• Categories
Collapse

The Silver Fern

NZR review

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Sports Talk
776 Posts 54 Posters 48.5k Views
NZR review
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • Number 10N Offline
    Number 10N Offline
    Number 10
    wrote on last edited by
    #368

    NZR and the provincial unions are all set up as Incorporated Societies. They get an exemption from paying tax because they are set up to promote amateur sport.

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • G Offline
    G Offline
    Godder
    replied to nzzp on last edited by
    #369

    @nzzp said in NZR review:

    @Godder thanks for that.

    If the PU still 'own' the pro game, but appoint a board to run as an independent business, do they still pay tax? Surely the transfer of a surplus to the parent body doesn't attract the liability as the parent body is tax-exempt.

    I'm not an accountant, so terminology may be totally wrong.

    If it's a separate for-profit entity, the surplus would be taxable. Imputation credits on the dividends would be refunded after filing a tax return, but to avoid all tax, the entity would not be able to retain any amount from the surplus. Possibly there are other options around licensing and/or management fees but that's a good way to attract IRD's attention for an avoidance arrangement.

    Appointing a separate arms-length board to run the professional game within the NZRU is fine.

    nzzpN 1 Reply Last reply
    4
  • nzzpN Offline
    nzzpN Offline
    nzzp
    replied to Godder on last edited by nzzp
    #370

    @Godder tell us you're an accountant, without telling us you're an accountant 🙂

    Edit: thanks though - I think I got that after a second read over. Useful.

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • DuluthD Offline
    DuluthD Offline
    Duluth
    wrote on last edited by Duluth
    #371
    NPC, Sport, Rugby

    NZR sets date for special general meeting to decide governance structure

    NZR sets date for special general meeting to decide governance structure

    The end of May will hopefully see a resolution to the ongoing conflict.

    So that sounds like the NZR boards alternate proposal isn’t being voted on?

    A few weeks ago it was the boards proposal vs the PU proposal without the actual review recommendation

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • M Offline
    M Offline
    Machpants
    wrote on last edited by Machpants
    #372

    No I don't think they've got it right, other articles mention NZR proposal, PU proposal, and NZRPA saying they want the pilkington in full.

    May 1, 2024  /  Sport

    NZ Rugby governance reform: Board and provincial unions to go head-to-head

    NZ Rugby governance reform: Board and provincial unions to go head-to-head

    A vote on what has been labelled a generational change to the governance structure of New Zealand Rugby will take place at the end of the month.

    DuluthD 2 Replies Last reply
    0
  • DuluthD Offline
    DuluthD Offline
    Duluth
    replied to Machpants on last edited by
    #373

    @Machpants

    Yeah that sounds right, that's what was reported earlier.

    If the original proposal was voted on as well there would be 3 options

    What a mess. It should've been an up/down vote on Pilkington before any counter proposals were put forward.

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • DuluthD Offline
    DuluthD Offline
    Duluth
    replied to Machpants on last edited by
    #374

    @Machpants said in NZR review:

    No I don't think they've got it right, other articles mention NZR proposal, PU proposal, and NZRPA saying they want the pilkington in full.

    Apparently not. NZR ditched their plan and are putting up the Pilkington proposal for a vote

    From a paywalled NZH article:

    That was until now, and the surprise announcement that the board has effectively given up trying to push its own strangely concocted and confused transitional plan to change its governance structure, and has instead decided to ask the unions to vote in favour of adopting the key recommendations of the independent review.
    

    So it will be Pilkington vs the PU proposal

    Here's some of the language for the PU proposal (@Winger this is the one you support right?)

    that at least one board member has “lived experience, knowledge and understanding of te ao Māori in a complex organisational context”, and likewise, at least one member “must identify and have lived experience as Pasifika with ancestral and authentic cultural connections and an ability to apply a Pasifika world view in a complex organisational context”
    

    Also the PU proposal will be finalised next week.. they are still writing it

    As for support for the PU proposal?

    Wellington chair Russell Poole says there is not universal support among the unions for their own proposal, but that until more detail is released about the alternative, it’s unclear how much support it will have.
    
    WingerW Number 10N 2 Replies Last reply
    1
  • M Offline
    M Offline
    Machpants
    wrote on last edited by
    #375

    Oh wow, talk about chaos

    1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • WingerW Offline
    WingerW Offline
    Winger
    replied to Duluth on last edited by Winger
    #376

    @Duluth said in NZR review:

    Here's some of the language for the PU proposal (@Winger this is the one you support right?)

    Its looks VG to me. A professional proposal. Whereas I thought the NZR was poor so thankfully it's been dropped.

    My view is the Unions should accept Pilkington and fight for one change only. That is the 3 Board members suggestion. But even here maybe it's not necessary with the "deep knowledge of the game" section.

