Kurtley Beale

[Blake]

Yip, that's a damn good article.

here's a better one. In Fairfax. By a leaguie.

Nailed it I reckon

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/sexua...-has-no-place-in-the-aru-20141013-115eve.html

 

[No4918]

If you ran a small business, and you wanted to hire someone good, and they said I'll only come across if I can bring my buddy with me, and you agreed, then you, like the ARU in this case are solely to blame. Please stop bagging the coach and the only aboriginal in the team. I know you're not rascists but to align yourself with this antiKB horseshit is wrong. If people are paid a motza for management then let them go if they stuff up.

I have some things to say about this and am very close to not giving a shit if I get binned for them.

 

[cyclopath]

I have some things to say about this and am very close to not giving a shit if I get binned for them.

Please don't. Not worth it.

 

[Train Without a Station]

If you ran a small business, and you wanted to hire someone good, and they said I'll only come across if I can bring my buddy with me, and you agreed, then you, like the ARU in this case are solely to blame. Please stop bagging the coach and the only aboriginal in the team. I know you're not rascists but to align yourself with this antiKB horseshit is wrong. If people are paid a motza for management then let them go if they stuff up.

What is wrong? He has clearly offended.

What evidence is there that Patson has stuffed up or McKenzie? The only evidence is Beale.

Don't bring race into this. Being in a racial minority does not make somebody racial vilified when they are being held accountable for the published standards of their organisation.

You are an absolute flog of a human.

 

[Train Without a Station]

He brought along a staff member who had been successful in her role at their previous appointment.

 

[RugbyReg]

I didn't think this thread could get any more difficult to follow. Then soc started to post...

 

[vidiot]

I have entered a bizarre Lord of the Flies alternate reality.

 

[Slim 293]

If you ran a small business, and you wanted to hire someone good, and they said I'll only come across if I can bring my buddy with me, and you agreed, then you, like the ARU in this case are solely to blame. Please stop bagging the coach and the only aboriginal in the team. I know you're not rascists but to align yourself with this antiKB horseshit is wrong. If people are paid a motza for management then let them go if they stuff up.

I think you're about to get "shirt fronted," whatever that means.........

 

[cyclopath]

Nup, I've had it. I thought for a few minutes, but playing the race card is just completely fucking idiotic.
One gone.
Next?

 

[Le Frog]

Hard calls have to be made.

Link is the coach, and he has to tell it like it his to his players.

If Hooper and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) have a problem with him, then they can take a breather for one game to get some perspective.

We need people who are 100 % committed to the Wallabies jersey, not their mates and their provincial coach.

And guess what? We have leadership ready to go without these two.

Hodgson at 7 (WA Capt) , Higginbotham at 8 (Rebs capt) plus Horwill, Slipper and Genia.

This cannot go on.

 

[Train Without a Station]

Pretty fucking false too

 

[Slim 293]

Anyone posted Webster's piece yet?

http://www.theage.com.au/rugby-unio...n-rugbys-biggest-problem-20141013-115aan.html

Pretty damning of McKenzie.

More damning of journalistic integrity............

 

[Thinker]

A thread, which at it's heart is about sexual harassment and the culture of rugby, already containing homophobic comments continues to devolve to new depths.

This thread will be spoken about for years to come.

 

[Train Without a Station]

Quick draw Cyclo isn't copping any shit!

 

[TahDan]

More damning of journalistic integrity....

Just because you don't like content that doesn't conform to your bias, doesn't make it bad journalism mate.

I most certain agree with this at the end:

In terms of the big picture, Australian rugby is heading down a very familiar path to football about a decade ago. Those at the ARU who might consider that alarmist are deluding themselves about how dire the situation is becoming. Soccer required an intervention from the federal government and billionaire Frank Lowy to rescue it. Who or what will save rugby? It will take more than sacking Kurtley Beale.

Rugby here is a fucking mess and it's gotten to the point where I almost want the game here to go down in a spiral of flames just so someone with half a brain might build something out of the mess that has generated 10 years of mediocrity and pointless off-field prima-donna driven BS.

 

[Train Without a Station]

It's nothing to do with not liking the content. It's due to the fact that it's false, glosses over Cheika's faults and ignores all of McKenzie's success. In addition it again goes over unsubstantiated slanderous claims.

I.e. A completely fucking shithouse article, from a journalist who seemingly lacks integrity.

 

[Sully]

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!

The Mods have had enough. Many of us want to close this thread completely. We're all sick of reading the putrid crap that stream through it.
Instead
**** THIS IS NOW A ZERO TOLERANCE THREAD! ****

Don't deal in rumours. Don't post to get a reaction. Don't play devils advocate. Think before you post.

 

[Train Without a Station]

Tah Dan I'd actually love to see you back up any of Webster's bullshit claims.

 

[Quick Hands]

I didn't think this thread could get any more difficult to follow. Then soc started to post.

You're obviously unfamiliar with his work on other threads

 

[TahDan]

Tah Dan I'd actually love to see you back up any of Webster's bullshit claims.

What, with sources? So you're going down the whole "if it's news that things are rotten in camp Wallaby it must be false" rout are you?

Are you huffing paint or do you really not see that this whole saga might actually be symptomatic of a deeper malaise?