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Is the 10 May SANZAR meeting going ahead and if so where is it? Nothing from the ARU for ages and finally some activity, hopefully not in our direction - albeit, all just rumours.
From the Australian tonight:
Chief executive Bill Pulver has left for the World Cup draw in Kyoto tomorrow, followed by the SANZAAR meeting in Tokyo on Friday.
At that meeting, Australia will be expected to give details of how it is progressing in shedding one team, especially since the South Africans are expected to follow suit in culling two teams to reduce the competition from 18 teams to 15 next season.
Until the possibility of the Rebels being for sale became even a remote option, the ARU would have had nothing useful to report to SANZAAR.
Sooooo....All Quiet On The Western Front....Nothing to see here, move along....I zee nothing, hear nothing etcOriginally Posted by The Eastlian
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Don't think there has been any double counting. They have included the salary and super costs for the WF staff and players with the remuneration figures for the ARU's other employees. (Who, by the way, earn A LOT!!)
I think the grant is a very separate amount. As we have discussed above, it's not possible to work out what else besides the $3.7m is included in the $4.8m figure. But the fact they describe it as "NET expenditure" suggests it's all the costs (including the salaries etc) minus some revenue that must have gone across as part of the alliance agreement too. They have separated out the auditors' fee for the Force side of things too so that could have been included in the $4.8m too. Who knows!
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Great work Ali, phew...Seeing as they have so many bankers (replace b with w) on board, it looks like they are purposely not transparent with reporting.what a mess Mr Hart
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I've been watching for this to be posted on the Roar and GAGR.
And a shout out to Peter Playford and Cam Shepherd who host a good podcast most weeks who talked about trying to see an ARU annual report.
https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/s...-rugby-podcast
So sorry Kala but I just haven't had the time this past week to summarise it down enough to post on either of those sites. There are a couple of print journos who are interested in doing something with the info though so fingers crossed that comes off.
If anyone else wants to have a go at trimming down my thesis, just PM me an email address and I'll send you the Word docs that contain it all. Otherwise I'll try and find some time this week to do it. The feedback I've had suggests it's definitely worth publishing something!
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Alison do you think you will prepare your extensive work on Australian Super Rugby teams finances as an article for The Roar and GAGR?
Do you think anyone outside WA will care? I was going to spend some time summarising it down to around 900 words to post on both sites but I really don't know if there's any point anymore. Everyone on the east coast I've mentioned the huge sums to so far just shrugs their shoulders.
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I know for sure they would like to see it over at GNGR the resentment for the ARU is extremely high even among those in NSW and QLD who believe the ARU are destroying the game in Australia. Maybe shoot Rugby Reg a line on Twitter I'm sure he will help or point you in the right direction if you want to publish it in an article.
Last edited by GAFFA; 12-06-17 at 19:20.
Remember the EGM is next week, do if you are going to publish better to do it this week so there's time for questions to be asked by the rugby community at EGM
Alison happy to assist you if you want.