Terms of Reference for a Senate Inquiry into the Future of Rugby Union in Australia

[Bakkies]

I thought so too, though now I think that suits the Rebels better “there gonna beg tomorrow”.

To go with their theme song

"Tomorrow Never Lies"

Tomorrow never lies so live for today
Don't be afraid of the skeletons of yesterday
Each morning brings you closer to your goal so grab your chance don't let it go
The city streets are littered with the casualties
the could'ves and the should'ves and the would've beens
Don't let this chance slip by / Because tomorrow never lies
Tomorrow never lies if you live tomorrow today
There are those who would shoot you down / ah
there's always someone wants to shoot you down
but you know they're never gonna be able to shoot you down
if you live tomorrow today / if you live tomorrow today
The night time blazes with all your nightmares come to life
But you can face the danger knowing that your cause is right
and leave them all below you / bleeding as you rise into the night
Because you know tomorrow never lies / no, tomorrow never lies
no, it's never, never gonna lie if you leve tomorrow today
There are those who would shoot you down / ah
there's always someone who wants to shoot you down
but they're never ever gonna be able to shoot you down
if you live tomorrow today / yeah if you leve tomorrow today
Cos you, you gotta live tomorrow today / Live it because tomorrow never lies
tomorrow never lies / oh no.

[Bakkies]

Now on pages 31- 32 of the Hansard transcript with the interview with Mr Clarke, Senator Reynolds is asking about the deal, whether Mr Clarke negotiated the terms of the agreement or whether it was Mr Pulver or someone else to which, Mr Clarke says, "no, I didn't." So he would have us believe that as COO of the ARU and Director of the target company, the Melbourne Rebels, he had no part in the negotiations of the agreement and that Mr Pulver and Mr Todd Day did all of the negotiation with Imperium Group on the terms of the contract.

The Committee should call back Pulver and give him two days to pull the documents. If he wants to save himself he needs to rat out Clarke. That's exactly what Clarke did with no credibility

[UAUdiver1959]

They have contradicted themselves and sown a field of lies. If anything its nothing but sheer arrogance and contempt for the Senate inquiry. How will the inquiry deal with this?

The star witnesses have probably all had a giggle and a few chardonnay's in Mr North's chambers about the 'Senate Inquiry'?

Without hurting their feelings, they have been;

1. Been less than honest
2. Told mistruths

[The InnFORCEr]

The cat is certainly amongst the pigeons now

[zimeric]

one can only hope that our Esteemed Senators will be on the ball enough to wade through the crud and come to the same conclusions we all have.... though its not hard to see the smoking gun in this one.. more devious activities have been excused in the past no doubt.


holding thumbs there is a recommendation for an ASIC investigation at least or ideally a fraud/insider trading investigation.

[Darkness]

I won't be happy until I see at least one of the aru bastards and someone from the vru / imperium behind bars. Worth the air fare East to watch the sentencing hearing.

[Jimmydubs]

The ARU would have got 99 more dollars for the cost of the licence and IP

Surely the most damning thing in the Winney submission is that his consortium would recapitalise the rebels to the tune of $6 million, where as the Cox bid has the ARU providing (coincidentally I'm sure.) $6 million?

That's super smelly, no??

[Bakkies]

The cat is certainly amongst the pigeons now

More like flies feeding on dog crap.

[Bakkies]

Surely the most damning thing in the Winney submission is that his consortium would recapitalise the rebels to the tune of $6 million, where as the Cox bid has the ARU providing (coincidentally I'm sure.) $6 million?

That's super smelly, no??

The whole thing is pretty damning. It cost the ARU about 20 million.

[Jimmydubs]

Yes. But here in B&W they've been shown to chose a bid that costs them $6 million more and they were even turning the screws on the better bid to the point Winney & Co walked away.

Why? And theres lots of speculation as to why already on the board. But this shows it wasn't just chosing A over B it was giving A 6mil vs B 0mil (forgetting about the debt forgiveness etc for now which appears par on both)

I may be misreading but that's the way it seems.

[UAUdiver1959]

Again, I am hoping the other voting unions are just waiting for the Senate Inquiries findings to call an EGM to roll the ARU Board to do it now would be counter productive to the eventual findings.

It’s a slow certain death if they don’t.

The new Board should then absolutely starve the MRRU to death based upon the required previous hand outs to survive. The IRB will probably get involved because the ARU action will have brought the game into disrepute.

[Jules]

So are we hopeful any media will have anything on this tmr? Or will it only be when report comes out..

[UAUdiver1959]

So are we hopeful any media will have anything on this tmr? Or will it only be when report comes out..

I think the media will be reluctant to bash the ARU slash the Wallabies after the victory over the AB’s.

[jackster]

I thought "I get by with a little help from my friends" would be the perfect anthem for Pulver, Clarke, North and Gray

[valzc]

After reading these latest submissions, I’m totally floored at the levels these guys managed to reach, and getting away with it for so many years! Government funding, but where was the accountability, where were the checks & balances done by auditors, why did no one (in Govt) ever cast any eye for the justification of the money handed over, where was the ‘due diligence’ by other departments? I read even KPMG signing off on all the financials -WTF! These guys got handed a cash cow & went barrelling in and made the most of it. But like the Alan Bond era, looks like the cat is definitely amongst the pigeons now & their time has run out! Am banking on Linda Reynolds having a field day on this lot!