ultimately be Quade's decisions but I'm sure he hasn't come up with them all by himself. I would have thought a manager's job is to also manage the image of his clients. He doesn't seem to be doing an all too valiant job re QC (Quade Cooper). Whether he'd be willing to answer these types of questions on a podcast would be interesting but I fear ultimately illusionary.
RedsHappy you write:
I don't think that's in any doubt. But the inform SBW is an easy sell. QC (Quade Cooper) on the other hand is a different story. What people are questioning, as did the article, is whether such "ultimatum" player management is hurting the respective games. And what the article also highlights is the very real pattern of Nasser's management. Which seems to be piss off the institution you are currently in, threaten to leave it for a rival institution, or actually leave it, and in between do some boxing. Seems like the article rose some interesting points of debate. And it was an opinion piece after all and hardly defamatory.
Courage-less anonymity "RedsHappy"?
Yeah, just didn't happen - a mixture of life getting in the way and players battening down the hatches
On the KN piece - what about all the opinion pieces we've written giving the ARU a serve, using nothing but second hand sources, speculation and pure observation? They didn't seem to rile you the same way RH
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Rocky Elsom (76)
Come on "Scoop" Gagger, you have a fine record of luminary guests to maintain.
How about Mark Arbib and/or Peter Cosgrove?
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How about Mark Arbib and/or Peter Cosgrove?
The subject - Obvious.
Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
The most obvious Podslam guest would be Ensign Pulveriser.
Other suggestions from above:
Grumbles - Life after SMH.
Mark Arbib - Governance
Kick Too Farr Jones
How about some of these for the future:
Aussie Steve Walsh - Referees Perspective
Simon Poidevin - Seems to be getting some column inches
Brad Thorn - What challenges remain
Jake White -
Bob Dwyer - State of the Nation, Mens Health
Greg Harris - RUPA CEO
Tim Gavin - Grass Roots rugby outside the metropolitan areas
Kevin Gosper - Olympic Rugby 7's
David Nucifora - What is next
Ron Mancell - role of TMO, and referee development
Other suggestions from above:
Grumbles - Life after SMH.
Mark Arbib - Governance
Kick Too Farr Jones
How about some of these for the future:
Aussie Steve Walsh - Referees Perspective
Simon Poidevin - Seems to be getting some column inches
Brad Thorn - What challenges remain
Jake White -
Bob Dwyer - State of the Nation, Mens Health
Greg Harris - RUPA CEO
Tim Gavin - Grass Roots rugby outside the metropolitan areas
Kevin Gosper - Olympic Rugby 7's
David Nucifora - What is next
Ron Mancell - role of TMO, and referee development
Wouldn't mind getting AWH back on now that he is President of RUPA.
I quite like Sam Ikin so I'd invite him back.
I would also like to hear from Bruce Ross about how things are done at SURC. They are the bench mark for club rugby in Australia, not just on the filed but off it too.
I could also listen to Lee Grant talk about players coming through the ranks and who to keep an eye on.
I quite like Sam Ikin so I'd invite him back.
I would also like to hear from Bruce Ross about how things are done at SURC. They are the bench mark for club rugby in Australia, not just on the filed but off it too.
I could also listen to Lee Grant talk about players coming through the ranks and who to keep an eye on.
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John Solomon (38)
What about a schools segment? I'm sure there would be plenty of people who want to listen to it.. and plenty of people who would want to talk about it, myself included
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