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AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy - Managing Director and CEO of Australian Rugby John O'Neill
It’s been a tough year already for Australian rugby, with controversies over the future of the ELVs, the future of Super Rugby, ructions off the field with the Western Force, and the lacklustre play of the Waratahs.
Television audiences have been down for Super 14 rugby and crowd attendances have fallen.
The ARU has turned in a solid year with its accounts, thanks to some cost-cutting. And it has signed up a new sponsor, Castrol, to support the Wallabies.
So, in the light in all of this, we’ve organised for John O’Neill, the CEO of the ARU, to answer questions from the readers of The Roar. He’s happy to respond to what you consider to be the pressing issues Australian rugby is facing.
So let’s have them!
Just to get you going, here are a couple of questions The Roar would kick off with:
1. Was the ARU and the other supporters of the ELVs rolled on these changes by the British diehards? And if you weren’t rolled, how effective in the presentation of rugby as a spectacle are the changes to the laws the IRB will ratify?
2. What is the financial state of the ARU now and looking into the future?
3. Just what are the stumbling blocks to a revamped Super Rugby tournament the ARU and the NZRU are facing, and what is a likely outcome of the current negotiations?
Now it’s time for readers of The Roar to give us questions we can present to John O’Neill. Leave your question as a comment under this post and we’ll select the best four or five of them to pass onto him.
Join The Roar rugby editor Christy Doran, former Wallaby Matt Toomua and a cast of regular and special guests as they look at the biggest issues in the game on The Roar Rugby Podcast. If you’re looking for great odds on the next game check out Aussie bookmaker PlayUp. Chances are you’re about to lose. Set a deposit limit.