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    Machpants
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    #4376

    A lot of dumb ozzies conflating centralization and keeping that twat. You can get rid of him and still centralize, you can under someone who has brains and is trustworthy and won't take a dump on Ozzie rugby for a few headlines like the league kid or Eddie

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    • TimT Away
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      You really, really wouldn't want Australian high performance rugby centralised under the losing culture of NSW.

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        McLennan gone.

        Board voted him out as chairman.

        https://twitter.com/tomdecent/status/1726198904772010205

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          I think it more a case of asking him to resign altogether, and him saying "but I want to be a petulant fluffybunny so I'm going to say you asked me to stay"

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          • KiwiMurphK KiwiMurph

            McLennan gone.

            Board voted him out as chairman.

            https://twitter.com/tomdecent/status/1726198904772010205

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            @KiwiMurph said in Aussie Rugby:

            McLennan gone.

            Board voted him out as chairman.

            https://twitter.com/tomdecent/status/1726198904772010205

            Good riddance fuckwit. I'd do it again

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              https://www.rugby.com.au/news/rugby-australia-announces-daniel-herbert-as-new-chair-as-hamish-mclennan-steps-down-20231119

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                Geoff's take. Interesting comment in there too

                RA is left with two highly inexperienced administrators, with no real business leadership experience between them, walking a financial tight rope, upcoming TV rights negotiations and major reforms desperately needed.

                More good rugby men running a pro business. Basically what NZR report said we need to get away from. I don't know what experience those two have but I'd it enough?

                Apparently RA had lost a minor sponsored and Cadbury is on the way out, too

                What a mess before a potential golden period. Now that's looking more like an orange time for Ozzie 😞
                https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/11/19/analysis-mclennans-fatal-blind-spot-and-why-his-exit-leaves-australian-rugby-in-a-better-place-and-a-worse-one/

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                  What do the states do now?

                  They got what they wanted. Does this mean them fall in behind the centralisation model now?

                  Lol, fat chance

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                    What do the states do now?

                    They got what they wanted. Does this mean them fall in behind the centralisation model now?

                    Lol, fat chance

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                    @NTA said in Aussie Rugby:

                    What do the states do now?

                    They got what they wanted. Does this mean them fall in behind the centralisation model now?

                    Lol, fat chance

                    Maybe RA will offer something beyond give us everything and we'll sort it?

                    But mmmm, who knows

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                    • M Machpants

                      @NTA said in Aussie Rugby:

                      What do the states do now?

                      They got what they wanted. Does this mean them fall in behind the centralisation model now?

                      Lol, fat chance

                      Maybe RA will offer something beyond give us everything and we'll sort it?

                      But mmmm, who knows

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                      #4385

                      @Machpants said in Aussie Rugby:

                      Maybe RA will offer something beyond give us everything and we'll sort it?

                      The proposal was to align high performance under a centralised model with a number of areas highlighted for integration.

                      Yes, the precise details are still to be worked out, but you need the stakeholders around a table to work out exactly how it functions, after everyone has agreed in principle.

                      The alternative is to spend time providing a detailed model with no consultation, and then let each state spend more time picking apart the bits they don't like. Thus spending more time to get nowhere.

                      None of the states is particularly sustainable or profitable, and duplicating functions across each office and RA is a waste of money.

                      Get the bits than can be aligned into the agreement, and quickly, in order to make the operation lean.

                      Agile!

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                        @Machpants said in Aussie Rugby:

                        Maybe RA will offer something beyond give us everything and we'll sort it?

                        The proposal was to align high performance under a centralised model with a number of areas highlighted for integration.

                        Yes, the precise details are still to be worked out, but you need the stakeholders around a table to work out exactly how it functions, after everyone has agreed in principle.

                        The alternative is to spend time providing a detailed model with no consultation, and then let each state spend more time picking apart the bits they don't like. Thus spending more time to get nowhere.

                        None of the states is particularly sustainable or profitable, and duplicating functions across each office and RA is a waste of money.

                        Get the bits than can be aligned into the agreement, and quickly, in order to make the operation lean.

                        Agile!

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                        #4386

                        @NTA said in Aussie Rugby:

                        Agile!

                        Fingers crossed

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                          lol here we go

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                            There was no "campaign" mate. We just watched you make an utter fool of yourself.

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                              mariner4life
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                              loool

                              smear you? all that took was to repeat the shit you yourself said champ

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                                Machpants
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                                He's like a populist politician. Next he'll be claiming that the board vote to oust him was rigged

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                                  loool

                                  smear you? all that took was to repeat the shit you yourself said champ

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                                  @mariner4life said in Aussie Rugby:

                                  loool

                                  smear you? all that took was to repeat the shit you yourself said champ

                                  "Hi Hamish - did you get that shipment of rope yet? Make sure you've got enough eh?"

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                                    #4392

                                    https://omny.fm/shows/ben-fordham-full-show/exclusive-rugby-australia-boss-breaks-silence-afte

                                    LIsten to him deliberately not answer questions.

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                                      https://omny.fm/shows/ben-fordham-full-show/exclusive-rugby-australia-boss-breaks-silence-afte

                                      LIsten to him deliberately not answer questions.

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                                      @antipodean said in Aussie Rugby:

                                      LIsten to him deliberately not answer questions.

                                      Classic Hamish

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                                        KiwiMurph
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                                        Geoff Parkes sums things up well

                                        Incredibly, offered a lifeline by his board on Saturday, another 24 hours to show why he should be retained as chair, McLennan reverted to type, and sealed his own fate.
                                        
                                        If there was ever a moment where he needed to show contrition and some ability to be able to bring rugby’s stakeholders together, McLennan, already in a huge hole, chose to keep digging, urging state representatives to move against their own boards, as punishment for their ‘disloyalty’. He couldn’t see it, but he was merely doing the state’s work for them, proving their point.
                                        
                                        It might be one thing for McLennan to be at war with some states, electing to go to an EGM determined to bulldoze his way through, but it’s another thing to drag all of the board into the impossible position where they would have to justify and validate his enmity, as central figures in a war none of them ever wanted to be part of.
                                        

                                        https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/11/19/analysis-mclennans-fatal-blind-spot-and-why-his-exit-leaves-australian-rugby-in-a-better-place-and-a-worse-one/

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                                        • KiwiMurphK KiwiMurph

                                          Geoff Parkes sums things up well

                                          Incredibly, offered a lifeline by his board on Saturday, another 24 hours to show why he should be retained as chair, McLennan reverted to type, and sealed his own fate.
                                          
                                          If there was ever a moment where he needed to show contrition and some ability to be able to bring rugby’s stakeholders together, McLennan, already in a huge hole, chose to keep digging, urging state representatives to move against their own boards, as punishment for their ‘disloyalty’. He couldn’t see it, but he was merely doing the state’s work for them, proving their point.
                                          
                                          It might be one thing for McLennan to be at war with some states, electing to go to an EGM determined to bulldoze his way through, but it’s another thing to drag all of the board into the impossible position where they would have to justify and validate his enmity, as central figures in a war none of them ever wanted to be part of.
                                          

                                          https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/11/19/analysis-mclennans-fatal-blind-spot-and-why-his-exit-leaves-australian-rugby-in-a-better-place-and-a-worse-one/

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                                          @KiwiMurph echo echo echo...

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