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Rugby: Former All Blacks coach Laurie Mains urges players to support Silver Lake deal
29 Apr, 2021 08:00 PM
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Cheree Kinnear explains the key points in the Silver Lake buy-in.
RNZ
New Zealand Rugby s plan to sell 12.5 percent of its commercial rights to US firm Silver Lake has been supported by the country s provincial unions and the Māori Rugby Board.
The $387 million deal is still not complete because professional players are yet to agree to it. Mediation is at a stalemate with the two parties said to be way apart on the issue.
Laurie Mains has been playing rugby since he was a child, and went on to play for and coach the All Blacks.
New Zealand Rugby s plan to sell 12.5 percent of its commercial rights to US firm Silver Lake has been supported by the country s provincial unions and the Māori Rugby Board.
The $387 million deal is still not complete because professional players are yet to agree to it. Mediation is at a stalemate with the two parties said to be way apart on the issue.
Laurie Mains has been playing rugby since he was a child, and went on to play for and coach the All Blacks.
He told
Checkpoint he could not fathom why the professional players were not getting in behind a deal that has unanimous support from the grass roots.
Image: Billy Stickland/INPHO
NO SLEEPS to go. The day is finally here. Who needs a Super Cup when we have a mediocre alternative? The Rainbow Cup has arrived. Better still, we’ve got two for the price of one, a northern edition as well as a southern one.
It is a competition that can be added to a stellar list of names; the Celtic League, Magners League, Rabo-Direct; the Pro12; the Pro14 when there were 14 teams in it; the Pro14 when there were just the 12 clubs.
If you are not enthused by this brave new dawn then shame on you. Let’s get you in the mood by revisiting these uplifting words from a special general meeting of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) last September. The orator was Jurie Roux, CEO of South African Rugby, who called the meeting in reaction to ‘the unilateral decision by the New Zealand Rugby Union to proceed with a domestic or trans-Tasman competition’.