As relates to rugby I believe it is time the clubs as the only stakeholders in the game made a statement. It is time the clubs took ownership of the direction of rugby in this country. Earlier posts by DM have dwelt on the credentials of the directors of the union and one wonders what their collective purpose is? The individual is plain to see. Why somebody who has never attended a board meeting seeks re-election at an AGM is very strange. Of what value does he think he is to the game? We, the clubs must seek to know who attends the board meetings. Minutes of board meetings must be circulated to the clubs. In addition, since matters of player welfare, etc. are always contentious, the Union must create at the next AGM special seats for certain interest groups. These are players, referees and coaches. These are the real stakeholders in the game and if their interests are not directly represented, then we have fallen short. That the current system has failed maybe means we reduce the seats for "directors" and allocate those to these special groups. But we must arise and talk. We must "put our collective foot down" as one contributor put it. We are ready to open this forum out and shortly we will be inviting interested contributors to send us mail and we will include them. But pressure must be brought on the Union to shape out or ship out!
Please pass the address of this blog around and let us increase our voice.
3 comments:
It's time clubs came out and changed their status from victims to stakeholders. The rugby scene is full of stories about what 'the Union' has done to this and that club.
It's time we all got together and reviewed what the union as constituted is offering, what the constitution (which I would love to see) says it should offer and what role the clubs would actually want the union to play.
The union remains a servant of the clubs and that role should be emphasized with our votes each time we do not get our just desserts.
The organizational structure of the union, the mandate to hire and fire officials and why that mandate has not been exercised on those who are employees and no longer serve their intended purpose all need to be examined.
Who runs the secretariat? Who runs development? What are their KPIs? Who do they answer to?
The questions are too many to enumerate here. The effort players put to get themselves in shape to play matches and that clubs put into meeting their mandatory and optional fixtures is too much of an investment to be run in such a 'loosy goosy' slipshod manner.
All must be made public. People work in secrecy when they have something to hide, or are not doing what they are supposed to do. Let us bring the pressure to bear.
I agree there is too much secrecy with the Union nowadays.The biggest stake holders are the clubs and they need to be updated regularly, and must i add sincerely of whatever happens during the meetings and any other matters as concerns the rugby fraternity.I have only learn't the other day that we no longer have a developmental programme for the under 19's in our country.What the hell does the union take clubs to be stupid. They do not wish to fund development but want to force players to play for the national teams without thinking of where the players bread is buttered.It was very disappointing to note that the Director's propose to force players to play for their country on top of their clubs even in "nothing" games yet the Union had nothing to do with the players development. If they so wish to do this, they should allocate some funds to each club as a development levy or something.It is becoming increasingly expensive for clubs to train and coach and "gym" these young individuals only to be told that they will not be available for the games.My point here is that the Union should ask for budgets from clubs, which they should fund for the upbringing of players since we have no development plan for players leaving school.
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