Melbourne Rebels players have been called to a meeting with Rugby Australia at AAMI Park on Thursday morning as the club’s future hangs in the balance.
The meeting at 10:00am, confirmed by sources who asked not to be named for professional reasons, comes ahead of the team’s last round-robin game in Fiji this weekend and the finals series for Super Rugby. Players will fly to Fiji for the game after the meeting.
A consortium led by business heavyweight Leigh Clifford, the former chairman of Qantas and chief executive of Rio Tinto, has put forward a plan to fund the club until 2030 that is dependent, in part, on Rugby Australia handing back the licence. Rugby Australia did not vote for the plan and alleged that the club had misused funds it had given the club to pay the Australian Taxation Office.
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