Few figures elicit such a diversity of opinion as the high-flying media and advertising executive. What that means for the future of the code and McLennan’s place in it is unclear.
he holds himself “fully accountable” for his decisions. “If I am part of the solution, or not, I will live with that.”
“If everyone’s just pointing the bone at Hamish, there are a few other bones that should be pointed back through history of the last 15 years because certainly Hamish didn’t create the on-field performance,” Kearns said. “I think if one thing comes out of this [it’s that] rugby administration and coaching and development is centralised in this country.
The deteriorating financial position of some has left them with little choice in the matter and, weeks before the World Cup, RA announced it had an in-principle agreement on an aligned national high-performance model. For the past year, RA had been in discussions with private equity groups and investors who were interested in taking a stake in the organisation, but Waugh said that was now not an option to raise money in the short term.
RA had been in previous discussions with private equity and investment groups, Silver Lake, CVC Capital Partners and Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Tattarang, which also funds the Perth-based Super Rugby franchise, Western Force. RA’s loan with Ares would have been repayable at the end of March 2027, almost six months before Australia hosts the men’s World Cup, adding to the pressures on the board and management.In RA’s 2022 financial accounts, the organisation’s then nine directors were paid a total of $883,450 including super and there was a $100,000 incentive payment though it doesn’t specify the recipient.
Businessman Rod Eddington is the chair of the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cups in 2027 and 2029 respectively. He declined to comment on the Wallabies’ disastrous showing in France and its effect on the game’s popularity and organisation’s profitability – or the next World Cups. “My focus is making sure ’27 and ’29 work well for everyone,” he said.
Nine Entertainment Company, publisher of this masthead, has the television rights to Wallabies Tests and Super Rugby until the end of 2025, as part of aIn addition to questions about whether McLennan should remain as RA’s chair, there are also concerns that he’s spread too thinly with his work commitments.
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