As expected following the ACT & QLD lead coup, push for centralisation in Australian Rugby is once again dead…
“We are certainly moving away from the word centralisation into integration and performance alignment,” Phil Waugh said.
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nah. That’s not the interpretation. Centralisation was just the wrong word from the start. Even the high performance model was never about RA taking control of it all. It was fully about integration. Better collaboration. Alignment.
Waugh and Herbert just better at getting the wording right that Hamish was.