Australian Rugby / RA

[Gnostic]

You guys deserve some of this. Mark Ella and the gang Aussie schools.

Not unlike the way the Hurricanes play to be honest.

101 tries to 6. Just amazing.

 

[RedsHappy]

Bob Dwyer openly calls for Pulver and the ARU board to resign:

http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/w...n/news-story/ffa9d6eebfa3aeca186a82a01ffc2fd5

 

[Strewthcobber]

AGM is on Tuesday isn't it? Time to lobby your member organisation.....

Division MembersVotes
ACT ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union 2
NSW New South Wales Rugby Union 2 3
Waratahs Rugby 1
QLD Queensland Rugby Union 3
VIC Victorian Rugby Union 1 2
Melbourne Rebels 1
WA Rugby Western Australia 2
SA South Australian Rugby Union 1
TAS Tasmanian Rugby Union 1
NT Northern Territory Rugby Union 1
Rugby Union Players' Association 1​

 

[joeyjohnz]

Groundswell support is the only way to get your voice heard when the dictators are 10 floors above in their Ivory tower.

If they hold the vote, it's their job to listen to their constituents.

We need names, phone numbers & email addresses of ALL Vote holders.

And to publish these ONLINE, and on the Frontpage of G&GR & The Roar. We need critical reach, FAST.

 

[I like to watch]

101 tries to 6. Just amazing.

Everyone raves about the ball skill of this squad.
Conceding only 6 tries in 17? Games is not too shabby!

 

[Braveheart81]

The directors serve 3 year terms. I'm not even sure any are up for re-election at the AGM.

 

[brokendown]

At the force game on Sunday arvo,you will notice a few banners around the ground with some rather uncomplimentary comments about the ARU displayed!

 

[RebelYell]

The directors serve 3 year terms. I'm not even sure any are up for re-election at the AGM.

Cameron Clyne & Paul Maclean are up for re-election.

 

[Braveheart81]

Cameron Clyne & Paul Maclean are up for re-election.

They were both appointed in 2013. I would have thought they got reappointed last year.

That said I did a fair bit of searching for the outcome of the 2016 AGM and couldn't find anything.

 

[RebelYell]

They were both appointed in 2013. I would have thought they got reappointed last year.

That said I did a fair bit of searching for the outcome of the 2016 AGM and couldn't find anything.

They are both up for re-election on Monday as this is the 2016 AGM.

 

[Braveheart81]

They are both up for re-election on Monday as this is the 2016 AGM.

Thanks for clarifying.

 

[formerflanker]

Bob Dwyer openly calls for Pulver and the ARU board to resign:

http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/w...n/news-story/ffa9d6eebfa3aeca186a82a01ffc2fd5

My favourite Dwyer quote in that article:
“There’s 55,000 registered players in Australia now, which is probably about the same as there are in Auckland,” he (Dwyer) said.
“A (ARU) spokesman says ‘no, no, that figure is inaccurate, we have 171 thousand-odd people who participated in five rugby experiences or more during the year.’ What sort of comment is that?”

Five rugby experiences? WTF?

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

I think the only way pulver keeps his job is if the outcome of negotiations is for a reduction of south african teams four and cut the japanese team with australian teams having an increased allowance to sign foreign players - specifically japanese players to help grow the japanese game.
i personally could stomach 1 south african team gone and the japanese team gone and a super 16 competition with each team playing each other once and a normal competition playoff structure.
that said - absent an increase in foreign player quotas - it doesnt really fix the issues in australian rugby
i think 5 is the way to go long term, but short team aus needs an influx of foreign talent to help strengthen sides.
that said - kurtley, To'omua, gill, dare i say JOC (James O'Connor), and countless others...the talent is there for 5 teams. just too much is offshore.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Annual report and financial statement is out

Pdf is here

https://issuu.com/australianrugbyunion/docs/high_res_copy_of_annual_report_-_op

Headline numbers
Big rise in revenue from the new broadcast deal and non-world cup year test match program.

Expenses up as well for the pro game, but big drop in corporate spend, and rise in community funding (both ARU programs and distributions to member unions)

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[Quick Hands]

The directors serve 3 year terms. I'm not even sure any are up for re-election at the AGM.

Three were up for re-election as their terms have expired. Apparently the three were the only applicants for a new term, so one assumes that they will be "re-elected".

 

[RedsHappy]

Words totally, just totally, fail me (see link below).

The ARU today say they knew from the very moment they established the Rebels that 5 Super teams were not financially or commercially viable and could not be sustained.

Yet this is what they created, they wanted, they designed it.

But, today's news, they ‘could not escape this high-risk 5 team system until this rare and welcome opportunity to do so came forward, six years later.’

And now the entire edifice is non-viable 'placing the ARU under severe financial pressure'. (Btw: as a number of us here predicted from around 2012 would with certainty be the outcome of the 5 team model.)

Talk about walking head-long into a disaster principally of your own construction.

The incompetence, gross strategic irrationality, lack of judgement, and full-blown institutional stupidity on show today and in obvious past cases surely forces a complete recalibration of all prior known scales for assessing the severity of these human attributes of folly and foolishness.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/rugby/...1/news-story/7fcdebdce4fc5fc219fefe1f476f9374

 

[I like to watch]

It gets worse.
They have no idea how much income they will be forgoing with reduced teams.
Here's a tip Bill, if you save $7.5M on one less franchise, but your TV money is reduced by say $12M, that's not actually a good thing........

 

[RugbyReg]

Hasn't it been said that the tv money won't change?

ARU also said that specify the expected savings when announcing the cut team.


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[Strewthcobber]

It gets worse.
They have no idea how much income they will be forgoing with reduced teams.
Here's a tip Bill, if you save $7.5M on one less franchise, but your TV money is reduced by say $12M, that's not actually a good thing....

Brett Impey made this statement

SANZAAR is delighted that its major broadcast partners have after due consideration agreed to the restructured format within the existing broadcast agreements. Our broadcast partners are an important stakeholder and their vision for Super Rugby moving forward is the same as ours,” Impey said.



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[I like to watch]

Words totally, just totally, fail me (see link below).

The ARU today say they knew from the very moment they established the Rebels that 5 Super teams were not financially or commercially viable and could not be sustained.

Yet this is what they created, they wanted, they designed it.

But, today's news, they ‘could not escape this high-risk 5 team system until this rare and welcome opportunity to do so came forward, six years later.’

And now the entire edifice is non-viable 'placing the ARU under severe financial pressure'. (Btw: as a number of us here predicted from around 2012 would with certainty be the outcome of the 5 team model.)

Talk about walking head-long into a disaster principally of your own construction.

The incompetence, gross strategic irrationality, lack of judgement, and full-blown institutional stupidity on show today and in obvious past cases surely forces a complete recalibration of all prior known scales for assessing the severity of these human attributes of folly and foolishness.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/rugby/...1/news-story/7fcdebdce4fc5fc219fefe1f476f9374

...pulver speak for 'not my fault'......