I really miss the "Rugby News" programme .surely the SRU (who?) could distribute the team sheets each week. What do they actually do for their dollar????
Couldn't agree more!!!!
With all these professional sports managers working for the ARU/NSWRU/SRU using terms and buzzwords like "product" & "engaging with stakeholders" they may not get it.
It's unbelievably unprofessional that the bodies which run rugby (ie NSWRU and SRU) cannot provide a program at SS games and rely instead on a third party which they are apparently not even prepared to provide financial assistance to.
Dave, the SRU was a wasted body a long time before the evolution of the NRC. They do not have a website or a contact address for correspondence. (Maybe they don't want to hear from the paying public...sorry.stakeholders!)
These comments are a little laughable. What dollar? Professional sports managers at NSWRU and SRU, what!? NSWRU and SRU don't actually exist as big organisations, you know, right?
Last I heard, it was something like this - NSWRU has a grand total of 3 FTE employees. The Executive Director, the lady doing the ref appointments, 0.5 of the guy who runs NSW Country Rugby and 0.5 of the ref manager. (They may now also contribute to Nicki Drinkwater who previously was Waratahs media person mostly but has been doing some NSWRU media stuff once Russell Fairfax came on board for the Tahs).
SRU employs..... 0 people I believe. It basically doesn't exist. That's why they don't have a bloody website! It's a collection of the club's representatives who get together to make decisions on the comps, nothing more.
The person who "runs" the Premiership comp (i.e. the comp manager) who does comp tables/transfers/judiciary etc etc is actually a Suburban Rugby Union employee.