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Speaking of IPRC, there is an item in todays West, headlined "Rebels give Wessels a holiday job with Force" on p118.
"Dave Wessels will return to coach the new 'Western Force' in next years proposed IPRC even though he has taken charge of Melbourne Rebels for the next two seasons." A bit further down is "One of the things we've agreed is that I will get leave to coach in Andrew Forrest's IPRC later in the year".
Theres mention of the Senate enquiry and some names listed about who Rebels want also.
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Add to those
- The Firepower debacle
- The awful disappointments of the Graham and Foley years
- The dramatic decline in attendances at Wallabies tests in Perth over the past 10 years (why has that happened?)
- The bittersweet memory of that glorious final WF match against the Tahs and Hogdo's retirement in July
and as far as Rugby Union in WA goes, there seems nowhere for us mug punters to go now.
We won't see Professional Rugby in WA again (after the 2019 Bledisloe) for many years, probably beyond the remaining working lives of many of us.
What gets right up my nose is that after you strip it all back, the principal reason why WA Rugby has lost the Western Force was poor legal drafting. FFS!
Last edited by FingerTips; 30-09-17 at 09:56.
WeYes and nopoor legal drafting
That clause was put in place by ARU. Our options were non existent, and the CEO was publicly saying National Footprint, Force to stay black black
You have to realise the ARU was gunning for us before that document. They would not have signed it if it was bulletproof, and would not have allowed private ownership. The ONLY way they could do what they did was by changing the entire competition three years early, with the Saffer withdrawing two teams. Who could possibly predict that
We were stuffed no matter what
The long sobs of autumn's violins wound my heart with a monotonous languor
With respect Mr FingerTips I think you are being a little harsh on the RugbyWA Contract Negotiation/Legal Team. It is very easy to write them off after we have been screwed over. But, please consider this for a moment.
A contract written (put together) by two parties with the same aim moving forward is very easy to write. There is a meeting of the minds and a mutual trust.
RugbyWA at that time had no clue that the ARU had an ulterior motive and were being very sneaky bastards. They had no reason to not trust them.
Had RugbyWA known all of this - they would have gone cap in hand to Mr Forrest, no selling of the IP, no selling of the Super License. Im pretty sure that the ARU would have still attempted to kick us out. They would have just had to find/manufacture another way of doing it.
Lets cut RugbyWA a little slack.
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Hey Coach and Mods - do you think now is a good time to close this thread? What's done is done and can't be undone. We need to start looking at the new dawn for rugby in WA. None of us really cares what happens in SuperRugby or in the eastern states now.
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I concur. My feeling is that the ARU never wanted us in the first place and our needing a bailout provided the perfect opportunity to set the wheels in motion, via the "Agreement". ARU not objecting to the SANZAAR downsize plan seems like the next step and then of course the 48-72 hour/week thing.
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Well this version of the ARU and the previous O'Neill administration.I concur. My feeling is that the ARU never wanted us in the first place
When the Force were allowed to join the Super 14 the Victorian bid only got a measly one vote at the ARU board meeting. The Gary Flowers led ARU was accepting of the Force, had a national vision and was willing to actually stand up to the Sydney clubs with more than just words.
Gary flowers implemented a lot of things that Oz rugby needed but didn't please the heartland.
He was also in charge when the arc kicked off before it was scuppered by Sydney club wankers and Jon.
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