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Being selected in a Schools rep team,is not development. I actually saw quite a bit of Jones & Hooper as juniors. They did not attend a strong Rugby School,their village teams would have comfortably put 100 on their School teams. Hoopers Village club included Same Lane,peter Gilmore,Tom...

It starts as a 6 yo. If there are no 6 yo's, there are no talented 20 something's. Obviously it's more about giveaways,and snakes at full time, than S & C programs in the early years.

I see they pulled page 3 that details their expenses as line items from the Annual Report. Commercial in confidence?

Maybe your boys should try it. Drinking latte's whilst they are twittering doesn't seem to have been a winning strategy for a few years now.......

I'm not so sure the amount is actually $10M. But it was wasted.Handing out large cheques without performance hurdles is poor management. My biggest gripe with the withdrawal of the grant is the lack of notice,and the fact that it comes at a time when the ARU also requested the clubs to invest...

Don't worry about the AFL. The ARU received a windfall of $35 odd Mill, at a time when their annual revenue was circa $60M. They invested nothing in the game since. I'm not suggesting they should have spent dollar for dollar with AFL or anyone else,but they should have invested something. I have...

It was a huge sum nearly 15 years ago.....

Only for an hour. Our "finishing" front row leaves much to very desired.

Yep I am astonished that they do substantially less than than their counterparts in NZ,for double the cost. That is the entire issue for me. This is not all Pulver's doing,undoubtedly he inherited a mess. But the culture of the joint is all wrong. It appears to me that admin & pro players think...

Um,no it's not better than NZ. The ARU intends on increasing their taxing of grassroots,not contributing to the grassroots. And we all know the ARU participation figure is not even a good lie. As an aside NZRU are not on their own. The poms spend £45M on their pros & £30M on grassroots, from...

h They have the money,we have just been discussing why are corporate overheads over $10M more expensive in a poorly managed business,than in a successful business.

It's not double. Commercial space in Wellington is about 75% of the equivalent space in North Sydney. Wages also about 75%. Your point about lack of competition is interesting. As you point out NZ operate in almost a monopoly,yet they feel the need to spend $10M more than the ARU on game...

They would need to have lower overheads,their turnover is only $117M compared to ARU $145M. Yet spend $10M more on game development than the ARU. Surprisingly the ARU spends $10M more than the Kiwis on corporate. It puzzles me that they are so much better run for 1/2 the cost in admin....

Where are you reading that? What I see is the ARU spends less than 4% of their income on grass roots,whilst the Kiwi's spend 12% of theirs on game development.

I disagree BH Administrators work out which activities generate profit,and continue with these parts of the business. Payments to the State Unions are not gifts,they are payments to provide Soup Teams,those payments would continue,to preserve the ARU's TV money. Administrators would look to...

Compare the way we do it to our Kiwi neighbours. http://files.allblacks.com/comms/2013_Annual_Report/NZR-AR-2014-Full-Version-WEBSITE.pdf I particularly like their scorecard and how they list their allocations on page 5. In a snapshot you can see what their aims are,and how they are measuring...

WTF is "other income"? $313k in '14 & $489k in '13

This debate is about what the ARU are doing now,not what happened in the past.

If the ARU was actually using the SS money to fund junior development you would have a reasonable argument,but they are not. Rather than invest in juniors as each of the other codes do,they are now taxing their juniors. In reality,the ARU set up the NRC,asked the SS clubs to fund almost 1/2 the...

It's not $330k x 5, it's $28k per premier club. Big difference. And you are double dipping,either the ARU funds it or the Soup franchises do,not both. The Tahs should increase their revenue dramatically but if they don't,they can shave $330k from their $11.6M employee/team costs.it's not that...