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Let’s make sure we are being clear.
Twiggy offered RA under McLennan between $300m and & $500m and with his wife (while going through a divorce) publicly backed McLennan to remain chair.
Twiggy is now offering Herberts vision for RA $0, and has since invested in rugby league.
Accountability has to run both ways.
ANALYSIS: The Rebels aren't going down without a fight - and they might drag Rugby Australia down with them
Well, that’s another pointless conversation on the Roar…
I’m trying to have a conversation about whats best for Australian rugby because I’m deeply concerned about it – I think there is a genuine possibility that the professional game is approaching the end here.
But the roar just needs to keep grinding it’s axe. Cheika can’t have any credibility – because….well he’s from Sydney! How does he sleep at night…Jones was from Sydney too! There’s proof if you need it.
Sydney just needs to provide players. And money. And volunteers. And viewers, And votes. And not have an opinion. Because Australian rugby can’t beat NZ rugby until that happens and that’s what Australian rugby exists for…
I hope Joe gets 80%+because it’s a waste of time otherwise…
Watching a Slow car crash…
Schmidt's dossier: Coach details plans and timing on selections and assistants as new Wallaby era launches
Seriously mate, that’s not a debate point. Castle sent RA insolvent. Really not worth rehashing but entirely unjust to lay blame elsewhere.
Why things could be about to get even uglier for Rugby Australia in fallout over Rebels debacle
Yeah…. I think we can all be clear that Castle is the reason the ARU is in such debt. If you don’t understand that, well…perhaps go back to school, or just watch the 1,2,3,4,5,kick game.
Why things could be about to get even uglier for Rugby Australia in fallout over Rebels debacle
Are you serious?
He made it crystal clear he had a plan after consultation with Qld and ACT.
Neither McLennan nor Waugh nor Herbert built up the rebels debt.
But Herbert – with precisely the same information as McLennan (as a director) said he should be chairman because he had a different plan – what was it?! Is that what we are seeing here? Or is he incompetent? Or misleading?
Honestly the bias here is breathtaking.
Why things could be about to get even uglier for Rugby Australia in fallout over Rebels debacle
There’s nothing fair about those stat comparisons and you know it – the only picture is bad and worse.
I’m not defending Eddie, but the hyperbolic garbage that is parading as insight is worthless – even though it is effective in being harmful to the cause.
Moreover you are (as is the trend) intentionally avoiding the point. Which is about Aussie rugby, not Joe Schmidt or Dave Rennie.
Yet you inadvertently make my point for me. Which is that Rennies 35% is worth even less than Eddies 10% to Aussie rugby. Just ask Stan sport…
So how much success does Schmidt have to deliver to be of any benefit to us – I’d suggest about 80%. Because below that (and possibly even beyond that), it is only about Schmidt, and that is a story about NZ. And that is a bad thing for Aussie rugby.
And even though this is the bast chance in several generations to get those results (good young Aussies vs NZ without key players) it is unlikely.
This was the opportunity to invest in Aussie rugby – instead the doubled down on ZN. Ridiculous.
So yeah a dumb decision by desperate incompetents.
Schmidt's dossier: Coach details plans and timing on selections and assistants as new Wallaby era launches
And where is our amazing new chairman during this crisis?
Hamish claimed he was for 5 teams.
Herbert said we needed a new direction – is this what he meant? What were the conversations that were had to get the votes from the ACT to roll the chair?
It’s amazing how accountability seems to apply only to a few…
Why things could be about to get even uglier for Rugby Australia in fallout over Rebels debacle
And Rennie was the last God we were told we were so lucky to have – and he was an absolute disaster.
There is nothing good or clever happening here – it is a bigger risk than Eddie. Unless there is outrageous success it will reflect poorly o. Australian rugby. And if there is outrageous success it will be attributed to the coach not being Australian. It’s a dunb choice made by nervous incompetents.
Schmidt's dossier: Coach details plans and timing on selections and assistants as new Wallaby era launches
Leading candidates are well known – Cheika would be my personal pick.
Schmidt's dossier: Coach details plans and timing on selections and assistants as new Wallaby era launches
You have articulated very clearly why this was such a terrible decision for Aus rugby.
All gains will got to a genius outsider, any blame will go to Aus rugby – Joe will walk away Scott free or the genius.
Zero benefit to Aus in this situation – unless there is outrageous success. Which we would all put at low odds.
Schmidt's dossier: Coach details plans and timing on selections and assistants as new Wallaby era launches
I just cannot believe this bloke has been chosen to coach at such an incredibly important period of Australian rugby.
He’s probably a decent bloke and an okay coach. But unless he gets outrageous levels of success,rugby will simply continue its disappearing act, because he is as magnetic as a cardboard box.
