Ask Waratahs CEO Jason Allen, @theroar

[RugbyFuture]

http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/01/1...-the-waratahs-ceo-jason-allen/#comment-519763

What do you want to ask the Waratahs CEO, Jason Allen?

One of the functions of The Roar is to give you, the Roarers, access to the people who make the decisions. So it’s time for our annual question/answer session with the CEO of the NSW Waratahs, Jason Allen.

Allen has agreed to provide detailed answers to 10 questions put to him by readers of The Roar.

This follows previous successful Q and A sessions.

So leave your ‘big’ questions for the Waratahs below and we’ll select ten of the best ones to be put forward for Allen to answer.

To get things started, we’d like to know what has been done – officially – to kill off the unsuccessful ‘Win Ugly’ policy that has been followed in recent years?

Have the coaching staff been told that this policy runs totally against the grain of the traditional Waratahs style of open rugby, a style that enabled NSW to become one of the great state sides in world rugby since 1882?

Another area for questioning relates to the new structure of the Waratahs, which now has its own CEO and is a separate stand-alone entity in NSW rugby: why is this structure needed?

What’s the business plan for the franchise? How will this improve the performances of the Waratahs on the field? And what does the new CEO bring to the position?

So over to readers of The Roar. What are the questions you want Jason Allen to answer? Leave your questions in the comments section below.

(At the end of the week, we will select the best ten questions posted as comments below to be answered by Allen. Interested in this for another code or team? Suggest your Q&A here.)

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Maybe G&GR should look into stuff like this more often than not?

 

[TOCC]

you could probably put it in the blog ideas forum

 

[liquor box]

Q- how will it feel to lose to the Reds twice a season from now on?

 

[RugbyFuture]

Like last season?

 

[DPK]

Q- how will it feel to lose to the Reds twice a season from now on?

It'll be awful until you wake up.

 

[Moses]

Maybe G&GR should look into stuff like this more often than not?

Would people genuinely be interested in interviews with corporate leaders? I reckon it's likely they have had extensive media training and will avoid saying anything controversial, and possibly interesting.

Personally, I'd be more likely to read interviews with players, especially up and coming players. Would be great to hear from a kid who is in his first year at the academy and how he's adjusting.

 

[RugbyFuture]

I see an interview with a corporate leader an opportunity to try and probe deeper into what their intents are. sortof like investigative journalism, getting deep into what they're trying to build in terms of team culture, fan culture and where they believe they're situated in the sporting landscape. If not the corporate leaders perhaps the Coaches/directors of rugby for the cultural stuff.

The site has the analytical stuff down pat, its time the opiniative and horizontal information articles start becoming prominent and the leader in Australian Rugby "journalism" too.

 

[fatprop]

Q. Have you sack the ground announcer yet? and have you destroyed his record collection?
Q. Have you ensure those stupid half time "events" will never happen again.