WRU New Strategy....

GPR - Rochester wrote: KID A wrote: GPR - Rochester wrote: I am pretty sure that someone like Alun Wyn possesses the knowledge & professional skills to make the difference but he would make most of his colleagues pretty uncomfortable I guess.  What professional skills does Alun Wyn jones posess to excel at a role in the WRU? He only retired 12 months ago. My understanding is he has a law degree. That suggests some acumen to me which sitting alongside his undoubted knowledge of the rugby environment would give him an edge on Nigel Walker.  I am talking about diversity of skills to complement Abi Tierney. She needs a rugby person to advise her through the web of machinations within the WRU. I am in no way suggesting that he possesses the skills to become the WRU's legal adviser but he does seem to me to have the inside knowledge & respect required to deal with all sides of the argument.

If you wanted someone from a rugby background then Andrew Fenby would be better suited, many years experience in the corporate world and has his own Rugby agency company.

It will never change because of the deep rooted small minded individuals we have in Welsh rugby. 

Announcement  tomorrow  from  WRU 

roy munster wrote: thommo wrote: GPR - Rochester wrote: KID A wrote: GPR - Rochester wrote: I am pretty sure that someone like Alun Wyn possesses the knowledge & professional skills to make the difference but he would make most of his colleagues pretty uncomfortable I guess.  What professional skills does Alun Wyn jones posess to excel at a role in the WRU? He only retired 12 months ago. My understanding is he has a law degree. That suggests some acumen to me which sitting alongside his undoubted knowledge of the rugby environment would give him an edge on Nigel Walker.  I am talking about diversity of skills to complement Abi Tierney. She needs a rugby person to advise her through the web of machinations within the WRU. I am in no way suggesting that he possesses the skills to become the WRU's legal adviser but he does seem to me to have the inside knowledge & respect required to deal with all sides of the argument.  WRU has unfortunately been a breeding ground for cronyism and jobs for the boys. We've got to move on from that and display complete transparency. If the WRU is to succeed then the structure has to be fit for purpose.   did we scour the world for the best candidate too? was tierney the best available in the world?

KID A wrote: This is why we'll forever be the village idtiots of rugby. IRFU appoint a man as CEO with over a decade of experience at KPMG, and as an investment fund manager in Dublin finance. We have fans saying that a guy who played for the Ospreys last year and is now selling bootleg rum should be high up on the WRU board.

GPR - Rochester wrote: hoppy wrote: Announcement  tomorrow  from  WRU  Don't think we should get too excited. Announcement today will be the broad brush strategy - zero details. Probably, I hope I'm wrong, an arrangement of fancy words which we will all have heard before. The detailed 5 year strategy is being published in October.  Quite why the 4 month gap I do not understand.

Agree there. Today will be an 'overarching strategy' announcement....limited detail and direction I suspect.

Key talk points around finance, number of regions, infrastructure etc will be kicked down the road until later in the year it seems.

Hope to be wrong of course.

As a personal note, Welsh rugby is a hot mess, we all know that. It actually needs fearless leadership right now, I'd even accept some mistakes along the way so long as they were made with conviction and promptly.

What we seem to have done is changed the captain and senior crew, outsourced the route map and navigation at a time of severe financial hardship, and blurred the timelines of our ETD and ETA.
(Being childish I can only see Captain Pugwash in my head when I wrote that).

Not promising at all.

KID A wrote: This is why we'll forever be the village idtiots of rugby. IRFU appoint a man as CEO with over a decade of experience at KPMG, and as an investment fund manager in Dublin finance. We have fans saying that a guy who played for the Ospreys last year and is now selling bootleg rum should be high up on the WRU board.

In a board of 12 having someone in touch with the *'dressing room' isn't a bad thing, I guess that's why Jamie Roberts is there. He's also played in the English, French, SA and other infrastructures so should offer some good insight. Cardiff boy too--so you'll relate to that :)

*By this I mean in recent touch, not 30 years ago.

AWJ's rum/coffee is pish by the way, as is Hibbard's Mortal Bunny rum ( albeit seems to be commercially doing well). Aviation gin it is not.

These are the new modern rugby players investment version which was previously part racehorse ownership (or flipping Escort Mk1 an 2 rally car build outs in my case).


Edited by Wil Chips - 26 June 2024 at 9:15am