Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan says the game will have enough money to ensure its future, but the job of paying for an expensive but much-needed restructure of the game’s administration has become far harder after a historic World Cup exit in France.
Australia was smashed 40-6 by Wales in Lyon on Monday, its heaviest defeat at a World Cup, after losing its first match to Fiji in 69 years a week earlier.
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