How to maul a rugby team to death: slowly at first and then suddenly
Melbourne’s only Super Rugby team, the Rebels, say they were as challenged as every other team in the competition. But their problems were far more complicated.
As Christmas approached last year, the Melbourne Rebels’ chief executive, Baden Stephenson, was feeling defiant.
Troubling news had surfaced that the rugby union club owed millions of dollars in taxes to the government, and was on the hook for unpaid fees to its home stadium and suppliers. The issue reached the point where the Melbourne Rebels’ board had received director penalty notices from the Australian Tax Office.
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