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Wallaby players including Matt Giteau, Australian rugby's most expensive recruit, are entangled in secret payments that the potential to rock the Australian Rugby Union.
A swag of cash and share inducements involving the controversial Perth fuel technology company Firepower were used to woo players to the John Mitchell-coached Western Force Super 14 club in breach of ARU protocols.
The ARU has been concerned about these secret payments and offers to players by the Western Force to tempt them across the Nullarbor to join the two-year old Super 14 team.
The Sydney Morning Herald has learnt that the chief executive of Western Force, Peter O'Meara, was directly involved in introducing the Firepower sponsor Tim Johnston to at least one player-manager. Under the protocols, no state union is to be involved in facilitating, procuring or arranging third-party deals as an inducement to sign any player without ARU approval.
Documents seen by the Sydney Morning Herald refer to the possibility of tens of thousands of dollars in additional payments to players involving a potential arrangement with Firepower. Mr O'Meara's signature appears at the bottom of one of them.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4074054a1823.html
A swag of cash and share inducements involving the controversial Perth fuel technology company Firepower were used to woo players to the John Mitchell-coached Western Force Super 14 club in breach of ARU protocols.
The ARU has been concerned about these secret payments and offers to players by the Western Force to tempt them across the Nullarbor to join the two-year old Super 14 team.
The Sydney Morning Herald has learnt that the chief executive of Western Force, Peter O'Meara, was directly involved in introducing the Firepower sponsor Tim Johnston to at least one player-manager. Under the protocols, no state union is to be involved in facilitating, procuring or arranging third-party deals as an inducement to sign any player without ARU approval.
Documents seen by the Sydney Morning Herald refer to the possibility of tens of thousands of dollars in additional payments to players involving a potential arrangement with Firepower. Mr O'Meara's signature appears at the bottom of one of them.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4074054a1823.html
