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With JON potentially going-going-gone, as an outsider looking in (as most of us are) I wonder if RD is updating his CV about now?
John O'Neill resigns
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rugbyisfun
Jimmy Flynn (14)
Haven't they been talking up the current QLD boss?
vidiot
John Solomon (38)
I think I would prefer new CEO, new coach, and maybe no Quade.
Thanks for taking one for the team, QC (Quade Cooper). See you in a couple of seasons when you fall out of love with SBW.
Scotty
David Codey (61)
Brumby Jack
Steve Williams (59)
Do you think the board all turned up wearing red to the last meeting?
I think 'We are Red' has already been copyrighted the QRU.
It's a shame Gallop signed up with the FFA recently, as an Old Boy of Canberra Grammar he'd be more familiar with the environment in rugby than soccer. His no nonsense approach to mungo scandals and misdemeanours has been exemplary, not that there's as much of that in rugby but I like his style. There again, Matt Carroll's done a bloody good job as 2IC to JON, his organisation of RWC2003 in Australia was flawless. Wasn't Carroll in the running for the top job at the iRB?
Boomer
Alfred Walker (16)
Yep. Very astute call. Red-on-blue power struggle behind the scenes by all accounts.
Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
^^^ Now there is a surprise!
Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
I thought JON's assessment of where things were at was pretty good. He was unusually frank and I think was pretty realistic in his analysis.
He was right to fob off the question about Super Rugby results in 2012. The ability for him or the ARU in general to control the outcome of a single season of Super Rugby is negligable.
He was right to fob off the question about Super Rugby results in 2012. The ability for him or the ARU in general to control the outcome of a single season of Super Rugby is negligable.
Lior
Herbert Moran (7)
Great news. I think he got a bit stale in the last few years. Matt Caroll should do a good job on a temporary basis. Question is what do they do about this dropkick Robbie Deans? I do hope however it is an external appointment, and someone who will listen. Someone more importantly who will reform the system, and ensure that the last few years which have occurred a litany of administrative blunders are repaired. This requires an external and not internal appointment.
Schadenfreude
John Solomon (38)
Let's hope it goes to all the guys who screwed up the Tahs - That will leave the best administrators and coaches in Qld with very well rested players.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
what a quitter
rugbyisfun
Jimmy Flynn (14)
At the end of the day, the bloke is and has always been a banker. He will sit back and spin this and spin that until he disappears up his own arsehole.
His comments in the press conference today could not have been a clearer indication of how he has run the ARU during his tenure.
Top down focus, aggressive expansionism with absolutely no regard for the fact that the game has eroded considerably to the point where there needs to be a substantial rebuild from the ground up.
But its ok, the Lions are coming next year. That will fix everything.
His comments in the press conference today could not have been a clearer indication of how he has run the ARU during his tenure.
Top down focus, aggressive expansionism with absolutely no regard for the fact that the game has eroded considerably to the point where there needs to be a substantial rebuild from the ground up.
But its ok, the Lions are coming next year. That will fix everything.
Last time JON left as MD/CEO of the ARU, he was replaced by someone worse.
Let's hope it doesn't happen again.
Let's hope it doesn't happen again.
Brumby Jack
Steve Williams (59)
Footage just in following O'Neill's resignation..
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