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New Zealand Rugby chair Dame Patsy Reddy is ultimately responsible for the governance of the game.
New Zealand Rugby needs to change “urgently” after a highly critical review found that it was effectively a broken model, and “unfit for purpose”.
The review, which was released on Thursday morning, put forward two key recommendations.
First, “the creation of an independent professional process to ensure the appointment of an appropriately skilled, high-performing, independent board to govern the organisation,” and second ”the creation of a Stakeholder Council (The Council) to ensure all key voices across rugby are heard and their interests represented in a collaborative forum.”
In a statement that will reverberate strongly at NZ Rugby headquarters, the review also concluded “that there is an urgent need for change is an almost universal sentiment across the sport.
“There have been multiple recent reviews of rugby in recent years. The problem definition is clear, broadly agreed upon within the sport, and laid out in detail in this review. Solutions appear elusive. In the Panel’s opinion this largely a leadership issue. “
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