Reports in France said the warm-up game in Paris was under threat because of a dispute over the $1.7 million match fee promised to Australia by previous French rugby bosses.
Rugby Australia have declared a warm-up clash between the Wallabies and France in Paris next week will definitely go ahead, despite speculation the fixture could be cancelled because of a dispute over a $1.7 million match fee.on Saturday said the final clash for both sides ahead of the Rugby World Cup next Monday morning may not proceed because of an unresolved agreement between French Rugby Federation and RA over the size of the payment to Australia to play in the Stade de France fixture.
“On the strength of the words of the Australian leaders, we have discovered an oral agreement for a sum of the order of one million euros or a little less,” Grill told“The Australian federation therefore wrote to us to collect this sum, plus a percentage on the TV rights. An agreement which would therefore have been given at the time of the old governance. Obviously, it hadn’t been budgeted for.”
The game was teed up in November 2021, when RA chairman Hamish McLennan and Rugby World Cup bid boss Phil Kearns met Laporte in France to lobby for his support for the 2027 Rugby World Cup. McLennan said at the time that France’s decision to go ahead with their 2021 tour of Australia, amid COVID-19 travel restrictions and lockdowns, helped Australian rugby stave off financial disaster.
Grill, who was reportedly a rival of Laporte after losing an election in 2020 for the FFR presidency, told rugbyrama website last week he has had to “put out the fires” since taking over, with the financial situation “worse than we feared” with a deficit of $34 million. Grill also recently slashed Rugby World Cup bonus payments for France’s players from $512,000 per player for winning to $341,000 per head.
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