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hats off to you, Mate i agree 100 per cent with your two posts. as you are well aware, i have pleaded on this board for many years for more discussion of how we play the game (test, state, club) and what goes into playing that game and less on which players step left or right or carry their...

Ronald Reagan was a quite famous president of the USA. he served two terms as president (1980-88) and usually tops public opinion polls in the USA when the question is: who was the greatest (or best) president? prior to entering politics (first, as governor of California), he was a movie actor...

Ronnie Raygun: there you go again :)

i am sorry to have to disagree, but i have seen zero "cult of personality" from Cheika and his co-coaches. i have seen the opposite from them - determined efforts to wipe out cults of personality. tbf, i haven't seen much idolatry surrounding Cheika, either.

the Minister for Defence is very smart, isn't he? the Irish culture suits him perfectly a flow resource barrel of tricks with one jumping out every few minutes.

i agree very strongly. performances (as opposed to scoreboards) have been of the type, but much better, that i expected

yes my bitching during the game was almost all about the Irish nor releasing the tackled Wallaby

sorry, i am thick today. where did i say the rankings are not updated after every game and match? where did i say that rugby merit is subject to +3 for the away team or -3 for the home team? i am fairly sure that the rankings consider games or matches for only three years. perhaps best i...

i hadn't seen this when i wrote on rankings and form above. very perceptive. Ireland's ranking and recent form indicate that it is at an all-time high. the vibe suggests the same. as i note above, you can calculate very objectively (in points on the scoreboard) how much Ireland has improved...

Ireland is a very much better team now than it was a year ago. coaching seems to have a lot to do with that, doesn't it? if you really want to, you can calculate fairly accurately, how much (in points) the Ireland team has improved - and it's an objective calculation. i am too lazy. i prefer...

almost exactly. form from 12 months ago is highly relevant - results over three (?) years determine the rankings, with progressively less points for historic performances as they age. the rankings show the overall merit of a team's play over the rankings period. recent form is a pointer to a...

i thought the Wallabies were very good indeed, in context. the quality of the Wallaby performance was not in who ran too high or in who went left when he should have gone right, or any such ubiquitous minutiae from any game of rugby. the quality is shown by the result (loss by three points)...

please excuse my lack of knowledge and understanding. could you please explain the very last piece of your post? i.e. against what is Michael Cheika defending himself? what are the charges? who is making them? thanks a lot

this is where the talking stops. gentlemen, it's time for action. let's roll the Richard Graham for Wallabies coach bandwagon. who will be first to put a shoulder to the wheel? who will be the first to jump on? i expect massive support from Queenslanders for their favourite son coach.

oh, Kiap you cheeky sod :D

not at all. the results vindicate my questions about the form book and the ratings: ratings 1. the gap between numbers 1 and 2 in the ratings is all-time high 2. the gap between 2 and 10 in the ratings is small and narrowing conclusion: rugby power is equalizing and spreading form 1. recent...

here's glass > half full for you yesterday we were the equal, in rugby merit, of the number 3 team on this planet. we have a coherent strategy and game plan increasingly, we have the personnel to run the game plan my glass > half full about 80 per cent and of good stuff!

true, that makes one fast bloke. we need more. The Brand is electric over 30-50 metres and not slow over 100. but we need more than those two.

while it is very securely anchored to the ground and with its fuel tanks empty.

more good sense thanks, Mate i did something very rare for me this week. i reviewed our playing stocks. i was very pleasantly surprised to find major personnel deficiencies in only two areas: 1. lock, where we really are struggling (i must be careful here as "Ash" slams me for trolling if i...