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My understanding from about 10 years ago was that the most dangerous tackle is the front on tackle. Not so much for head issues as broken backs and paralysis.

I believe we are on a recruitment drive to bring back talent and look at others who may have a granny in AUS. That's a good thing if true.

Wasn't he called captain Grumpy? Not sure he is a mentor type.

I think it depends on what you value. I am hearing from some posters here that they don't care about player drain and we just bring them back for the Wallabies after decent coaching in the North. If that is the case, then bring back any player we want as the important thing is a winning Wallaby...

Is 2024 the year we abandon the Giteau Law completely?

A mate of mine reckons the biggest problem, in terms of getting more boys to play rugby is the domination of female teachers in schools.

That's why they wanted to keep him on the board. Just should never have been chairman.

At this juncture of our nadir, all ideas should be examined and not thrown out, due to what happens now. Thanks for a new one.

Agree with this bolded bit - the rest assumes that some players will never learn, which contributes to our drop in numbers I am betting the Brumby Darcy Swain will be the next to go and you and your mates can applaud that one too. Then if they make it you can say 'Well we can just buy them...

Glad you are not too concerned about it as, I guess, there is an army waiting to take his spot. Some of you guys seem to have a death wish and assume that we can fix anyone leaving with another player, that you hope won't be such a thug!!! We are dying the death of a thousand cuts unless we...

Not a bad idea as they can certainly afford it but many academics in universities have little interest and some have open hostility to rugby in any form.

The problem in SS is that some clubs have too many players for that model and a few don't always have enough.

If the clubs want this model then they need to up the number and $$$$'s of their members and sponsors. I don't think RA could or should support this completely.

I can understand the support for grassroots in such an arrangement but the demise of Super Rugby will almost certainly; condemn the Wallabies to sub 10 WW position. I am not stating that our Super Rugby is great as it isn't, but I would rather we built both rather than dump Super Rugby for a club based comp.

So a CEO with major company threatening failures under her watch is the ideal person to run RA. I suggest if you want more of the same on steroids this might be just the move to make. Still, I guess your mums proud of you?

This article is one of the best I have read on the mess and the lost opportunities due to, as Geoff Parkes says so well "He was the right type of man for the times. It was just that he was the wrong man."

Let's try again... I personally would prefer that we leave the 70's behind and focus on getting the best person for the job regardless of sex or virtue signalling.

Let's give it some time as this has been one of the really big fat bottoms in our code. I am assuming that a few of the guys in the states and Super Rugby have some brains and see the current model must change or the whole thing goes amateur within the next 10 years.

If you are male I am sure your mother will applaud your stupid 1970's ideas. Let's just get the best person and not a sex-based affirmative action decision.

Let's give him a chance, people thrust into positions they didn't expect can sometimes perform better than the more fancied names.