RA chairman Hamish McLennan has arrived back in Sydney to face the music after the World Cup debacle but remains determined to stay in the top job.
Arriving at Sydney Airport from Paris early on Wednesday morning, Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan walked into an arrivals hall filled with warm smiles and welcome-home balloons for returned travellers.“Whether Eddie was the right call or not, I think that’s that’s almost irrelevant now because the system’s broken, and we need to fix it,” he said of Jones, whose resignation he accepted on Tuesday after a disastrous World Cup campaign in France.
But one thing McLennan was certain of was his continuing tenure in the top job. After three years at the helm, which have included this failed World Cup campaign and the early resignation of the coach he played a key role in appointing, he reaffirmed his belief that he is the right man to help lead Australian rugby forward.“I love the sport and I’m not a quitter,” McLennan said.
“I think I’ve got an intimate knowledge of all that needs to be done. So our performance of the World Cup was a setback and I’m not gilding the lily, but the truth of the matter is, we’ve got a board and a management team that know what needs to be done.” McLennan said that while he would be “disappointed” if Jones eventually returned to Japan for a second stint with the Brave Blossoms, he stood by the original decision to appoint him as Wallabies coach.
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