There is a solution to Australian rugby’s crisis that everyone can see, so why have years gone by without anyone doing it? It’s time for Ballymore to get on board.
, there have been many reviews of Australian rugby over the last 15 years, and they’ve all recommended some version of a “major reorientation” to stave off “certain failure”.
At a personnel level, it means Rugby Australia would be responsible for appointing and contracting coaches, assistants, strength and conditioning teams – all the way down to the physios and video analysts. The player budgets across the Super Rugby teams would be directly contracted to Rugby Australia, who would take on that fiscal responsibility in addition to the current Wallabies contracts. Every dollar spent in Australian Rugby must be money well spent.
If such a radical change is agreed it will, as Nick Farr-Jones said on Monday, be a “long and expensive rebuild”.: “we need to seize the moment for constitutional and structural reform. This really has been a case of doing the same thing, the same way, over and over and expecting a different result. Insanity.”I’ll be upfront and say that I have supported McLennan since he took over as chairman of Rugby Australia in May 2020 and think he should stay on to get this job done.
In Lyon, the match against a ruthlessly well coached Wales was a great case study in the psychology of stress. The Wallabies went into the game under massive pressure, having copped a verbal battering after losing to Fiji and then knowing they were effectively in a knock-out situation in front of 20,000-plus Wallaby supporters in Lyon, fans who expected nothing less than a win.
A last-minute Serge Blanco try in the semi-final at Concord Oval was allowed, even though his France teammate Laurent Rodriguez had knocked on in the lead up. We lost, and lost again in the playoff for third against Wales at Rotorua, sunk on the bell by a penalty kick from the sideline.Following the World Cup, Australia embarked on a nine-game, two-test tour to Argentina to face a Pumas team led by Hugo Porta that at the time was very competitive.
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