The News Review:
- Rugby heart scan scheme proposed
- Private equity may be the answer to spicing up rugby
- Aussie rugby names seven ‘statesmen’
- Rugby: Brown to lock horns with Highlanders
Rugby heart scan scheme proposed
BBC News – Apr 24, 2008
The SNP’s Christine Grahame hopes a £100000-a-year initiative planned for football could be extended to rugby. That scheme is to be run in conjunction with the Scottish Football Association. Ms Grahame said she believed a more localised scheme for rugby could be developed as it plays a “very significant part” in Borders life. Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon announced the football initiative at the SNP’s spring conference at the weekend.
Private equity may be the answer to spicing up rugby
stuff.co.nz – Apr 24, 2008
The ground-breaking decis-ion was one of a number of initiatives the ARU board announced in an effort to secure rugby's popularity and financial prosperity in the Land of Oz. The problems faced by the ARU are no different to those in New Zealand so maybe it is time for our rugby chiefs to follow the Aussies' footsteps. After last month's forum at Westpac Stadium New Zealand Rugby Players Association head Rob Nichol broached the subject of private equity in the Super 14 saying he believed the time was right to examine private ownership of New Zealand's Super 14 franchises in an effort to make the competition a greater commercial success and boost the NZRU's waning wealth. However it's been all quiet on the ownership front since.
Aussie rugby names seven ‘statesmen’
stuff.co.nz – Apr 24, 2008
Sir Nicholas Shehadie John Solomon Ken Catchpole Mark Loane Andrew Slack Nick Farr-Jones and John Eales – each representing a decade since World War II – will present Test jerseys and address young players as part of their roles. ARU chief executive John O'Neill said the initiative fits neatly with the overhaul of the game already underway which includes a new Wallabies coach in Robbie Deans and courting private investment in Super 14 teams. O'Neill also said the initiative was not an attempt to counter other football codes celebrating their own historical milestones. "We should be proud to say that for more than a century rugby has been graded by inspirational figures and leaders of industry" O'Neill said.
Rugby: Brown to lock horns with Highlanders
New Zealand Herald – Apr 24, 2008
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