News about Phil Waugh

For the first time in nearly three decades, Rugby Australia is considering a Bledisloe match in Sydney to prevent a clash with the NRL and finals and attract more families. Although daytime Bledisloe fixtures are not common in New Zealand, there have only been two afternoon kickoffs in Australia during the professional period. In 1996, the Wallabies faced the All Blacks in the daylight at Lang Park, and the All Blacks did the same in Perth 25 years later in 2021.

Rob Leota (pictured with coach Kevin Foote) and his colleagues will be reeling from the news that the Melbourne Rebels' reported $9 million debt has brought the team's team into a deep financial crisis.

The Rebels have recruited external financial consultants, Wexted, just over a month before their season-opening match against the Brumbies on February 23, to help with the club's $9 million debt. It comes amid warnings that chairman Paul Docherty is expected to step down, with his own personal ventures failing and debts approaching at least $70 million.

Given Schmidt's history with Rugby Australia (RA) and World Rugby, it was revealed in December that he was a front-runner to win the job. Phil Waugh, the new RA chief, had set March as the deadline for an announcement ahead of the Wallabies' season-opening Test against Wales in July, but expressions of concern in the position had only closed on Friday.

After the Wallabies poached Joseph Suaalii, the game was rocked this week as the nation's most marketable player, Nawaqanitawase, joined with the Sydney Roosters in a major boost for rugby league. As a result, Rugby Australia erased all references to Nawaqanitawase from their socials and beyond after his transfer, although the winger's campaign to spruik the Lions tour was very difficult.

Rugby Australia has introduced a radical new approach to combating in the hopes of making rugby union a safer sport. The mandate would apply to all levels below Super Rugby (pictured left and right), with RA CEO Phil Waugh claiming that the call was made in the best interests of the game.'

Phil Waugh (pictured left) has ruled out throwing any more money on NRL celebrities, saying that the failing code can't continue to spend more than we can afford.' It comes after Roosters actor Joseph Suaalii (right) inked a three-year contract with RA worth $4.8 million earlier this year.

As the Super Pacific Rugby competition comes nearer to civil war, Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh (pictured left) has ensured that the Brumbies will remain based in Canberra. The pledge comes at the time when the national governing body is accused of a'hostile takeover'.

CHRIS FOY: Anyone with an interest in Australian rugby and several others interested in the sport is curious to know what Eddie Jones' plans are, and he is insistent that he is not moving forward. The decision that he is moving forward is another matter, though his bosses have confirmed their support for now. However, the Wallabies were still on the ground, doing weights in a marquee next to the hotel, and waiting for Fiji to dismiss their nascent hopes of World Cup salvation. Jones popped out of a string of meetings with players and staff members to speak with Mail Sport and the thorny question of what was going to be next for him after this tournament was unavoidably high on the agenda. The Rugby Australia hierarchy; chairman Hamish McLennan and chief executive Phil Waugh have all pledged their help for the tense head coach after losing to Fiji and a 40-6 capitulation in Wales' hands, leaving the green-and-gold campaign here in disarray.

IAN HERBERT AT STADE LYONNAIS: Eddie Jones has always wanted to try out a new job like an Exocet and seeing for results by wreaking holy hell, but this was a different kind of bedlam for Australians at this time of truth. The match's build-up was supposed to include Anika Wells, the Australian sports minister, addressing the country's major plans as hosts of the next Rugby World Cup, along the banks of the Rhone. But no one was particularly interested in Jones after hearing it in Sunday's Sydney Morning Herald that he is already looking for a departure plan - the newspaper and others said he has applied for the head coaching position with Japan and appeared in a Zoom interview on August 25. Instead, in full view of the fans who had gathered for beers in the sunshine, Australia Rugby's chief executive, Phil Waugh, endured the humiliation of an inquiry into an Australian press corps's hands.

When Phil Waugh became Rugby Australia's CEO, he promised that his close friendships with chair Hamish McLennan (left) and coach Eddie Jones (inset) would not discourage him from opposing the pair on important topics. Andy Marinos' replacement was revealed on Tuesday at the Sydney Football Stadium, where he spent a decade wowing fans with his toughness and footy wisdom. Following 79 Tests for the Wallabies, one of Australia's best-ever flankers will return to his new role in both green and gold, and he will not be afraid to make the tough calls.

When Andy Marinos (pictured right, with Wallaroos star Shannon Parry) resigned as CEO on May 1, just months before the World Cup, he shocked rugby. Now the governing body has selected a replacement that is a household name to fans. Hamish McLennan (inset) has been keen to sign NRL stars like Joseph Suaalii (left), and this is said to have sparked a wedge between him and Marinos.

One of the reasons for CEO Andy Marinos (left)'s resignation just months before a World Cup was a strong personal relationship with outspoken Rugby Australia (RA) chair Hamish McLennan (right). Marinos shocked the rugby community on Monday when he announced his sudden resignation to 'pursue other ambitions,' just two years into the game's governing body in Australia. McLennan's persistent insistence on pursuing NRL players and the inflated $1.6 million-a-year contract to Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii was one of the main reasons, according to a speculation.

Rugby Australia (RA) has shocked the code, with CEO Andy Marinos resigning just four months after the World Cup in a bombshell move. It's a surprise move that no one expected coming, particularly after it was revealed last week that RA had announced a huge increase in financial results, with a $8.2 million surplus reported and the World Cup in France set to begin in September. Marinos will resign in June as a journalist.