At Rugby Australia, 15 years of dithering must end now
In 2010, a confidential report Australian rugby commissioned said it needed a “major reorientation” or would suffer “certain failure”. We are still waiting for action.
Not long ago, the tallest goalposts in the southern hemisphere, at Sydney’s Concord Oval, were brought down, packed up and taken away. Riddled with rust, they were deemed unsafe, now to be split up and offered to local museums.
The symbolism for Australian rugby could not be more acute or poignant, given the dismantling of the goalposts came just before the decimation of the Wallabies by Wales at the Rugby World Cup in Lyon.