Schmidt's dossier: Coach details plans and timing on selections and assistants as new Wallaby era launches
Dead-set legend.
This is the leadership Aussie rugby needs.
While everyone else in rugby is making excuses left right and centre – from the chairman, to the CEOs and coaches across the spectrum – DC rocks up and shows us what authentic accountability looks like.
Good luck DC – you’re up against it on the field and off it, but you are absolutely the best man to lift this team.
'If I get this team winning, I keep a job': DC's incredibly classy response to questions over his precarious future
Mate, any sympathy I had for you is out the window. What an astonishing lack of accountability.
What coach could possibly expect to keep his job with the performance he delivered? He was awful at the tahs and left the place an absolute mess.
There is context to every set of results – good and bad – but pretending to be upset after delivering Zero %?! I wouldn’t accept that attitude from my 9 year old.
Compare that to Colemans turnaround and his classy statements about his future and it becomes really embarrassing for Penny.
'They haven't learned anything': Crusaders' Penney opens on Tahs - and why he 'feels really sorry' for Coleman
Ah.
Well that does make more sense…
'Destroyed the soul of rugby': Ex-NZR boss delivers damning verdict of Super direction - and his plan to fix it
Well, it’s been a looooooong time since I really agreed with a kiwi about rugby.
How refreshing!
He thinks we should focus on the Aussie rugby community!
'Destroyed the soul of rugby': Ex-NZR boss delivers damning verdict of Super direction - and his plan to fix it
This well intentioned piece puts NZ rugby as the central focus of Australian rugby. Which is a common error.
Unfortunately, it is also one of the reasons the game here in Aus is in terminal decline.
Rugby is Aus is ncreeasingly becoming simply ‘the kiwi game’ – and as that continues, it will recede into oblivion until it is as relevant as the Aussie game (AFL) in NZ.
Poaching NZ coaches won't solve the Wallabies' woes - the real solution is a lot less sexy
I’m obviously not suggesting Herbert created the problem- in fact the insolvency risk at both the brumbies and rebels was a known issue when the board coup to implement Herbert took place.
What I’m asking is if there was a preconceived but undisclosed plan in place that led to the brumbies supporting Herbert in the board spill. Eg was there a back room deal done with the brumbies to ensure their survival at the expense of the rebels.
CONFIRMED: Rebels CEO made redundant and coaches have contract cuts as hopes of Super Rugby survival fade
Interesting piece – thanks.
It sounds something like promo/ relegation I. The EPL – will be interesting to see if it works.
How would the top teams rate against the top Shute Shield / Hospital Cup sides do you?
'Hunger Games in headgear': Why cash is flowing out west (and it's not to do with Twiggy)
Gee,
I wonder what Herbert, our new Qld RA chairman is up to?
Is this all part of the pitch he put forward when he took over?
Victoria voted against him, is there retribution at play?
ACT are also heavily in debt – will they also be left out to dry? Or will there be favouritism because they voted in favour of the Queenslander chair?
Or was there in fact collusion before that vote took place in the first place? Regulators might be interested also…
CONFIRMED: Rebels CEO made redundant and coaches have contract cuts as hopes of Super Rugby survival fade
ZANE! You are not permitted to say anything positive about ‘He who must not be named!’
The roar has decided he is the cause of every problem in Aus rugby…
Forgotten element of Eddie's coaching that can help the Wallabies rise again - and the young gun who benefitted from heartache
That was before they took over. Haven’t heard a thing since have we…
CONFIRMED: Rebels fall into voluntary administration as Rugby Australia seeks 'sustainable and successful future'
It would be a great shame if a city which has zero rugby culture was rewarded with the final- but RA is run by QRU. And Brisbane is not in the running.
CONFIRMED: Rebels fall into voluntary administration as Rugby Australia seeks 'sustainable and successful future'
Good chance Vic govt steps in in exchange for RWC27 GF.
CONFIRMED: Rebels fall into voluntary administration as Rugby Australia seeks 'sustainable and successful future'
Did Schmidt apply?
Or was he contacted?
I recall he suggested the latter…
So yeah, just more irrelevant bias from the Roar-trollers.
'Why would I want to?': Cheika's take on Schmidt, his plans for 2027 World Cup, and the job he has no interest in
These blokes are seriously out of their depth.
These ‘recommendations’ are written at the level of a KPMG junior BA – Who was clearly given the current plans of the CEO and has come up with a list of actions that ‘oh my gosh’ is precisely what they are already doing!
Junior level management from a big institution playbook.
Waugh reveals shocking $2.6 million unapproved budget blowout on Eddie Jones' World Cup debacle