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Rugby Union Players Association To Help ARU Review Stream Of Players Leaving

Rugby Union Players Association CEO Greg Harris "has committed the players’ trade union to working with the Australian Rugby Union to try to head off a mass exodus overseas of current Wallabies following the World Cup later this year," according to Wayne Smith of THE AUSTRALIAN. Five current Test players, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Sekope Kepu, James Horwill, Scott Higginbotham and Nic White, "already have confirmed they will be heading overseas" -- mostly to France -- at the end of this year but another 18 Wallabies "are coming off contract at the end of this season." Harris "attributed much of the cause of the likely exodus to influential player agents who profit to the tune of 10 per cent of the sign-on figure for any players they send to foreign clubs." Harris: "But if the agents continually are cutting the crop, you can’t really blame them, nor can you blame the players for taking the money that’s on offer there." Up to 50 players "have been identified as possible future Wallabies across the five franchises." Queensland Reds CEO Jim Carmichael, a key member of the ARU contracting review committee, declined on Thursday "to provide any details of how Australia was preparing to meet the challenge of the massively higher wages on offer abroad" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 1/23).

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