ACT takes over the ARU

Well done Porky! Good luck.

This was announced at the game on Saturday night – for those who bothered to hang around for the speeches.

I wouldn’t trust anything Growden says or does, he has been against the ACT and is jealous of our success over the years. His Gregan bashing agenda has failed and because his wilting Waratah/pansys are hopeless, he will continue to bash anything ACT in the future as he has nothing else to write about.

Hopefully this ‘may’ mean another Test Match for Canberra-Hooray!

Well, now I re-read the ARU site – and I’d looked at a story from 2006 (only 12 months ago….) – Oops, sorry about that!

Ahh, here we go, hot off the feed is another media release confirming McGrath’s appointment.

Peter Jenkins in the Daily Tele and Greg Crowden from SMH have been leading a push for NSW man Arvid Petersen for weeks.. Now they’ll probably return to putting the boot into Gregan and anyone else from the ACT who are obviously ruining their lives..

Interesting, the ARU has been so riven lately it’s possibly that announcement was been overtaken by later events.

We’ll have to look into it.

Not sure if that story is right – here is what the ARU site says…

Ron Graham re-elected ARU Chairman
April 27, 2006 – 7:15pm
Story by: ARU
Former Wallaby Ron Graham has been re-elected Chairman of the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) at an ARU Board meeting held after today’s Annual General Meeting in Sydney, which saw the historic constitutional reform embraced by the ARU last year take effect.
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Mr Peter McGrath was re-elected unopposed, while prominent Queensland businessman Mr Terry Jackman joins the ARU Board and will occupy the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr Ben Kehoe.
Currently, the ARU Board is:
Ron Graham (Chairman), Mike Brown, Gary Flowers, Travis Hall, Terry Jackman, Peter McGrath

first step towards getting a Canberra Wallabies game????