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Utterly gobsmacked that Clyne has found his way onto the World Rugby Council. He has done precisely nothing for the game. Or should I say, precisely nothing good for the game.
At least now though his 6* trips around the globe will be paid for by WR and not by grassroots Australian rugby.
Shaking my head
Proudly Western Australian; Proudly supporting Western Australian rugby
From the same reporter a few months ago, on the same official RA site
"Players featuring for the Western Force will officially be eligible for Wallabies duty"
https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2018/0...s-rule-changes
So all that has changed is WSR to GRR at request of WR!
Yeah, hopefully, it signals his last hurrah.
My understanding was this: Clyne would be chairman but was never bothered flying to meetings outside of Sydney (he wouldn't even fly to Perth if you gave him a lousy fifty million).
So he delegated all the overseas confrontations to his Mini-Me ... old mate Brett Robinson.
But Robinsonis still on there! The 3 from Aus are Clyne, Castle and Robinson. So who left to allow Clyne a seat? All the tier one nations have 3 seats on the Council
Proudly Western Australian; Proudly supporting Western Australian rugby
Ah right. For a while there (IIRC) we only had 2 reps ... even though we got 3 votes.
Maybe the third wheel is more air fares for the 'old skool' countries as a sop for allowing all these new chums onto the WR merry-go-round.
See here from three years back:
Member union voting rights on Council will operate as follows, with unions receiving one vote for each criteria that is met up to a maximum of three votes:
- One vote and one representative: to member unions who have qualified for two consecutive Rugby World Cups within last eight-year assessment period
- One vote and one representative: to unions who have qualified for two consecutive Rugby World Cups within last eight-year assessment period and who participate in the Six Nations or The Rugby Championship
- One vote: to unions who have qualified for two consecutive Rugby World Cups within last eight-year assessment period and: ... etc ...
OK, it is 9.05am in WA. Can anybody find a link to the GRR announcements?
All is revealed
https://vimeo.com/300862343/aa6a26fe2f
Twitter has the answers.
Governing body is Hong Kong RU not RA
Teams are
Samoa
Fiji
Hong Kong
Malaysia
Japan (team TBA)
Singapore
Force
and two of those countries just got seats at the WR table![]()
Last edited by The InnFORCEr; 15-11-18 at 09:30.
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