Hamish McLennan has resigned from the Rugby Australia board after being voted out as the organisation’s chairman. The embattled Sydney business figure lost the support of fellow Rugby Australia directors on Sunday night just hours after declaring he would not resign in response to a letter of no confidence from six rebel state unions.
Hamish McLennan has resigned from the Rugby Australia board after being voted out as the organisation’s chairman. The embattled Sydney business figure lost the support of fellow Rugby Australia directors on Sunday night just hours after declaring he would not resign in response to a letter of no confidence from six rebel state unions.McLennan confirmed to this masthead he had been invited to stay on as a Rugby Australia director but he declined.
“I lost the chair vote,” McLennan said in a text message. “They asked me to stay on the board but I resigned immediately.” The resignation came at an emergency Rugby Australia board meeting on Sunday night - the fourth meeting in two days - and after a year that has seen the crisis-ridden code hit rock bottom with a disastrous Rugby World Cup campaign, and the resignation of Wallabies coach Eddie Jones last month after 10 months in the rol
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