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I just read Castle will be sacked this weekend and replaced by Kearns?
So long Australian rugby, at least you will always have the 90s
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Rugby:
I just read Castle will be sacked this weekend and replaced by Kearns?
So long Australian rugby, at least you will always have the 90s
It's April the 4th not the 1st!
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@barbarian said in Aussie Rugby:
Yeah it's all pretty fcked hey. Stopped reading about it frankly. What a cluster.
That applies to the entire world ATM!
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@barbarian said in Aussie Rugby:
Yeah it's all pretty fcked hey. Stopped reading about it frankly. What a cluster.
But you and @mariner4life know where it is coming from, right? Let's look at the articles:
A tumultuous 12-months has put the writing on the wall for Rugby Australia’s CEO Raelene Castle according to reports, with a former skipper set to step in.
Time looks to have run out on Raelene Castle’s tenure as Rugby Australia CEO.
Reports have indicated ...
with the final nail in the coffin for Castle being the failed bid to secure a new broadcast deal.
Reports indicate Castle may be lucky to survive the weekend.Raelene Castle’s days as Rugby Australia CEO appear numbered, a growing number of reports suggesting there is mounting pressure for a leadership change within the struggling sporting organisation.
“They must be kidding. Gave themselves a score of 20/25 for participation … For igniting passion in the game they gave a score of 21/25,” a correspondent told The Australian.
Another source told The Australian, “People are amazed (Castle) has hung on this long, everyone knows it has to come to an end soon,” and the coming few days could be pivotal for the RA CEO.The always execrable Christy (not a girl) Doran chimes in with some of his own rubbish
Exclusive: In yet another shambolic clerical error, sources say that Rugby Australia was forced to pay Wallabies hall of famer Stephen Larkham hundreds of thousands of dollars after then-coach Michael Cheika sacked him as his assistant in late 2018.
This of course is led by the following photo:
And then the fucking circle jerk from Alan Jones, Phil Kearns, and Rod Kafer - the latter 2 drawing a paycheque from Murdoch and/or sucking the broadcast establishment's dick.
Gee... the abusive lover - FoxSports - spurned, suddenly turns nasty
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Rugby:
I just read Castle will be sacked this weekend and replaced by Kearns?
So long Australian rugby, at least you will always have the 90s
You could almost understand the panic in Australian Rugby right now, but given the projections of the loss they expect to incur over this year with no product, it's a bit harsh to blame the current board. This train wreck has its formulation well over a decade ago.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Rugby:
You could almost understand the panic in Australian Rugby right now, but given the projections of the loss they expect to incur over this year with no product, it's a bit harsh to blame the current board. This train wreck has its formulation well over a decade ago.
And even if we employed the best possible governance and made all the right decisions in the last decade, we'd STILL be rooted to a certain extent. Not that I'm excusing past decision-makers, rather highlighting how challenging this situation is.
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@barbarian said in Aussie Rugby:
@antipodean said in Aussie Rugby:
You could almost understand the panic in Australian Rugby right now, but given the projections of the loss they expect to incur over this year with no product, it's a bit harsh to blame the current board. This train wreck has its formulation well over a decade ago.
And even if we employed the best possible governance and made all the right decisions in the last decade, we'd STILL be rooted to a certain extent. Not that I'm excusing past decision-makers, rather highlighting how challenging this situation is.
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@rotated said in Aussie Rugby:
Any tips for Ralene on how to handle this one Alan Joyce or have you got enough issues of your own?
World class virtue signalers, piss poor administrators.
Oh that they are.
"Earlier this week Castle indicated she will take a 50 per cent pay cut (she will now earn $400,000 a year) and stood down 100 of her fellow Rugby Australia staff members for three months."
What did $800,000 per annum produce? A hundred clerks preparing PowerPoint presentations on “brand recognition”, “employee engagement”, “fan engagement”, “towards zero emissions”, “diversity and inclusion”? They couldn't have fitted a dozen clerks in the comfortable Rugby Place in the CBD, from which modest base the Qantas Competitive Wallabies won lots of times.
You've got to wonder by what measure a nexus exists between 100 staff and $800,000 and a half dozen or so matches a year plus an end of year tour which looks after itself - booked in advance by the client's travel agent, every little detail, and managed in the field by the team manager. My son's First XV scrum half went from school to be Wallabies "bag man" for several years (foregoing his opportunity to go on to Eastwood Colts with his team-mates) including the '91 World Cup and he did most of the daily legwork on their tours.
Whole families manage to travel to Disneyland USA and back without having to take their life coach with them.
KPI driven triple bottom line fantasies with multi-million dollar negative results.
Once the dill is punted the "they can’t handle a strong woman/sacked for being a woman" meme will get a run. On the very same day that the Australian Prime Minister will be torn to shreds because his decisions don't suit this lobby or that, and on which not one person will come forward to excuse his actions on the sole basis that he is a bloke.
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@NTA said in Aussie Rugby:
In the event this does come to pass, I wonder how many clubs I can convince to cease payment of the RA "levy"?
Gee - I recall when Brett Papworth, President of Eastwood Rugby, put something like that forward and was dismissed here as an old fool who had no idea at all about the modern game. :face_savouring_delicious_food:
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@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD said in Aussie Rugby:
@NTA said in Aussie Rugby:
In the event this does come to pass, I wonder how many clubs I can convince to cease payment of the RA "levy"?
Gee - I recall when Brett Papworth, President of Eastwood Rugby, put something like that forward and was dismissed here as an old fool who had no idea at all about the modern game. :face_savouring_delicious_food:
Personally speaking, I dismiss him because he's in charge of a club that can't even balance its own books.
The problem with Pappy's circular argument on rugby in Australia is the same problem Kearns, Poidevin, etc hang their hat on: "Club Rugby gave us 2 World Cups!"
Which appeals to the dim old farts who mutter into their beer about someone not being from the right school or "a good rugby man" being needed to run things.
There is a lot of waste in rugby, but if anyone seriously believes the grift at head office stops with the appointment Kearns, they've not been paying attention.
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@Bovidae said in Aussie Rugby:
Dave Rennie might be having a closer look at his contract and if it has any release clause.
He took over the Poo when the coach just left ... the Poo! I think he likes getting shit and trying to mould it into diamonds.
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