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Re Alan Jones Whatever one's personal views about him, in his interview with the hapless Clyne, he posed what for me was perhaps the most searingly powerful question+observation re the appallingly low quality of rugby governance and leadership in Australia over (at least) the last decade...

Unfortunately, in the history of decaying institutions racked by incompetence and self-interest, as the evidence of their leadership's gross unsuitability magnifies and deepens, the last thing that ever happens in a logical sequence is any attempt at meaningful self-reform. Rather, the crisis...

I am just hoping that this all turns out to be a bad dream and none of this is in truth as hopelessly incompetent and professionally negligent as it appears to be from seemingly credible media statements by the participants. Surely no one, just no one in a proper business with a proper board...

Some interesting inputs today from Payto & Pando (extracted) in News Corp online sources (my emphasis): "THE Western Force are growing more confident of remaining in Super Rugby after advice from lawyers, and will likely meet the ARU next week to present their case. However, the fact remains...

An amusing aside re Davis - he went to school in Parramatta for many years. Clearly he didn't fall in love with the place.

I've said it for a long time and still hold the view: one of the ARU's many strategic blunders (no 679) was the decision to open in Melbourne and not build a Super club in Western Sydney where almost certainly there would have been all of: good, motivated local sponsors, capable local players, a...

Whoops, forgot that one and you're probably right although upon recall I think a Mosman NSW 2088 current address may have also worked wonders (close to Eales, Hawker, Kearnsey, etc.) EDIT: Oh, and I did say 'critical to success' in the role, and not 'critical to ARU cultural compatibility...

Well, let me put my perspective another way: If tomorrow I was asked to pick B Pulver's successor I would preference (just as I would have in picking JO'N's back in 2012) an executive with proven executive attributes but equally one that had built, or rebuilt, strong performance outcomes in a...

Be more positive RR, and I mean that sincerely. Aren't (for example) Carroll and Gallop doing OK in building executive careers in sports administration? You may not gain great wealth in this career stream but everywhere I touch in sport, competency of leadership and management of sport as...

Of course there are such people, do not worry FF (Folau Fainga'a)!! If there were no such people in Australia, Australia would not have the flourishing, dynamic, globally admired, richly textured, widely varied pro sports infrastructure it possesses today. A remarkable achievement of our country's educational...

So? No one argues that 'just because you have a background in sports code management' you are as an executive auto-magically a good executive for, say, an ARU. Who here argued that? The point is that Ritchie (a) in general had proved to be a very competent executive and (b) prior to taking...

The whole institutional framework of Australian rugby belongs and in effect remains in the 1970s that that status is in significant part to blame for the parlous, mismanaged, woefully degraded and incompetently led state of the code in 2017. The 'power base resides in NSW and Old'. That's...

Nah. The real enemy of all passionate rugby loving posters here is and should be: The entire current institutional framework and system for running Rugby Union in Australia combined with most of the board members who currently occupy senior positions within that framework. This entire thread...

Perhaps HB is a member of the ARU's notorious Bomb Disposal Unit. Unfortunately their BDU, whilst recently run off its feet, is still in 'test and learn' mode as the majority of its recent attempts at defusing have ended in further unplanned explosions reducing the number of the Unit's...

When I have re-read the Rebels statement there's an interesting refererence therein that the forecast $6m saving from a team cull should be routed back to the Super teams and that grassroots funding should be sourced instead from a better allocation of other ARU funds. The thought has certainly...

Yeah ........ and my rather sarcastic comment above was principally that, with all the allegedly sophisticated legal and heavy corporate skills in the ARU board that some posters here have found so impressive, why on earth would the ARU board have exposed themselves so obviously by...

No fucker today knows the answer to that (great and good) question. The smallest city in Australia that today sends c.9,000 crowds to Super games, has booked financial and membership losses for a number of years and further has a major ASIC - potentially criminal - investigation hanging over...

A key statement (extract) of the Rebels overall statement issued tonight (which btw has the flavour of the Rebels' owners wanting to exit their deal with the ARU and in the process set up for a big negotiation re the 'get out' price to be paid to Cox by the ARU). "MRRU notes, and is very...

^^^^^^ @ KevinO Yes, a heavy hit is coming. Must be that the incredibly corporately and legally experienced ARU board is very carefully and competently guiding this whole 'who'll be culled' process.

IMO what matters the most and what will prove most critical and decisive is not 'we just must have X Super Teams', but rather: - what competencies are absolutely essential within each State RU and the ARU in order to attain consistent standards of playing and coaching excellence within X number...