Nucifora GONE!

[GaffaCHinO]

ARU High Performance Manager David Nucifora has resigned.
Nucifora has performed the HPU role since 2008. He has also acted as a Wallabies selector and assistant coach under Robbie Deans and coached the Australian U20s.
A former Queensland and Wallabies hooker, Nucifora guided the Brumbies to the Super Rugby title in 2004 amid player unrest and was also in charge of the Blues.
Nucifora was closely aligned to former ARU chief executive John O'Neill, who recently stepped down to concentrate on his role as chairman of Echo Entertainment.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...a-quits-aru-role/story-e6frg7o6-1226541102361

 

[brokendown]

where's he going to bob up next?

 

[Braveheart81]

where's he going to bob up next?

ARU CEO.

Resigning from the ARU first was to make it appear like more of an arms length appointment.

 

[No4918]

2 down, 1 to go.

Happy days!

 

[swingpass]

is that a tunnel and a light i see

 

[qwerty51]

Candidates for u20s?

 

[TOCC]

Might be a good bloke, I don't know...

But it's good to see a changing of the guard at the ARU

 

[Brumby Jack]

Might be a good bloke, I don't know.

Depends where you ask - Canberra and Auckland are not the places to ask.

It's bizarre that the head of the high performance unit was also the U20's coach.

May as well leave Dracula in charge of the blood bank.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

I don't know the bloke, but I have to say hooray. I don't know that he's achieved much that is worthwhile in his tenure.

 

[Brumbieman]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESS!!!!


SO, all we now have to get rid of is Deans, and then we might finally start playing to our actual potential.

 

[fatprop]

Depends where you ask - Canberra and Auckland are not the places to ask.

It's bizarre that the head of the high performance unit was also the U20's coach.

May as well leave Dracula in charge of the blood bank.

Why?
What are the issues with it?

 

[Braveheart81]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESS!!!!


SO, all we now have to do is get rid of is Deans, and then we can start making the same complaints about three new people.

FTFY.

 

[Brumby Jack]

Why?
What are the issues with it?

Should be doing one or the other, not both and neglecting the primary role.

 

[fatprop]

Should be doing one or the other, not both and neglecting the primary role.

Being devils advocate, the two roles are pretty interrelated, and the Aus U20s role is no full time job.

But it would have worked better if he was a better coach

 

[Groucho]

Should be doing one or the other, not both and neglecting the primary role.

Ah yes, now your simile makes sense. Dracula running the blood bank is multitasking.

 

[ChargerWA]

First of all we get more Richie McCaw fan fiction on the front page and then Nucifora resigns. It really is Christmas.

 

[qwerty51]

High Performance roles in sport are pretty ambiguous, I'm guessing he's in charge of development up to the Wallabies which includes the u20s, the two roles are pretty interlaced, nothing wrong with him doing both. Obviously he wasn't actually good at either though...

 

[wamberal]

If the Wallabies performed as badly as the under 20s did this season, Deans would be out on his ear.


On top of that, the senior players had their worst injury toll in my memory, surely also cause for Nucifora to walk the plank,

 

[The Red Baron]

Well this news is heartening. Still some more deadweight to clear out though.

 

[emuarse]

I only hope he has a career path elsewhere.
He might have been advised the writing was on the wall.
So who will be the next CEO - it's only two working days until Xmas and the ARU have said that they expected the new CEO to be announced prior to.
OMG..it's not... it couldn't be.