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Yes, but like Tony Abbott, just cutting without thinking (or cutting whilst actively only protecting your mates and constituents) will actually rightly earn you criticism.

The evidence she wasn't up to it is right before you - both her and Link have resigned over one incident that should have resulted in immediate punishment for a player and another that that is a glorified tantrum and should never have left the flight, and probably shouldn't even have flared up...

Outside of all the stuff about Linkedin and spider-bites and all that stuff, I think the main thing people wanted to know was why he didn't consider hiring a player manager with a strong player manager background. Sure, she might have been brilliant as his assistant at the Reds, but it looks...

I agree with Robinson when she says that the players have every right to defend their team-mate, but as an organisation it's not a good look to have inconsistent messaging like that. Ideally in a situation like this you want to have a coherent media strategy the is uniformly repeated by all...

Again though, it's not exactly a united front is it? If anything it just makes the group look more fractured and factionalised..

This. The silence was truly deafening when all these questions started to come out, and only Lealiifano came out publicly in support of Patston alone much later. If the media reports had been full of shit, then the playing group and coaching support staff would have presented a united...

Agreed. The thing is the team went away from the gameplan at the end too. It was so infurating to watch. With three minutes to go the side was doing one out stuff, as though they could wind down the clock. Just a complete lack of maturity and composure.

Give it to Alan Jones for the EYOT - at least it'll get him off the fucking airwaves for a while and when he fails spectacularly we won't have to hear him talk himself up ever again without being able to say "but you had a shot".

The trouble I have with this sort of talk is I don't know what agenda you are talking about. Is it a NSW press agenda to get rid of Link? If so, why were they so critical of the NSWRU when they dumped him in '08? And why are people in papers like the Australian also taking part in it all...

Mate, I don't know how they are, but it's pretty obvious to me that if I had a reporter in my team and I was so unhappy about the set-up that I wanted to tell said reporter, I sure as hell wouldn't be putting my name to such destabilising criticisms because I know it'd cost me big time. Showing...

I think Harris sums it up pretty well in the article when he says "shooting the messenger was a psychological way of combating a feeling of powerlessness." You can be as angry as you like about the fallout, but this stuff hasn't happened in a vacuum now has it? For the record, I think it's...

I don't often read the Australian, or Murdoch press in general, but Brett Harris has a pretty fair piece on this I reckon today titled: "ARU boss Bill Pulver off target when he shoots the messenger". He basically attacks Pulver for criticising the media, making the point that every set of...

It shouldn't. I love Cheika and am grateful to Beale for some stellar performances for the Tahs this year, but some sort of punishment needs to be handed down to him for this. Just on the management saga - did anyone else see this in the SMH They were replaced, but by people in different...

Again, this is where the ARU let the Wallabies down - sure, give Link autonomy and let him hire his supporting staff in so far as anything coaching related goes, but they should have still ensured oversight for the rest of the team's management. We all know how tough the finances are at the...

I haven't been on here again for a while, but the Herald is massively endorsing Cheika for the top job. Whilst he obviously is a great candidate, can I just reiterate that I think it's a terrible idea for both Cheika and the Wallabies. We saw what happened last year when McKenzie we thrown in...

Yeah, either that or go look at South Sydney - have massive support, brilliant recruiting and development and a very strong set-up at the top now. Anything would be better than this shit.

People are still talking about the shit around Ewen's personal life, but I honestly reckon that is just none of anyone's fucking business and ultimately feels like a shit excuse for losing a coach that deserved his shot. All this crap about Patston if anything should be on Pulver for cutting...

Bingo. Cheika's a good coach (clearly), but it's glaringly obvious that what's rotten isn't going to be changed by shuffling the deck in the coaching reigns. I don't know who they're going to put in, but the EYOT is looming as a fucking disaster.

That's just plained fucked. Deans in his book talked about being white anted whilst in the job, and you can't help but feel the same thing has happened again. Link is gone and it's a genuine shame, because we needed to see where he could take the team with more time. Losing him isn't going to...

Losing McKenzie is just awful... all this crap that's happened has clearly taken its toll hugely, but he really deserved a shot at the World Cup and the team is AGAIN thrown into disarray. Just bloody awful.