Originally Posted by
Alison
I put something in my submission to the Inquiry about the ARU's 5 September 2017 "additional documentation" package which said that SANZAAR had been discussing a reduction in teams for NINE months prior to the March 2017 decision to go back to 15.
Nine months prior to March 2017 is June 2016. At that point, the Force had already contacted the ARU to ask for additional financial assistance.
If you join those dots, could you argue that the ARU entered into the AA negotiations in good faith? Surely they should at least have mentioned to the RWA Board that there was a possibility that SANZAAAR might want to reduce the number of teams before 2020??!! Armed with that knowledge, would the RWA Board have gone anywhere near the "Alliance" Agreement? I suggest not!
No doubt at all in my non-lawyer mind that the ARU deliberately set out to make sure we signed that AA as a vehicle to axe us when the time was right.