AUSTRALIAN Super Rugby teams could share live player data mid- season as part of a unified push to return Aussie rugby to the top of the world.
The unprecedented idea was part of a historic summit in Sydney yesterday, where a large group of Australian rugby’s best minds gathered to figure out how to pull together and get back to winning.
The meeting, convened by ARU high performance heads Ben Whitaker and Rod Kafer, saw Michael Cheika and the Wallabies coaching staff in attendance, along with the coaches, football staff and high performance bosses of all four Australian Super Rugby teams.
The men’s and women’s Aussie sevens programs were also in the room. The two- day forum will see work on leadership development through UTS but the key goal of the summit is to nut out the specifics of a new unified approach to Australian rugby that will see all teams collaborating extensively in 2018 and beyond.
After Wallabies and Super Rugby coaches agreed in June to use the same conditioning programs next year, chairman, CEOs and high performance bosses from the ARU and all states met in August.
They agreed to a new “One Plan” model that will see all teams operate under a national high performance system.
“The detail will be thrashed out now in terms of strength and conditioning coaches, analysts, high performances managers,” Whitaker said.
After decades of suspicion and distrust between states, and toward the ARU, the solidarity in the “One Plan” system is unprecedented in Australian rugby.
The collectively dismal Super Rugby season in 2017 no doubt diminished much of the entrenched resistance, but Whitaker said there was a “real consensus” in any case that the best way for Australia to begin to turn the tide against New Zealand was to work together.
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