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Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: DazzaS
Date: January 7, 2026, 9:28 am
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HTML https://www.quins.co.uk/video/jason-gilmore-stormers-press-call?fbclid=Iwb21leAPLWlpjbGNrA8tZ62V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHt5TtROUpKsKVBGYoVerWD7N7nJCJV-SwI4OcCifTE7VyQHPAUfiiF0CsdWq_aem_0KiTiH2Ux4pFukazOATLsw
Watching this, it feels like his family members have been held
hostage to ensures he stays on script. As Ugo said on the BBC
pod, there are bucket hats and Hawaiian shirts to sell.
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: MaidstoneQuin
Date: January 7, 2026, 9:51 am
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It's all fine and well having the benefit of hindsight to say
what went wrong, and of course use that famous word "learnings",
but we've heard it allllll before with no real improvement.
Everyones hurting/big response next game blah blah. Had it after
Exeter*, Gloucester, Bristol, Sale and now Saints.
* - Im aware we beat Falcons at home immediately after, but it
was a false dawn.
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: PostVideo
Date: January 7, 2026, 3:29 pm
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: Archquin
Date: January 7, 2026, 3:37 pm
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Who's this Postvideo poster that suddenly appears 🤔
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: PostVideo
Date: January 7, 2026, 3:44 pm
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He's a man who posts videos! [emoji4] and sounds and anywhere
where you need some html code to make it work. His job is very
different to that of Admin, hence the separate role.
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: Yareet
Date: January 8, 2026, 1:27 am
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> He's a man who posts videos! [emoji4] and sounds and anywhere
where you need some html code to make it work. His job is very
different to that of Admin, hence the separate role.
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And yet I’ve never seen them both in the same room 🤔
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: J Scott
Date: January 8, 2026, 2:29 am
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Some interesting take aways from that.
1. I like and respect his honesty obviously some stuff he has to
be careful, but he points to our squad being too big and too
many journeymen.
2. Sounds like he’s a contender for the top job and involved I’m
key decisions for next season influencing retention and
recruitment. So would be interesting to hear the rationale
behind Furbank and also who else is coming in sounded like there
is a couple to be announced.
3. He almost admitted this role plus his original is getting too
much which is understandable but it does bring into question
exactly what Toby Booth does
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: January 8, 2026, 2:36 am
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The problem is, he seems to have been there and not done it
before.
HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ChoBwo2Fc3A
Also the explanation sounds very similar here.
HTML https://www.planetrugby.com/waratahs-still-positive-despite-woeful-form-in-super-rugby-trans-tasman
And the outcome
Mon 7 Jun 2021 18.30 BST
There is an old saying in rugby union that when NSW is strong
Australia is strong. But no one would want to rely on our oldest
and biggest rugby state at the moment after the NSW Waratahs’
59-23 loss to the Highlanders in their Super Rugby Trans-Tasman
game in Dunedin became their 12th consecutive defeat, equalling
the worst losing streak by an Australian side.
Along with Queensland, NSW forms the heartland of the game in
this country, producing most of the professional players and
potentially attracting the largest fan-base. That is why the
Waratahs’ woeful results this year are a disaster for Australian
rugby – both from a high-performance perspective and a
commercial point of view.
Isaac Henry of the Reds celebrates
The tactical masterstroke that ended Australia’s Super Rugby
drought
Read more
Support for the winless Waratahs in the hyper-competitive Sydney
sports environment has all but disappeared. Yet, just seven
years ago the Waratahs won the Super Rugby title, defeating the
Crusaders in front of more than 60,000 spectators at ANZ Stadium
in Homebush.
How did it all go so horribly wrong?
When former NSW coach Michael Cheika guided the Waratahs to
their maiden Super Rugby title in 2014 he was the master of
player retention and recruitment, two key areas where the
franchise has suffered in recent years. Cheika retained a hard
core of players, recruited high-profile rugby league convert
Israel Folau, brought Wallabies Kurtley Beale and Nick Phipps
back to Sydney from Melbourne and added South African back-rower
Jacques Potgieter to the mix.
But the championship-winning Waratahs team that Cheika built was
gradually dismantled. The problem was that as NSW’s best players
retired or headed overseas they were not replaced by the same
calibre of talent. The Waratahs achieved mixed results under
Cheika’s successor, former NSW assistant Daryl Gibson, but never
looked like a team that could challenge for the Super Rugby
title.
