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Tony Shaw (54)
That kind of poses an interesting question. What are RAs responsibilities? Contracting for Wallabies, scheduling matches and dealing with the related logistics, a bit of Wallabies marketing, a bit of accounting and governance. What else? There must be loads more given there are 200 employees and the above could be managed by about 10
- additionally Derpus:
- all the Wallaby coaches and direct support staff are in the RA headcount
- Wallaroos support (not large)
- ditto men's and women's 7s programs' coaches etc
- legal and HR for national matters
- minor property admin
- reception and some admin support
- seeking and contracting broadcasters and Wallaby sponsors (though the former is only once every ~ 5yrs and the latter is also typically multi-year)
- the (infamous) High Performance Programs and the new Director of Rugby
- national player-related insurance programs
- website and 'RA communications'
- liaison with WR (World Rugby)
Whatever: and as I've said before, how on earth your list plus mine gets to 147 people in RA is beyond me and, I'm sure, implies a very high degree of excess staffing and/or unnecessary bureaucracy.
For a commentary somewhere else I did a detailed analysis of what I thought professionally was the FTE required to perform the RA tasks identified. I reckon the tasks RA must legitimately perform requires an FTE headcount of ~ 70 max. And that is before we get to the obvious functional and cost replication within and across the local RUs.