Incoming Rugby Australia chairman Daniel Herbert says he and fellow board members voted unanimously after deciding the code could no longer prosper under Hamish McLennan’s leadership.
Hamish McLennan resigned from the Rugby Australia board after an emergency meeting on Sunday night.
Agitators for change at the top of Australian rugby have been waiting patiently for the right moment to strike. They didn’t miss.
Just hours after declaring he would fight for his future,Hamish McLennan has been voted out as Rugby Australia chairman.
Embattled Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan is planning to fight for his future after a group of rebel state unions joined forces to oust him.
Hamish McLennan has been given until Sunday evening to step down as Rugby Australia chairman or a group of state unions will formally request an extraordinary general meeting.
Someone has to pay for the mess Australian Rugby finds itself in,and chairman Hamish McLennan will probably be the one. But his captain’s picks of Eddie Jones and Joseph Suaalii were celebrated at the time.
Embattled Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan has rejected a call from a group of member unions for him to stand down.
Rugby league should concentrate on its own backyard before trying to pinch rugby’s best young talent.
Beyond the punchline,there’s a serious side to the poaching wars between the rival rugby codes.
The second coming of Eddie Jones began with high hopes,and ended with Australian rugby in its deepest ever hole. How did it go so wrong?