Aussie Pro Rugby
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McLennan gone.
Board voted him out as chairman.
@KiwiMurph said in Aussie Rugby:
McLennan gone.
Board voted him out as chairman.
Good riddance fuckwit. I'd do it again
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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/ -
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
@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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@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
@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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loool
smear you? all that took was to repeat the shit you yourself said champ
@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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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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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. -
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.@KiwiMurph echo echo echo...
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Everyone knows successful sportsmen make excellent administrators.
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@NTA said in Aussie Rugby:
@barbarian said in Aussie Rugby:
They have some money. Enough to pay pretty nicely.
And ultimately it's still a prestige job. You'd be coming in at rock bottom with a Lions tour and home World Cup on the horizon. It's not the worst sales pitch.
Exactly - if expectations are "better than 2023" then you can't lose!
Once you've had an international coaching gig, getting another one is easier. Like being a CEO: you can be the biggest fuckup in the room, but you've still got that on your resume so C-suite jobs are much easier.
Which I've never understood
If you failed you were obviously in over your head
What makes organisations think that the drowning man/woman learned to swim whilst he/she was drowning
Madness
@MiketheSnow said in Aussie Rugby:
@NTA said in Aussie Rugby:
@barbarian said in Aussie Rugby:
They have some money. Enough to pay pretty nicely.
And ultimately it's still a prestige job. You'd be coming in at rock bottom with a Lions tour and home World Cup on the horizon. It's not the worst sales pitch.
Exactly - if expectations are "better than 2023" then you can't lose!
Once you've had an international coaching gig, getting another one is easier. Like being a CEO: you can be the biggest fuckup in the room, but you've still got that on your resume so C-suite jobs are much easier.
Which I've never understood
If you failed you were obviously in over your head
What makes organisations think that the drowning man/woman learned to swim whilst he/she was drowning
Madness
Not that I'm saying that it's right, but CEO's are about their network more than anything else. Ability to pick up a phone to somebody else in a similar position and know they will take your call.
