Richard Graham should become a life coach

No you don't. Pretty sure Peter Wilkin was the defence coach for 2015. When you're head coach you are ultimately responsible for the results of all aspects, but the poster is blaming Graham for being poor in the hands on role, when that was actually one of his more successful coaching roles.

When you're the head coach you coach defence.

lol Ive been avoiding this tube, as I really didnt want to hear more about it. But its great, every bit of it. Laughing certainly better than crying, which I am pretty close to, sigh... In any case I dont think its about defence etc. At the end of the day, I think the Reds were jinxed by Scott Allen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fplXXfJVfz8

here hear. Hir youre you're awned Potato or tomato?

It looks to me that RG is part of a succession plan to take over the Wallabies job after the next season. ?

I'm a Tahs fan and live in Qld so I go to most reds games and cheer for them if they're not playing NSW. I think Qld have made a mistake reappointing Graham but it's done now. Good luck to him and the reds in 2016. I really hope he prove me wrong. Fail or succeed I won't be playing the man (who is by all accounts a good fellow). Best of luck to him, he'll need it.

let's see how the season goes.. hoping for a great one and think the reds will be strong again in 2016! first and foremost a wallaby supporter, secondly always a reds supporter.. no flip flopping malarky.. both have been some very rough times over the past 30 odd years.. but both always come good again..

I am not sure if this is a troll or not. It seems legitimate, but nobody could really think this is good for Queensland rugby, could they? (And nobody could possibly think it is spelled "premadona" could they?) A key role of the coach is to create an environment where good players want to play, and where they want to come. Another key role is to manage succession and player careers, so that you don't have a point in the cycle where there is absolutely no hope. Regardless of Graham's possible skills as a match day coach, he has failed miserably in both of these tasks. The four players you mention have been the standouts in the last five seasons, in terms of their passion, dedication and hard work. And we have lost them all at once. Together with James Hanson, who is developing onto the next long term Wallaby hooker. Oh, and by the way, the best performed forward last year was one of our very very few successful recruits - and he will also play in Melbourne next year, because we didn't bother to ask the ARU if we could keep him. And we were making space for, um, Freddie Michalak who isn't going to come and will be rubbish even if he does! I didn't miss a Queensland game through the Miller, Mooney, Jones years. We lost a lot, but there was hope and there was a feeling that we were improving. Now there is absolutely nothing to look forward to. I have already joined the Gabba for next season, I will watch the Lions instead of the Reds. They are crap too, but at least they accept that they are rubbish, and they aren't smugly, arrogantly, trough-snoutingly, make-another-excuse, you-don't-understand crap.

"with the leadership group having effectively to coach itself"...so they got what they wanted. How did that work out? It's in the dna of Australian rugby...didn't the same thing happen at the Brumbies....Beale and Hooper and co did it to the Wallabies. That's all working pretty well. Don't you think?

As a Reds supporter I am glad he was reappointed. This may sound strange but the decision is in Queenslanders dna. We as Queenslanders don't like the tail wagging the dog. That's what was happening at the Reds of late and that is why we have had mediocre results. Quade, gill, Genia and horwell should not dictate the coaching the coach should. I am glad they are gone but wish them the absolute best. We are not Waratahs with the premadonas. We are a team of grafters who put the team first. That ethos will come back now the broom has gone through. As for the fair weather supporters, we don't want you anyway

Absolutely brilliant. One of the best 'Downfall" spoofs and there have been some great ones

Says it all.

I think Graham has been attack coach at times and he deserves criticism for the decline in this.

Let's not forget their lack of attacking skills. Their 'points for' has been in the bottom four over the last three seasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKfLKc_KPk4

cough, Ponzi, cough

He didn't coach defence this year. He coached it in 2013 I believe which was the Reds best defensive season.

Hilarious @ Sandbox... Get off your soapbox mate, you'll get a nosebleed.. PONZY is spelt PONZI!!!!!!

red kev.. you channeling piers morgan??? please don't start with the booms!!

Come on everyone, let me do it...can't...resist...YOUR!