Author: Alison Foskett
Alison Foskett
Alison is passionately Western Australian and passionately Western Force. She wears her heart on her sleeve and can be found shouting herself blue at every Force home game. If the ARU decides to axe the Force, you may find her chained to the door of Bill Pulver's office singing that well-known resistance hymn - "We Shall Not be Moved"!
Within hours of the SANZAAR announcement that SuperRugby would have one less Australian team from 2018, the Chairman of the ARU (Cameron Clyne) fronted the media. He said the ARU had been under “extreme financial pressure” almost from the moment the 5th SuperRugby licence was awarded in 2010 and that the time had come for one of the ‘burdensome five’ to pack their bags. The following evening, Clyne was interviewed on Fox Sports’ Kick and Chase. During that interview, the now infamous figure of $28million received its first airing. That, said Clyne, was how much the ARU had been forced…