NZR review
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I really not arguing one way or other on board make up, can see both sides. I know the PUs want a say rightly, but to say we need reps who have experience on boards and so hopefully experience on ground running community game, is perhaps like saying big companies that own grocery chains etc should have people on their board that have managed store or worked on tills etc. Really there are completely different needs to all different jobs etc.
I will give example one of best rugby club admins I saw I think was when club I was involved in in Aus got a committee (who basically decided how club spent money etc etc) was made up of jokers who were all businessmen (Lawyer was Pres, there were 2 accountants, mangers of businesses etc) and had nothing to do with senior or junior committees or teams etc. Were incredibly efficient, and while I didn't agree with every decision, they did nothing but good for club, seemed to be removed from petty things that go on in club. We had a senior committee and junior club committees below them, I was on senior committee and just had to say to myself how bloody good it was removing admin from actual playing/team probs.
I have been on a few rugby committees , PU, Jabs etc etc in my life , but when I stop and think that was probably best system I saw. -
@Dan54 said in NZR review:
I really not arguing one way or other on board make up, can see both sides. I know the PUs want a say rightly, but to say we need reps who have experience on boards and so hopefully experience on ground running community game,
I think they are only asking for 3 out of 9 board positions.
And surely there are some people involved at this level who have good accounting or business skills etc.
I really don't see what the issue is. This year it all seems to be, with super rugby, heading in the right direction. With the current board
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@Winger yep as I said I not arguing one way or other, just it's not clear cut and can see both sides. It's not about accountants etc as such, but the right skills to manage what needs to be managed, I haven't really seen how other sports run their top bodies.
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@Dan54 said in NZR review:
@Winger yep as I said I not arguing one way or other, just it's not clear cut and can see both sides. It's not about accountants etc as such, but the right skills to manage what needs to be managed, I haven't really seen how other sports run their top bodies.
Corruptly?
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@nzzp said in NZR review:
Made me think about who owns NZR
I think this is important. From my understanding of the review there was no place for anyone representing the owners of the game.
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@Winger said in NZR review:
I really don't see what the issue is. This year it all seems to be, with super rugby, heading in the right direction. With the current board
SR has been farmed off to it's own independent team, so this seems a point in favour of an independent board.
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@Higgins said in NZR review:
@Dan54 said in NZR review:
@Winger yep as I said I not arguing one way or other, just it's not clear cut and can see both sides. It's not about accountants etc as such, but the right skills to manage what needs to be managed, I haven't really seen how other sports run their top bodies.
Corruptly?
Well if you seen it in other sports, fair enough, but regardless I still don't know how they set up boards etc.
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@booboo said in NZR review:
@nzzp said in NZR review:
Made me think about who owns NZR
I think this is important. From my understanding of the review there was no place for anyone representing the owners of the game.
Well who owns the game anyway? Noy PUs, or NZR etc. I think the review suggested the most quaified should be on board?
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@Dan54 said in NZR review:
@booboo said in NZR review:
@nzzp said in NZR review:
Made me think about who owns NZR
I think this is important. From my understanding of the review there was no place for anyone representing the owners of the game.
Well who owns the game anyway? Noy PUs, or NZR etc. I think the review suggested the most quaified should be on board?
The PU literally own NZ rugby. It's theirs.
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@nzzp said in NZR review:
@Dan54 said in NZR review:
@booboo said in NZR review:
@nzzp said in NZR review:
Made me think about who owns NZR
I think this is important. From my understanding of the review there was no place for anyone representing the owners of the game.
Well who owns the game anyway? Noy PUs, or NZR etc. I think the review suggested the most quaified should be on board?
The PU literally own NZ rugby. It's theirs.
@Dan54 see the above post.
I'll go a little deeper though @nzzp. Who owns the PUs?
Answer: the clubs.
Next question: who owns the clubs?
Answer: the members
I accept the governance structure is wrong and needs to change, but the review recommendations, IIRC, do not allow any place for the owners of the game within the governance. Only for a bunch of "stakeholders" with particular interest.
The PUs, well some of them, have lost focus on what they stand for as winning the NPC, and buying a team to do so, is no longer the prestigious prize it used to be. (The NPC needs to continue as the rep comp it used to be.) But representation direct from the grassroots through the PUs is 100% necessary.
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@Machpants said in NZR review:
@Winger said in NZR review:
I really don't see what the issue is. This year it all seems to be, with super rugby, heading in the right direction. With the current board
SR has been farmed off to it's own independent team, so this seems a point in favour of an independent board.
