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I am convinced that an element (one of many) in Cox's calculus wrt suing the ARU for damages (and the Rebels certainly have been materially damaged by the ARU's world-class incompetence), is using the suit as indirect leverage to add significant pressure for change in the ARU elite. And he'd...

Nah - it'll be marked at that juncture in 2022 with our 15th straight win over the ABs with their NZ media saying: 'fuck, wish we'd buried those bastards forever in 2018 but the Aussies always find a way to reinvent themselves and come back harder, stronger.....'.

Oh. Thanks anyway. Torp has apparently curated the truth of this fascinating subject.

Cyclo will have the count of GAGR thread pages records I feel sure.

Cox of course will not want ARU bankruptcy. My purely personal speculation of his actual objectives in this litigation: (a) major management and board changes for the ARU, and (b) materially increased and/or longer period funding for the Rebels by the ARU

Bring it on.

Cyclo, I think we all know you have a hidden agenda to ensure this thread under no circumstances reaches 300 pages. Surely the record for thread pages would have to be: 'Should QC (Quade Cooper) be Wallaby 10'? :rolleyes:

M, I agree with much of what you said. And a collapse of rugby in Australia, or its severe marginalisation, would be, strategically, very bad for NZ rugby long-term and they know it. They can see the rapidly emerging institutional fragility and broadly deteriorating quality in RSA rugby. The...

100%.

sp - correct. This is perhaps the most significant development of all. Cox is definitive - we're suing and suing big. Prima facie, he's got a great case for significant damages. A party has publicly claimed it had an immediate right to unilaterally terminate a contract, a right that in truth...

@ br '............out of the ARU's control'? The ARU wrote the recent contracts with the Force and Cox. The accurate statement surely is: 'sorry SANZAAR, after lots of consultations and meetings with you, until much later we just forgot to check our own binding contracts with our own Super...

Re the above new Clyne doctrine, what I find fascinating as he quotes those declining performance stats is the ARU never in the slightest pauses to consider that such a downwards trajectory may possibly, just possibly, have something to do with the manner by which the ARU (and their State RUs)...

After strongly endorsing the S18 and a 5 team model for Aus rugby only a year or so ago, our Chairman C Clyne told news.com.au yesterday: “If the goal was to secure Australian rugby financially, the worst thing you could do is run a national competition,” ARU chairman Cameron Clyne said. “The...

Paul Cully/SMH calls 'for Pulver to go, and go soon'. http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/its-time-for-australian-rugby-union-chief-executive-bill-pulver-to-go-20170518-gw87kh.html If only it wasn't true that Clyne, to our horror, has broken out of the ARU chrysalis as an even bigger...

Horan: long, long track record as a proven ARU/QRU/status quo sycophant totally irrespective of their actual conduct or competence. Which obviously suits his interests.

But 'our' Chairman says the whole process has not been botched and we've lost sight of its objectives and the ARU's commendable 'not floundering' status.

I'll bet such a form was involved, but de facto for the sake of appearances and rather like the similar 'extensive global search' the Reds conducted for its new HC in 2016.

Just for the record, I'd be 100% OK with paying the right ARU CEO - objectively and professionally chosen with all applicable due diligence and with great qualifications in successful pro sports administration (ideally globally) - $1.0-$1.2m base pa if we recruited that way and found that...

Yes, indisputably the most inexplicable year-after-year-after-year Reds squad and run-on selection whom has NEVER ONCE consistently delivered on his early promise and on top of which has had endless 'season ending' injuries. Yet no place or viable offer could be found for Greene or Mason so we...

Should Aus rugby collapse (likely) and post that when World Rugby comes here to fix it, or if there's a revolt that kicks out the living-on-another-planet ARU board, the first person I'd persuade to come out and help our revival here would be Ian Ritchie who's just announced his 2017 retirement...