New RA Boss

[The Fat]

Rugby Australia (rebranded in October from ARU) has a new CEO.
"Raelene Castle replaces Bill Pulver as Rugby Australia chief executive"

Not quite sure how the appointment process works but I'm guessing she is appointed by the Board.
Her first action as CEO should be to sack every single one of those useless b@$t@rd$ and clean the place out.

 

[beckett50]

Australia blazing the trail.

Wish her all the best in the appointment

 

[Dickie E]

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...ustralia-chief-executive-20171211-h02tia.html

Fairfax Media understands Castle has edged out former Wallabies captain Phil Kearns for the position, despite reports suggesting he was favourite to take over rugby's top job.

if she does nothing else, keeping Kearns away from the tiller has to be a good thing.

I'm hoping she can keep her eye on the main game and not get caught up in "social justice" & gender politics issues.

 

[Ian_Cook]

Raelene is a top-notch administrator. If she can't fix RA, then it is broken beyond repair.

 

[crossref]

But does she hold dual citizenship ?

 

[menace]

Raelene is a top-notch administrator. If she can't fix RA, then it is broken beyond repair.

I guess we will soon see how good or bad she is?! Tough job to change the ingrained culture of that place.

Can't say the press conference impressed me though but Ill reserve judgment until later.

 

[Dickie E]

But does she hold dual citizenship ?

Is she a kwaussie?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-04/kwaussie-named-word-of-the-year-by-andc/9216992

 

[Ian_Cook]

But does she hold dual citizenship ?

 

[DocY]

I'm hoping she can keep her eye on the main game and not get caught up in "social justice" & gender politics issues.

Why would there be a risk of this happening?

 

[SimonSmith]

There is a thread somewhere about the Aussie players making public statements about the same sex marriage referendum

 

[Dickie E]

Why would there be a risk of this happening?

as I understand it, one of the first things she did at Bulldogs was get rid of the cheerleaders and, later on, became involved in white ribbon (although the latter may have made sense given RL's issues with family violence).