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I would argue that in fact the 'elite' management of the code - certainly within RA - have been vastly overpaid (eg, today is it reported that R Castle will in fact be paid a $114,000 cash bonus that was decided upon by C Clyne _before_ the RWC 2019, FFS) probably at the expense of the very type...

This appears in RA's media release today plus W Smith's first para lead-in the The Australian: This all sounds like PR speak to cover the fact that - at long last - RA may be biting the inevitable bullet of a big, essential cross-function integration and cost and performance rationalisation...

Fair enough too. I would can lots of RA's overhead as I mentioned and happily try to support good in-field development officers of the type you note, provided they were qualified and applied in the right areas. It's worth noting that - remarkably - it's clear today that not only were there...

- additionally Derpus: - all the Wallaby coaches and direct support staff are in the RA headcount - Wallaroos support (not large) - ditto men's and women's 7s programs' coaches etc - legal and HR for national matters - minor property admin - reception and some admin support - seeking and...

;)! Quite seriously, the entire rugby Aust structure requires either a ruthless, radical centralisation, or a ruthless radical decentralisation (and I fail to see how this latter course would work but it theoretically fits the bill). The overall structure we have for administering the code...

There is also apparently: A Chief Business Officer and A Chief Commercial Officer

Interesting: We understandably talk of the post-COVID difficulties that our players will/may now have in gaining decent overseas offers..........and then today we learn - gobsmacked - that I Perese has a new contract with Bayonne at $300,000 pa and the local court here has let him off his...

Tickets in 2021 could command a premium for Heritage Listed

Negotiate with Foxtel to permit a 2020 live streaming supplementary product produced by the 'cheap but good' Double Take guys and with competent but fun commentators (you maybe? and others that have a totally different take on commentating), ie, total contrast to Kayo with its awful, dull...

..........and we need to create and build our own digital media streaming model sold direct to the rugby-liking/loving public.

Where is all the evidence - as you attested - that 'all the sports codes use media consultants' to handle broadcasting rights negotiations. My point was clear: RA possessed a bundle of highly paid executives with glam titles in 'commercial areas'. And they were in loss-making mode. Why would...

The lack of engagement with Forrest - indeed the effective snubbing of him - was one of Clyne's gravest and most costly blunders, one of many of course. His quoted statements today are highly accurate, fair-to-the-facts, and relevant and, btw, who could blame him.

Indeed, and as I have had cause to observe here over many years: I cannot think of one instance, not one, when any senior RA or local RA director or CEO or senior local RU person has _ever_ ascribed responsibility and/or accountability to any other such senior person for any unacceptable or...

I think you might know: I could not agree more. Even though RA had ~ $7m in free cash at April 2020, the WR (World Rugby) $14.2m will almost certainly only fund or part fund: - immediate RA creditor overhang, ie those RA creditors (eg Folau-related lawyers) whom could not be funded to this point and that...

The proof of the pudding’s in the eating. I tend to agree the tone of that headline of hers. RA already had a Chief Business Officer and a Chief Commercial Officer and board members who’d been around the broadcast rights issues before. And a $850,000 pa plus bonuses CEO with experience of NRL...

Remember though - for some time IIRC WR (World Rugby) grants have been propping up, or subsidising, Argentina Rugby. I suspect they may be continuing. If in USD, the local teams would continue the thrill.

Which ones? OK, one could debate the precise words, precise tone in some cases, but few that I can see either turned out to be factually materially incorrect or materially misleading. Few (if any) were ever actively or credibly rebutted by RA, principally as, like it or not, they turned out to...

Putting aside the obvious News Co hate, the more objective question surely is: which of these headlines of JH's and the related content have been proven factually wrong. I would say, mostly..........none.

Thanks half, very apt indeed and some great examples and quotes there. There's absolutely no doubt whatever that RA should be looking at these technology/streaming/remote production mix opportunities. As mentioned before, RA should IMO strongly consider abandoning its conventional fixation...

100%. And I said some time ago here - to deal with the rapidly unfolding SANZAAR game model train wreck that surely would lead Aust rugby to disaster, was in fact the most important, the most compelling, of the challenges she was required to face in early 2018 as the incoming new RA CEO. Nothing...