Wallaby Captaincy

[Quick Hands]

Where has ARU Chairman Michael Hawker been during the ARU crisis?

 

[Strewthcobber]

If it is beyond the coach to appoint a manager to do this adequately,then serious questions should've asked about his capacity to fulfil his role.

Hi Ewen, it's Bill.
Just wanted you to know that it's absolutely your call how you'd like to set up your management structure.
Oh by the way, the money you had last year to pay the Team Manager's salary - yeah, that's not available any more. But I'll fully back your proposal.

Asked whether Egerton would be replaced, ARU chief executive Bill Pulver said: “Not directly as a Wallaby manager. That’s still a work in progress. We have not appointed a new Wallaby manager.
“Ewen is structuring that Wallaby team environment slightly differently. The roles are changing shape, basically. I doubt Rob’s existing role as it was will be replaced. It’s going to be part of a new structure.”

 

[Tomikin]

A

 

[It is what it is]

A

joke, it's an absolute joke!

 

[Lee Grant]

Where has ARU Chairman Michael Hawker been during the ARU crisis?

It's not Hawker's job to handle the matter.

Typically a Chairman would be behind the scenes unless policy matters need to be aired in public, say, after a board meeting.

Hawker would have been in contact with Pulver (who incidentally, is CEO and not a director as O'Neill was) to apply the blowtorch on handling the controversy, more times than Pulver would like, but the public wouldn't get to hear about it.

I'm not saying that Pulver needs a Chairman's call to act on a matter, but when he does he has to be listened to.
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[boyo]

Where has ARU Chairman Michael Hawker been during the ARU crisis?

Ssshhh.

It's a secret.

 

[TOCC]

I can't think of another sport apart from Cricket where the players hold so much power as they do in rugby union, i guess it comes as no surprise that the two codes are now having dinners together and cross-promoting..

Rugby Union players are the wharfies of Australian sport.

 

[TOCC]

Where has ARU Chairman Michael Hawker been during the ARU crisis?

Negotiating new broadcast rights and trying to manage the first season of the NRC perhaps?

Yes this 'crisis' is a big issue, but i would be disappointed if all the key players were focussing primarily on the issue, surely they have enough faith in each others ability to delegate and distribute the workload effectively so that other key issues in Australian Rugby don't get glossed over as a result of an argument over a t-shirt.

 

[Strewthcobber]

He's got a few other things on his plate too....

Voting Director of Macquarie Bank since March 2010
Chairman of the Board Governance and Compliance Committee
Member of the Board Audit Committee
Member of the Board Nominating Committee
Member of the Board Risk Committee



Currently, Mr Hawker is also Chairman of the George Institute for Global Health, a member of the George Institute for Global Health (UK) and a Director of Aviva Plc Group, the largest insurance provider in the UK. He is also Director of Washington H Soul Pattinson and Company Limited and Chairman of Australian Rugby Union. Mr Hawker is a member of the International Rugby Board Council, the Executive Committee of the International Rugby Board and of the board of trustees of the Giant Steps Foundation.

 

[Sully]

Stay on topic.

 

[flat_eric]

We all seem to be forgetting about David Pocock. Should he regain full fitness and get back to his best, which I understand is a big if at this point, there won't even be room for Hooper in the starting side let alone a captain's role. Poey was one of the world's best before his devastating run of injuries.

 

[Highlander35]

Oh no, incoming TWAS! Incoming TWAS to remind us all that maybe Pocock wasn't as good as we remember him, and he may never reach that height again!

 

[Tomikin]

Oh no, incoming TWAS! Incoming TWAS to remind us all that maybe Pocock wasn't as good as we remember him, and he may never reach that height again!

Toot Toot

 

[Tomikin]

We all seem to be forgetting about David Pocock. Should he regain full fitness and get back to his best, which I understand is a big if at this point, there won't even be room for Hooper in the starting side let alone a captain's role. Poey was one of the world's best before his devastating run of injuries.

Balance in the backrow.

Hooper and Fardy or Higgers and Poey.

 

[Train Without a Station]

Oh no, incoming TWAS! Incoming TWAS to remind us all that maybe Pocock wasn't as good as we remember him, and he may never reach that height again!

It's not that I want to play down Pocock. But I'm sick of people saying he's forgotten. Clearly he isn't. It's been 2 years and people still won't shut up about him.

 

[Sully]

I'm with TWAS. He wasn't as good as people remember. But he was good. And his captaining was crap.

 

[Brumby Runner]

I'm with TWAS. He wasn't as good as people remember. But he was good. And his captaining was crap.

And his captaining probably wasn't as bad as some remember.

 

[Train Without a Station]

If Pocock never plays again he will go down as the greatest player in the history of the game. Never missed a tackle, took the entire opposition pack to clean him out, could defend a maul on his own, took 3 players just to tackle him.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Referee interpretations of the breakdown laws have changed in the two years Bam Bam has been out of the game. They now give more advantage to the tackled players side than when Bam Bam was the poster boy for Australian Rugby. We have not seen him operate under these new interpretations.
I'm reserving judgement on him until he gets a few Super Rugby games under his belt. There is little doubt that he is a talented athlete but I don't think he is the saviour of Club Wallaby that some make him out to be.

Captain material? He has a lot to learn.

 

[Train Without a Station]

My biggest criticism is his greatest performances are at the mercy of officiating in some regards.