    But it looks like NZR will end up with Pilkington with maybe just a few changes. And hopefully a different chair and lots of new Board members.

    DuluthD 1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • DuluthD Offline
    DuluthD Offline
    Duluth
    replied to Winger on last edited by
    #377

    @Winger said in NZR review:

    A professional proposal

    They haven't finished writing it yet. Very professional.

    WingerW 1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • WingerW Offline
    WingerW Offline
    Winger
    replied to Duluth on last edited by Winger
    #378

    @Duluth said in NZR review:

    @Winger said in NZR review:

    A professional proposal

    They haven't finished writing it yet. Very professional.

    Ops. I was referring to Pilkington. I don't know about the PU proposal (I haven't seen it). I was just comparing the 2 that have been published

    Pilkington seems VG to me. Esp compared to NZR

    DuluthD 1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • BovidaeB Offline
    BovidaeB Offline
    Bovidae
    wrote on last edited by
    #379

    A good read about some of the disconnect between NZR, SR and the PUs.

    The Post
    1 Reply Last reply
    3
  • BovidaeB Offline
    BovidaeB Offline
    Bovidae
    wrote on last edited by
    #380

    Part 2:

    The Post
    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • G Offline
    G Offline
    Godder
    wrote on last edited by
    #381

    Seems to be some difficulty working out which entities are the high performance pathways. Everyone probably agrees that the international teams are the pinnacles, starting with the ABs and working down from there.

    Everyone probably also agrees that clubs and schools are the engine rooms of amateur rugby.

    Deciding whether to have one or two layers of pro rugby and one or two layers of high performance pathways between the two seems to be much harder since even agreement that there should be one of each doesn't automatically lead to agreement on which one of each to retain.

    My hunch is that if the provincial unions didn't have the votes, this would be a lot easier to decide, and there would be one pro layer below the All Blacks.

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • DuluthD Offline
    DuluthD Offline
    Duluth
    wrote on last edited by
    #382
    Stuff
    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • Number 10N Offline
    Number 10N Offline
    Number 10
    replied to Duluth on last edited by
    #383

    @Duluth said in NZR review:

    @Machpants said in NZR review:

    No I don't think they've got it right, other articles mention NZR proposal, PU proposal, and NZRPA saying they want the pilkington in full.

    Apparently not. NZR ditched their plan and are putting up the Pilkington proposal for a vote

    From a paywalled NZH article:

    That was until now, and the surprise announcement that the board has effectively given up trying to push its own strangely concocted and confused transitional plan to change its governance structure, and has instead decided to ask the unions to vote in favour of adopting the key recommendations of the independent review.
    

    So it will be Pilkington vs the PU proposal

    Here's some of the language for the PU proposal (@Winger this is the one you support right?)

    that at least one board member has “lived experience, knowledge and understanding of te ao Māori in a complex organisational context”, and likewise, at least one member “must identify and have lived experience as Pasifika with ancestral and authentic cultural connections and an ability to apply a Pasifika world view in a complex organisational context”
    

    Also the PU proposal will be finalised next week.. they are still writing it

    As for support for the PU proposal?

    Wellington chair Russell Poole says there is not universal support among the unions for their own proposal, but that until more detail is released about the alternative, it’s unclear how much support it will have.
    

    No, the Pilkington report is not being voted on at the EGM on the 30th.

    It is the NZR counter proposal v the Provincial Union's counter proposal.

    0a51a170-b72b-4e87-b373-dfa66d38d7c8-image.png

    DuluthD 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • DuluthD Offline
    DuluthD Offline
    Duluth
    replied to Number 10 on last edited by
    #384

    @Number-10

    Isn’t that Pilkington plus a timeline? That was reported everywhere last week and commented on by the players association

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • M Offline
    M Offline
    Machpants
    wrote on last edited by
    #385

    You still have to convert what is in the Pilkington report to a proposal, so more correctly NZR are offering a proposal that is what is recommended in the report - you can't dump a report on the table and say this is it. It's a report that has a recommended course of action, NZR proposal now follows that course of action

    1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • TimT Away
    TimT Away
    Tim
    wrote on last edited by
    #386

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350285450/nzrpa-threatens-walk-away-new-zealand-rugby-extraordinary-letter

    Dan54D 1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • BovidaeB Offline
    BovidaeB Offline
    Bovidae
    wrote on last edited by
    #387

    I was just reading that article. It does clarify that the NZRPA only represents the SR players (professional) as they state that NZR would have control over community and provincial rugby.

    NepiaN 1 Reply Last reply
    2

NZR review
Sports Talk
  • Login

  • Don't have an account? Register

  • Login or register to search.
  • First post
    Last post
0
  • Categories
  • Login

  • Don't have an account? Register

  • Login or register to search.