Go the Tahs — it’s agent for change at the Blues

I’ll be cheering for the Waratahs on Saturday night. There is a lot to gain and nothing to lose if the wobbly Aussies beat the disgracefully bad Blues.

On a list of Aussie teams to cheer for, the big talking Waratahs would not score highly.

This is a special case, and anything which sinks the Blues even further is a welcome agent for change.

Either coach Tana Umaga must go, or chief executive Michael Redman must go, or maybe both must go. The buck has to stop somewhere.

Blues rugby has sunk to unimaginable depths, including a run of losses at Eden Park. What can’t be tolerated is the idea the same leadership outfit will turn up for the 2019 season.

Apportioning blame is a tricky business, but the thing is badly broken. The odd win here and there will only prolong the agony.

Beating the Waratahs will provide a potential smokescreen or escape hatch for those who have got it wrong.

Could be wrong, but I don’t think Umaga has it as a coach, pure and simple.

Some have the coaching knack, some don’t. But pinning major blame

Either coach Tana Umaga must go, or chief executive Michael Redman must go.

on him shouldn’t mean others are exonerated.

What the Blues may well need is a chief executive with a successful sports CV, rather than a Redman-type who came from a local body political and executive background. Calling for an experienced sports executive to take over is not a radical proposal in these circumstances.

Redman has made an attempt to defend Umaga in recent days as he should, as an employer still hoping for a good outcome.

It was an impossible task though, because the only possible defence for Umaga’s atrocious results is that he’s been let down by the organisation Redman leads.

The only thing holding the current leaders’ reputations up is the horror of team’s history. The Blues are like a drowning man who can just be sighted because he is being kept afloat by all the people who drowned before him. Those left on the beach still see a lost cause.

Speaking of beaches, the Blues are scheduled to play on a treacherous sand-based surface at Brookvale Oval on Saturday night and are being cast as the team most likely to allow Australia to break their long transtasman losing streak.

The 36-game winning run by New Zealand teams over Australia in Super Rugby needs to come to an end, and the Crusaders are not likely to fall in Melbourne on Friday night.

This trot is a badge of dishonour slapped all over a confusing Super Rugby competition which has only moderate credibility anyway.

This winning run is down to the Australian teams being hopeless.

It feels sad, tired, boring, pointless.