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I think that's a good idea, it will at least send a further signal to the ARU, I'd be interested to see how many people would sign it as well
Any one for a change org petition calling on the board to resign? Or are all the people who care about rugby already on here calling for that anyway?
The member unions voted for exactly this outcome on at least two occasions
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The structure is a big part of the problem because nothing can really be fixed as long at NSWRU & QRU prop up the ARU who in turn finance and support the NSWRU & QRU.
The structure is a big part of the problem because nothing can really be fixed as long at NSWRU & QRU prop up the ARU who in turn finance and support the NSWRU & QRU.
Yep, please get that one started.Any one for a change org petition calling on the board to resign? Or are all the people who care about rugby already on here calling for that anyway?
I reckon anyone blaming NSW and Qld is giving a pretty free pass to all of the other member unions who could have stood up and opposed this.
They didn't
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It's also true without being complete.
The franchises did not vote to cut a team. They voted to receive extra funds on the basis that someone else was cut. Qld, NSW and ACT were guaranteed it wasnt them, hence the ARU neatly solving the matter politically. Both Vic and WA had reasonable grounds to believe they were safe.
So yes "the member unions voted" for it, but no "It" wasnt excatly this outcome.
Especially considering the damage done to the sport as a direct consequence.
Of course none of that changes the repugnance of NSW/Qld - ARU self preservation society.
It's also true without being complete.
The franchises did not vote to cut a team. They voted to receive extra funds on the basis that someone else was cut. Qld, NSW and ACT were guaranteed it wasnt them, hence the ARU neatly solving the matter politically. Both Vic and WA had reasonable grounds to believe they were safe.
So yes "the member unions voted" for it, but no "It" wasnt excatly this outcome.
Especially considering the damage done to the sport as a direct consequence.
Of course none of that changes the repugnance of NSW/Qld - ARU self preservation society.
1. The EGM considers that it is in the best interests of Rugby in Australia that Australia maintain its five current teams in the Super Rugby competition until at least the end of the 2020 Super Rugby season.
2. That the Company re-consider its decision to reduce the number of Australian teams playing in the Super Rugby competition.
3. That the Company facilitate a forum of all Voting Members, to be held as soon as practicable and at the costs and expense of the Company, for the purposes of considering the establishment of an Australian Super Rugby Commission which will act as an advisory body to the Company on the future participation of Australian teams in the Super Rugby Competition.
That is a bit naive. When the unions voted they knew exactly what it meant.
The current structure is better than the old structure which effectively made the ARU board representatives of the states (with Qld and NSW having the greatest representation). The major problem with that structure is that the powerful states had fairly direct control on the actions taken by the national body.
If the ARU is the problem then based on the past 5 years I can confidently advise that Sinderberry is NOT the solution.
In theory it's a different strucutre, but in practice there's not too much different. State RUs are heavily involved in who is elected to the ARU board.
There is no structure where interested parties don't lobby to try and get the people they want on a board.
I can't agree with this. Technically they may not have voted to cut a team, but during the EGM they didn't support the resolution to retain 5 teams. which is the same outcome.
These were the three resolutions put forward at the EGM, 1 and 2 failed to pass but 3 did.
The axing of the Force prompted ARU chief Bill Pulver to announce his impending resignation, and Brisbane Broncos boss Paul White emerged as a potential replacement.