Former Wallabies skipper John Eales was appointed to the ARU Board last week
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Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, former Wallabies captain and new Australian Rugby Union Board member John Eales sets out his stall.
"A general consensus has rugby in the middle of a great big "U" at the moment – no, we are not talking of any particular peccadilloes of those living far east of Byron Bay but rather the rut it has found itself in of late.
"...Rugby does have its challenges at the moment, some urgent and the rest simply pressing. A snapshot from any of my "advisers" reels off: player contracting and third-party agreements, factional fighting, greedy players, poor administration and the quality of the product, among a plethora of other issues, both real and imagined.
"If you were to prioritise, however, after a season when even the die-hards were disillusioned, the quality of the on-field product had to be a priority and both anecdotally and tangibly the entertainment renaissance has begun."
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