Never heard of Parramatta Eels?
Now there's a clusterf@ck !!
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Was just listening to 6PR on the way to work and they were talking about the Forces coaching issues. The guy reckoned that Cheika had agreed to terms with the force and came to Perth to sign the contract but for some reason at the last minute pulled out. I wonder what spooked him?
Maybe they didn't send a car to the airport for him!
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Well now that they have issued a statement I will sit back and wait to see what occures.
Lets hope they keep us informed and that things don't go on to long.
Just get it right this time Vern!
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deliberate exercise
We need to support our RugbyWA directors - we ( Community Rugby, Life members etc) put them there. However I really hope that, what is learnt from this saga is that the whole community needs to look at re-building confidence, support and results.
Prospective coaches should be banging down the door to be handed the reins of our team - Players should be fighting to stay and play in our comp. There should be a waiting list for corporate sponsors and boxes.
We gotta stop blaming the ARU and Eastern States for our woes and succeed in spite of them - F&%k WA's business community has done that, even the Pollies flip the bird every now and again to 'berra. Weagles and Dorkers don't blame the Vics for their problems, and so on.
Be good to see a plan for the next 10 - 15 years. No more talkfests - Directors of WA - come up with 3 business plans, you guys argue the toss about which one to proceed with, then direct RugbyWA, the Force and Community Rugby in the course you have chosen - you're elected to lead....lead, delegate bite size chunks of the plan to be achieved and within a timeline. No more tail wagging the dog.
Feel secure in the knowledge we all know each of you have the absolute best interests of RugbyWA, the Force and Community Rugby at heart and we know each of you work your backsides off for Rugby in WA.
The first 'half' is unfair, it's more the first 20 mins when we gift every other team a few easy tries.
On the plus side if we have no coach next year we'll still have a better coach than the reds.
It hasn't stopped Growden, he reckons Chieka is back in France again:verysad:
GIVE ME LOUDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know this is OFFTOPIC but anyhoo........
You'd expect so given that high profile companies like FMG and BGC and others from the big end of town are supposedly run by Rugby folk. I know we have some great sponsors who do a great deal for the club. But surely there are other large WA companies who could, say, could sponsor an academy.
Yes; but let's compare apples with apples. Neither are in "foreign territory" like our guys. The Suns, GWS, Swans and Lions all are. Look at the support they have been afforded. For every dollar "wasted" on an Israel Folau or Carmichael Hunt, the AFL is spending dozens in the junior development area. The base of the pyramid. They are kids who will probably never make it to the AFL but they are tomorrows spectators and pay TV subscribers. Who can watch on FTA now.
The Eagles were given fantastic player concessions when they started - in a footy obsessed state, little wonder they are a success story. In the same State the Dockers are what happens when the parent body throws you in the deep end without a floatie.
The ARL Commission, if they decide to come back here won't likely make the same mistake twice.
We cannot compare apples with apples - ARU are not helping the code here like AFL in Queensland and NSW - we don't like it...but we have to get over it and move on.
eg. Force Gym, and coaching resources are now underutilized until early 2013. Why not sell facilities and resources to Asian unions - Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia etc. Run courses like the IRANZ?
Twiggy, Len and even Kerry are Rugby supporters at heart - but have little time for froth and bubble. Direct a long term specific business plane that addresses Rugby and personal skills development, with expected outcomes, within certain timeframes - think outside the square, generate a high profile.What would appeal to these guys for them to part with a few Mil each year for the next 10 years??
you are forgetting something though. Everything your are stating would require people to be proactive something no one is Australian Rugby is, they are just happy to sit on there hands and say its is someone else’s job/problem.
On point, that statement was three days too late to look anything but weak. If there were any chance to put a lid on it, it had to happen immediately. In reality though, saying something or nothing was meaningless. They promised a decision last week but there isn't even one this week. Heads roll for less than that level of implied incompetence.
My big problem out of all this is that it really doesn't show RugbyWA in a particularly good light. We had a huge opportunity when the Force came along to put in place a professional organisation where there was nothing before. From Day 1 it was obvious we were going to get resistance from the ES, and probably a sight more than passive. The response should have been to assume no help from them whatsoever and put in place our own structures to take them out of the equation as much as possible.
Instead we seem to have turned over the years into a NSWRU lite, always looking to the ARU for the lead. Could be a few reasons for that, but the big difference is that the ARU does not have our backs. Arguably the best thing that happened to the Reds was to go broke and get the mandate to sweep some of the cobwebs out. We try that though, I doubt the ARU would lift a finger.
I strongly believe that there is nothing the rugby establishment would like more than for the Force to become little more than a development team, never really challenging the status quo. As it stands, it doesn't seem like we aspire to much more either. Maybe there is much going on that we can't see, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence of it on any level of performance and we are about to get another competitor.