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(Extracts below, emphasis mine.) ARU left stunned as Rob Clarke, who is seen as heir apparent to CEO Bill Pulver, tenders resignation Iain Payten, The Daily Telegraph May 5, 2017 THE future of ARU chief executive Bill Pulver is looking increasingly shaky after his trusted deputy, Rob...

Yep. And the 'coup' notion probably neglects to appreciate the subtle but powerful layers of mutual back-scratching and patronage that exists at the core of most Australian rugby board and management elites. It's their MO and one of the principal reasons the code's in the serious mess it is...

My work is principally in corporate strategy and restructuring and I sit on a range of boards. I've been a CEO of billion $s per annum businesses. + I love rugby. It will never happen, but if ever I was invited to join the ARU board, I would do it in a heartbeat. I know at least a dozen...

........and in doing so they have to bite the hand that feeds them and keeps them alive.

And then there is this from Pulver, in the same article as above: "His resignation was difficult to accept but Rob has decided the time is right to pursue a different course along with his family and he deserves to be incredibly proud of his career in the game. When I look at the values of our...

I have a feeling this team may struggle a tad to repeat 2011's Reds' success vs the Chiefs in NZ, the game where IIRC L Gill scored a debut try.

Btw, Clyne's statement today to W Smith 'oh as there's legal proceedings (re the Super Rugby cull matters) we just can't discuss any of it at all' is just completely pathetic. Conveniently hiding behind the ARU's lawyers' skirts. Of course there's legitimate and important elements of the...

The ARU is a comparatively small operation. $90m-ish in annual revenue is not a big business with large complexities to oversight. How in such a tight bundle (and with all senior execs in the same building) and with such an important, high profile project as is the restructuring of the...

Correct. Plus Killer I'd add: it's an ongoing mystery why the ARU - which is meant to be under a self-declared, super-tight cost control regime - actually requires two senior, quite highly paid general management executives, a CEO and COO overlapping each other, particularly when the State RUs...

Re Clarkes's departure Posters please note: Golden Rules Nos 1-4 of the Australian Rugby Management System - No one ever is actually directly accountable for anything - Excuses and pass-off explanations are made for every failure - The elites always circles its own wagons when a new...

Perfectly put.

Quite. And btw: if you had time to look through the whole game tape, you'd see that the Reds' overall skills and penalty-avoiding composure were both superior to those now on display in 2017. 5 years ago - what have we built since, what's improved?

I was always dismayed by that 2012 QF loss to the Sharks, and at Suncorp no less. I remember so vividly leaving Suncorp in the company of Juan Cote (an early semi-founder of GAGR), both of us really disheartened. The team seemed to lose composure and intensity virtually the whole match. We...

FTFY

The May 2012 Reds win v Chiefs at Suncorp was one of the best (a) Reds wins/games ever, just ever and (b) one of the best Super games I have ever seen. Crowd: 36, 479 Score: 42-27 'Mikey' Mike Harris kicked 7/8 incl 1 drop Reds tries by Shipperley 4', Lucas 40', Higgers 42', Genia 47', S...

Yes. We can all now see the pattern, as it's become so pervasive, so obvious. How many points do our Super teams leak when they have have the athletic prowess to equal the equivalent Kiwis, but they can't pass the ball or tackle properly. And then there are the poorly executed grubbers and...

Perfectly put.

Yes, and yes. I don't think Tew for one moment is 'anti-Australia' as such. It's an open secret in senior NZRU circles that the ARU and many of its senior officers are held in contempt for the poor job they have done with/for Aus rugby. For the NZRU to insert its best assets into the Aus...

In the speculative scenario that I have outlined here before, namely sometime c. late 2018-2019 the ARU declares a financial and commercial emergency, IMO Aus rugby will then be bailed out by World Rugby with major direct aid, influence and support from the NZRU. (EJ (Eddie Jones) will be asked to play a big...

That article is re-quoted in NZ's stuff.co.nz where these important statements are added by Hore (my emphasis). In so doing - shocks, horrors - Hore has duly broken one of the Great Golden Rules of Australian rugby elites' conduct within their notoriously closed circles. Namely, never, ever...