By the time New Zealander Rob Penney took over as coach last
year the Waratahs’ playing list was nothing like the roster
Cheika assembled, particularly in relation to experience. They
decided to build the team around members of the 2019 Junior
Wallabies, who narrowly lost to France 24-23 in the world
championship, the so-called “golden generation” – players such
as Will Harrison, Angus Bell, Will Harris, Mark Nawaqanitawase,
Joey Walton and Carlo Tizzano.
But that was always going to be a long-term strategy. In the
short-term the Waratahs focused on surviving the financial
challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic, spending $1m
under a salary cap that had already been reduced by $1m. The
move was designed to keep the Waratahs financially viable and
they did manage to achieve a $3.5m profit in challenging
circumstances, but at what cost to the reputation of their
brand?
In hindsight, the Waratahs should have spent another $1m or so
to buy a couple of players to fill positions in which they are
critically lacking – tight-head prop and second-row – but even
that probably would not have been enough to save them. It did
not help that Waratahs captain and talisman Michael Hooper chose
this year to take a sabbatical in Japan, leaving the side
further depleted.
The future of the Waratahs hangs in the balance. Much will
depend on who the Waratahs appoint as head coach. When Penney
was sacked after a 0-5 start in Super Rugby AU, he was replaced
by his assistants Jason Gilmore and Chris Whitaker as interim
co-coaches. It seemed the top job was Gilmore’s to lose. The
coach of the 2019 Junior Wallabies, Gilmore was close to the
young generation in the Waratahs’ squad.
But the Waratahs have not shown any real signs of improvement
under Gilmore and Whitaker, perhaps the only Australian team not
to have progressed over the course of Super Rugby AU and
Trans-Tasman.
Defence is a major concern for a Waratahs side, which has
conceded an average of 56.25 points a game this year. With one
game to go against the Chiefs at Brookvale Oval on Saturday
night, the Waratahs are on track to surpass the Southern Kings’
concession of 45.8 points a game to become the worst defensive
team in the history of Super Rugby.
The Waratahs scratch their heads when they score a lot of
points, but still lose. There is no point to getting into a
scoring shoot-out with Kiwi teams because you will be
out-gunned.
While the Brumbies had more than an ounce of luck, they provided
a blueprint for beating New Zealand sides when they defeated the
Hurricanes 12-10 in Canberra last Saturday night with an
enormous defensive effort. It was ugly, but they got the win,
just the second Australian victory from 20 games against the
Kiwis.
Interestingly, Waratahs chief-executive Paul Doorn was quoted as
saying Gilmore’s performance had to be viewed in the “context”
of the circumstances, indicating he was still a chance.
Whoever gets the Waratahs job, he will have an enormous amount
of work to do to re-build the team. It took Queensland Reds
coach Brad Thorn four years to rebuild the team to become Super
Rugby AU champions, but can Australian rugby afford to wait that
long for the Waratahs to turn themselves around?
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: never sleep
Date: January 8, 2026, 3:34 am
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Here is the BBC report
HTML https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cp37w66dzk6o
The headline "Gilmore puts out-of-form Quins on notice with
squad cuts" will not do anything for the morale of the players.
I have worked at many organisations where job cuts were
threatened and all that happens is that everyone spends more
time looking for new roles or talking about their future rather
than doing their day job.
The good people leave and the rubbish people get moved around
and you don't end up in a good place.
I think that although Gilmore is honest in his interviews, I
think that his honesty is probably doing more harm than good.
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Re: Unhappy Gilmore press conference ahead of Stormers match
DIR By: MaidstoneQuin
Date: January 8, 2026, 3:39 am
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I think Gilmore in some ways hasn't got a lot of slack left, and
with the frequent drubbings there is no real "hard done by" type
of angle to take, so has no other option left to hammer the
team. If he says nothing, he will get more criticism, and if he
goes to the other extreme of blaming the coaching then it will
simply speed up his departure as he's part of the problem.
We've had many attempts of some rallying warcry this season
already and its fallen on deaf ears so not expecting things to
be different. The thing he is right is the squad does need to be
trimmed down, as its fine saying we will cut those not
performing, but those given the opportunity are hardly world
beaters either...
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