Australian Rugby / RA

[Quick Hands]

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Daniel Herbert gets an honourable mention for requesting "due process." Then he probably realised that nobody else in the room knew what he was talking about. The meeting would have gone past 3am for him to explain what it meant.

Imagine thinking that you should engage an independent recruitment firm, he's been on the board a couple of weeks and reality has hit him head on already.

 

[KOB1987]

I'm sure if Clarke was announced in that role,the West would say WTF!

Yes, it’s only the interim role though according to that article.

 

[Quick Hands]

I'm waiting for Wamberal to come on and tell us how well these corporate chaps are doing and that none of us know what we're talking about.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

It is bizarre that some posters seem to think that the elite players are stupid, selfish, automatons. Some of them are tomorrow's leaders of the game (don't most of us think that the game should be oversighted by former players?)





One thing we can be sure of, intelligent, motivated, and skilled athletes are certainly interested in a better and more prosperous future for the whole game.







The more they are involved, the more they can contribute. Anybody who has ever managed high achievers of one kind or another knows that these people are rare commodities who can do things and see things that most of us just cannot.







Use all their talents.

Lockdown has done a number on wambers. He's socially distancing individual bloody sentences now.

 

[wamberal]

Lockdown has done a number on wambers. He's socially distancing individual bloody sentences now.

Nah, I am still trying to understand your earlier reply to one of my posts that everybody else thought was hilarious.

 

[brokendown]

so you are implying that he cant string a sentence together?,harsh Dismal,lol

 

[cyclopath]

Tasty indeed. I think this is what they call a Rapidly Developing Situation.

I'd call it an impending bowel movement. Look out bed!

 

[cyclopath]

RA kicking goals.

 

[Rebelsfan]

I'm sure if Clarke was announced in that role,the West would say WTF!

Ah no, I think he is the exact man to negotiate with Twiggy - I am sure Twiggy does not hold any ill will to the man who the axed his Force from the Super Rugby program.

 

[kiap]

 

[Ignoto]

Ah no, I think he is the exact man to negotiate with Twiggy - I am sure Twiggy does not hold any ill will to the man who the axed his Force from the Super Rugby program.

If the last week has shown anything, its that Twiggy only listens to the CCP.

 

[mst]

Daniel Herbert gets an honourable mention for requesting "due process." Then he probably realised that nobody else in the room knew what he was talking about. The meeting would have gone past 3am for him to explain what it meant.

Imagine thinking that you should engage an independent recruitment firm, he's been on the board a couple of weeks and reality has hit him head on already.

 

[GardnerJ98]

Found a link for you from this site. https://www.google.com/amp/www.gree...alian-under-20-squad-looking-mighty-fine/amp/

That is brilliant. Thank You

 

[Rugbynutter39]

Not even Shakespeare could dream this stuff up. Forget broadcast rights for games RA need to get Netflix on the line to run a full length mini-series on the antics of the ARU/RA board over the past 20 years. It would outrate anything that could possibly happen on the field.

Maybe make a Netflix RA movie - it could be one of the best box rating drama horror movies to come out next year.

 

[Quick Hands]

It not only the dysfunction of the meeting itself, it's also the fact that a blow by blow description of a supposedly confidential board meeting was in the newspaper the next day.

 

[KOB1987]

It not only the dysfunction of the meeting itself, it's also the fact that a blow by blow description of a supposedly confidential board meeting was in the newspaper the next day.

Maybe Hamish Blake crashed it? It was a Zoom meeting after all.

 

[Adam84]

Maybe make a Netflix RA movie - it could be one of the best box rating drama horror movies to come out next year.

Would certainly get higher ratings then a super rugby match.

 

[barbarian]

It not only the dysfunction of the meeting itself, it's also the fact that a blow by blow description of a supposedly confidential board meeting was in the newspaper the next day.

Yeah that's the most interesting part. Once again the role of News Corp has to be called into question.

Just last week they were anointing Peter Wiggs as the saviour of the game, and now they appear to be subtly backing his hostile takeover attempt of the Board. He is certainly receiving different treatment to Raelene.

I'm all for getting qualified, experienced people into RA and on the face of it Matt Carroll looks like a viable choice. But for Wiggs to do it in this way rings all sorts of alarm bells.

 

[Getwithme]

I've been absent from this thread for about a week. Can someone catch me up on what is going on

 

[Slim 293]

Once again the role of News Corp has to be called into question.

Just last week they were anointing Peter Wiggs as the saviour of the game, and now they appear to be subtly backing his hostile takeover attempt of the Board. He is certainly receiving different treatment to Raelene.

Indeed......... the language is subtle, but starting with the headine...........

Key Rugby Australia Board member Peter Wiggs threatens to resign

And it seems the board can't do without him.........

(Wiggs), working endless hours to make sense of the code's state, has also confided to sources they are "much worse" than he expected.

If Wiggs walk away, the code's broadcast negotiations will be in limbo once again.

Why is that?

Wiggs has close ties with Fox Sports - and was expected be crucial in the TV rights negotiation.

Just note, the poor grammar in those last two quotes are not mine - straight from the article.