Lote Tuqiri
What the hell are the Australian Rugby Union and Lote Tuqiri’s management trying to hide over the winger’s sacking from the Wallabies?
In another strange turn of events today lawyers for both the ARU and Lote have asked that documents relating to the case be suppressed from the media.
Lawyers acting for the ARU have said it would be “undesirable for any publicity until objective arguments were made by both sides”.
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News that the Australian Rugby Union has torn up the contract of Lote Tuqiri is bad news for the Wallabies players and their fans.
Tuqiri has been one of the best and most consistent performers for the Wallabies in what have been pretty lean times in recent years. It was only the year before last that the ARU saw fit to re-sign him on a $700,000 a year contract until 2012.
Yet we can’t really evaluate whether it was justified or not because the ARU isn’t saying why they sacked him.
With a series of recent crises enveloping the NRL and following John Elliot’s revelations about the AFL, the ARU will be super-sensitive to any bad publicity for its code. But the secrecy surrounding Tuqiri’s sacking only begs the question, what are they hiding?
Put simply, this stinks of the ARU wanting to protect its image as the gentleman’s code and not wanting to soil its reputation with details of why one its most highly paid players had been dumped mid-season.
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RAKEEF says:
They pay him 700k a year…Mr K I don’t think he’s a boofhead…I think the ARU are boofheads for making the commitment to resign him. We’ll see whose laughing all the way to the bank and I’m sure it wont be the ARU regardless of the outcome. Read more »
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Sam says:
Leo, having attended a rival rugby school of yours in Canberra, you can hardly take the high moral ground. I recall several years of many fellow students who were expelled from my school only to end up at yours, solely due to their rugby prowess (how many times did they… Read more »
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