But this was agreed to by the current Board. And seems to be a big step in the right direction.
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@booboo said in NZR review:
I think this is important. From my understanding of the review there was no place for anyone representing the owners of the game.
Which is a nonsense recommendation. It puts so-called experts on a pedestal. It's a naive recommendation where everything will be fine if we somehow get the right 'experts' in place. And as I've said previously it insulting to all the members who have helped to make NZ rugby what it is
Dame Patsy thinks diversity (discrimination especially against white men) is the answer. Boeing might be one example that suggests otherwise
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@Winger said in NZR review:
Dame Patsy thinks diversity (discrimination especially against white men) is the answer. Boeing might be one example that suggests otherwise
Do you know she's speaking DEI or diversity of professional experience? I.e. someone with demonstrated success in marketing, in finance etc?
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@nzzp said in NZR review:
@Dan54 said in NZR review:
@booboo said in NZR review:
@nzzp said in NZR review:
Made me think about who owns NZR
I think this is important. From my understanding of the review there was no place for anyone representing the owners of the game.
Well who owns the game anyway? Noy PUs, or NZR etc. I think the review suggested the most quaified should be on board?
The PU literally own NZ rugby. It's theirs.
Mate see booboo's point, no way dp PU's own the game. I not saying which is right way for game to be run, and strongly rubbish comments from some on here about the Blazer brigade that run PU's too. Have never had that impression of any PU board that I have had dealings with , etc. The PU's in general are made up of reps frpm clubs, and the biggest struggle they can have is clubs will get their reps to vote for waht suits their club etc. With too much sway by PU's on NZR the same will apply, and no way do the probelms etc of running rugby in say Auckland the same as running it in Taranaki etc. That rightly or wrongly is why I suggest they are trying to take PUs out of picture? I am guessing there, but would assume that is one of reasons. Anyone even talking about Super boards etc are well off track, they don't have reps on NZR and never have.
@Winger 'asking what if baord is incompetent or corrupt is just trying to muddy water, that is trouble whatever way you form board!!
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@antipodean said in NZR review:
@Winger said in NZR review:
Dame Patsy thinks diversity (discrimination especially against white men) is the answer. Boeing might be one example that suggests otherwise
Do you know she's speaking DEI or diversity of professional experience? I.e. someone with demonstrated success in marketing, in finance etc?
“But there are different ways of doing this, and having a bar, or having a requirement that at least three members of the board must have that [provincial union] governance experience is unnecessarily restrictive.
“It sets in place a criterion that will cut out or could cut out people that have equally as strong understanding of the game.”
The NZ Rugby proposal would also pave the way for a ‘stakeholder council’ that Reddy saw as crucial to give more of a voice to diverse communities, Pasifika, women and younger participants.
“Over the last 10 or 12 years, there've been five separate governance reviews into our structure, our governance, our leadership structure, and each time there's been some incremental change, but it has not delivered the reform that everybody's seeking,” Dame Patsy said.
Should Reddy resign, it would mean a short tenure for the first woman to chair NZ Rugby since it was founded in 1892.
Asked what message that would send about NZ Rugby as an organisation, she said: “I think that's for you to consider.
“For me it's being honest, it's being upfront with the provincial unions in the first instance, but also the wider rugby stakeholders - and indeed the public - to say that one of the principles that I firmly believe in is the time is right to have not only a diverse board, not only a board that has the opportunity for constructive feedback from a wider range of stakeholders, but a board that has that an independent position, all appointed through the same appointments process.
"And for me, that's a fundamental requirement.“
The NZ Rugby proposal is now being weighed up by the provincial unions.
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@booboo said in NZR review:
@Dan54 said in NZR review:
no way dp PU's own the game.
But they do represent the owners.
Spot on.
As @booboo said, it's the members who own the clubs who own the PU. They have to have a major say in how the game is run.
Professional rugby needs different skills. PU don't always have that. But ultimately having the PU cut out of the board seems weird to me.
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@Dan54 said in NZR review:
On the diversity thing, everyone does remember we lost Gov't grants because of not enough women on board? So diversity is a requirement.
The thing with this requirement is that all women on the NZR Board will be considered a diversity as opposed to a merit appointment. And it won't stop with the Board if it's not stopped. Men (esp white) need to find their backbone again and fight this sort of stuff.
Having said that I support more PI, Maori and women involved but always based on merit. Nothing else
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@Winger a stakeholder council isn't a board. I don't see a problem with asking women as an example what they see as lacking from their game. Doesn't mean NZR are bound to provide it, just consider it.
