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It doesn't suit their narrative. Much easier to blame the evil empire for all things.

RA are like every other sport - they can sell broadcast rights to whomever they please. It doesn't necessarily need to be the highest bidder either. Just because someone makes a bid doesn't mean that they have the right to expect anything.

Unlike others, I don't have a list of preconceived names who should or shouldn't be on the board. If I was made rugby dictator for the week I'd call for nominations - a public call where anyone could be nominated not just a secret call amongst cosy cabal of corporate hacks. I'd want to know...

Yes, Clyne and the board are responsible and Castle was just the messenger. The problem wasn't the CEO it was and still is the board and board structure. No matter who becomes CEO, nothing much will improve under the way the board is currently appointed. The whole structure needs to be swept...

About a week or 10 days ago actually.

What we know from history, literature and recent events in Australian politics is that people who gain power or positions through skulduggery remain haunted during their own tenure by their method of appointment and are usually ineffective. Added to which their eventual reign is often short and...

The process to select and appoint Castle's successor will reveal a great deal. If it's a traditional ARU/RA jobs for the boys appointment then we'll know that nothing has changed and the death spiral will continue. Who can forget the international recruitment company being paid hundreds of...

Indeed he did, but that's not in dispute is it?

Interesting that depending on which post I read, Phil Kearns is either a complete buffoon or an evil genius who has masterminded a takeover of Australian rugby - as a part of which he exerted some sort of unexplained influence to cause a number of highly respected ex-captains to sign an open...

The slightly simpler explanation is that with the exception of Eastwood, the location of district rugby clubs in Sydney broadly represent the footprint of the Sydney population in 1900. Nothing more or less sinister than that. NB Warringah split from Manly in the 1960s as the population on the...

Once the board expressed total support for her, her days were numbered. If reports are correct the board has also excluded her from some recent meetings. Anyway, I thought that she made a dignified and classy exit. No doubt the past couple of days were spent negotiating the terms of the...

Wow, the tin foil hat shop must have done a roaring trade in the past 24 hours if this thread is any indication. I have no idea of Kearns' financial arrangements, but I don't think a three hour stint at one super game a week for 18 weeks, plus an hour or two on the Fox rugby show a week is his...

You do realise that AFL and NRL are each on both Fox and FTA? It's not mutually exclusive, it's just that it means that the codes receive less from Fox than they would for exclusive rights but they receive money from the FTA networks additional to what Fox pay. Rugby only gets on FTA if one of...

But it's not making a profit as a corporate org.

Is Phil Kearns really such a Machiavellian political genius that he can manipulate so many well educated people and some how take control of RA? What has he to gain from all this? It's not like running a sport is either a long term career or a particularly lucrative one.

No, and I don't know how you keep coming to this conclusion. What I am suggesting is that the method of board appointments to large companies like BHP etc where a nominations committee vet board replacements may well be appropriate in that setting where the board's duty is profit for the...

Your not suggesting that those of us outside the ruling elite might have better insights are you? Welcome to the revolution Wamberal. I never thought we'd see you with the proletariat. :)

I think you've misunderstood my point. I'm talking about how the corporate model isn't suited to the demands of sport with a community element. Nothing to do with shifting focus away from revenue generation.

Sadly fewer and fewer want to graft away at the bottom and work their way up.

Hopefully, they'll be putting more detailed views to Paul McLean when they meet. Identifying what's wrong is the relatively easy part, solutions will be more problematic. It's entirely probable that saving the full-time professional version of the game here won't be possible. A domestic...