The Wests Tigers coach has been criticised for taking a mid-season trip to Fiji.
The scandal-prone former minister is now CEO of an online shopping portal that accuses foreign competitors of ‘destroying’ Australian retail.
Phil Waugh never backed away from a challenge as a player,but Rugby Australia’s boardroom implosion has him fighting for the game’s future.
The evidence of rugby’s implosion is that resourcing the top will not necessarily stimulate growth at grassroots.
Hamish McLennan’s decision to sign Joseph Suaalii may have led to him losing his job but the deposed RA chairman claims criticism of the mega deal is “crazy”.
Former RA chairman Hamish McLennan agreed a match fee of $1.7m with Bernard Laporte for the World Cup warm-up match in Paris. But the FFR has paid just a fraction of that sum.
Fresh brains and new thinking from entirely outside the box loom as the best steps forward for the code in Australia.
As rugby headed towards its so-called “golden decade”,few would have predicted that chairman Hamish McLennan and returned coach Eddie Jones would be gone by Christmas.
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In another blow to the beleaguered game,the major retailer has decided it will no longer back the sport.
If Rugby Australia reneges on its deal with the talented 20-year-old,there won’t be an immediate place for him at the Roosters.